Sports

Rayan shines as Bournemouth draw with Aston Villa

Whatever the Euskara is for hoodoo, Unai Emery still holds it over Andoni Iraola. This one got away from the younger Basque who is yet to prevail over Emery in eight meetings. With Aston Villa’s hopes of an unlikely Premier League title faded, time to protect a Champions League

Business

Shay Mitchell on how motherhood shapes running Béis

She’s in her Béis bag. Shay Mitchell shared how motherhood influences how she runs her successful luggage company, Béis. "I’m a lot more particular with my time," she said at her Béis Bowl Super Bowl party Saturday. "However, the Béis office is my second home,

Science

Curiosity uses last drop of solvent to test for organics on Mars

NASA’s Curiosity rover has used its last drop of tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) in methanol to analyze a Martian rock sample that may contain organic molecules. The rare experiment, performed only once before in Curiosity’s 13-year mission, mixes the solvent with powdered rock to help reveal certain carbon-based compounds

Business

Michael Bay Files $1.5M Lawsuit Over Stolen Super Bowl Ad

Michael Bay has filed a $1.5 million lawsuit in Los Angeles, alleging Cadillac recruited him to direct its Super Bowl commercial then replaced him and used his ideas. The suit says Bay was contacted on November 28, 2025 by Dan Towriss, owner and chief executive of the new Cadillac

Culture

RoboCop’s most revealing line isn’t the one fans usually quote

When RoboCop hit cinemas in 1987, Paul Verhoeven’s satirical depiction of a future where corporate America is fueled by greed and violence stunned audiences. The film — Verhoeven’s first American blockbuster hit — earned a 92% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and launched sequels, TV shows, action figures and

AI

OpenAI leaders blast Anthropic's Super Bowl ads

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Chief Marketing Officer Kate Rouch took to X after rival AI lab Anthropic released four commercials, two slated to run during the Super Bowl, that mock the idea of placing ads in AI chatbot conversations. The campaign landed just weeks after the ChatGPT maker began

Culture

Michael Keaton recalls 'goddess' Catherine O'Hara a week after her death

Michael Keaton reflected on his decades-long friendship with Catherine O'Hara a week after her death while accepting Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals 2026 Man of the Year honor in Cambridge, Mass. He said he was a "big 'SCTV' fan" and tried to recall

Culture

Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl: crash out or tap in

After the 3 January US military action in Venezuela led to Nicolás Maduro’s capture and the FAA temporarily closed airspace in parts of the eastern Caribbean, my stay in St Kitts stretched into an extra week. The region felt less like a cluster of nearby islands than a network

Culture

Kathy Bates Nearly Threw 'The Waterboy' Script Away, Adam Sandler Recalls

Adam Sandler recalled at the 41st Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival that Kathy Bates initially tossed the script for The Waterboy in the trash after reading the first page. He said a member of her team picked it up, read it and persuaded her to give the screenplay another

Culture

‘Masters of the Universe’ Can’t Replace One of the Greatest ’80s Toy Shows

The 1980s were a veritable golden age of toy-based cartoons, and while Masters of the Universe is part of that era, the arguable king of the decade’s toy-based shows was G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Along with She-Ra, The Transformers, ThunderCats and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, G.

Sports

Ronaldo told to 'know his place' and warned to 'show respect or leave'

Cristiano Ronaldo has been told he “needs to know his place” as the Al‑Nassr striker remains on strike. Walid Al‑Faraj, a prominent television host and respected voice in Saudi football, criticised the forward’s behaviour and urged him to show greater respect to those who have helped keep

Sports

Inside Super Bowl 2026 parties: Bieber, Travis Kelce and more in San Francisco

Stars converged on San Francisco for Super Bowl LX, filling a string of high-profile parties across the city. Weeklong events ranged from pop-ups and charity brunches to late-night DJ sets and carnival-style bashes. At Sports Illustrated’s The Party at the Cow Palace Arena, Ludacris pulled Justin Bieber onstage for

Culture

Who is the best videogame composer of all time?

