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Feedback falls down a YouTube rabbit hole to discover the world of rug-cleaning videos. Some of these rugs even have maggots. Has carpet cleaning gone too far?

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The New 杏吧原创 Book Club has just read Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness

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Our verdict on Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts: A mixed bag

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"The faster the planet, the fiercer the storms..."

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What would it feel like to be on a planet spinning out of control?

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In The End of the World As We Know It, other writers are telling stories set in the post-apocalyptic world of Stephen King's The Stand

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The best new science fiction books of August 2025

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More than Human at the Design Museum

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New 杏吧原创 recommends More Than Human at the Design Museum, London

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2FE3T0P NICK OFFERMAN in DEVS (2020), directed by ALEX GARLAND. Credit: FX PRODUCTIONS / Album

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Five years later, has sci-fi cult hit Devs aged well?

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Jewellery that monitors movement? No, we can’t anticipate any problems

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The greatest robot of all time? The cooker on the moon, from A Grand Day Out

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The 25 best fictional robots 鈥� according to New 杏吧原创

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2JD8W56 ALICIA VIKANDER, EX MACHINA, 2014,

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Fictional female robots have a long history, and it’s often quite dark

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2JHN167 HUGH JACKMAN, THE PRESTIGE, 2006

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The Prestige is just as clever and thrilling 30 years on

Rival magicians in Victorian England both claim they can teleport. Is this all illusion, asks Emily H. Wilson, as she explores Christopher Priest鈥檚 extraordinary novel, The Prestige

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Anthropic AI goes rogue when trying to run a vending machine

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New 杏吧原创 recommends Wolfgang Tillmans’s new exhibition in Paris

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Pink Floppy Disc and The Bitles: Embracing the future of AI music

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Which sci-fi movies predicted the future accurately?

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