A professional mentalist disappeared, and the website of the man whose job is making things vanish now displays the line: "Transformation requires disappearance." That is the detail lighting up the internet, so here is the part that matters
Paul Powlesland, an environmental lawyer, says he and a small group of volunteers pulled roughly 200 bags of waste out of the River Roding in east London, and that fish and dragonflies have since returned. The body that decided to
"My view is that the United States could take all the seafood Greenland could produce, and cut out the middleman, and keep it from China, and you could bring back all-you-can-eat shrimp at Red Lobster." That is a
Shortly after midnight on Saturday, phones across several Brazilian states blared an official "extreme" emergency alert. The message was a single word: "misantropi4." That's the Portuguese word for misanthropy, hatred of humanity, with the
The man US Park Police arrested for allegedly vandalizing Washington's newly refurbished Reflecting Pool is David "Davey" Hearn, 67, a three-time Olympic slalom canoeist and two-time world champion. He says he stopped mid-bike-ride to touch a
Dublin, Ohio gave a police robot a parking garage to watch for about 10 months. It made zero arrests, wrote zero tickets, and filed zero police reports. Then the department retired it. The robot is a Knightscope K5, a roughly
Two of the most repressive countries in the world for gay and lesbian people will play a World Cup match against each other in Seattle on June 26, just outside a stadium that the city's Pride parade will
The wool-sneaker company Allbirds changed its name to Smartbird on Wednesday, hired a new CEO from the AI infrastructure world, and watched its stock jump 39% in a single day. It no longer makes shoes. That last part is the
Two young men stood outside the arrivals hall holding stuffed toys and flowers, the way people do when they're waiting to surprise someone off a flight. One of them walked up to a 39-year-old man, pulled a gun
The first time the U.S. government admitted using Elon Musk's Grok to help bomb Iran, it did so in a court filing about air pollution. Cameron Stanley, the Pentagon's chief digital and artificial intelligence officer,