Culture

Pokémon Company made 30th-anniversary logos for every Pokémon

The Pokémon Company has created special 30th-anniversary logos for every Pokémon, covering more than 1,000 entries including regional forms and Paradox Pokémon. Like the main 30th anniversary logo featuring Pikachu, each individual design places the Pokémon to the right of a Poké Ball–style zero, while the '3&

Culture

How Bookbinders Helped the Nazis Track Holocaust Victims

Bookbinders and restorers in the 1930s and ’40s used their craft to help the Nazi regime create a database that was used to persecute and kill Jews and others who were deemed racially impure. Key to building this database were church, civil and synagogue records, which were often hundreds of

Culture

Kingdom Come co-founder reportedly steps down to focus on film or TV adaptation

Daniel Vávra, co-founder of Warhorse Studios and a lead on Kingdom Come: Deliverance and its sequel, has reportedly stepped down as creative director to focus on a live-action adaptation, CzechCrunch reports, with translations by DeepL and Google. Warhorse CEO Martin Frývaldský says Vávra's new role is to create

Tech

Marathon Is Already Improving On Arc Raiders In One Key Area

Marathon has been playing catch-up to Arc Raiders since both games debuted their first player tests, but Bungie’s extraction shooter is taking a firmer stance on cheating. The developer announced a strict one-strike ban policy: "Anyone found to be cheating will be permabanned from playing Marathon forever, no

Health

My battle with chronic fatigue syndrome: 'On my worst days it feels demonic'

When I fell ill at 11 after an ordinary virus, my school sent my parents a typed letter that named my prolonged absence a “mystery illness.” I had a headache, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, body pains and a faintness on standing later identified as postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. The

Business

AI Fears Send Software Stocks Lower, Tightening Grip on Bitcoin

Software stocks slid sharply this month as investors weighed the disruptive potential of artificial intelligence. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV) fell about 15% in February, testing its April 2025 lows and sitting roughly 35% below its peak — on pace for its worst monthly performance since 2008. The downturn

Culture

Prime Video's 56 Days Is a Taut Eight-Episode Mystery

Prime Video released 56 Days in February, an eight-episode adaptation of Catherine Ryan Howard’s novel that departs from its source but keeps the story’s core intact. The series follows Oliver (Avan Jogia), a man from generational wealth who works at a Boston architecture firm, and Ciara (Dove Cameron)

Tech

Roborock's first self-cleaning roller mop delivered on hardwood floors

The Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow is now available with an introductory price of $849 and a regular price of $999. It pairs 20,000Pa of suction with dual roller brushes and introduces SpiralFlow mopping alongside a self‑washing roller mop, plus a shield that covers the mop when the

Sports

40-60-point deduction 'logical' if Man City found guilty, legal expert says

Maguire said there are well over 115 charges and posed the question of how a split decision would be handled, noting that different outcomes could favour the Premier League or Manchester City. He suggested non-cooperation by City is fairly likely and would probably attract a significant fine, as happened in

Business

AI disruption threatens booming private credit market, investment chief warns

Recent AI advances have rattled markets and hit software companies particularly hard, prompting sharp share-price drops for public firms and delays to planned IPOs for private ones. That rout has raised worries that some software companies may struggle to service their debts. Shares of Blue Owl Capital have fallen sharply

AI

Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude

Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI firms — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax — of creating more than 24,000 fake accounts to generate over 16 million exchanges with its Claude model. The company says the labs used a technique called “distillation” to extract Claude’s most differentiated capabilities: agentic reasoning, tool use

Tech

Marathon cheaters will be permanently banned by Bungie

Bungie has said anyone found cheating in Marathon "will be permanently banned forever, no second chances." The announcement appears in a blog post titled "networking and security," and the Marathon account reiterated the line on X. Bungie has not clarified whether a permanent ban means the

Culture

Assassin's Creed 3 director: ship tech wasn't ready until Black Flag

Commanding a ship in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag remains a sublime experience, fitting for a game about pirates. By contrast, the sailing missions in Assassin's Creed 3 were not nearly as mechanically refined. Assassin's Creed 3 creative director Alex Hutchinson said Ubisoft feared

Crypto

Crypto.com gains conditional approval for trust bank charter

Crypto.com has received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to form a federally regulated national trust bank in the United States. The approval allows the company to establish Foris Dax National Trust Bank and, once fully authorized, operate as Crypto.com National Trust Bank.

