On Nov. 29, 1931, J.R.R. Tolkien introduced the world to Middle-earth — the most important part of it, anyway. The Hobbit wouldn’t be published for six more years. The Lord of the Rings was still decades away. But on that autumn night, when the renowned philol... More »
In the year Roe v Wade was overturned, at least 200 people in the US were prosecuted for conduct relating to their pregnancies – the highest number of cases in a single year ever recorded, according to a new report released on Tuesday.The report, compiled by t... More »
It was the news Manchester City feared – Rodri may miss the rest of the season. Only 21 minutes into his first Premier League start of the campaign, the Spaniard went down clutching his right knee. The sight of their midfield linchpin on the ground in agony is... More »
OpenAI opened a newsroom Twitter account earlier this month and it's already been hacked. The new handle was taken over by a crypto scammer promoting a fake OpenAI token that was in reality a scam to steal Bitcoins. That follows similar hacks of three key Open... More »
Spotify’s beta AI Playlist feature is now available for Premium users in the US, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand. It lets you create and refine custom playlists using text prompts. It initially arrived in April in the UK and Australia.The company describes it ... More »
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Paper or paper? In California, shoppers will have only one bag option at the checkout line starting in 2026. A decade ago, California became the first U.S. state to ban single-use plastic bags, the f... More »
Mapping the Marvel universe is not the kind of thing one can do just by snapping their fingers.For starters, there are many Earths out there in the multiverse; there are also all kinds of mystical dimensions and other weird locations. But even on just one vers... More »
Tested: Intel’s Lunar Lake wants you to forget Qualcomm laptops exist | PCWorld Skip to content Image: Mark Hachman / IDG Lunar Lake is Intel’s Snapdragon killer. Intel’s Core Ultra Series 2 (Lunar Lake) was specifically designed to emphasize low power, but wi... More »
Brian Laundrie is looking for forgiveness. Over three years after killing his ex-girlfriend Gabby Petito, celebrity medium Jonathan Mark says Brian wants to apologize to Gabby’s mother Nichole Schmidt. “Brian Laundrie is one hundred percent trying to come thr... More »
Park rangers at Carlsbad Caverns National Park recently posted a photo on social media of a Flaming Hot Cheetos bag dropped carelessly by a visitor. The visitor might have thought the lost snack was merely a piece of garbage someone else could have picked up. ... More »
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Hello everyone, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jesse Nichols, a video producer and reporter at Grist, and today we’re going to be talking about how worsening climate impacts are raising the profile of a largely overlooked section on state ballots:... More »