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Scott Gilbertson

Valoi Easy35 Film-Scanning Kit Review: Fast, Affordable, and Easy to Use

If you need an easy, cheap, fast way to scan your 35-mm film, Valoi’s Easy35 is, er, the easiest way we’ve found to digitize images.

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Mark Schofield

Sebastian Vettel delivers stirring tribute to Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger in Imola

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Ahead of the F1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel honored Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger

Before the lights went out in Imola for the Formula 1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, there was time for one last tribute to Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger. Throughout this week the F1 world has been honoring the two drivers, who tragically lost their lives at Imola 30 years ago in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.

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Jay Castello

The five-year journey to make an adventure game out of ink and paper

Image: John William Evelyn

“I couldn’t walk away from the pen and ink thing,” says John Evelyn, creator of The Collage Atlas, a dreamlike storybook adventure recently released on Steam. The entire game is hand drawn, from tiny flowers and insects to huge buildings and the clouds that float over them. Exploring this world unwraps its dreamlike story, with environments folding out in response to your approach.

“I had been drawing for many years before that […] and I’d always...

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Wes Davis

All the news about Blue Origin’s first crewed flight since 2022

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Jeff Bezos’ space tourism company is flying humans to space for the first time since 2022.

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Indulge In A 4-Course Feast And We'll Point You To The Perfect Mockumentary Sitcom To Binge

"You know, they eat the hottest people first. Let me back my tasty *ss up." — Ava, Abbott Elementary

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Experts Say These 6 Work Habits Can Be Signs Of Anxiety, And As An Anxious Person, I Agree

These office behaviors may seem normal, but they could be red flags that something deeper is happening.

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49 Fun, Random Things To Buy For Yourself

TikTok is obsessed with this fast-absorbing "vanilla cashmere" lotion, and you will be too.

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Max Freeman-Mills

Freewrite Alpha Review: For People Who Just Want to Get Stuff Done

We mischievously asked our reviewer to use nothing but this distraction-free keyboard computer with virtually no display for a whole week. Annoyingly, he loved it.

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Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti

How Extremist Settlers Took Over Israel

After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law.

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Katie Rogers

With an Eye to Black Voters, Biden to Address Graduates at Morehouse College

The president’s appearance at the historically Black college in Atlanta was not welcomed by all on campus, amid dissatisfaction with U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

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David Pierce

The AI assistants are getting better fast

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 38, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and you can also read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)

This week, I’ve been writing about iPads and the future of Google, watching American Fiction and Bodkin, rewatching Her because of… reasons, endlessly replaying the songs of Windows95man, learning how to make better...

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Majority of Maui wildfire survey participants have respiratory issues

Many study participants hadn’t seen a doctor. Some said they weren’t able to because clinics had burned down or because they prioritized getting housing, jobs, and food after the disaster.

A University of Hawaii study examining the health effects of last year’s deadly wildfires on Maui found that up to 74% of participants may have difficulty breathing and otherwise have poor respiratory health, and almost half showed signs of compromised lung function.

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How to protect your keyless car from theft

Thieves prowl neighborhoods at night looking for cars parked outside so they can carry out so-called relay attacks.

They appear like ghosts in the night, standing outside your house, one holding up an antenna while the other crouches next to the car parked on the driveway. Within seconds, your car is gone, yet another victim amid a surge in auto theft enabled by the technology designed to make it easier to unlock and start vehicles.

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35 Useful Parenting Products You’ll Always Wanna Keep Handy

This conditioner + this detangling brush = a life-changing solution for your kid who screams when you brush their hair.

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If Your Cluttered Space Is Starting To Get Scary, Here Are 49 Organization Products To Help Transform It

Transform your home into the clutter-free safe haven you deserve.

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Dawn Davis and Sharon Radisch

Is Agnolotti del Plin Italy’s Most Prized Stuffed Pasta?

Each region could well argue for its own, but one may have the strongest case.

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Julia Halperin and Zachary Small

5 Takeaways From the Spring Art Auctions: $20 Million Is the New $50 Million

Results from a week of sales tell a story of a masterpiece market come down to earth, the cooling of young art stars — and a hack starting to come to light.

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Simon Romero and Hogla Enecia Pérez

Dominican Republic Election: How Crackdown on Haitians Lifted Abinader

President Luis Abinader goes into Sunday’s race as the clear front-runner, bolstered by nativist migration policies, a strong economy and an anticorruption drive.

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