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Infuriated passengers said they found it ironic that Southeastern was advertising the podcasts from stars promoting train journeys to Kent and East Sussex while standing on packed and late services.

In this week’s newsletter: We asked our discerning subscribers what you couldn’t get enough of this year, and they didn’t let us down

Amarillo is a city where conformity counts, so the death of a punk at the hands of a football player had more than a little symbolic significance there. So did the jury’s decision to keep the killer from going to jail.

It is not legal to shoot fireworks in Anderson County.

In “Notifications,” Lincoln Michel looks closely at how a persons day can be awkwardly reconfigured by an algorithm. Michels stories frequently adjust the knobs of the present and settle in the uncanny valley, like Saunderss, or amplify a feeling that something is fundamentally off with our timeline. Here, Michel explores the emotional implications of technology, a sort of hard sci-fi realism that drops the reader into a plausible hologram of workplace interaction. The always overthoug...

Deep Branch, a startup that’s developing a single celled protein for use in aquafeeds, has moved a step closer to commercialisation with the validation of a new project in the Port of Rotterdam.

In this week’s newsletter: As Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front proves to be a surprise awards season hit, what better time to ask for your favourite films in other languages?

In this week’s newsletter: It was meant to change how we watch TV forever – but in tough times even the biggest streaming titan of all can’t avoid the allure of advertising money

In this week’s newsletter: To mark the halfway point of 2022, we – with the help of our discerning readers – look back at the pop culture we have loved the most