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Aviation pioneer and space-travel record breaker Wally Funk dies at 87
Funk became the oldest person to fly in space in 2021.
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3 Songs From the 70s That Made Everyone Fall in Love With Glam Rock
This American Songwriter article looks back at glam rock’s rise in the 1970s, arguing that a handful of standout songs and striking televised performances propelled the genre into the mainstream, particularly in the UK. It highlights how visual flamboyance and androgynous style, alongside the music itself, were central to glam rock capturing public attention and…
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Love and Deepspace Fans Continue Calls for Valko’s Return After Update Excludes Him
The developer of romance game Love and Deepspace, Infold, has stuck by its decision to exclude the werewolf love interest Valko from the game’s latest Version 6 update, despite a sustained fan campaign urging his return. Valko had originally been due for release on 9 July, but was cancelled following a negative reaction from a…
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Kacey Musgraves and Stanley 1913 Team Up on Cow-Printed Water Bottles, Pet Bowls and Mugs
Country star Kacey Musgraves has partnered with drinkware brand Stanley 1913 on a limited-edition, four-piece collection inspired by her Texan roots. The collaboration marks another celebrity tie-up for the popular brand and continues a busy period for the singer, who released her sixth studio album earlier in the year. The collection features the brand’s bestselling…
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Jasmine Crockett blasts her Texas Democratic primary loss as ‘racist race’
US Representative Jasmine Crockett, a Texas Democrat, has described her failed 2026 Democratic Senate primary campaign as “a racist race” during an interview published on Wednesday. Speaking at the Essence Festival alongside the hosts of the “Native Land” podcast, she defended the way she ran her campaign and argued that she did not need to…
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Alex Williams Went on a Hair-Metal Side Quest. He’s Back to Outlaw Country on a New EP
Country artist Alex Williams is returning to the outlaw country sound that launched his career with a new five-song EP titled Discount Country, due out on Friday. The release marks a shift back to his roots after last year’s Space Brain, an album of country-styled covers of hair-metal acts such as Ratt, Poison and Skid…
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Heatwave drives office working boom as employees ditch sweaty WFH in favour of air con
As Britain endures its third heatwave of the summer, flexible office providers say they are seeing a surge in staff coming into air-conditioned workplaces rather than working from home in overheated houses. It matters because it suggests extreme summer temperatures are beginning to reverse, at least temporarily, the working-from-home habits that became widespread in recent…
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Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits
SpaceX has floated on public markets at a $1.77 trillion valuation, with AI firms Anthropic and possibly OpenAI expected to follow, and their combined scale is drawing attention for eclipsing decades of technology exits. According to the latest NVCA-PitchBook Venture Monitor report, cited by TechCrunch, these three offerings together are set to “generate more value…
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Star Trek’s Darkest Episode Still Has the Best Space Battle Sci-Fi Has Ever Seen
This article argues that Star Trek: The Next Generation’s two-part episode “The Best of Both Worlds” contains the finest space battle in science fiction, centred on the devastating clash at the star Wolf 359. After the cybernetic Borg abduct and assimilate Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Starfleet confronts a single Borg cube, only to be overwhelmed in…
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Significant progress made to secure future burial space for Sheffield