Finland exports snow-saving mats to ski resorts hit by climate crisis – preserving previous year's snow for start of season can combat increasingly unpredictable winters ~hobbies Article 834 words 11 votes
Botswana president concedes election defeat, BDP loses power after fifty-eight years ~society politics Article 277 words 23 votes
‘Fandom has toxified the world’: Watchmen author Alan Moore on superheroes, Comicsgate and Donald Trump ~society politics Article 1323 words 46 votes
Russian drones hunt civilians in streets of Kherson ~news ukraine.kherson russia Article 1501 words 19 votes
Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees in five games ~sports.baseball Article 1403 words 23 votes
The Strava problem: how the fitness app was used to locate the world’s most powerful people ~tech privacy Article 457 words 20 votes
E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders ~food meat restaurants Article 528 words 45 votes
US Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration announces $3 billion of investments in clean ports ~enviro climate change pollution.air Article 2319 words 24 votes
Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ~society politics Article 428 words 57 votes
Washington Post cancellations hit 250,000 – 10% of subscribers ~society politics Article 450 words 81 votes
British startup plans to supply solar power from space to Icelanders by 2030, in what could be the world's first demonstration of this novel renewable energy source ~space satellites Article 654 words, published Oct 24 2024 21 votes
Sweden abolishes tax on plastic bags despite warnings usage could rise – centre-right coalition government says consumption already below EU target ~enviro pollution plastics Article 572 words 10 votes
Canadian federal government going ahead with high-speed rail between Quebec City and Toronto ~transport Article 848 words 36 votes
New deadline by which only zero-emission new vans may be sold in Norway will no longer be 2025, but 2027 ~transport Article 227 words 9 votes
The Wayans Brothers reunite for new ‘Scary Movie’ with Miramax and Paramount ~movies comedy horror Article 451 words 15 votes
Swedish photographer Lars Tunbjörk documented remarkably dreary corporate spaces – his images should remind us that it didn't have to be this way ~arts photography Article 985 words, published Oct 23 2024 23 votes
‘I grew up with it’: readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel ~tech microsoft Article 775 words 27 votes
Lithuania’s Social Democrats defeat conservatives in parliamentary elections ~society politics Article 611 words 23 votes
No, raising the minimum wage does not hurt US fast-food workers ~finance business Article 1022 words 29 votes
US airlines now required to automatically refund you for canceled flight ~transport Article 270 words 71 votes
‘We were wrong’: An oral history of WIRED’s original website ~tech internet Article 3838 words 14 votes
Jeff Bezos vetoed Washington Post plan to endorse Kamala Harris, paper reports ~society politics Article 536 words 86 votes
Joe Biden- Kamala Harris administration announces $2.4 billion in new US railroad projects to improve safety and grow the passenger and freight networks ~transport Article 1140 words 45 votes
Police in Norway say four people were injured when a tram jumped the rails and crashed into an electronic device store in central Oslo ~transport Article 357 words 7 votes
Longi Green Energy sets world record for crystalline silicon solar module efficiency at 25.4% ~enviro energy.renewable Article 357 words 13 votes
The traffic model deceit: how US highway agencies manipulate data to justify wasteful expansion ~transport Article 972 words, published Oct 18 2024 18 votes
More US states ban PFAS, or ‘forever chemicals,’ in more products ~enviro pollution Article 970 words 38 votes
The misogynistic, bigoted and crude US rally remarks Donald Trump hasn’t disavowed ~society politics Article 1142 words 56 votes
They ran for US President. What did they learn? (original from 2004) ~society politics Article 969 words 7 votes
Mel Manuel, trans candidate for US House, injected testosterone on camera in a campaign ad ~lgbt transgender Article 230 words, published Oct 24 2024 18 votes
‘Oregon Trail’ action-comedy movie in development at Apple | Movie will feature original musical numbers in the vein of 'Barbie' ~movies comedy Article 290 words, published Oct 25 2024 9 votes
Non-college educated White men used to be ahead in the American economy. Now they’ve fallen behind. ~finance economics.socio Article 2084 words 31 votes
Gotham Awards nominations: ‘Anora’ leads pack, ‘Challengers’ and ‘Nickel Boys’ among group up for Best Feature ~movies Article 807 words 2 votes
The latest in North Korea’s fake IT worker scheme: Extorting the employers ~tech Article 1032 words 17 votes
Redding property manager fired after posting on Reddit that he used ex-tenant mail-in ballots to vote for Donald Trump ~society politics Article 494 words, published Aug 27 2024 52 votes
Thomas Frank has emerged as an early favourite to succeed Erik ten Hag as the Manchester United manager after the Dutchman was sacked on Monday ~sports.football Article 568 words 3 votes