AI

When a robotaxi can't close a passenger door

Autonomous vehicles have a lot of potential. If they are programmed correctly, they will not speed, break traffic laws, or become drunk, high, abusive, or violent. The technology has grown more capable even as some of the early hype faded and some companies fell by the wayside. Waymo remains the

Tech

Games lower PC RAM requirements as prices surge

PC players were surprised when Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight listed a recommended 32 GB of RAM, four times the 8 GB suggested for 2022’s Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. TT Games said the PC build was still being optimized and that a spec needed to

AI

OpenAI's Spark model codes 15x faster than GPT-5.3-Codex

OpenAI announced a research preview of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller version of GPT-5.3-Codex built for real-time coding in Codex. The company describes it as generating code 15 times faster while "remaining highly capable for real-world coding tasks." Spark will initially be available only to $200/mo Pro

Crypto

Coinbase Users Face Temporary Trading Outage Ahead of Q4 Earnings

Some Coinbase users are currently unable to buy, sell, or transfer digital assets on Coinbase.com. The company posted on its Twitter support channel: "We are aware that customers may be unable to buy, sell, or transfer on Coinbase.com at this time. Our team is investigating this issue

Culture

Donbas review – a Ukrainian family fractures on the brink of invasion

Olga Braga’s stark new play, the winner of Theatre503’s international playwriting award, offers a grim portrait of war in Ukraine. The production clings to the moments before Russia’s full-scale invasion of the Donbas in 2022, conjuring a bleak microcosm of conflict inside a cramped Ukrainian home. Already

Culture

Paul McCartney's 10 Best Songs After The Beatles, Ranked

When it comes to Sir Paul McCartney, the list of noteworthy music never seems to end. His work with The Beatles was already impressive, but he continued to put out terrific material after the Fab Four split. Much of that output came with Wings, and the albums Band on the

Sports

Man Utd says it is an 'inclusive and welcoming club' after Ratcliffe remarks

Ratcliffe has now issued a statement that reads: "I am sorry that my choice of language has offended some people in the UK and Europe and caused concern, but it is important to raise the issue of controlled and well-managed immigration that supports economic growth." That could be

Culture

Will Laneige’s new Katseye-approved lip tint be the next viral K-beauty product?

Laneige’s JuicePop Box Lip Tints debuted this month, backed by a choreographed campaign featuring Grammy-nominated girl group Katseye. The brand, best known for its cult-favorite Lip Sleeping Mask, is now aiming for viral fame in the lip-tint category. Each of the eight shades bears a musical name — from Pop-Star

Culture

Should Arc Raiders add a PvE mode?

Arc Raiders is a PvP-first extraction shooter. The Arc machines are simple, well-designed hazards meant to encourage PvP clashes or large-scale team-ups for loot, and the unique player interactions are one of the game's highlights. Without PvP tension, Arc Raiders grows thin quickly; running the map to collect

Science

Terra shuts off ASTER thermal-infrared to conserve power

The thermal infrared capabilities of an imager on the Terra satellite have been shut off and will no longer collect data, more than 25 years after the instrument captured its first image of Earth from space. Terra, launched in December 1999 with a design life of six years, has long

AI

Steam players embrace ANLIFE, the AI game Miyazaki called 'an insult to life itself'

A 2016 clip from the documentary 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki shows the filmmaker reacting with disgust to a demo of AI that animated a zombie to move with its head. Nobuo Kawakami, a Studio Ghibli producer, explained the zombie couldn't feel pain; Miyazaki said, "Whoever creates

Business

Trump-linked World Liberty Financial to Enter FX and Remittance Market

World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a decentralized finance platform backed by the family of US President Donald Trump, announced it will launch foreign exchange and remittance services called World Swap, aiming to challenge traditional providers with lower fees and a simplified user interface. No exact timeline was given for the rollout.