Soundtrack Sunday considers videogame music not as a garnish but as an essential ingredient that shapes emotion and memory. An early memory highlighted is the theme for Killer Instinct Gold on the Nintendo 64 — the metal anvil smack and a ripping guitar solo left a lasting impression and helped spark

Culture

Taxi Driver still feels disturbingly contemporary half a century later

Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader’s Taxi Driver turns 50 on Feb. 8 and remains disturbingly contemporary. Like Rocky, it can be read as an underdog character study, but the film often resembles psychological horror, recasting a city story as a portrait of a man unraveling. Travis Bickle is a

Crypto

French police arrest six over crypto-linked magistrate kidnapping

French authorities arrested six suspects, including a child, after a magistrate and her mother were held captive for about 30 hours in a cryptocurrency ransom plot. Four men and one woman were detained — three overnight and two on Sunday morning, Lyon prosecutor Thierry Dran said; he later confirmed a child

Culture

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's Nahla Ake Controversy Is Actually Genius

One of the latest flashpoints in Star Trek fandom centers on Nahla Ake (Holly Hunter), the chancellor and captain in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, who puts her feet up in the captain's chair and walks around barefoot. Some viewers objected to the series' younger, teen-centric focus and

Culture

3 Body Problem Shows High-Concept Sci‑Fi Still Resonates

Adapting Liu Cixin’s dense, theory-heavy novels felt like a near‑impossible task, but the series manages to marry the books’ high-minded concepts with striking physical spectacle. The creators took on material that requires intense attention to detail and delivered a show that blends intellectual rigor with visceral set pieces,

Sports

Phil Parkinson fumes at substitution rule after Wrexham defeat

Wrexham were beaten 2-0 at home by Millwall and remain sixth on goal difference after losing to the side directly above them at the Racecourse. The defeat opened up a six-point gap in favour of the visitors and dragged Wrexham back towards the pack below. They were forced into two

Tech

A classic fake reflection and other cost-effective graphical sorcery

If you've ever trundled around on the back of a Warthog in the original Halo, you'll remember the way its tires seemed to melt into noisy blur as they got going. Turns out, there's no actual blur effect being applied—the game just swaps

Sports

Ismaïla Sarr stuns Brighton as Palace end 12-match winless run

Ismaïla Sarr’s second-half strike ended Crystal Palace’s 12-match winless run and extended Fabian Hürzeler’s poor record against Oliver Glasner to three defeats and a solitary draw. New signings Evann Guessand and Jørgen Strand Larsen both made an impact on their Palace debuts, while Brighton’s hopes faded

Culture

Mass Effect veteran says Exodus will avoid easy romances

Exodus, an upcoming RPG from developers with Mass Effect roots, aims to avoid easy romances in favor of more realistic, sometimes challenging relationships. Novelist and narrative director Drew Karpyshyn says the team's approach to romance is to "start by giving players as many options as we can,

Sports

New England Patriots vs Seattle Seahawks: TV, live stream and kick-off

Super Bowl LX takes place on February 8, 2026, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, where the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots meet in a historic rematch of Super Bowl XLIX. The game marks the culmination of two remarkable franchise turnarounds and carries extra narrative weight

Tech

Apple AirTag (2026) review: It's a little better and costs the same

Apple's second-generation AirTag leaves the concept unchanged: you buy it, attach it, and track the item when needed. The new model keeps the same dimensions, weight, and design as the original, but brings a few modest improvements after about a week of hands-on testing. Precision Finding range has

AI

AI companies push users from chatting with bots to managing agent teams

Anthropic and OpenAI this week released products that recast AI from a single conversation partner into a supervised workforce of agents. The idea is that developers and knowledge workers will dispatch tasks, monitor parallel threads, and step in when an agent needs direction. The approach is unproven: current agents still

Culture

Chris Hemsworth says Thor returns wiser and more like an elder

Thor (Chris Hemsworth) really has been to Hela and back. With most of his family dead and the only one left keeping all of time under control, the hammer-chucking legend has had a lot to learn and landed as many hits as misses during his time of playing hero. The