Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea ~humanities.history Article 332 words 8 votes
Arizona university prevents potential Covid outbreak by testing feces ~health Article 364 words 8 votes
Johnny Depp files for defamation case delay to film ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ ~movies Article 344 words 11 votes
A next-generation version of The Witcher 3 is in progress, and will release as a stand-alone purchase as well as a free update for owners of the existing game ~games Link 9 votes
Taiwan to change passport, fed up with confusion with China ~news taiwan china Article 336 words 14 votes
Chicago Sky's Courtney Vandersloot sets a WNBA record with eighteen assists in a win over the Indiana Fever ~sports.basketball Article 315 words 4 votes
The Outlaw Ocean Music Project - Hundreds of musicians from around the world creating EPs inspired by "The Outlaw Ocean", a non-fiction book by Ian Urbina ~music Article 245 words 11 votes
Airline pilots landing at LAX report "a guy in a jetpack" flying alongside them ~transport Article 372 words 17 votes
Amazon moves closer to drone delivery with US Federal Aviation Administration approval ~transport Article 375 words 4 votes
Porn star Ron Jeremy charged with sexually assaulting four women ~news usa.ca.los angeles crime Article 322 words 8 votes
Twenty-five people have been taken to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning after attending an illegal rave in a bunker in the Norwegian capital, Oslo ~health Article 189 words 9 votes
Google performed the first quantum simulation of a chemical reaction ~science chemistry physics.quantum Article 337 words 11 votes
Polar bear kills man in Norway's Arctic Svalbard islands – experts say polar bears' hunting grounds have diminished as the Arctic ice sheet melts ~enviro climate change Article 237 words 10 votes
TietoEVRY, a software company from Finland, has developed a new font called Polite Type which uses machine learning to rewrite offensive language into more inclusive forms ~tech Article 322 words, published Aug 21 2020 10 votes
Chicago White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito throws MLB's first no-hitter of 2020 season ~sports.baseball Article 208 words 6 votes
Uber and Lyft both threaten to suspend their services in California unless the ruling requiring them to classify drivers as employees is overturned ~transport Article 375 words 18 votes
Apple becomes first US company to reach a $2 trillion market cap ~finance business Article 126 words 12 votes
Ubisoft fires former Assassin’s Creed Valhalla creative director following an investigation ~games Article 327 words, published Aug 14 2020 8 votes
United States Postal Service (USPS) files patent for a blockchain-based voting system ~tech Article 368 words 24 votes
AMC Theatres to offer fifteen-cent tickets for older films on first day of reopening ~movies Article 298 words 8 votes
Denmark's vegan party says it has enough support to run for parliament – the party, founded in 2018, reached the 20,182 declarations needed on Thursday ~news denmark politics Article 267 words 13 votes
US President Donald Trump issues executive orders taking effect in forty-five days that ban "transactions" with Chinese owners of TikTok (ByteDance) and WeChat (Tencent) ~tech social media Article 303 words 19 votes
Southampton midfielder Pierre-Emile Højbjerg will complete his move to Tottenham Hotspur this weekend, with Kyle Walker-Peters heading the other way ~sports.football Article 240 words 2 votes
Beirut hit by massive explosions, killing over 135 people and injuring over 5000 ~news lebanon.beirut Article 219 words 37 votes
Epic Games closes a $1.78 billion funding round, with the company's valuation now at $17.3 billion ~games Article 158 words 5 votes
Virginia touts nation's first contact tracing app with Apple-Google tech ~health Article 216 words 6 votes
The extraordinary story of Thomas Quick, the Swedish serial killer who never existed ~life Article 398 words, published Jul 27 2020 4 votes
Owners of a US B&B have removed a Norwegian flag from outside their business after being accused of promoting racism from people who thought it was a Confederate flag ~travel Article 306 words 17 votes
Anti-Putin protest in Russia’s far east attracts thousands for a fourth weekend ~news russia.khabarovsk politics Article 321 words 9 votes
UAE starts operations at Arab world's first nuclear power plant ~enviro energy Article 352 words 4 votes
Apple surpasses Saudi Aramco to become world’s most valuable company ~tech apple Article 151 words 12 votes
A Norwegian man on Saturday set the new world record for singing Elvis Presley songs for fifty hours, fifty minutes and fifty seconds straight in an online competition ~music Article 381 words 6 votes
Survey of 760 US museums shows extreme financial distress from the pandemic, with almost all reporting that they have a year or less of financial operating reserves remaining ~arts Article 292 words, published Jul 22 2020 9 votes