The long read: An extreme concentration of wealth in a city where even the air is for sale has produced a new breed of needle-like tower

The one thing you should takeaway from this article is that you need to have A Plague Tale: Innocence on your radar. Asobo Studio’s action-adventure game is narrative-driven, part puzzle, not a AAA game, but my god, it looks and plays like a mix between The Last of Us with the sibling relationship of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons thrown in for good measure. Set in medieval France and centred around the teenage Amicia and her young brother Hugo, this brother and sister has to survive while being hunted by the Inquisition… and hordes of flesh-eating rats. But they’re not as close as you’d think. Because Amicia and Hugo have never met.

Owen Bennett-Jones on the state of the BBC.

Effective copywriting is the ability to tell a compelling story in a way that evokes strong emotions within your audience and readers.

Weird-looking robots are the best robots.

Is the Army botching its investigations into noncombatant deaths?

Customer cancellation and churn is a fact of doing business for SVODs like Netflix, but a new study suggests that many subscribers aren’t leaving SVODs on purpose. “Involuntary cancellation” is a serious problem for SVODs operating in the U.S. and the U.K., according to a recent study by Amdocs-owned Vindicia and commissioned from analyst firm nScreenMedia. The “involuntary” nature of these cancellations is typically due to payment failures that occur due to credit card problems like insufficient funds.

A shocking new study by the American Civil Liberties Union has found that more than 3,200 people nationwide are serving life terms without parole for nonviolent offenses. Of those prisoners, 80 percent are behind bars for drug-related convictions. Sixty-five percent are African-American, 18 percent are white, and 16 percent are Latino — evidence of what the ACLU calls “extreme racial disparities.” The crimes that led to life sentences include stealing gas from a truck, shoplifting, possessing a crack pipe, facilitating a $10 sale of marijuana, and attempting to cash a stolen check.

The fireball is the second most powerful in 30 years and the biggest since Chelyabinsk in 2013.

Payments startup Square plans to hire a number of engineers and a designer to work on its crypto initiatives, according to tweets from CEO Jack Dorsey. Dorsey, who also founded and runs Twitter, announced Wednesday evening that Square plans to hire three or four engineers and one designer “to work full-time on open source contributions to the bitcoin/crypto ecosystem.” A Square spokesman said there was no additional information to share beyond the tweets.

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is cooperating with a wide-ranging probe by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee into Trump and possible obstruction of justice and abuse of power, a person knowledgeable about the matter said on Friday.

The more sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) people consumed, the greater their risk of premature death—particularly death from cardiovascular disease, and to a lesser extent from cancer, according to a large long-term study of U.S. men and women.

Overcoming life’s basic truth: Talent is universal, but opportunity is not.

MoviePass is bringing back a version of the plan that made it so popular in the first place — a subscription where you pay a monthly fee and get an unlimited number of 2D movie tickets.

It should’ve been easy for the Catholic Church to rid itself of French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin. Earlier this month, he announced he would resign from the Church after a secular court found him guilty of not reporting a pedophile priest who had sexually abused minors.

Amid general political divisiveness these days, it appears plenty of us would be happy to have robots make the tough decisions instead. New research has claimed that a quarter of Europeans would rather trust artificial intelligence to make political choices than regular flesh and blood humans. Although, worryingly, that same research highlights that over half (56%) of those quizzed fear that robots will replace human jobs.

As it becomes harder to market a business through blogging, content distribution becomes increasingly important.

When the Defense Department flunked its first-ever fiscal review, one of our government’s greatest mysteries was exposed: Where does the DoD’s $700 billion annual budget go? By Matt Taibbi.