Dumbphone Owners Have Lost Their Minds

All my Gen Z friends want to ditch their smartphones. It’s cool. They’re cool. But there’s more at stake than they think. [...]

TikToks new deeply silly trend? Impersonating owls.

TikTok's latest trend sees people not just impersonating owls, but also impersonating people impersonating owls. [...]

China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own

Gen Z women in China are all in on digital companionship—even setting up dates with real-world versions of their AI boyfriends. [...]

You’ve Never Heard of China’s Greatest Sci-Fi Novel

Millions of words. Thousands of authors. The Morning Star of Lingao is barely known outside China—but it contains the secret to the country’s modernization and malaise. [...]

She Was Given Up by Her Chinese Parents—and Spent 14 Years Trying to Find a Way Back

More and more Chinese adoptees in the US are trying to reunite with their birth parents. For Youxue, it took more than a decade, and a remarkable coincidence. [...]

The best Pokémon TCG deals to shop this week

As of Jan. 20, these are some of the best Pokémon TCG deals to shop this week. [...]

A Spelunking Trip Turns Deadly in This Claustrophobic Indie Horror Film

In The Descent, an outdoor adventure goes terribly wrong for six friends who enter caves looking for fun but find murderous creatures within the depths. [...]

How AI-induced cultural stagnation is already happening

AI-mediated culture is already being filtered in ways that favor the familiar, the describable, and the conventional. [...]

Duolingo launches Bad Bunny 101 ahead of Super Bowl LX halftime show

Duolingo launches "Bad Bunny 101" ahead of the Super Bowl LX halftime show. [...]