Tech

Nothing About The Big Xbox Shakeup Makes Sense

The retirement of Phil Spencer was announced on a Friday afternoon through memos and media exclusives, catching many off guard. The announcement had been scheduled for Monday, February 23, but reporting from IGN moved up the timeline and many employees learned the news via social media. Spencer has reportedly been

Culture

New 'Marshals' Clip Reveals Yellowstone Spin-Off

CBS has unveiled a new look at Marshals, the first spin-off set after the events of the groundbreaking neo-western parent show. Marshals follows Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) joining a group of elite U.S. Marshals, and Collider debuted a clip ahead of the series' debut on CBS and Paramount+

Science

Sol 4795: Right Navigation Camera, Cylindrical Projection

Curiosity captured images on February 01, 2026, during Sols 4795–4789 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission at drive 574, site number 120. The local mean solar time for the image exposures was 1 PM. These right navigation camera images are shown in cylindrical projection; each Navcam frame has a

Culture

What to Remember About Scrubs Before Season 10

Scrubs began in 2001 by following three new interns at Sacred Heart: Dr. John “J.D.” Dorian, the daydreaming narrator; his best friend Chris Turk, who soon meets and falls for nurse Carla Espinosa; and Elliot Reid, whose on-again, off-again relationship with J.D. threads through the series. Over nine

Crypto

Coinbase’s USDC Revenue Could Grow Seven Fold: Bloomberg

Bloomberg Intelligence estimates that Coinbase’s stablecoin revenue, largely tied to its USDC revenue share with Circle, could grow two to seven times if USDC adoption in payments accelerates. Stablecoins already accounted for about 19% of the company’s total revenue in 2025. Coinbase reported a net loss of $667

Sports

Barcelona make final decision on permanent Marcus Rashford transfer

Barcelona have decided to make Marcus Rashford's loan move permanent after he impressed since arriving as a calculated gamble in the summer. The Manchester United academy graduate has done enough to convince the hierarchy at Camp Nou that a permanent deal best serves the club's sporting

Business

Jim Breuer says he was bumped from first class at the gate

Jim Breuer said he and his wife were downgraded from first class to economy moments before boarding their return flight from Honolulu to Florida. They had splurged on first-class tickets to visit their daughter during her internship, and the outbound flight went off without a hitch; the return, he said,

Politics

Late Night Reacts After Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump Tariffs

The Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s sweeping tariffs in a 6-to-3 ruling on Friday. Jon Stewart praised the decision, saying “somebody finally had the balls to say were illegal.” He added, “Wow, a court composed mostly of his own party’s appointees has struck down the constitutionality of

Crypto

Why Did XRP Whales Buy 170 Million Tokens Despite 9% Price Drop?

XRP price continues to trade under pressure as a persistent downtrend shapes short-term momentum. The token has struggled to break above descending resistance since the beginning of the month. Whales bought 170 million XRP during a 9% decline this week, even as institutional inflows reached $105 million month-to-date. On-chain data

Science

Norway’s Centuries-Long Watch on the Northern Lights

Perched atop Mount Halde, a small stone building erected in 1899 by Kristian Birkeland became the world’s first permanent northern lights observatory and a base for early 20th-century study of the aurora. Norway has long been seen as the birthplace of auroral research; as the Danish writer Erik Johan

Culture

The Last Thing He Told Me Season 2 Climbs Charts After Major Creative Shift

Season 2 of The Last Thing He Told Me arrived on February 20, 2026, and is already climbing streaming charts — FlixPatrol ranks it at No. 10 in the U.S., just behind Tehran and Your Friends & Neighbors. Apple TV has rolled out several recent hits, from the record-breaking first