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An Apple-backed study finds combining Apple Watch's heart rate sensor with a new Wearable Behavior Model gives 92% accuracy for pregnancy detection, and more (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
How AI is being used by patients and doctors alike to recommend diagnoses and treatments, as experts warn of answers that seem confident but lack nuance (Ryan Flinn/Wired)
Tel Aviv- and NYC-based Datafy, which offers an autonomous cloud storage optimization service, raised a $20M seed led by Bessemer Venture Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
Bilt Rewards, which offers rewards points for rent payments, raised $250M led by General Catalyst and GID at a $10.75B valuation, up from $3.1B in January 2024 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
Missouri AG Andrew Bailey is investigating Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming the companies' AI chatbots are discriminating against President Trump (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
Asked "Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? One word answer only.", Grok 4 first consults Musk's views, but only when the word "you" is used (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
Further tests reveal Grok 4 appears to consult Elon Musk's views on a range of sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's personal opinions (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
Here's a complete unedited video of asking Grok for its views on the Israel/Palestine situation. It first searches twitter for what Elon thinks. Then it searches the web for Elon's views. Finally it adds some non-Elon bits at the end. ZA 54 of 64 citations are about Elon. [video] (Jeremy Howard/@jeremyphoward)
Sources: AWS is launching a marketplace for AI agents, with Anthropic as one of its partners, at the AWS Summit in NYC next week (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Belkin announces it is ending support for its Wemo devices and app on January 31, 2026; a limited number of devices will continue to function via HomeKit (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
Florida AG's office launches an investigation into Robinhood for "falsely promoting" its trading platform as the "least expensive way to purchase crypto" (Kirk Ogunrinde/Bloomberg)
Bluesky rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with the Online Safety Act; users under 18 or those opting out of verification will get limited access (Emma Roth/The Verge)
LGND, which uses vector embeddings to analyze geospatial data and has an enterprise app to query it, raised a $9M seed led by Javelin Venture Partners (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
iCapital, which makes tools for wealth managers to invest in alternative assets, raised $820M+ at a $7.5B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $1.5B+ (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
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This Jungle Plant Is a Good Landlord to Its Tenant Ants
Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows
How Elephants Say They Like Them Apples
A 37,000-Year Chronicle of What Once Ailed Us
Trump’s Budget Would Clip Bird Banding, and Hunters Are Not Happy
Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts Are Hurting Rural, White Americans, Too
Trump Names Sean Duffy as Interim Head of NASA
Increasingly Acidic Seas Threaten Oyster Farming
Antarctica Faces Tense Future as U.S. Science Budget Shrinks
RFK Jr. Cancels Meeting of Key Preventive Health Panel
F.D.A. Posts Collection of Letters Outlining Concerns About New Drugs
Justice Dept. Demands Private Patient Info From Trans Youth Medicine Providers
James B. Maas, Guru of Slumber, Is Dead at 86
Sonoran Desert Toads, With Their Psychedelic Powers, Appear to Be in Decline
Maya Ruler’s Tomb Is Unearthed in Belize, With Clues to His Ancient World
Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave
Life Expectancy in California Has Not Rebounded After Covid
New Research Questions Severity of Withdrawal From Antidepressants
Measles Cases Hit Highest Total Since U.S. Eliminated Disease
Research Suggests Climate Change Added Excess Deaths in European Heat Wave
Ivar Giaever, Nobel Winner in Quantum Physics, Dies at 96
Trump Wants to Close the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
Lung Cancer Screening on Wheels
Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ‘Beautiful’ DNA Experiment
Medical Societies Sue Kennedy and H.H.S. Over Vaccine Advice
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Promising vaccine against deadly Nipah virus can also treat infection
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US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts
OpenAI's o3 tops new AI league table for answering scientific questions
Centuries-old DNA reveals origins of Greenland’s unique dogs
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Replay and representation dynamics in the hippocampus of freely flying bats
Feline infectious peritonitis epizootic caused by a recombinant coronavirus
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Lack of evidence for the transitional cerebellar progenitor
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The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia
How short peptides disassemble tau fibrils in Alzheimer’s disease
Decadal changes in atmospheric circulation detected in cloud motion vectors
A haplotype-resolved pangenome of the barley wild relative Hordeum bulbosum
Metalasers with arbitrarily shaped wavefront
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Bowhead whale faeces link increasing algal toxins in the Arctic to ocean warming
Ultra-depleted mantle source of basalts from the South Pole–Aitken basin
Loss of FCoV-23 spike domain 0 enhances fusogenicity and entry kinetics
Selective remodelling of the adipose niche in obesity and weight loss
Control of toxicity of fine particulate matter emissions in China
The role of metabolism in shaping enzyme structures over 400 million years
Cryptic variation fuels plant phenotypic change through hierarchical epistasis
Phylogenetically informative proteins from an Early Miocene rhinocerotid
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Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift
Quantum correlations of spontaneous two-photon emission from a quantum dot
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Symbolic ‘science fair’ showcases research cut by Trump team
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What a Nuclear Explosion Looks Like
Should You Be Having More Babies?
The Precarious Position of Iranian Jews
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The Backdoor Way That Pete Hegseth Could Keep Women Out of Combat
Trump Loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable.
The Real Trouble With America’s Flip-Flop on Ukrainian Weapons
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She Was More Than the Next Marilyn Monroe
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Trump announces 35% tariffs on Canada
Israeli plans for Gaza draw criticism of ‘concentration camps’
Rubio to meet Chinese counterpart amid tensions over trade, security
Israel, European Union reach deal on more aid, fuel deliveries to Gaza
U.K. and France agree to swap migrants in ‘one in, one out’ deal
IDF strike kills Gazan children awaiting food supplements, health officials say
Russia pounds Kyiv for another sleepless night as Zelensky asks for help
In Brazil, Trump faces a country — and a leader — ready for a fight
U.S. imposes sanctions on U.N. official investigating Israel over Gaza
European court finds Russia downed MH17, committed rights violations in Ukraine
Why do young Chinese join the Communist Party? For many, it’s practical.
At least 2 killed and 15 missing after Houthis sink second ship this week
Trump announces 50 percent tariff on Brazil, citing Bolsonaro trial
Unhappy with Putin, Trump and Congress move closer to Ukraine
Gaza humanitarian work at risk of shutdown, U.N. warns amid fuel blockade
Heat-related deaths may have tripled during European heat wave
Russia attacks Ukraine’s recruitment centers to disrupt mobilization
A family was trapped in a fire. He braved a sixth-floor ledge to save them.
To study in the U.S. under Trump, international students scrub their accounts
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Brazil wants to be a sustainable data center hub. Environmentalists are skeptical
Taiwan is creating an offshore wind industry to fuel its semiconductor factories
Chinese students are using AI to beat AI detectors
The hidden labor that makes AI work
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Brazil rules that social media platforms are responsible for users’ posts
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An Anonymous Group’s List of Purported Critics of Israel Helped Steer a U.S. Crackdown on Student Activists
How to Convince More Readers that Your Ideas Matter
Education Dept. Opens Investigations at George Mason U.
100 Years Ago, the Scopes Monkey Trial Discovered Academic Freedom
The Trump Administration Appears to Have Another College President in Its Crosshairs
A 4/4 Teaching Load Becomes Law at Most of Wisconsin's Public Universities
Apparent Paperwork Error Threatened Bob Jones U.'s Legal Standing in South Carolina
A College Vows to Stop Engaging With Some Student Activists to Settle a Lawsuit Brought by Jewish Students
The Scientists Who Got Ghosted by the NIH
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Is there any evidence that slave owning women in the American south sexually abused their man slaves like slave owning men did to their women slaves?
I'm an ancient Chinese court eunuch. Am I romancing/hooking up with my fellow eunuchs?
Has theater always been a refuge for queer people?
Was cruelty to slaves a common shorthand to indicate a character was evil in antebellum popular fiction, the way animal abuse is now?
Is challenging the black legend of the Spanish Empire in America, so historically inaccurate?
Why did women pay the dowry in other parts of the world?
[META] Is there a way for the mods to disable the “Related Posts” feature?
How did Slavery in the Empire of Brasil compare to Slavery in the United States?
I'm around 30 and live in a village in NE England in 1070. Who do I know and what do I know?
17th C Londoners rising at 4am in July?
Did Southern TV stations in the 1940s–60s censor nationally distributed programs for being too liberal?
What did little boys obsess over before the invention of heavy machinery, the discovery of dinosaurs and before the true nature and scale of space was properly understood?
WW2: What happened when a army/division surrendered on mass?
Given Germany’s large territorial loses after WW2, why wasn’t Italian South Tyrol returned to Austria?
How did Reaganism differ from Republican ideology and strategy before Reagan?
In the siege of Constantinople in 1453, why didn't the Ottomans attack Galata to take down the iron chain that have been blocking the way to golden horn harbour from that side but chose to transport the ships overland?
Why wasn't Hitler promoted past the rank of corporal in World War 1?
What inspired Prophet Muhammad start Abrahamic faith movement?
In the U.S., how did the Republican party successfully court blue collar workers while simultaneously running on platforms that are pro-business and anti-labor?
How did Northern Wei manage to become stable when many other similar states (Later Zhao, Former Qin, Former Yan...) collapsed one after another?
Why did the Russians contest the Battle of Borodino?
Was the French monarchy ever open to reforming before the French Revolution? If so, was it ever enough to prevent revolution?
How significant was the soil conservation research of George Washington Carver in mitigating the effects of the Dust Bowl?
Why did laborers die when excavating Herculaneum in the 18th century?
Why did Chinese scholars and philosophers believe the earth was flat well into the 16th century? Was Eratosthenes really that unique of a historical figure?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - July 07, 2025 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Foundational approaches to Celtic linguistics
Language Dynamics in Society (LanDS): The LanDS Analytical Framework for Majority and Minority-Language Ethnolinguistic Vitality - Ó Giollagáin et al 2025
'Asti' and 'saakka' in Finnish - the synonymy, meaning, usage and development of the Finnish terminative particles, as well as their position in the grammar - Päiviö (2007) [Finnish language paper]
Evidence for a new pre-Proto-Indo-European sound law *-em > PIE *-om by Alwin Kloekhorst
Serke, A. (2022). A description of Taruma phonology
New book on Second Language Cognitive Task Complexity – A comprehensive meta-analysis
Eastern Andalusian Spanish (Illustrations of the IPA)
The Development of a Bilingual and Bidialectal Dictionary for the Medzeniakonai Language (Baniwa - Koripako)
Natural disasters elicit spontaneous multimodal iconicity in onomatopoeia and gesture: Earthquake narratives from Nepal and New Zealand
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Do ‘language trees with sampled ancestors’ really support a ‘hybrid model’ for the origin of Indo-European? Thoughts on the most recent attempt at yet another IE phylogeny
Proto-Indo-European ‘fox’ and the reconstruction of an athematic ḱ-stem
Now You’re Talking... Old Irish: Towards a conversational approach to teaching Old Irish (2025)
Linguistic Paradox and Diglossia: the emergence of Sanskrit and Sanskritic language in Ancient India
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Greek-Anatolian Language Contact and the Settlement of Pamphylia
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Tomorrow Never Knows: How The Beatles Invented the Future With Studio Magic, Tape Loops & LSD
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NYT > Technology

