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2H4G74E Lisbon, Portugal. 2nd Nov, 2021. Vice President of Global Affairs and Communications of Meta (Facebook), Nick Clegg addresses the audience (via web transmission) at Altice Arena Centre Stage during the second day of the Web Summit 2021 in Lisbon.This is one of the largest technology conferences in the world and also a meeting point for the debate on technological evolution in people's lives. This year, around 40.000 participants are expected to attend the Web Summit. (Credit Image: ? Hugo Amaral/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire)

Technology

Nick Clegg says nothing at all in new book How to Save the Internet

During his time as a Meta executive, Nick Clegg witnessed some of the biggest decisions to ever affect the online world. But this collection of tired tropes offers little insight, says Chris Stokel-Walker

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�鶹��ý recommends one-person play Every Brilliant Thing

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Los Angeles - CIRCA 1985: Author William Gibson poses for a portrait circa 1985 in Oakland, California (Photo by Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images)

Technology

Is Neuromancer's cyberpunk dystopia still thrilling in 2025?

Culture

The �鶹��ý Book Club has been reading Circular Motion by Alex Foster

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Our verdict on ‘Circular Motion’: this dystopia hit too close to home

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Ursula K. Le Guin in 2005

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Ursula Le Guin's son on why The Dispossessed is (maybe) his favourite

Culture

The Dispossessed takes place on the twin worlds of Anarres and Urras

Space

Read an extract from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Culture

Holy Mary on window Statuette of Holy Mary and vase with plastic flowers in window on a house with bright pink walls, Irish cottage, Ireland

Humans

Alice Roberts investigates the unstoppable rise of Christianity

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BOXBERG, GERMANY - MARCH 17: Boxberg Power Station is seen during sunset on March 17, 2016 in Boxberg, Germany. This lignite-fired power station is the second largest in Germany. (Photo by Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images)

Environment

New book about the story of carbon dioxide is a rousing call to action

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Earth

The captivating story that Earth’s ‘boring’ layered rocks tell us

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The �鶹��ý 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

The �鶹��ý Book Club has just finished reading Adam Roberts's novel Lake of Darkness. Some of us loved it – but some of us weren't so sure about this far-future set slice of hard science fiction

Culture

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

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Environment

Read an extract from Alex Foster’s sci-fi novel Circular Motion

Culture

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The Prestige is just as clever and thrilling 30 years on

Culture

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Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness is a quest to understand utopia itself

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