Need something new for your reading list? This week, we recommend checking out The Dorians, a novel by Nick Cutter, and Lorenzo De Felici's comic series, Red Roots. It should become clear pretty ...

As bass lines and crowds filled Fairmount Park for Roots Picnic Weekend, another movement took shape across the city: a push to put books in people’s hands and reading at the center of culture.

Editor’s note: Pennsylvania and New Jersey have played a key role in the nation’s 250-year history. While most are familiar with the events that happened in Philadelphia, our region also played a ...

A new clinical study suggests that successful root canal treatment may benefit more than just dental health. Patients treated for infected teeth showed improved blood sugar control, healthier ...

A newly discovered local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed 'CIFSwitch' in the Linux kernel could allow attackers to forge CIFS authentication key descriptions, abuse the kernel's key request ...

A recently patched Linux privilege escalation vulnerability now has a publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that allows local attackers to gain root privileges on Arch Linux systems. The ...

Brandy just reminded Philadelphia that she is exactly who she says she is. The R&B icon hit the Roots Picnic stage and had the crowd singing, the internet gagging, and all of us trying to figure out ...

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Roots Picnic 2026 made history over the weekend, welcoming a sold-out crowd of 80,000 attendees to Philadelphia’s Belmont Plateau for the festival’s largest edition to date. Hosted and co-headlined by ...

Honoring its contemporary tradition of creating timeless icons, adidas Originals introduces the Objects of Legacy Pack, featuring five silhouettes unified by the enduring, minimalist design language ...

Jay-Z sent fans into a frenzy over the weekend—and not just because of his highly anticipated 2026 Roots Picnic performance. The rap icon stepped onto the stage, debuting a voluminous afro, a dramatic ...

Here’s one of the more unsettling schemes to recently emerge from Silicon Valley: human clones grown without a conscious brain. At least one biotech start-up reportedly has quixotic ambitions of ...