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Nvidia Becomes First Public Company Worth $4 Trillion
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Scientist Use A.I. To Mimic the Mind, Warts and All
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In Des Moines, Big Operas and Big Ambitions Fill a Tiny Theater
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Clifford Owens: Performance Art at the Edge of Transgression
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A Tiny Chef Inspires an Outsize Outpouring
Video Game Actors End Contract Dispute Over A.I.
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Bronx Museum Picks New Leader
Jonathan Adler at MAD: A Potter’s Way With Puns and Commerce
The Surprising Presence in ‘The Gospel at Colonus’
How the Women of ‘Too Much’ Made Lena Dunham’s Rom-Com Just Right
Tim Blum, Leading L.A. Art Dealer, Closes His Gallery
‘The Gilded Age’ Enriches Its Portrait of Black High Society
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Thornton Willis, Who Brought Emotion to Geometric Painting, Dies at 89
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‘Rosa la Rose: Fille Publique’ Review: Lady Liberty of the Streets
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‘Ne Zha 2,’ Blockbuster Chinese Animated Film, Will Get English Version
Danielle Deadwyler on ’40 Acres and Balancing Brutality and Family
“Too Much” and the Reality of Looking for Love in London
Mel Robbins, Author of ‘The Let Them Theory,’ Shares 5 Tips For a Healthy Relationship
Gilberto Gil Steps Away From the Stage, Vowing ‘My Music Will Continue’
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Richard Greenberg, Playwright Whose ‘Take Me Out’ Won a Tony, Dies at 67
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Populations of Central Asian ethnicities in 1926 and 2022
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The Public Domain Review

