Join us on Sunday 10/26 for our first ever Crossword Workshop with nine-time American Crossword Puzzle Tournament champion Dan Feyer! Join other Browser readers to solve a puzzle and learn the tips and tricks of a crossword professional. Find out more and get your crossword workshop ticket here. Charlie Stross | Charlie’s Diary | 17th October 2025 Science fiction writer reflects on the future he now inhabits at the age of 61, "which increasingly resembles the backstory from a dystopian 1970s SF novel in which two-fisted billionaires colonise space in order to get away from the degenerate second-hander rabble downstairs". This year feels pivotal: if humanity survives without nuclear war or global financial collapse, we might make it past the 2030s (3,200 words) Nomido is the Browser's daily word game. Play today's before it's gone! Helen Fields | Last Word On Nothing | 3rd October 2025 The lessons learned with effort and experience, whether travel hacks or linguistic idioms, are being overwritten by technology. "I used to be an expert of Western European transit ticket buying. What am I supposed to do with my obsolete knowledge now?" Knowing your way around without a map, reaching for the right coin, long-gone keyboard shortcuts: these are outmoded skills to cherish (800 words) Want more? The full Browser recommends five outstanding articles, a video and a podcast daily, for less than $1 a week. Caroline Crampton, Editor-In-Chief; Robert Cottrell, Founding Editor; Kaamya Sharma, Editor; Sylvia Bishop, Assistant Publisher; Jodi Ettenberg, Associate Editor; Uri Bram, CEO & Publisher; Al Breach, Founding Director Editorial comments and letters to the editor: editor@thebrowser.com | Technical issues and support requests: support@thebrowser.com | Or write at any time to the publisher: uri@thebrowser.com Proudly published with Ghost, the fiercely independent website and newsletter platform
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