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If you follow Apple news, you’ve seen Liquid Glass, the visual language shipping with iOS 26. It was Apple’s biggest design overhaul since iOS 7, touching basically every surface of the OS: navigation bars, tab bars, sheets, context menus… We’ve been working on updating Pocket Casts for it. Here’s a bit of the thinking behind […]

As regular readers will know, I’ve written a lot about the topic of AI and consciousness (too much for some perhaps!) because I find it fascinating, in much the same way that I find the issue of whether AI is dangerous or not fascinating – something I’ve

To best trace the thread of Carlyn Ray’s ascent through the Texas glassblowing scene, you must first consider the lowly silkworm.  At the ripe young age of 10, Ray raised the caterpillars in cardboard boxes in her Dallas home, fattening them up on mulberry leaves until they spun cocoons and began to pupate. It was […]

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New #Haken single

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Day 4,382 of people asking whether “normal workers” could really move large stones without assistance from mystical sky beings. Yes. That is generally how construction functions. - - - A man approached me near the Nile today and whispered, “But have you considered… visitors ...

Watching this closely: “Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps…”

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I played the ultimate game of strategy on a variety of smart chess boards to find the best for online and in-person matches.

The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.

We’re bringing new football features to Threads, Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, including athlete content, match content, and in-product activations.

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If you're someone who needs to (or likes to) take their work on the go, a portable monitor will make a huge difference. These are my favorite that I tested.

It’s the first estimate of how many Americans are sneaking onto Polymarket’s banned crypto-based platform.

New research suggests that dozens of monetized YouTube channels are run by people and organizations that the US government has sanctioned for their ties to Tehran.

This impressively light carbon commuter makes switching to an ebike easier than ever.

It might not feel all that different from older World Cups—for better or worse.

Travel bans and other visa issues are creating problems for World Cup participants even before the whistle blows.

Soccer officials already rely on cameras to see who’s offside and who sent the ball out of bounds. But during this World Cup, refs will use digital twins of each player to view plays from every angle.

Save member views that stay current on their own

Venues hosting the 2026 World Cup must meet high standards to obtain environmental certifications, but FIFA also requires that they use natural grass, which is water-intensive to maintain.

Elon Musk is set to make hundreds of billions even as communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting to stop the gas turbines powering xAI's supercomputers.

In U.S. politics, it’s slobs versus snobs.