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These beloved sea creatures are dying. Can human medicine save them?

Vox 

Several meters underwater off the coast of Bonaire, a small island in the south Caribbean, Danielle de Kool floated in place in front of a large head of boulder brain coral. The pattern across its surface looked like the maze you might find on the back of a cereal box.  From a plastic syringe, de […]

A Closer Look

The Wall Street Journal 

Selections from ‘The Shape of Things : How Mapmakers Picture Our World’ by Dean Robbins, illustrated by Matt Tavares

The year is 2149 and …

Technology Review  

The year is 2149 and people mostly live their lives “on rails.” That’s what they call it, “on rails,” which is to live according to the meticulous instructions of software. Software knows most things about you—what causes you anxiety, what raises your endorphin levels, everything you’ve ever searched for, everywhere you’ve been. Software sends messages…

African farmers are using private satellite data to improve crop yields

Technology Review  

Last year, as the harvest season drew closer, Olabokunde Tope came across an unpleasant surprise.  While certain spots on his 70-hectare cassava farm in Ibadan, Nigeria, were thriving, a sizable parcel was pale and parched—the result of an early and unexpected halt in the rains. The cassava stems, starved of water, had withered to straw. …

From the publisher

Technology Review  

The magazine you now hold in your hands is 125 years old. Not this actual issue, of course, but the publication itself, which launched in 1899. Few other titles can claim this kind of heritage—the Atlantic, Harper’s, Audubon (which is also turning 125 this year), National Geographic, and Popular Science among them. MIT Technology Review…

Stormgate early access review: this StarCraft wannabe brims with potential, but makes a poor first impression

Rock Paper Shotgun 

Stormgate is a confusing proposition. It's an RTS directed by former Blizzard developers that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike StarCraft. It's a free-to-play game, but has a business model that makes you feel like you're getting a rougher deal than if you just dropped thirty notes for it outright. It's available now in Early Access, but has already been available in a kind of gravity-defying Super Early Access for several weeks (which you had to pay to get into).

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Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince coming to PC,

GameGuru Mania 

Square Enix will release Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince for PC via Steam. as well as iOS and Android on September 11, the company announced. Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince first launched for Switch on December 1, 2023. The PC, iOS, and Android versions will include all the downloadable content from the Swit...

Darlow in Wales squad as Ramsey remains skipper

BBC Sport 

New Wales head coach Craig Bellamy has named Leeds United goalkeeper Karl Darlow in his first squad, while there are recalls for Ollie Cooper, Sorba Thomas and Mark Harris.

Kohli, Jaiswal move up in Test rankings, Rohit drops to 6th

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

Virat Kohli and Yashasvi Jaiswal have advanced in the ICC Test rankings, with Kohli now in eighth and Jaiswal in seventh, while Rohit Sharma has slipped to the sixth position. England's Joe Root remains the top-ranked batter. In bowling, Ravichandran Ashwin retains the top spot, with Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja also maintaining their positions.