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Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9
“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)
In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8
A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)
Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll
Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism
Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)
“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)
Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century
Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)
Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)
The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)
A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer
Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)
Con Heir: Tiny Cryptic #4
Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)
José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)
For He’s a Jolly Bad Fellow: Now and Then #1
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia
The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888)
Sartorial Codes: Tiny Cryptic #3
Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558)
What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)
The Cat’s Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London
Paws for Thought: Tiny Cryptic #2
Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922)
Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100)
George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854)
“Relaxations for the Impotent”: Ben Hecht’s Fantazius Mallare and the Contradictions of American Smut
Fantazius’ Folly: Tiny Cryptic #1
Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796)
A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)
Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes
Designing the Sublime: Boullée and Ledoux’s Architectural Revolution
Happy Together: The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921)
Alfred G. Mayer’s On the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies (1897)
Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s 391 Review (1917–1924)
Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive
Happy Public Domain Day 2025!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2024
The Color of Memory: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet
“How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950)
True Crime: Allan Pinkerton’s Thirty Years a Detective (1884)
Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
Strange Gods: Charles Fort’s Book of the Damned (1919)
Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855/1872)
Karel Čapek’s Letters from England (1925)
Christoph Jamnitzer’s Neuw Grotteßken Buch (1610)
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2024
“Here I Gather All the Friends”: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs (1869)
“Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s Genesis (1924)
Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896)
“To Eat This Big Universe as Her Oyster”: Margaret Fuller and the First Major Work of American Feminism
Sabine Baring-Gould’s Book of Were-Wolves (1865)
Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1682)
Vanity of Vanities: Fool’s Cap Map of the World (ca. 1585)
The Man and The Crowd (1928): Photography, Film, and Fate
Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s Les Malheurs des immortels (1922)
Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)
“Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!”: Victoria Woodhull’s Impending Revolution (1872)
Talking Lightly About Serious Things: Henri Rochefort and the Origins of French Populism
A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)
Theodor de Bry’s Engravings for Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590)
Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878)
Gottfried Mind, The Raphael of Cats
Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)
Luigi Cornaro’s Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life (1722 edition)
Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)

