Culture

Costume designers favour spectacle over historical accuracy

Emerald Fennell’s retelling of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights finally hits cinema screens this weekend. Since the first photos were released, the costumes’ anachronisms have dominated conversation; Diet Prada called the designs a “freaky mix of Oktoberfest corseting meets 1950’s ballgowns meets futuristic liquid organza meets … Barbie?” Viewers

Business

Nvidia Trims OpenAI Deal to $30 Billion, Keeps GPU Demand Intact

Nvidia is finalizing a $30 billion investment in OpenAI, replacing an earlier plan for a $100 billion multi-year partnership. The move would be part of OpenAI’s latest funding round, which could value the company at roughly $830 billion, and much of the capital is expected to be reinvested into

Tech

Why my family uses the Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet

The Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet costs $189.99 and is aimed at children aged six to 12. It features a slimmer design, stronger performance, robust parental controls, and a free screen repair or replacement within two years of purchase. The tablet promises 25% faster performance than the Fire

Culture

Shawn Hatosy on Abbot's unexpected arrival and the Al-Hashimi clash

Season 2 of The Pitt opens with the episode "1:00 P.M.," which reveals Westbridge Hospital's "Code Black" is caused by a cyberattack that forces The Pitt offline and sends patients to PTMC. In that hour, Shawn Hatosy's Dr. Jack Abbot

Sports

Ethan Nwaneri poised for boost as Habib Beye replaces De Zerbi at Marseille

Ethan Nwaneri’s loan spell at Marseille has been given a timely boost with the appointment of Habib Beye as Roberto De Zerbi's successor. De Zerbi had been the primary champion of the move, leaving the teenager in doubt after the Italian's sudden departure. The club

Culture

Cecil: The Lion and the Dentist review

There are many stark, unsettling questions raised by recent true-crime sagas, but this film narrows its focus to a single, older question: what makes someone kill an animal for sport? Not for food or defence, but for the trophy and the photograph that proves it. The idea becomes stranger still

Culture

Savannah Guthrie likely not returning to Today amid mother's disappearance

Savannah Guthrie has not appeared on the Today show since Feb. 1, when her mother Nancy was reported missing, and multiple veteran TV executives say it is doubtful she will return. "There’s no way Savannah’s coming back," one source said. "I can’t imagine she

Culture

Stop Killing Games launches NGOs in EU and US

Stop Killing Games has grown significantly since YouTuber Ross Scott protested Ubisoft's destruction of The Crew in 2024. A petition that gathered 1.3 million signatures forced consideration by the European Union, and Ubisoft vowed not to repeat the move. Scott now says the group is launching two

Tech

Transport Fever 3 will rework characters after AI comparisons

Transport Fever 3, a transportation management sim, will rework its character art after players said the game's glossy, uncanny models looked like AI. The sim tasks players with building transport routes and includes fully voiced characters, and it remains in beta with no specific release date beyond 2026.

Culture

House of the Dragon Season 3 Trailer: 8 Biggest Takeaways

HBO released the first teaser for season 3, picking up after a divisive season 2 that left the Seven Kingdoms at war. Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen prepares to retake King's Landing after Alicent Hightower secretly visits Dragonstone and, in the show, offers to open the gates and surrender the

Culture

Eric Dane, Beloved 'Grey's Anatomy' Star, Dead at 53 Following ALS Diagnosis

Beloved actor Eric Dane has passed away at the age of 53 after his battle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). He was known for his work in Grey's Anatomy, starred in shows like Euphoria and even played a character with ALS on the NBC series Brilliant Minds opposite

Science

Sol 4791: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

Curiosity took the images on January 28, 2026, Sols 4791-4789 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 574, site number 120. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was from 1 PM to 12 PM. The right navigation camera images are presented as a cylindrical projection; each

Sports

How to buy Burnley 2025/26 tickets: fixtures, prices & season info

Burnley are back in the Premier League for the 2025/26 campaign and supporters can follow the Clarets at home and on the road. Upcoming fixtures include matches at Chelsea (Sat 21 Feb 2026), a home game versus Brentford (Sat 28 Feb 2026), trips to Everton (Tue 3 Mar 2026)

