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Tropical Diseases Like Dengue Fever and Chikungunya Are on the Rise in Europe
European countries are seeing a growing number of locally transmitted tropical diseases, such as dengue fever and chikungunya, as climate change allows disease-carrying mosquitoes to expand their range and active season. The trend matters because infections once considered exotic risks confined to travel abroad are increasingly being caught without ever leaving Europe, raising the prospect…
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‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ Season 2 Is a Gripping, More Experimental Deep Dive Into the Dark Knight | Review
The Prime Video animated series Batman: Caped Crusader has returned for a second season, with critic Liam Gaughan praising it as a more experimental and psychologically rich take on the Dark Knight. Produced by Bruce Timm, the series revisits the stylised, retro Gotham City of the classic Batman: The Animated Series while drawing on executive…
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How 97 Copies of an Unreleased Version of Super Mario Bros. Duck Hunt Were Discovered in a Wisconsin Warehouse
A collector in Waukesha, Wisconsin has uncovered a box of 97 unreleased variant copies of Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt for the NES, a find experts are calling one of the most significant in retro gaming history. Jason Ganos, who runs the website NintendoWire, stumbled upon the cache while helping local shop owner Kevin…
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The 1974 album that soothed Stevie Nicks through an acid trip: “A safe place”
The article text supplied for this piece could not be retrieved beyond its title and website navigation menu, so no actual article content is available to summarise. The headline indicates the piece concerns Stevie Nicks and a 1974 album she credited with helping her through the effects of an acid trip, but no further detail,…
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Comcast Taps Social Media Reality Series to Tout Xfinity as Tool for Creators, Influencers (EXCLUSIVE)
Comcast’s Xfinity brand is launching “Best in Class,” a seven-part social media competition series designed to position its broadband service as an essential tool for content creators, particularly targeting younger, cord-cutting audiences who typically ignore traditional advertising. The show, which begins on 5 August across TikTok and Instagram, follows six college student influencers competing in…
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Caribbean bears brunt of £43bn climate-fuelled damage to developing islands
A study by development thinktank ODI Global has found that Caribbean nations suffered $53.2bn (£40bn) in economic damage from climate-fuelled disasters between 2000 and 2024, accounting for over 90% of the $57bn total losses recorded across 39 developing island nations worldwide. The findings, which also link the climate crisis to more than 190 deaths a…
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Billy Liar review – Tom Courtenay is superb in classic study of a young man and his quixotic dreams
This is a Guardian review of Billy Liar, John Schlesinger’s 1963 British comedy adapted from Keith Waterhouse’s 1959 novel, part of the “Angry Young Man” literary movement alongside John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger and Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim. The critic praises Tom Courtenay’s performance in the title role but expresses long-standing reservations about the…
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AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness
Researchers at Italy’s IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca have used natural language processing to analyse more than 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking experiences, concluding that dreams are neither random noise nor straightforward replays of the day’s events. Instead, the sleeping brain appears to blend memories, emotions, familiar places and imagined scenarios into entirely…
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The next American boom could be here — unless Washington regulates it to death
A Fox News opinion piece argues that fears of mass AI-driven job losses are overblown and that excessive government regulation, not the technology itself, poses the greatest threat to America’s economic prospects. The author contends that artificial intelligence could deliver the biggest improvement in American living standards in decades, comparing its disruptive potential to historical…