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Berlin Atonal Confirms Full Music Programme for 2025 Edition
New David Bowie Box Set Collects Output from 2002 to 2016
Soulwax Detail First New Album in Seven Years, ‘All Systems Are Lying’
Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: Black Sabbath Live at Villa Park
Gwenno – Utopia
The Rapture Announce European and North American Tour Dates
Jim Legxacy Reveals New Mixtape, ‘black british music (2025)’
A Certain Ratio’s ‘Live In America’ to be Reissued for 40th Anniversary
Neko Case Unveils First LP in Seven Years, ‘Neon Grey Midnight Green’
Fever Ray Details Live Album, ‘The Year Of The Radical Romantics’
Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for July Reviewed by Kez Whelan
Darragh Morgan – For Violin and Electronics II
What’s Wrong With Being Sexy? Species turns 30
BBC will not Broadcast Performances Deemed ‘High Risk’ after Glastonbury Bob Vylan Fallout
The Subscriber Albums Of The Year So Far 2025 Playlist Is Here!
The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2025 (In Association with Norman Records)
Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra – Places We Have Never Been
“Want to Change My Clothes, My Hair, My Face”: How Springsteen Helped Me Come Out
SHAPE+ Artist Sofi Shares Recording Captured During Residency at Prague’s MeetFactory
Warner Music Group Announces Plans to Cut Annual Costs by $300 Million
Plume Girl – Unnameable Glory
Le Guess Who? Launches Fundraising Campaign to Help Secure Festival’s Future
Optimo’s JD Twitch Diagnosed with Inoperable Brain Tumour
Supersonic Festival Adds The Bug and More to 2025 Lineup
Call Super Unveils Mix CD for Dekmantel, ‘A Rhythm Protects One’
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The Jonathan Swift of NYC: an Appreciation of Larry Cohen

Bandcamp Updates

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The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, June 2025
UN.TOMORROW Documents the Past and Present of Hong Kong DIY
Slikback, “Attrition”
Obeka’s Guide to Gombey
Molly Joyce, “State Change”
Juggling Dualities With rRoxymore
Don Caballero Fundamentals
Various Artists, “A Selection Of Music From Libyan Tapes”
The Tape Label Report, June 2025
A Decade of Laced Records, One of Gaming’s Most Celebrated Labels
Sababa 5, “Nadir”
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The Worm, “Pantilde”
The Hotlist, Summer 2025
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, June 2025
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, June 2025
Laura Stevenson, “Late Great”
Into the Realm of Picó, Colombia’s Ebullient Sound System Culture
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Various Artists: Music For A Revolution Vol 1: Guinea’s Syliphone Recording Label (1967-1973)
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, June 2025
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, June 2025
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, June 2025
Willi Carlisle, “Winged Victory”
Kasai’s Blend of Min’yō and Footwork Celebrates Ordinary Life
Gelli Haha, “Switcheroo”
The Best Albums of Spring 2025
No Leaf Unturned: Numero Group Chart the History of Emocore
Meet The Women Reclaiming and Rebuilding the Sound of the MENA Region
Brìghde Chaimbeul, “Sunwise”
Polished Turds and Perfect Songs: A Guide to Black Moth Super Rainbow
The Brutalists: The Black Dog on Their Career Spent Dancing to Architecture
Black Sites, “R4”
Biosphere, “The Way of Time”
The Evolution of Mchiriku, the Sound of Tanzania’s Streets

