Humanoid robots smash Usain Bolt’s 100-meter record
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Humanoid robots smash Usain Bolt’s 100-meter record

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The 9.58-second 100-meter dash record set by Usain Bolt in 2009 has been outpaced by Chinese robots participating at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. In…

GTA 6: all the news on Rockstar’s next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series
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GTA 6: all the news on Rockstar’s next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series

new admin - Aug 23, 2026

Following several apparent video leaks of Grand Theft Auto VI, Take-Two Interactive has subpoenaed Microsoft and Discord over content that “infringes copyrights” held for the game, Kotaku…

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is an intimate coming-of-age horror film
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We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is an intimate coming-of-age horror film

new admin - Aug 23, 2026

Jane Schoenbrun’s latest film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, is making a splash in theaters right now. So it seems like the perfect time to…

Grand Theft Auto VI exists in its own universe
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Grand Theft Auto VI exists in its own universe

new admin - Aug 23, 2026

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on GTA VI and the state of the video…

Doodle generative compositions in your browser with Musical Spirograph
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Doodle generative compositions in your browser with Musical Spirograph

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I remember having a Spirograph as a kid and being obsessed with it. Its geometric patterns are hypnotic and gorgeous. I also love generative music composition. So…

W. Kamau Bell has the most practical ‘most indispensable tool’
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W. Kamau Bell has the most practical ‘most indispensable tool’

new admin - Aug 22, 2026

W. Kamau Bell is one of those people who has always just seemed to be there. From Totally Biased, to Politically Re-Active, United Shades of America, and…

Amazon just hiked the prices for Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle products by up to 60 percent
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Amazon just hiked the prices for Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle products by up to 60 percent

new admin - Aug 22, 2026

Citing “significant increases in memory and storage component costs,” in a statement given to Fortune, Amazon has raised prices on Echos, Kindles, Fire TVs, and Eeros by…

An okay laptop with 16GB of RAM is better than a nice laptop with 8GB, and this $520 HP OmniBook proves it
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An okay laptop with 16GB of RAM is better than a nice laptop with 8GB, and this $520 HP OmniBook proves it

new admin - Aug 22, 2026

Laptop prices are out of whack. $500 used to get you a tolerable laptop, and $900 got you a really good one. They often had similar CPU,…

Two great new repairable gadgets
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Two great new repairable gadgets

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 141, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I’m newish here too,…

TikTok will pay $400 million to settle DOJ child privacy lawsuit
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TikTok will pay $400 million to settle DOJ child privacy lawsuit

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The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2024 over allegedly violating the Children’s Online…