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I ran 1,000km to test the best running watches in the UK

We ran more than 1,000km to test top-rated GPS fitness watches including Apple, Garmin and the best for beginners

Gas line rupture briefly shuts down major Southern California freeway; shelter-in-place orders lifted

Updated on: December 27, 2025 / 10:25 PM PST / CBS LA

The hill I will die on: Faux Cyrillic is a load of old crдp

To the designers of film posters, I suppose it looks cleverly exotic – but there are 250 million readers of Cyrillic globally, and its misuse grinds our gears

The Atlantic 10: The Best Books of 2025

Deliberating over the Atlantic 10 list is, in some ways, a test of memory. Does a novel we read in January still thrill us? Does the reportage that impressed us midyear still feel surprising when we turn back to it in the fall? We’re asking ourselves, in short, which books have kept our attention, sometimes months after we’ve first encountered them. This exercise helps ensure that the books we select aren’t just gorgeously written, inventive, or clarifying, but that they will also linger in the reader’s mind long after they’ve turned the last page.

From shrimp Jesus to erotic tractors: how viral AI slop took over the internet

Flood of unreality is an endpoint of algorithm-driven internet and product of an economy dependent on a few top tech firms

More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds

Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows

How Las Vegas police ended up with a fleet of free Tesla Cybertrucks

Mysterious donors gave a fleet of 10 of the vehicles – which have had a number of recalls – to the police earlier this year

55 Facts That Blew Our Minds in 2025

The Atlantic’s Science, Technology, and Health desk has had a busy 2025: Our writers have spent the year probing the limits of human consciousness and gene-editing technology, studying the ubiquity of microplastics, investigating the origins of a mysterious ALS outbreak, and even chasing down rubble from the White House’s demolished East Wing. Our reporting has led us to a number of strange and delightful facts. In a year defined by slop, we hope these nuggets of reality inspire some genuine awe:

Morgan Stanley says these are top stock picks in 2026, including Nvidia

Morgan Stanley named its favorite stocks to buy in 2026.

‘It brings you closer to the natural world’: the rise of the Merlin birdsong identifying app

Merlin has been trained to identify the songs of more than 1,300 bird species around the world

London Eye architect proposes 14-mile tidal power station off Somerset coast

West Somerset Lagoon would harness renewable energy for UK’s AI boom – and create ‘iconic’ arc around Bristol Channel

The hill I will die on: Online shops, please I beg – stop with endless post-purchase emails

You really want me to review my buy? Yes, it was fine. But that is where I would like our relationship to end