dusted

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The 2025 Dusted Mid-Year Switch: Part 2
Dom Salvador — S-T (Jazz Is Dead)
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Half Japanese — Adventure (Fire)
Lame — Lo Que Extrañas Yo No Existe (La Vida Es un Mus)
Eli Winter — A Trick of the Light (Three Lobed)
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Now — Now Does the Trick (Perennial/K)
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Electric Chair / Physique — Split LP (Iron Lung)
Me Lost Me — This Material Moment (Upset the Rhythm)
William Tyler — Time Indefinite (Psychic Hotline)
The Whimbrels — S-T (Dromedary)
Brìghde Chaimbeul — Sunwise (Glitterbeat/tak:til)
Puffer — Street Hassle (Static Shock)
Keith Jarrett — New Vienna (ECM)
Ryli — Come and Get Me (Dandy Boy)
Andrea Belfi & Jules Reidy—dessus oben alto up (Marionette)

Pitchfork

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Hopscotch Music Festival 2025 Lineup: Earl Sweatshirt, Sparks, My Morning Jacket, and More
Deftones Announce New Album Private Music, Share New Song “My Mind Is a Mountain”: Listen
Bob Vylan Singer Asks UK Crowd to Stop “Death to the IDF” Chant Amid Police Investigation
Watch the Trailer for Hulu’s New King of the Hill Revival
MJ Lenderman, Sun June, and More Cover Jason Molina Songs for New Tribute Album
Jens Lekman Announces Tour and New Album, Shares Video for New Song: Watch
Paul McCartney Announces 2025 North American Tour
Shakedown
Different Rooms
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Jay Som Announces First Album in Six Years, Shares Video for New Song “Float”: Watch
The Dreamy Malaise of Post-Pandemic Alt-Rock
New David Bowie Box Set Compiles Output From 2002 to 2016: Listen to a Rarity
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McMansion Hell

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2007-core nostalgia extravaganza
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the motel room, or: on datedness
texas gothic revival
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Serious Eats

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Why We Think Baratza Grinders Are worth the Money (Including Two That Are on Sale)
Should You Be Storing Coffee in a Coffee Canister?
We Tested 7 Pasta Makers to Find the Best Ones for Rolling and Cutting Dough
We Reviewed The Vitamix Immersion Blender (And It Was Almost Silly Powerful)
Honing Versus Sharpening a Knife: What's the Difference?
My KitchenAid Stand Mixer is Leaking Oil—What’s Going On?
How Do Keurig Coffee Makers Work, Anyways?
Does Your Beer Glass Really Matter? We Consulted a Beer Expert to Find Out
We Tested 7 Anti-Fatigue Mats—Here Are the Best Ones for Your Kitchen
We Tested 8 Countertop Ice Makers—Three Stood Out
We Reviewed 11 Bento Boxes to Find One We’d Pack Lunch In
How Do Air Fryers Work?
Balmuda: Our Review of the Pretty, Steam-Powered Toaster
The Spinn Coffee Maker Is One of the Only Automated Brewers We Like
We Tested 12 Garlic Presses—Two Smashed the Competition
The Breville Barista Express Impress Makes Home Espresso Approachable
We Tested 8 Enameled Cast Iron Skillets and Found Three Great Options
We Tested 11 Different Bundt Pans—Three Won Top Marks
We Tested 14 Popular Vegetable Peelers to Find the Best Ones
All of the Tools You Need to Make Really Great Baguettes at Home
Baking Steels vs. Stones: Which One Should You Buy?
Nespresso vs. Keurig: Which Coffee Maker is Better?
We Tested 10 Tofu Presses—Three Squeezed Out the Competition
We Tested 8 Mandolines to Find Ones That Could Slice with Ease
How a Food Dehydrator Can Help You Reduce Food Waste
We Tested the Anova Precision Chamber Vacuum Sealer
We Reviewed the Challenger Fermentation Mat and Recommend It for Sourdough Bakers
The Best Methods for Making Whipped Cream, Explained
17 Quick Dinner Recipes in 20 Minutes or Less
12 Freezer-Friendly Soups for a Warm Meal Whenever You Want It
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Chè Chuối (Vietnamese Banana, Tapioca, and Coconut Milk Dessert)
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