In 1991, Cambridge researchers wired a grey-scale camera to a coffee pot to avoid wasted trips down three flights of stairs. Two years later, they put it on the web — and invented an entire category of technology by accident. Read more ›
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The UK's Online Safety Act gives Ofcom theoretical penalty powers larger than the GDP of small countries. The team that actually issues those fines has fewer than 50 staff — and Meta is now in the High Court trying to shrink the formula. Read more ›
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Older adults often disappear from reunion guest lists not because they've lost interest, but because they've quietly discovered that nostalgia only works when both people remember the same version of the past — and the matching copies are getting harder to find. Read more ›
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Olympus Mons stands 21.9 kilometres above the Martian plains — nearly three times the height of Everest — but its slopes average just 2 to 5 degrees, gentler than most wheelchair ramps. The science of why a climber's vestibular system would never register the ascent. Read more ›
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Norges Bank Investment Management, the arm of Norway's central bank that runs the country's Government Pension Fund Global, holds shares in companies across dozens of countries. Read more ›
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For the first time in British legal history, property damage convictions have been elevated to terrorism at sentencing without any underlying terrorism conviction by a jury. Four Palestine Action activists were sentenced as terrorists in a UK court for damaging Israeli-made military drones at an Elbit Systems factory in 2024 — despite being convicted only ... Read more Read more ›
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The shoebox of saved cards, notes and postcards isn't clutter or sentimentality — it's a deliberate archive built by people who learned that memory alone cannot be trusted to prove they were loved. Read more ›
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The pistol shrimp's modified claw fires a jet of water fast enough to vaporise the sea around it. When the resulting bubble collapses, temperatures spike to nearly 4,700°C and a flash of light briefly appears — invisible to the shrimp itself. Read more ›
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In 2016, Nathan Tinkler — Australia's youngest billionaire at his 2011 peak — entered bankruptcy owing more than A$540 million. Two years later, a rare court order under Section 153B of the Bankruptcy Act erased the proceeding from the public record entirely. Inside the mechanism almost no one uses. Read more ›
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When Hans Wilsdorf's wife Florence died in 1944, the Bavarian-born founder of Rolex built a Geneva foundation that has owned every share of the company since 1960. Eight decades later, that grief-born structure is the reason Rolex can under-produce, never discount, and out-think every shareholder-owned competitor in luxury. Read more ›
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When EY finally refused to sign Wirecard's 2019 accounts, two Philippine banks issued a one-sentence denial that ended Europe's biggest fintech: the €1.9 billion in escrow had never been on their books. The forensic story of how the missing cash was never missing — because it never existed. Read more ›
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The Wirecard COO disappeared on a private jet to Minsk in June 2020. He resurfaced in Lipetsk under the identity of an Orthodox priest, allegedly running a GRU spy cell whose five operatives were convicted at the Old Bailey in March 2025. Read more ›
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The empty-nest narrative ends too soon. The lonelier stretch comes after — in the early 50s, when nobody in the house is being raised anymore and the cognitive patterns of the next thirty years are quietly being set. Read more ›
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On October 29, 1969, UCLA student Charley Kline tried to type LOGIN to a computer at Stanford. The receiving system crashed after two letters, leaving LO as the first message ever sent across what became the internet. Read more ›
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In 1994, a New South Wales park ranger abseiled into a hidden canyon outside Sydney and found a grove of conifers last seen in the fossil record 90 million years ago. The Wollemi pine's wild location remains undisclosed — and for biological reasons that have nothing to do with theatre. Read more ›
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The story of the latest ShinyHunters campaign is not really about a bug in Oracle PeopleSoft. Read more ›
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Dan McCrum spent the better part of five years being followed, hacked, smeared as a market manipulator, and threatened with criminal prosecution by the German state — for being right. Read more ›
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On Tuesday, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available model in its Mythos class — a family the company had previously declined to release at all, citing the models’ enhanced ability to identify and exploit software vulnerabilities. Fable 5 leads nearly all published benchmarks, performs at a materially higher level than Anthropic’s previous ... Read more Read more ›
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Turritopsis dohrnii, a Mediterranean jellyfish no larger than a fingernail, can reverse its own life cycle when injured or starving — dissolving its adult body back into an immature polyp and starting over, a biological rewind that in theory has no limit. Read more ›
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In July 1969, Apollo 11's crew was sealed in an Airstream trailer for 21 days while NASA tested moon rocks for life that wasn't there — meanwhile, the ocean beneath their splashdown site held vampire squid, 40-meter siphonophores, and single-celled organisms the size of dinner plates. Read more ›
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