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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime

One of Houston’s most influential architects loved to hate the Bayou City.

Cake slices, sundaes, morning buns, noodles and shakes — all $20 or under — for your immediate consumption.

Naomi Saphra thinks that most research into language models focuses too much on the finished product. She’s mining the history of their training for insights into why these systems work the way they do.

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.

Explore 25 years onboard the International Space Station.

As live-betting and “prop bets” explode, athletes say they face more threats from fans than ever.

I was terrified of the Old Elephant King in “The Story of Babar.” My daughter was freaked out by “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” Then came my niece.

The scripted series centered around the gambling scandal of MLB star Shohei Ohtani is facing hurdles trying to find a buyer.

New Yorker writers and editors write a list of where they shop for books in the Big Apple, including Books Are Magic, Printed Matter, and McNally Jackson.

Quantum advantage may not be here yet, but there is hope.

Our latest quantum breakthrough, Quantum Echoes, offers a path toward unprecedented scientific discoveries and analysis.

WIRED recently demonstrated how to cheat at poker by hacking the Deckmate 2 card shufflers used in casinos. The mob was allegedly using the same trick to fleece victims for millions.

In “the trial of the century,” a Houston socialite was accused of plotting her husband's murder—and of having an affair with her nephew. But Candace Mossler was only getting started.

Thomas Beller writes about Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, the art-house movie theatre on New York’s Upper West Side that closed earlier this year.

Trump bails out hedge funds’ failed bets on Milei while his foreign aid cuts will kill millions of children

Design shortcuts meant to make a new plane seem like an old, familiar one are to blame

A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it.

Run a bunch of Claude Codes in Parallel. By Melty Labs.

PSA, the biggest authenticator of trading cards, has for years had a major loophole that left counterfeit cards appearing to be legitimate just because they had

Boekie Woekie is an artists’-run bookshop and gallery in Amsterdam that was founded in 1986 by a group of six artists. Soon Henriëtte van Egten (Dutch)…

By Oliver Nolan Little

- Show for Aug 25, 2013: Henry Jaglom on Orson Welles. It’s tempting, if you’re tempted by clichés, to call Orson Welles “larger than life.” But he was after all an ordinary mortal, however...

Challenged British Counterfeiting - A blog post from The Ephemera Society of America. Marbled edge paper was used to reduce counterfeiting