"Deadly anomalies, dangerous mutants, anarchists and bandits..." Based on what creative director and producer Slava Lukyanenka says, not even that could stop STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl from coming out.

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 53, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Beyoncé and Rosanna Pansino and Bowen Yang, pouring my life back into Todoist, watching the end of The Grand Tour, catching up on some My Brother, My Brother and Me episodes, seeing if the Pixel Recorder app can replace my trusty voice recorder, and moving Headspace to my homescreen to see if it helps me meditate more. (So far… no.) I also have for you a truly wild new pair of AR glasses, a Batman-adjacent show on HBO, a great new book about the end of Twitter, a funny twist on... Continue reading…

UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan is due Monday in Washington for a first official visit at a time of soaring tensions in the Middle East, seeking to highlight economic and technological cooperation.Presidential advisor Anwar Gargash said the Emiratis, who...

Pope Francis on Sunday condemned the killing last week of an environmental activist in Honduras who had protested over mining and hydro-electric projects to try to protect tropical forests and rivers.Juan Lopez was shot dead by several men as he headed home in his car from...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama —  Four people have died and more than 20 were wounded in a shooting in a nightlife area in the U.S. state of Alabama, according to police and news reports. There were multiple…

Japan’s top cancer doctor recently made headlines for openly admitting what many American doctors have been too afraid to say out loud: the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are “the work of evil” and have…

What we have here is a failure to communicate. On this week’s edition of Liberty Nation Radio, we check out the comms from Kamala and Trump and ask whether Hezbollah is a spent force. For more episodes,…

Israel won’t endure missile or drone attacks and wants citizens back in their homes. In a week of military setbacks, devastating intelligence breaches, and communications disruptions, Hezbollah is back…

The moment nobody’s been waiting for has finally arrived: An artificially intelligent chatbot can help people diminish their beliefs in conspiracy theories. No, seriously. Researchers discovered that…

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