Culture

Creator of Witch Hat Atelier praises Champignon Witch's fairytale charm

The fantasy shoujo Champignon Witch, endorsed by Witch Hat Atelier creator Kamome Shirahama and admired by Chica Umino, centers on Luna, a girl who lives alone in a mushroom-shaped poison house in the forest. Poison weeps from her skin and she is literally toxic, yet she still ventures into town

Culture

Amazon Cancels Many Resident Evil Requiem Deluxe Steelbook Pre-Orders

Players who pre-ordered Capcom’s Resident Evil Requiem through Amazon are discovering many orders have been canceled. Requiem launches Feb. 27 on consoles and PC. One sought-after Deluxe Steelbook edition — which includes digital skins and costumes, a steelbook cover and lenticular cards — sold out, and Amazon reopened pre-orders for it.

Crypto

Ethereum in 'Opportunity Zone' Still Struggling to Recover

Ethereum remains under pressure after a sharp decline that unsettled investors across the crypto market. Its MVRV ratio shows ETH has entered what is described as an "opportunity zone," a range between negative 18% and negative 28%. Historically, entries into this band have often preceded price reversals as

Culture

Helmuth Rilling, Who Recorded Huge Swaths of Bach, Dies at 92

Helmuth Rilling, an eloquent, widely esteemed German musician who evangelized for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and was the first conductor to record all of that composer’s sacred cantatas, died on Wednesday in Warmbronn, Germany. He was 92. The International Bach Academy Stuttgart, which he founded in 1981,

Culture

Joe Keery Responds to Green Goblin Casting Rumors

Joe Keery, who plays Steve Harrington on Stranger Things, says he has his eye on the Spider-Man franchise and wouldn’t rule out playing a villain. In an interview with ScreenRant, Keery noted he’s aware of fan edits casting him as Harry Osborn, aka the Green Goblin, and called

Culture

‘Goat’ Review: Big League Dreams

Directed by Tyree Dillihay, Goat plays like a souped-up Space Jam set in an anthropomorphized society reminiscent of Zootopia. The story follows Will, a small goat voiced by Caleb McLaughlin, who dreams of playing in the basketball big leagues and is unexpectedly signed to a professional team alongside his idol,

Sports

FA Cup fifth-round draw: Date, teams and how to watch

With the FA Cup fourth round underway, the fifth-round draw is approaching as 32 teams are whittled down to a final 16. Big clubs will be keen to avoid the fate of Manchester United and Tottenham, who were knocked out in the previous round. The FA has yet to confirm

Culture

Training at Norland boosted my confidence as a nanny

Roxanne Ardekani grew up in New Orleans to Iranian parents and studied in the US and Austria. While abroad she took a nannying job that brought together her interests in child development and hands-on care, and a chance discovery of Norland prompted her to move to the UK to train.

Politics

Gail Slater Leaves as Justice Dept. Antitrust Chief

Gail Slater said on Thursday she was leaving the Justice Department’s top antitrust post, departing after roughly a year in the job. In a post on X she wrote she was leaving with “great sadness and abiding hope,” and added, “It was indeed the honor of a lifetime to

Health

Apolo Ohno and Julia Mancuso on how nutrition fuels peak performance

Apolo Ohno and Julia Mancuso, former Olympic medalists in speed skating and alpine skiing, say the same drive that pushed them to the podium also made them pay close attention to food. Ohno captured eight medals for Team USA and Mancuso took four, and Ohno says he has “so much

Culture

Katie Holmes appears onstage after James Van Der Beek's death

Katie Holmes was seen for the first time since the death of her "Dawson’s Creek" co‑star James Van Der Beek, appearing Wednesday night at the Old Globe in San Diego. She portrayed the lead in Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, and photos show her continuing the

Business

Most tariff costs fall on U.S. firms and consumers, Fed study finds

Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Columbia University found that through November 2025 roughly 90 percent of the economic burden from the administration’s tariffs fell on U.S. companies and consumers. Mr. Trump has repeatedly said foreign countries were paying the tariffs, but the research

Tech

Chinese gamer records RTX 5090 sparking and catching fire

A Chinese gamer captured the moment an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 sparked and caught fire when first powering on a newly plugged-in rig. The clip was uploaded to BiliBili earlier this week and has attracted almost 100,000 views. The user quickly powered off the machine and extinguished the flame