Culture

Resident Evil Requiem director says Zelda II inspired Revelations' shield enemy

Resident Evil Requiem is coming to Switch 2, and director Koshi Nakanishi used the moment to underline his Nintendo roots. Speaking in a Creator's Voice video on the Nintendo YouTube channel, Nakanishi said: "Of course, I played the original Legend of Zelda game, but I really loved

AI

The New Head Of Xbox Is Worried About Birthrates, But Says AI Will Save Us

After the shock resignation of Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond from Xbox last week, the gaming world is trying to work out what comes next under new leader Asha Sharma. Sharma, whose background is in AI rather than gaming, drew attention for comments she made on a podcast five months

Business

AMD Strikes Chips-for-Stock Deal With Meta to Challenge Nvidia

Advanced Micro Devices said Meta will buy billions of dollars worth of its chips to develop A.I. technologies and power new data centers, and that the social media company can take a financial stake of up to 10 percent as part of a multiyear agreement. AMD has used similar

Business

Your next Mac Mini might be made in the US

Apple is expanding US manufacturing by producing some Mac Mini computers in Houston, with production starting later this year. Mac Mini units will be made at a new factory on Apple's existing Houston site to help fulfill US orders. The company will also expand advanced AI server manufacturing

Politics

Trump Officials Seek to Reimagine Unemployment Benefits, Targeting Fraud

The Trump administration has signaled plans to change the unemployment insurance system, inviting state labor leaders to a March meeting to help “reimagine” how jobless benefits are handled. Officials have emphasized a focus on fighting fraud and have stepped up federal oversight of the state-administered program, singling out California and

Culture

Aidy Bryant Based SNL's 'Joan Song' on a Real Song About Her Dog

In 2019 Aidy Bryant starred opposite Harry Styles in SNL's musical pretape "Joan Song," first performed on November 16, 2019 during Season 45. Bryant plays Joan, whose boyfriend Steve left her for someone else; her only real companion is a Chihuahua named Doug who has become

Culture

Stars' favorite Olaplex treatment just got a major upgrade

For over a decade, stars and their stylists have relied on Olaplex’s cult-favorite repair line. The brand has unveiled an updated version of its hero product: No.3 Plus Complete Repair Treatment, which works in just three minutes — faster than the original — and is clinically proven to deliver hair

AI

Anthropic identifies 24,000 fraudulent accounts extracting Claude's capabilities

Anthropic says it has detected industrial-scale “distillation attacks” on its Claude models, carried out by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax. The company says the labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated more than 16 million exchanges with Claude, thereby “extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own

Politics

Supreme Court Sides With Couple in Case Involving Baby Food Sold at Whole Foods

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for a Texas couple to pursue a lawsuit in state court after they said tainted baby food sold at Whole Foods had sickened their son. The decision was unanimous, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the couple had "exercised their right&

Culture

Life is Strange: Reunion feels more like a Double Exposure sequel

Life is Strange: Reunion brings Chloe and Max back together regardless of the ending players chose 10 years ago, promising to give the pair the 'ending they deserve.' That direction has stirred debate about fan service, and a 90-minute demo offered an early look at how the game

Culture

Jujutsu Shenanigans codes (February 2026) for emotes, cash, achievements

Most Jujutsu Shenanigans codes won’t grant a competitive advantage, but they can award cash, emotes, drinks, or other items to customise your character. New emotes and Victory Flashes bought in the in-game shop require both in-game currency and Robux, yet free codes sometimes provide cash you can spend on

Politics

Democrats Offer Alternative to Trump Plan to Limit Wall Street Homebuyers

Senate Democrats unveiled a bill on Tuesday that offers a different approach to limiting Wall Street investors’ purchases of single-family homes, setting up a direct contrast with President Trump’s proposal. Mr. Trump’s plan would bar most large investors from continuing to buy single-family homes to operate as rentals,

