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Burglin' Gnomes is the next great friend-slop co-op game — Pcgamer

Burglin' Gnomes is the next great friend-slop co-op game

I'm holding on to this toilet plunger for dear life. All my friends are dead, cooked to death in an oven or frozen in a fridge, and if I make it back to our gnome-mushroom I get to live another day. This is Burglin' Gnomes, a friend-slop

Illuminating the Galactic Baryon Cycle at Cosmic Noon — NASA Science

Illuminating the Galactic Baryon Cycle at Cosmic Noon

The DGCE SIG seminar will be held virtually on 26 February 2026 at 4:00pm ET / 1:00pm PT. Tucker Jones will speak on "Illuminating the Galactic Baryon Cycle at Cosmic Noon." He will describe how the formation of galaxies is regulated by large-scale inflows and outflows of

Best Switch 2 games (updated February 2026) — Polygon

Best Switch 2 games (updated February 2026)

Nintendo’s Switch 2 is still at the start of its life, but six months in the library is starting to look livelier. The biggest releases remain few — Mario Kart, Donkey Kong, and Pokémon — yet Nintendo has pushed out a broad range of intriguing B-tier titles, from Kirby Air Riders

Bitcoin Holds Key Level as Altcoins Face Bearish Pressure — Cointelegraph.com News

Bitcoin Holds Key Level as Altcoins Face Bearish Pressure

Bitcoin started the week cautiously as bulls try to keep the price above $67,500 while bears sell rallies near the $74,508 resistance. Investors are not rushing to buy the dip, with $133.3 million in outflows from BTC exchange-traded products last week and $3.8 billion leaving crypto

45 Greatest R-Rated Adult Anime Series of All Time — Movieweb

45 Greatest R-Rated Adult Anime Series of All Time

When many people picture anime they imagine bright colors and slice-of-life tales, but the medium covers much more. Some of the most acclaimed series are rated R for mature visuals, psychological depth and intense violence. These shows span natural horror to fantasy and often feature morally compromised protagonists and graphic

Three Movies to Watch on Netflix This Week — Collider

Three Movies to Watch on Netflix This Week

Following the recent box office success of Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights, here are three films available on US Netflix to watch this week. Moulin Rouge (2001) is Baz Luhrmann's visually extravagant musical that follows Ewan McGregor's penniless poet Christian as he falls for the

Tottenham warned of 'potentially catastrophic' relegation cost — Goal

Tottenham warned of 'potentially catastrophic' relegation cost

Tottenham Hotspur have been warned of the "potentially catastrophic" cost of relegation from the Premier League. The club have appointed Igor Tudor as interim manager until the end of the season following the departure of Thomas Frank as they attempt to steer themselves clear of the drop. Spurs

Free condoms run out at 2026 Winter Olympics — Pagesix

Free condoms run out at 2026 Winter Olympics

About 10,000 free condoms provided to athletes competing at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy were used up within a record three days. Olympic organizers are now in a mad dash — ironically on International Condom Day — to stock more rubbers for the frisky sports stars staying at the Milan

Motorola once developed a swallowable password pill — Pcgamer

Motorola once developed a swallowable password pill

For a brief period when Motorola Mobility was owned by Google, the company showed a swallowable "password pill" as a form of authentication. Yeah, 2013 was weird. The pill housed a small chip that would dissolve in the stomach and emit an 18-bit ECG-style signal through the body.

What Musical Variations Reveal About Creativity — NYT > Arts > Music

What Musical Variations Reveal About Creativity

During his performance of Beethoven’s “Diabelli Variations” at Carnegie Hall, the pianist Igor Levit made a repeated gesture — a brisk horizontal sweep of his hand above the keys — that read like a mental reset. The motion highlighted a central idea: variations are not mere ornament; they are a form

Crypto outlets remove coverage after study links press releases to scams — Beincrypto

Crypto outlets remove coverage after study links press releases to scams

Several crypto media sites quietly removed articles that discussed a Chainstory study finding most press releases came from high‑risk or scam‑linked projects. Sources allege external pressure from within the crypto PR ecosystem, though no direct public evidence names who requested the takedowns or why they occurred. Chainstory analyzed

Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood — NYT > Movies

Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood

A 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop at twilight, created by Irish director Ruairi Robinson with Seedance 2.0, quickly unnerved Hollywood. The ByteDance-owned tool produced sweeping camera angles, stunt choreography, crisp sound effects and haunting music from a two-sentence prompt,

Tom Hardy’s Gritty Crime Saga Levels Up in Season 2 — Collider

Tom Hardy’s Gritty Crime Saga Levels Up in Season 2

At a red carpet appearance at the BFI Southbank in London, Emmett J. Scanlan offered a brisk update on MobLand’s second season. "If you liked Season 1, penned incredibly by Jez Butterworth, then Season 2 is Season 1 on steroids! It is insane, it's bananas,"

