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There is a mobile game that lets you “collect” stray cats you encounter on the street like Pokémon in Pokémon Go.

It's called CatchCat and it also has an archive, very similar to a Pokedex, where cats are classified with statistics and experience points.
Society
What is affecting Europe is an extreme weather event called omega block

It is a high-pressure front trapped between two low-pressure systems. Essentially, it is a "dome" of warm air pressed down over the continent.
Internet
The co-founder of Wikipedia was banned from Wikipedia for trying to change Wikipedia’s rules without following Wikipedia’s rules.

Larry Sanger has proposed a reform of the entire online encyclopedia system, but apparently he did it the wrong way.
Culture
The “lost” album by Deftones, Eros, has been released online after 18 years

And the fans are divided, between those who welcomed the news with enthusiasm and those who were outraged recalling the tragic story that led to the cancellation of that record.
Society
In London, they had to cancel an event on extreme heat due to the extreme heat.

An event where the theme was finding a way to survive extreme heat without disrupting daily life.
Society
In Tasmania, they are installing an artificial monolith that will be the “black box” of the end of the world and the extinction of humanity.

It will work exactly like an airplane's black box, recording the apocalypse day after day.
Internet
There is an app for sending messages that travel at the speed of a carrier pigeon

It's called Roost and it presents itself as an "anti-instant" messaging service to rediscover the pleasure (and frustration) of waiting.
Politics
At the peace talks between the USA and Iran, there is a problem: J.D. Vance continues to be ignored by several diplomatic delegations.

So much so that the White House was forced to issue a press release stating that it is not true at all that Vance is being ignored.
Society
According to climatologists, the blame for the heatwave in Europe is not at all on Super El Niño but entirely on human beings.

We are paying the price for years of climate crisis; a single climatic event is not enough to explain the incredible heat of these weeks.
Culture
Criterion Collection will release a luxurious box set of 30 DVDs with all the restored films of Stanley Kubrick.

It will include all of his short and feature films in restored versions, plus 25 hours of special content, many of which are unpublished and quite enticing.
Culture
Due to Sam Altman and OpenAI, no one wants to distribute Artificial, the film by Luca Guadagnino about Sam Altman and OpenAI.

Amazon was supposed to distribute it, but changed its mind at the last moment. Warner Bros. and Paramount have already rejected it. And now, nothing is known about the film's fate.
Pop
England may be without a Prime Minister, but it has fallen in love with the hot podium guy who sets up the lectern and tests the microphones before the press conferences outside Downing Street.

Translated into English it would be "the podium's good guy", the only stable figure in English politics, so much so that many on social media propose him as Prime Minister.
Society
After laying off nearly 10,000 employees, Zuckerberg has ordered the surviving Meta employees to “start having fun again.”

One might wonder: if an employee refuses and shows up to work in a bad mood, will he be fired too?
Culture
Fatboy Slim performed an improvised and free DJ set during a demonstration against the far right in Brighton

And he commented on the whole day like this: "Never been more proud of my hometown. More disco, less fascism."
Pop
Trump is getting into a big, huge mess with the Reflecting Pool of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington

He spent 15 million dollars to redo it as he wanted. Now the water is green because it's overrun with algae and the paint on the bottom is peeling off.
Culture
A new music scene is emerging in Berlin that blends jazz and (of course) techno.

Two genres that seem to be very distant and that, not without a certain surprise, have discovered in Berlin that they go very well together.