Sonic the Hedgehog turns 35 this year, and he's come a long way—from his early 2D adventures to 3D games, and now a billion-dollar movie series.
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Democracy versus the machine: the dawn of the digital age and the warnings that went unheard.
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Brain-melting sex, leather-clad bad boys, and queer triumph: here's why vampires on TV are so irresistible.
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Five teenagers died after a car was driven the wrong way down a motorway in Ireland.
Five teenagers have died and four other people were seriously hurt in a crash on a motorway in the Republic…
All aboard the cervical screening bus: how the NHS's mobile clinic is saving lives.
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Finland has stopped the deportation of a Russian family who took a major risk by speaking out against the invasion of Ukraine.
A Russian family facing deportation from Finland—after being denied asylum multiple times despite the threat of arrest, imprisonment, and torture…
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Italy’s legendary August shutdown was a hard-fought victory. It would do us all good to have something similar.
On the Riviera di Ponente, tucked between the flashy resort towns of the Ligurian coast, lies the Albenga plain. Filled…
Is Microsoft's AI strategy being slowed down by a chip shortage?
The chips are quite small—some can fit in the palm of your hand. But they’re essential for building artificial intelligence…
'His ache is real': Bob Dylan and others on the wild genius of honky-tonk hellraiser Gary Stewart
Bob Dylan tells me: “He sings like a man arguing with destiny. It sounds like the ache is real, that…