App Store: small independent apps hold on in the AI era — Read on TechCrunch
A survey of independent App Store apps that keep thriving despite the rise of AI agents.
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Hedge funds profit from the AI wave — Read on Reuters
Hedge funds post another strong year on the back of the boom in AI-linked stocks.
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How Laboratoria trains Latin American women for tech jobs — Read on IEEE Spectrum
Mariana Costa co-founded Laboratoria, which trains women across Latin America for well-paid tech careers.
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Time travel according to Einstein's relativity — Read on Scientific American
An explainer on physical theories of time travel, with no new experimental result.
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Geneva to host world chess championship between Gukesh and Sindarov — Read on The Guardian — sport
FIDE has chosen Geneva, beating out the US, India and Cyprus, to host the world chess title match between Gukesh Dommaraju and Javokhir Sindarov, both aged 20.
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Study: Maltese hunter-gatherers made repeated sea crossings in the Mesolithic — Read on Phys.org
Archaeological analysis indicates foragers lived in Malta between 8,500 and 7,500 years ago, sustained by repeated sea voyages.
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Unesco recognises Italy's condominium theatres as cultural heritage — Read on Quotidiano Arte
Unesco adds the Italian system of condominium theatres to its intangible cultural heritage list.
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Anthropic model finds new flaws in weakened cryptographic algorithms — Read on New York Times — scienza
Claude Mythos Preview discovered new attacks against weakened cryptographic algorithms used to secure transactions and communications.
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The archaeological objects still without a shared explanation — Read on Storica National Geographic
A historical survey of so-called oopart, artefacts that challenge accepted chronologies of human history.
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A mycologist explains why amoebae are more sophisticated than we think — Read on Nautilus
An interview with Nicholas Money, author of 'A is for Amoeba', on the behavioural complexity of amoebae.
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Patti Smith marks her 80th birthday with a concert at Circus Maximus — Read on ANSA
Patti Smith performed at Rome's Circus Maximus as part of her 80th birthday tour, to an enthusiastic crowd.
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A station with AI and facial recognition tests capuchins in a Costa Rican forest — Read on New York Times — scienza
CapuchinAI, a portable touch-screen device, lets scientists study the intelligence of wild capuchin monkeys.
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Review: the new Spider-Man film gives us a more fragile hero with no safety net — Read on Le Monde
Darker in tone than its predecessors, the new Spider-Man film sees the hero confront vulnerability without the help of those close to him.
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Hundreds of unseen Yohji Yamamoto drawings found in Tokyo: a book to follow — Read on Rivista Studio
A box of drawings signed by Yohji Yamamoto was found in a Tokyo warehouse in May 2024.
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Rwanda expands hepatitis screening and treatment nationwide — Read on AllAfrica
Africa CDC cites Rwanda as an example of decentralising viral hepatitis screening and treatment across the continent.
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How mental fatigue alters cost-benefit decisions — Read on Scientific American
A neuroscience study shows how the brain weighs effort against reward when mentally tired.
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Large Hadron Collider enters four-year upgrade phase — Read on CERN
CERN halted collisions at the LHC on 27 June to begin the High-Luminosity upgrade, due to last four years.
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Women's collectives protect gorilla sanctuary in Nigeria — Read on Mongabay
In villages around the Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary, women's groups carry out conservation work for the critically endangered Cross River gorilla.
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Jaguar crosses 2,100km of the Amazon through farmland and roads — Read on New Scientist
A jaguar named Gaspar has travelled 2,100km across the Amazon, tracked by GPS, for reasons that remain unknown.
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Irish island declares invasive rats eradicated — Read on New Scientist
After years of trapping and monitoring, an island off Ireland has been confirmed rat-free, protecting nesting seabirds.
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Italy wins double gold at the Fencing World Championships — Read on Il Fatto Quotidiano
Italy's men's foil and women's épée teams both win gold at the 2026 Fencing World Championships.
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How hot electrons reorganise metals in billionths of a second — Read on Phys.org
Manchester researchers show how intense electronic excitation alters metal structure without heating the atomic lattice.
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Archaeologists reassemble a rare ceiling fresco at Pompeii — Read on Smithsonian Magazine
A Pompeian fresco in a banquet hall depicting Dionysus and Ariadne has been reconstructed fragment by fragment.
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Aphex Twin's Drukqs to get its first vinyl reissue — Read on Pitchfork
The 2001 album will return on vinyl, alongside CD and cassette, after 25 years' absence from the format.
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