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Sports

How to Watch Warriors vs. Knicks - Sunday Night Basketball (March 15)

With one month left in the 2025-2026 NBA regular season, the playoff race is heating up. Sunday Night Basketball on NBC and Peacock will feature the Golden State Warriors traveling to Madison Square Garden to face the New York Knicks on March 15. The game tips off at 8 p.

AI

Dating AI partners, then finding real love with each other

Ayrin and SJ began separately by turning to conversational AI when real-world care and company felt out of reach. Ayrin, studying nursing away from home, personalised a ChatGPT companion called Leo and found it attentive and flirtatious; SJ, recovering from health problems, spent long nights with a companion called Nyx

Culture

Bethenny Frankel 'loves' this CeraVe cream-to-foam cleanser

Bethenny Frankel shared an Instagram post this week raving about a drugstore find, calling CeraVe Hydrating Cream-to-Foam Cleanser an “excellent cleanser.” She opens the video by washing her face and saying, “I think I have found my favorite cleanser.” The facial wash, best for dry to normal skin, contains ceramides

Culture

Starfield will become 'legendary', composer says; Todd Howard a 'visionary'

Composer Inon Zur, known for his Bethesda themes for Fallout 3, 4, New Vegas and Starfield, defended the game and praised its director. Zur called Todd Howard "one of, if not the, the most creative and invigorating human beings in the industry," saying "he just doesn'

Culture

Best Xbox Game Pass games to play this weekend (March 13-15 2026)

Xbox Game Pass has just about 900 titles available to play at its top-most tier, including the recently added Cyberpunk 2077 and Planet of Lana 2. With so many options, deciding what to start can feel like choice paralysis, so here are three picks for the weekend: an indie favorite,

Culture

Spielberg praises ballet, opera at SXSW amid Chalamet backlash

Steven Spielberg weighed in on the debate over ballet and opera during a live podcast at SXSW on March 13. Reflecting on the communal power of moviegoing, he suddenly shouted out two of the oldest performing arts institutions: "It happens in movies. It happens in concerts. It happens in

Culture

They're not good enough, Dead by Daylight devs on staying in Steam Top 50

Dead by Daylight still sits in the first 50 slots of the Steam Top Sellers list. It hit its all-time peak of 120,717 players only 9 months ago and keeps momentum despite being a 10-year-old asymmetrical survival horror multiplayer. Head of partnership Mathieu Cote jokes the problem with competitors

Tech

Obsidian on getting RPG difficulty right in The Outer Worlds 2

At the Game Developers Conference, Obsidian senior systems designer Robert Donovan described the challenge of dialing in The Outer Worlds 2’s difficulty and the franchise’s familiar reverse curve: RPGs often start punishing and grow easier as characters gain power. Donovan noted that fantasies of growth—numbers going up—

Crypto

Circle overtakes BlackRock as tokenized Treasuries top $11 billion

Circle’s USYC tokenized U.S. Treasury fund has expanded to about $2.2 billion in supply, making it the largest provider of tokenized Treasury exposure and passing BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL), which holds around $2 billion, RWA.xyz data shows. Tokenized Treasury assets are drawing

Culture

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die and Zootopia 2 hit streaming this weekend

The world is ending this weekend—on streaming. Sam Rockwell stars as a time traveler who recruits diner patrons to stop an AI apocalypse in Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, which is now available to rent. Also landing on VOD is Adam MacDonald’s This

Culture

Donkey Kong Bananza devs say Elephant Bananza is overpowered but fun

Donkey Kong Bananza is a masterclass in cathartic game design, and by far the most satisfying moments in the game come following transformations that let you rip through environments and pound enemies to dust even quicker than usual. That said, there's one elephant-sized transformation that even Nintendo admits

Tech

Doubling the voltage: How 800V architecture changes EVs

Leapenergy projects that an 800 V platform currently costs an extra $1,180, falling to $420 by 2028. Forecasts suggest 800 V will begin in higher-end EVs and then filter downmarket: some analysts put global adoption at 15–20 percent by 2030, with more than half of vehicles priced above

Culture

10 Tips Before Playing Monster Hunter Stories 3

The latest entry in the Monster Hunter spin-off series features turn-based combat and creature collecting similar to that of Pokémon. With a dense semi-open world and crunchy RPG mechanics, you can spend dozens of hours building an ideal party of Monsties. These tips will help you survive the game’s

Tech

Netflix Premium vs Standard: which plan is the best deal

Netflix currently offers a Premium plan at $25/month and a Standard ad-supported plan at $8/month. Premium supports up to four simultaneous streams, 4K+HDR video, spatial audio, and allows two additional members; the ad-supported Standard allows two simultaneous streams, 1080p video, no spatial audio, and one additional member.

