The Taliban says ISIS-K is responsible for the attack on a Kabul hospital that has killed at least 19 people and wounded 50 more. / CBS News

What does Youngkin's win in Virginia over McAuliffe mean? For Republicans, distancing themselves from Trump—without alienating his base—can mean a path to victory. / Vox

Based on industrial emissions data, a detailed map of America's lung-cancer hotspots. / ProPublica

The Atlanta Braves, who had a losing record as recently as Aug. 2, won the World Series last night for the first time since 1995. / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Facebook will stop automatically identifying people in photos and videos, following Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM, which have all recently rolled back facial recognition products. / Reuters, The New York Times

Using the golden ratio to rank the beauty of cats' faces. / Hyperallergic

See also: Jurassic Park but with a cat. / YouTube

What is Zuckerberg's true vision for the metaverse? A place where "all human behavior can be recorded, predicted, and monetized." / VICE

See also: "The aesthetics of the metaverse, with its ghastly translucent holograms, evoke the specter of death." Mark Zuckerberg, aesthete. / The New York Times

Microsoft says it's also building a metaverse with its most popular games as well as Microsoft Teams. / The Verge

"You can have incredibly immersive, delightful, soul-stirring metaverses… which you access via regular-ass old computer screens." The metaverse is already here—it's Minecraft. / Debugger

What it means now that the dark web drug emporium White House Market—which prided itself on ethical practices—has suddenly closed. / WIRED

Astronauts on the ISS made tacos with space-grown peppers—though no word yet on whether they still count as Hatch chiles. / CNET

See also: "How it actually tasted was secondary." I was the first man to eat pizza in space. / MEL Magazine

After deciding it would sell homes, Zillow bought too many of them, and now needs to offload around 7,000 houses. / The Verge

When an atoll resembles a black hole on Google Maps, people begin to suspect something nefarious afoot. / The Independent

"A few hours later, once the local anesthetic had worn off, I ate dinner like nothing had happened." Root canals are no longer terrible. / The Atlantic

Artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is planting a 55-meter-long installation designed to appeal to bees and other endangered pollinators. / The Guardian

How a sportswriter and data enthusiast detected something amiss with White Sox players during the rigged 1919 World Series. / BBC

On the nonspecific origins of the "stomp, clap, hey" music that dominated the late aughts/early teens. / Dirt