Sports

Arteta says Arsenal held meeting after United loss to 'take the temperature down'

Mikel Arteta has revealed Arsenal held a team meeting after their defeat against Manchester United on Sunday “to take the temperature down”, and said the league leaders must “play with enjoyment” to win a first Premier League title for 22 years. A late goal from Matheus Cunha inflicted Arsenal their

Culture

Wonder Man nearly became a 'tax write-off,' director says

Gamesradar reports the MCU's new streaming series Wonder Man nearly became a "tax write-off" during early production, director Destin Daniel Cretton said. Cretton said at a live event (via Laughing Place) that production was "halfway through ours" when 2023's WGA and SAG-AFTRA

Tech

TP‑Link Archer BE6500 Wi‑Fi 7 router on sale for $150, covers up to 2,400 sq ft

Kotaku reports the TP‑Link Archer BE6500 is a compact dual‑band Wi‑Fi 7 router now available on Amazon for $150, $30 off its $180 list price. The router combines two Wi‑Fi 7 frequency bands for combined speeds up to 6.5 Gbps, and uses six external antennas,

Culture

Deutsche Grammophon issues 62-disc set of Maurizio Pollini’s recordings

Deutsche Grammophon has issued a 62-disc box set collecting the complete recordings of the pianist Maurizio Pollini, who died in 2024. The new edition expands a 2016 release made for his 75th birthday and adds work from his final years; it includes a Blu-ray disc and a couple of DVDs.

Culture

Shrinking Season 3 cast on character growth and approach

Movieweb spoke with the cast of Shrinking as Season 3 premieres on Apple TV on Jan. 28. Cast members described how the show’s tone and long-running arcs have influenced their performances. Christa Miller said, "I love the theme that you can repair things," while Ted McGinley emphasized

World

15-year-old honor student shot dead in Northwood; 18-year-old charged

People reports that Symini Rai Moore, 15, was killed Jan. 23 after being shot inside an apartment in Northwood, Ohio, and that 18-year-old Jakob Heintzelman has been arrested and charged with reckless homicide. Police told WTVG and The Toledo Blade officers arrived late that evening to find Moore with a

Science

Gladys West, mathematician whose work helped enable GPS, dies at 95

Dr. Gladys West, a mathematician at the U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory whose modeling of the Earth’s shape contributed to the development of the global positioning system, died on Jan. 17 in Fredericksburg, Va. She was 95 and lived with her daughter, Carolyn West Oglesby. Her work at the

Crypto

Ripple backs CLARITY Act as Coinbase withdraws after Senate amendments

Beincrypto reports the US market-structure bill known as the CLARITY Act has exposed a split in the crypto industry: Coinbase withdrew support after recent Senate amendments, while Ripple has publicly backed the bill and urged lawmakers to move forward. The CLARITY Act aims to draw clearer lines between the SEC

Business

Southwest retires open seating and begins assigned seats with premium options

Southwest Airlines on Tuesday officially ended its decades-old open-seating policy and began assigning seats, marking the change with a water-cannon salute, balloons and commemorative bag tags at Orlando International Airport. The first two flights with assigned seating landed early in the day, at Chicago Midway and at Orlando, on a

Culture

Seven notable films leaving Netflix in February, including Parasite and The Terminator

Collider reports that seven notable movies are set to leave Netflix in February, including Parasite, The Terminator and 28 Days Later. The roundup names Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later; Bones and All (2022), described as a body-horror romance starring Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet; Paul Thomas Anderson'

Sports

Arbeloa tells Jude Bellingham to ‘stop running’ after being surprised by his energy

Goal reports that new Real Madrid manager Alvaro Arbeloa said he told Jude Bellingham to "stop running" in training, admitting surprise at the midfielder's relentless energy and advising him to conserve his stamina. Arbeloa, who replaced Xabi Alonso earlier this month, has been credited with revitalising

Crypto

BNB nears $900 as Virtune lists physically backed ETP amid prediction market surge

The native token of the BNB Chain, BNB, extended its recent advance, climbing more than 5% to $893 as it approached the $900 level, coinciding with the debut of a physically backed BNB exchange-traded product (ETP) on Nasdaq Stockholm by asset manager Virtune. The Virtune ETP offers direct exposure to

Tech

Sam Altman told staff ICE 'is going too far' in private Slack message

Businessinsider reports that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman privately criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement in an internal Slack message, writing, "What's happening with ICE is going too far." Altman told employees, "I love the US and its values of democracy and freedom" and said part

Culture

Sydney Sweeney reprimanded after bras were draped over Hollywood sign

The Housemaid star Sydney Sweeney has been reprimanded by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce after footage posted on social media showed her and a group climbing to the Hollywood sign on Mount Lee in Los Angeles and hanging dozens of strung‑together bras over the sign’s 50ft‑tall letters.

