Culture How a decades-old video game helped me defeat the doomscroll Cutting back on doomscrolling is one of the hardest resolutions to keep. Instinctively tapping the usual apps becomes a reflex, so I tried replacing my phone with something fuzzier and more nostalgic: a Game Boy Advance running Pokémon FireRed, a remake of the first Pokémon games that turn 30 this
Science Citizen Science and AI Tools for Roman Slitless Spectroscopy The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will measure weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering to study dark energy and cosmic acceleration. Accurate redshifts for millions of galaxies are required and will come from slitless spectroscopy. But slitless spectra across the field face overlapping spectra, contamination from nearby sources, and galaxy
Crypto Ray Dalio warns CBDCs could give governments greater control American billionaire and hedge fund manager Ray Dalio has warned that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are coming and will offer benefits while potentially allowing governments to exert more control over people’s finances. “I think it will be done,” he said in a wide-ranging interview on the Tucker Carlson
Culture Mindhunter: Fincher's Netflix crime series that redefined true crime David Fincher’s work with Netflix has produced some of his most intense thrillers, and his adaptation of John E. Douglas’ memoir resulted in Mindhunter, one of the streaming platform’s most acclaimed original series. Visually glossy and emotionally gritty, the show earned praise even as it was left in
AI I turned doodles into video clips with Runway's Motion Sketch Runway’s Motion Sketch turns simple doodles drawn over a still image into short animated clips. In one example a text-generated image of a settler family and a herd of bison became a five-second scene of the group running as winged creatures flew overhead; the clip had surreal imperfections, including
Culture Amidst the Shades review – Ruby Hughes’s Dowland tribute John Dowland died 400 years ago, and this tribute from soprano Ruby Hughes, lutenist Jonas Nordberg and viola da gamba player Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann is exceptionally captivating. The recording is not all Dowland: it takes its title from a Purcell song and includes a spellbinding version of the Corpus Christi
Tech Create a Wi-Fi password key using an NFC tag NFC tags are simple to write with a smartphone and can be embedded in documents, business cards or 3D‑printed objects. Writing data to a tiny chip lets a phone or tablet access a webpage or other information with a brief tap. You need two things: NFC tags and an
Culture Vila review: imaginative mood music from Fabiano do Nascimento Over the past decade Fabiano do Nascimento has honed a sound so muscular and expansive it may make you think the prolific soloist and collaborator had four hands on his instrument’s six strings. His 14 records since 2015’s debut Dança do Tempo range from the tender duet The
Science Next-Generation Crowded-Field Stellar Photometry Tool for Roman A large Wide-Field Science program will develop a next-generation crowded-field stellar photometry tool for Roman. It will support native Roman data formats and pipeline, enabling seamless interoperation with the Roman Research Nexus. Studies of resolved stellar populations are crucial to all four of the community-defined Roman surveys. Roman will encounter
Crypto Base App sunsets Creator Rewards and Farcaster feed to focus on trading Coinbase’s Base App is winding down its Creator Rewards program and its Farcaster-powered social feed as it shifts to concentrate on tradable assets. Launched in July to make Ethereum layer 2 Base more social, the Creator Rewards program paid roughly $450,000 to 17,000 creators over seven months,
World US says two people killed in military strike on boat in Pacific The US military’s Southern Command said it carried out a strike on Monday that killed two suspected drug smugglers in the eastern Pacific. The statement said the action was ordered “at the direction of” the command’s new commander, Gen Francis L Donovan, who was sworn in last Thursday
Tech Restart your Android phone without the power button Restarting your phone regularly can improve performance by clearing temporary caches, enhance security by disrupting potential cyberattacks and removing malware from memory, and often fixes issues like slowdowns, overheating, app crashes or connectivity problems. The author restarts a Pixel 9 Pro weekly and notes Google removed an auto-restart feature, so
Culture Danny L Harle: Cerulean — earnest homage to early 00s bangers or poor imitation? Cerulean is a confusing business: it is billed as Danny L Harle’s debut even though Harlecore came out in 2021. What sets this release apart is its weighty guestlist — Clairo, Caroline Polachek, PinkPantheress, MNEK and more — a sign of Harle’s rise into the major leagues of pop production;
Culture Prime Video’s Most Bingeable British Crime Series Is Hiding in Plain Sight British crime dramas have long produced gripping, binge-worthy mysteries, and 2025’s Lynley joined that tradition. The new adaptation of Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley novels premiered on BritBox on September 4, 2025 and earned a 91% score on Rotten Tomatoes; one user called it "smart, moody, and quietly
Politics Trump threatens to block Gordie Howe bridge amid spat with Canada As Democrats prepare to force a vote in the US House this week on Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, the president posted a lengthy diatribe on his social media platform. He threatened to block a bridge connecting the US and Canada and made a bizarre false claim that increased
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Culture Nuisance Bear Review: In Case You Forgot, Climate Change Sucks In the northern corner of Manitoba lies Churchill, often called the "Polar Bear Capital of the World." Gabriela Oslo Vanden and Jack Weisman's Nuisance Bear documents the town's uneasy coexistence with polar bears as melting sea ice forces them to scavenge and travel further
Tech 6 Android launchers to refresh your home screen The home screen launcher is the interface you use to run apps, view notifications and personalize your phone. Android phones ship with different default launchers, but most devices can install alternatives from the Google Play Store. Some launchers are device-specific and won’t run on other phones, and you should
Sports How to watch Club Universidad Nacional vs San Diego FC: Live stream and kick-off Here is where to find English-language live streams and how to watch Club Universidad Nacional vs San Diego FC today. Club Universidad Nacional (Pumas UNAM) will rely on home advantage in Mexico City as they attempt to overturn San Diego FC's commanding lead. The match kicks off on
Culture 50 Cent trolls Stefon Diggs amid Cardi B split rumors 50 Cent mocked Stefon Diggs on Instagram after the wide receiver and Cardi B sparked breakup rumors at the Super Bowl. The rapper wrote, “Can you imagine waking up this morning and you done lost this b!tch and the Super Bowl,” adding, “I would tell everybody get away from
Culture Mamoru Oshii has played 10,000 hours of Fallout 4 Mamoru Oshii says he has spent roughly 10,000 hours playing Fallout 4, about 2,000 on PlayStation and another 8,000 on Steam. He called it "a game that seems to have been made for my own desires," noting that VATS suits his lack of facility with
Culture Guidelines review: teens and the aftermath of a murder filmed on a phone The play pieces together fragments: distorted voice notes, the depths of the comments section and snatches of conversation form James Nash’s lithe little nightmare. It follows the aftermath of a murder filmed on a phone as its impact ricochets outwards in real life and on our screens. Pip Williams’
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Sports Why Oura Rings joined Team USA's Olympic gear list Oura is the official wearable of Team USA and the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Athletes will wear Oura Rings to track their health, and the partnership makes Oura the team's exclusive provider of health-tracking wearables while including a research collaboration to investigate performance and support athlete success.
Culture Troubles-rooted play Sapling wins Women’s prize for playwriting Sapling, a play rooted in Troubles-era Belfast that examines what happens when trauma is left to fester, has won the Women’s prize for playwriting 2025. Judges praised the unflinching and moving writing of Georgina Duncan, a working-class playwright from Lancashire. "Sapling is the rare kind of play that