Tech

Meta shifts Horizon Worlds focus from VR to mobile

Meta is refocusing Horizon Worlds from a virtual-reality hangout on Quest headsets to an app built almost exclusively for mobile. Samantha Ryan, Meta’s vice president of content at Reality Labs, said experiments with a mobile version last year showed “positive momentum,” and the company is now “going all-in on

AI

High AI agent costs could limit job displacement

Two tech investors say the high costs of deploying and running AI agents may keep them from replacing human workers who can do the same tasks more cheaply. Jason Calacanis said he has been paying $300 per day for an Anthropic Claude AI agent to help run his businesses, despite

Culture

Don't Nod adds a dash of Alien: Isolation anxiety to its cinematic formula

Don't Nod announced its next third-person cinematic adventure, Aphelion, during last year's Summer Game Fest with an Uncharted-like reveal set in space. The studio's new journey follows a pair of European Space Agency astronauts bound for Persephone—a planet at the edge of our

Culture

Scrubs Revival Must Answer These Seven Questions

Med School’s 13 episodes have been walked back, leaving the Season 8 finale from 2009 as the last official look at the characters. Seventeen years on, the new Scrubs episodes must account for a long, unseen stretch of time and resolve several loose threads left by the series’ original

Culture

José van Dam, Suave and Riveting Opera Star, Dies at 85

José van Dam, the Belgian opera star whose suave, silken voice, persuasive acting and steady work ethic made him one of the most esteemed bass-baritones of his era, died on Tuesday at his home in Croatia. He was 85. The Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, where he held the title of

Culture

The Pitt Season 2, Episode 7: An ER Shift Upended by a Cyberattack

After the staff at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center say goodbye to Louie Cloverfield, the shift presses on in Episode 7, "1:00 PM - 2:00 PM." Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch finishes a debrief and checks on Roxie Hamler’s wishes to stay in the hospital,

Sports

Rosenior: Racists 'shouldn't be in the game' after Vinicius Jr abuse

Chelsea head coach Liam Rosenior has publicly backed Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr after the alleged racial abuse he suffered in the Champions League play-off tie with Benfica. Rosenior, drawing on his own experiences of abuse in the game, said anyone found guilty of racism "shouldn't be

Politics

Politics Overshadow Films at Berlin Film Festival

Nearly 300 films are playing at the Berlin International Film Festival, but much of the news and social media chatter has centered on politics rather than the movies. Since the opening last Thursday and through the edition that runs through Sunday, news conferences have repeatedly turned to questions about Gaza,

Culture

Jim Curtis says he and Jennifer Aniston handle relationship 'flare-ups'

Jim Curtis, a hypnotherapist and wellness coach, told the 'Ced with Intention' podcast on Feb. 12 that he and Jennifer Aniston sometimes have 'little things that flare up,' but they choose to address them constructively. He outlined their options: stay silent and be angry, leave the

Culture

Arc Raiders adds hurricane map condition; teaser may hint at new Arc enemy

Embark Studios will introduce hurricanes as a new map condition in the Shrouded Sky update, arriving February 24. The change brings thrashing winds and low cloud cover to existing maps, pushing players to rethink how long they spend topside. Hurricanes will alter movement and combat. "When you have a

Culture

Arc Raiders streamer Symfuhny keeps facing cheating allegations

Mason "Symfuhny" Lanier is a Twitch streamer who now plays Arc Raiders almost exclusively, after building a following in Fortnite and Call of Duty: Warzone. He has a reputation as one of the most skilled FPS streamers, and moments from his broadcasts are frequently shared with allegations of

AI

Inside Moltbook, the A.I.-only social network

Moltbook is a social network for A.I. personal assistants that looks and works like Reddit but, in theory, only agents may post while humans watch from the sidelines. Launched by Matt Schlicht in late January, the site had profiles for more than two million bots within a week, prompting