Nico Williams ruled out indefinitely with complicated pubalgia problem — Goal

Nico Williams ruled out indefinitely with complicated pubalgia problem

Athletic Club have sidelined winger Nico Williams indefinitely to deal with a persistent pubalgia issue that has troubled him since the start of the season. The Euro 2024 standout had been managed with tailored training and restricted minutes, but the club removed him from action following the recent match against

Their Secret to a Happy Marriage? A Translation App — NYT > Technology

Their Secret to a Happy Marriage? A Translation App

David Duda and Hong Liang live in New Haven and speak different languages — he speaks English; she speaks Mandarin. They rely on Microsoft’s free Translator app to turn their speech into readable text and keep eight external battery packs on hand so their phones do not run out of

Kelsey Grammer, 70, and wife Kayte Walsh, 47, on rare Valentine’s Day dinner — Pagesix

Kelsey Grammer, 70, and wife Kayte Walsh, 47, on rare Valentine’s Day dinner

Kelsey Grammer and his wife, Kayte Walsh, enjoyed a Valentine’s Day dinner at celeb hotspot E. Baldi in Beverly Hills. Paparazzi photographed the couple as they smiled; Grammer, 70, wore a black suit with a white button-up shirt, and Walsh, 47, wore a black sweater dress, tights and black

Overwatch’s smartest move: reworking old maps to serve the story — Pcgamer

Overwatch’s smartest move: reworking old maps to serve the story

Overwatch's story has been uneven for some time. Nearly a decade after the first game, the narrative still begins with Winston recalling old agents, but Season 1: Conquest introduces a clearer antagonist in Vendetta's Talon as the Reign of Talon arc gets underway. I expected that

Jamieson Greer, the architect of Trump’s trade overhaul — NYT > Business > Economy

Jamieson Greer, the architect of Trump’s trade overhaul

On Jan. 26, 2025, Jamieson Greer was teaching Sunday school to 9-year-olds when his phone began ringing with calls from the White House. Six days into the new administration, President Trump was threatening Colombia with tariffs, and Mr. Greer—then already advising the president—had been flying to Mar-a-Lago in

Ethereum Price Stuck Near $2,000 as Holder Exodus Slows Recovery — Beincrypto

Ethereum Price Stuck Near $2,000 as Holder Exodus Slows Recovery

Ethereum is trading near $2,000 and has struggled to build sustained upside. The asset was at $1,970 at the time of writing and remains above $1,902 support but below $2,051 resistance. On-chain metrics point to realized losses saturating. The Spent Output Profit Ratio (SOPR) slid to

9 Worst Razzie "Snubs" of All Time, Ranked — Collider

9 Worst Razzie "Snubs" of All Time, Ranked

The Golden Raspberry Awards began in 1981 as a way to single out the worst in cinema, but like other awards they have their own blind spots. Over the decades some films and performances that many viewers consider egregious have gone entirely unrecognized by the Razzies. Notable omissions range from

Should Drug Companies Be Advertising to Consumers? — NYT > Business

Should Drug Companies Be Advertising to Consumers?

Tamar Abrams moved to a small Rhode Island town after a difficult stretch in 2022–23 and found herself drawn to television ads for Ozempic. The upbeat spots, with a catchy jingle and scenes of people enjoying everyday activities, prompted her to ask her doctor about the drug even though

USWNT Abroad: Thompson helps Chelsea; Tullis-Joyce steady for United — Goal

USWNT Abroad: Thompson helps Chelsea; Tullis-Joyce steady for United

Alyssa Thompson’s weekend lacked a signature goal but still mattered. Chelsea beat Liverpool 2-0 to move into third in the Women’s Super League, one point behind Manchester United and four clear of Arsenal. Thompson influenced the attack despite fewer finishes, while Lauren James scored both goals and dictated

Robert Duvall’s life in photos — Pagesix

Robert Duvall’s life in photos

Robert Duvall had an iconic career prior to his passing on Feb. 15, 2025, at age 95. His wife, Luciana Pedraza, shared the news via Facebook the following day, writing, "Yesterday we said goodbye to my beloved husband, cherished friend and one of the greatest actors of our time.

Brazil antitrust regulator probes Microsoft Edge after Opera complaint — Pcgamer

Brazil antitrust regulator probes Microsoft Edge after Opera complaint

Opera, backed by the Browser Choice Alliance, filed a complaint with Brazil's antitrust regulator CADE about Microsoft's behaviour. CADE has opened an investigation focused on Microsoft's 'Jumpstart program,' which allegedly pushes PC makers toward including Edge as the default browser. CADE sent

Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs — NYT > U.S. > Politics

Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs

Moderna has pulled back on late-stage studies of some experimental vaccines, a small company canceled plans to build a factory in Texas and another manufacturer in San Diego laid off workers. When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was picked in November 2024 to become health secretary, public health experts warned his