Culture

Wario Listed in Description for Super Mario Galaxy Sequel

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is set to open in April, and the sequel is already confirmed to include Yoshi, Bowser Jr., Rosalina and the returning core cast of Mario, Luigi, Bowser and Peach. IGN noticed that UK cinema chain Everyman recently posted a new description for the film that

Crypto

BitMine buys $93M in ETH, but price slips as holders resume selling

BitMine announced it had acquired an additional 51,162 ETH over the week, worth more than $93 million. The purchase was one of the larger institutional buys recently, but the news failed to spark sustained upward movement; on-chain data suggests some investors used the headline as liquidity and long-term holders

AI

More Than Half of Teens Use Chatbots for Schoolwork, Survey Finds

More than half of teenagers in the United States have used artificial intelligence chatbots to help with schoolwork, a new Pew Research Center study finds. Fifty-four percent of teens aged 13 to 17 reported using tools like ChatGPT or Microsoft’s Copilot for tasks such as researching assignments or solving

Health

I don't worry much about screen time — I'm more concerned about the content

My wife and I try to keep screens and screen time to a minimum in our house, but we do sometimes watch TV together and focus on shows that teach our kids. For me, a screen isn’t scary; what matters is the type of content. Watching a pre-teen baking

Culture

Royal Artillery criticised for denying access to looted Asante ram's head

The Royal Artillery has been criticised for refusing public access to an “extraordinary object” looted by the British army in the 19th century from the Asante people in modern-day Ghana. The glistening golden ram’s head remains in the regiment’s officers’ mess at Larkhill in Wiltshire rather than on

Sports

NBA Tuesday doubleheader moves to Peacock for State of the Union

Tuesday nights typically bring a Coast 2 Coast doubleheader of NBA basketball. While the Milan Cortina Olympics had filled that slot earlier this month, the Games wrapped up on February 22, clearing the way for the league's return. February 24 brings another scheduling shift. The annual State of

Culture

Apple TV boss' CAA meeting stirs talk after 'F1' comments

CAA’s motion pictures group recently hosted a meeting at its Century City offices with Apple TV+ co-head Zack Van Amburg, and a question from the room about what counts as a hit at Apple prompted remarks that have circulated around the industry. The comments touched on Apple’s big-budget

Tech

ASML claims EUV upgrade could raise chip production by 50%

ASML makes the machines that most chipmakers use, and its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tools are central to modern chip production. In the EUV process, patterned light is shone onto silicon wafers to etch chip layouts, and reflecting EUV light causes significant losses that require very powerful light sources. The

Culture

Brandon Sanderson might be even better at science fiction

At the tail end of 2025, Brandon Sanderson left his massive Cosmere fantasy universe behind for his new short story collection Tailored Realities. The book largely leaves the fantasy genre behind as well: there’s a single tiny story about dragons, while most of the collection focuses on big science

Culture

Robert Carradine's final photos revealed before his tragic death at 71

Robert Carradine was active on Instagram and was recording episodes of his podcast in the days before his death at 71. He promoted 'Party Nerds Pop-Cast' interviews with Christopher Atkins and Jesse Hutch earlier this month and shared a group shot with guest Don Wilson on Feb. 3,

Culture

How to complete A Dead End in Arc Raiders

A Dead End is one of the new quests added in the Shrouded Sky update. The task sends you into Blue Gate’s underground to open a locked room and recover an item for Shani. The area can be a PvP hotbed, so be cautious unless you’re looking for

Culture

How I won a Mew on a flight to Disney World

My family took February school vacations to Disney World in the late ’90s, and every trip included my Game Boy. The Pokémon anime began airing in the U.S. in early September 1998 when I was nine, and I recorded every episode on the many VCRs around the house. Pokémon

Sports

Noni Madueke backs Arsenal push to tackle knife crime

There was a poignant silence as Tashan Daniel’s parents emerged on to Ken Friar Bridge on a cold, wet February afternoon in north London. With heads bowed, the England forwards Noni Madueke and Alessia Russo and the former Arsenal international turned TV host Alex Scott greeted them with a