Culture

Amanda Seyfried joins Kelly Clarkson for live duet of 'Beautiful Disaster'

Nbc reported that during the January 27 episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, 40-year-old Amanda Seyfried surprised the studio when she and host Kelly Clarkson performed an impromptu live duet of 'Beautiful Disaster'. Seyfried had told Clarkson she considers the live version from Clarkson's 2004 album

Politics

Analysts say Starmer unlikely to secure major trade gains from China visit

Keir Starmer travels to Beijing this week leading a delegation of British companies with the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and the business secretary, Peter Kyle, in a bid to revitalise diplomatic and economic ties. The visit, the first since Theresa May’s 2018 trip, is billed as focusing on joint trade

Culture

Claire Danes says she broke down after learning she was pregnant at 44

According to Pagesix, Claire Danes said she burst into tears after learning she was pregnant with her third child at 44, telling Amy Poehler on Tuesday’s episode of the "Good Hang with Amy Poehler" podcast that she called her OBGYN in "convulsive tears." "It

Culture

Arknights: Endfield praised for factory building but criticised for Genshin-like gacha

In a Pcgamer piece, Tyler C. says he would enjoy Arknights: Endfield more if it stopped imitating Genshin Impact and let players get on with its factory-building systems. He argues the game borrows heavily from Genshin's open-world, anime gacha formula, but its automation—collecting plants and rocks, remote

Tech

Local resistance to AI data centers echoes backlash against Bitcoin mining

AI hyperscalers and developers racing to build power‑dense data centers in the United States are encountering local opposition similar to what Bitcoin miners faced, Miner Mag reported, with residents and officials objecting to electricity demand, infrastructure costs and long‑term environmental impact. Miner Mag said the parallels are visible

Culture

Highguard hands-on: PvP 'raid' shooter from Apex and Titanfall developers

Kotaku had hands-on time with Highguard, Wildlight Entertainment’s new “PvP Raid Shooter,” at a launch event in Los Angeles. Matches break into roughly three segments: players pick characters called Wardens, vote on one of four Keeps to defend, then spend a short minute allocating limited resources to reinforce three

Culture

Marvel’s Wonder Man reframes a superhero as a struggling actor

Marvel’s new mini-series Wonder Man on Disney+ stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Ben Kingsley and recasts a comic-book figure as a struggling Los Angeles actor rather than a multiverse hero. In the comics Simon Williams is a second-tier Avenger and the son of an arms manufacturer; in the series

Culture

Avatar: Fire and Ash Loses No.1 Box Office Spot to Mercy

Movieweb reports that Avatar: Fire and Ash has been overtaken at the box office by the Chris Pratt‑led film Mercy, which opened to $12 million and sits at 21% on Rotten Tomatoes. After 38 days in theaters, Fire and Ash has grossed $378 million domestically, a steeper decline than

Science

Peter H. Duesberg, oncogene pioneer turned H.I.V. dissident, dies at 89

Peter H. Duesberg, a molecular biologist whose early work identified the first known cancer-causing gene and who later became a prominent denier of the link between H.I.V. and AIDS, died on Jan. 13 in Lafayette, Calif. He was 89. His death, at a care facility near his home

Culture

Madison Beer recalls having a Justin Bieber cardboard cutout at 12

People reports that Madison Beer said Justin Bieber was her "obsession" when she was 12 and that she kept a cardboard cutout of him in her room. Beer made the comments during a Jan. 22 appearance on the Podcrushed podcast after host Penn Badgley asked who might have

Business

Minnesota business leaders urge de‑escalation after fatal federal shooting

The fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti by federal agents has intensified tensions around the federal immigration campaign in Minneapolis, prompting business leaders in the state to respond. The C.E.O.s of more than 60 large Minnesota companies, including Target, Best Buy, 3M and Cargill, issued a public