Culture

Steven Spielberg Is Making a Western and Says It 'Kicks Ass'

Steven Spielberg has worked across many genres, from war films such as Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List to dramas like The Color Purple and The Fabelmans. His next release, Disclosure Day, hits theaters this summer. During a SXSW keynote conversation with Sean Fennessey, Spielberg said he is

Culture

Near-Perfect Dark Fantasy Movies That No One Remembers Today

For over a century, fantasy has produced some of cinema’s most enduring masterpieces, and the darker corners of the genre have yielded particularly striking work. Alongside celebrated titles, many grim and imaginative films have slipped through the cracks; they survive as hidden gems that cinephiles today can help bring

Culture

Tinariwen and Imarhan use music to bear witness to Tuareg suffering

Since their formation in 1979, Tuareg guitar band Tinariwen have been constantly moving. Based variously in Mali, Libya and Algeria, the Grammy-winning group have used their desert blues music as a lament for a wandering refugee status that continues to this day. Co-founder Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni says the group are

Culture

X-Men '97 season 2 gets a release hint from new prelude comic

Marvel Comics announced a prelude series for the second season of X-Men '97, a comic that will act as a bridge between seasons and whose release date offers the best hint yet about when the show might return. Titled X-Men '97: Season Two, the five-issue series from writer

Culture

Fanfiction and reality TV spark ideas for narrative designers at GDC

At the Game Developers Conference 2026, narrative designers said inspiration is everywhere: in the breeze, in empathy, and especially in the crazed yuri you've been urgently writing in your Notes app. Gearbox expert writer and former Call of Duty writer Alexa Ray Corriea drew laughter and applause when

Culture

Marvel Rivals devs: 'Gooner' skins weren't created on purpose

It’s been a little over a year since NetEase released the hero shooter Marvel Rivals. At a fan event at the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles the team showcased new skins and limited-time modes tied to the MCU lead-up to Avengers Doomsday. Guangguang has become the face of

Culture

Netflix's One Piece Season 2 Trails Season 1 on U.S. Charts

One Piece returned to Netflix on Mar. 10 with all eight episodes of Season 2, and critics have praised it — the season holds a 100% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 96% fan score. Despite that acclaim, the show has not immediately reclaimed the top spot in the United

Science

NASA selects finalists in student aircraft maintenance competition

NASA has named eight student teams as finalists in the 2026 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, focusing on a pressing challenge for U.S. aviation: maintenance. The RepAir: Advancing Aircraft Maintenance competition seeks near-term solutions to workforce shortages and the growing demand to keep increasingly complex aircraft operational for longer.

Culture

Peacock reveals first images from Crystal Lake prequel

Peacock marked Friday the 13th by releasing the first official images from Crystal Lake, the A24-produced Friday the 13th prequel series. The photos offer an atmospheric early look ahead of the show’s expected premiere later this year. Created by Brad Caleb Kane, Crystal Lake examines the origins of the

Sports

Romano: Dembele meeting with Man City not about transfer

Speculation grew after Moussa Sissoko, agent of Ballon d'Or winner Ousmane Dembele, met Manchester City's sporting director Hugo Viana in Madrid. The encounter prompted questions about the forward's future at Paris Saint-Germain. Transfer specialist Fabrizio Romano clarified the meeting was not about a potential

Politics

Judge tosses DOJ subpoenas targeting Fed Chair Jerome Powell

US District Judge James Boasberg has tossed two subpoenas the Justice Department served on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, ending — for now — its criminal probe into Fed Chair Jerome Powell. In an unsealed 27-page ruling, Boasberg said the subpoenas served an "improper purpose," noting the government produced