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Culture

Emmys, Polk Award and other honors for the outlet

The outlet's video team picked up two wins at the 2025 News & Documentary Emmy Awards for The Man Who Feeds Gaza's Children and The True Cost of Mining Electric Car Battery Metals. Its work has been recognised for investigative and original reporting, creative use of

Culture

Amazon Says It Has 'Great Relationship' With 007 First Light Devs

Amazon said it has a "great relationship" with IO Interactive and praised what the studio accomplished on 007 First Light, a game that has sold over 1.5 million copies and is earning strong reviews. The clarification follows comments from Amazon Game Studios boss Jeff Gattis, who noted

Culture

Ice Age: Boiling Point trailer arrives for 2027 theatrical return

It has been ten years since the last Ice Age theatrical film, Ice Age: Collision Course (2016). That release came three years before Disney acquired 20th Century Fox, and the franchise briefly returned as the Disney+ spinoff The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild in 2022. The first trailer for

Health

How to reduce your screen time: 12 realistic tips

Phones have been engineered to keep us hooked: a US court found Meta and YouTube’s platforms were designed to be addictive, and the companies paid a combined $6m. Prof Marcantonio Spada warns that “we’ve outsourced our brain to California – our emotions, our thinking,” and that apps use intermittent

Culture

James Mangold’s Forgotten Sci‑Fi Thriller Is the Perfect Weekend Binge

Zoo, produced by James Mangold in the mid-2010s, leaned into a wildly imaginative tone: kamikaze bats, wolf-organized prison breaks and giant computer-hacking octopuses all figured into its strange, attention-grabbing plotlines. Based on James Patterson’s novel—at least for its first season—the series followed a mysterious virus that made

Sports

Rafael Leao offered nearly double AC Milan salary as he weighs exit

Rafael Leao looks increasingly likely to end his time in Serie A as Galatasaray emerge as the leading contenders for his signature. The Turkish side have presented a contract that would see the winger earn €10 million per season plus bonuses, nearly double the €5.5m plus performance-related add-ons he

Business

Top economist warns US economy is flashing a key warning signal

Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi warns that while GDP has risen this year, the economy is growing below its potential and the situation is tenuous. He cautions that unless growth picks up, unemployment will rise, labor-force participation will fall, and those shifts could eventually undercut growth altogether. Zandi

AI

I tried Google Drive's new AI cleanup tool — here’s the result

I'm an Apple person: I've owned an iPhone since 2007 and a Mac longer than that, and I pay $10 a month for the 2TB iCloud+ plan with 488GB of data and nearly 40,000 photos. At the same time, after 14 years of using Google

Tech

Marshall Tufton Portable Speaker Restocked at 42% Off ($280)

The Marshall Tufton portable Bluetooth speaker, normally $480, is discounted 42% to $280 for a limited time at Amazon. For over 60 years Marshall has been a pioneer in sound. Its early JTM45 guitar amplifier helped shape generations of music, and the Tufton echoes that legacy with textured casing, metal

AI

What to expect from WWDC 2026: Siri revamp and Apple Intelligence updates

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, WWDC 2026, kicks off Monday at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET. The event will stream live via the Apple Developer app, Apple’s website and the Apple Developer YouTube channel. The headline is a major AI upgrade to Siri, transforming it into

Culture

Wilmer Valderrama Confirms Major Casting Changes for NCIS Season 24

Wilmer Valderrama says NCIS will see major casting changes as it heads into its 24th season, telling attendees at the 2026 Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival that the show’s creators listen to what fans want to see. He warned viewers to expect "a major shake-up happening"

Culture

Solo Leveling's Japanese Print Run Ends with Final Volume

Solo Leveling's Japanese print run concludes with its final volume on June 23, 2026, nearly seven years after the series first appeared in Japan. The edition launched through Kadokawa on December 23, 2019, and will finish with Volume 25. The property began as a web novel by Chugong

Crypto

Gray peptide vendors embrace stablecoins as safety fears deepen

Chainalysis said off-label peptide sales have climbed past a $100 million annual run rate, with first-quarter sales in 2026 reaching $32 million — up 159% from $12 million in the prior quarter. The blockchain analytics firm linked the surge to rising public interest in peptides and the mainstream discussion around GLP-1

Sports

Bayern reach verbal agreement for Germany left-back; €60m fee stalls deal

Bayern Munich have reached a full verbal agreement with Eintracht Frankfurt left-back Nathaniel Brown. Manager Vincent Kompany has pushed for the move after positive discussions with the 22-year-old, who is in Chicago with the Germany squad ahead of the World Cup and a friendly against the USA; the club have

Business

Becky Vinter promoted to VP of creative strategy and studios

The company promoted Becky Vinter to Vice President, Creative Strategy & Studios, recognizing her leadership across some of its most ambitious branded content and revenue-driving initiatives. Over nearly a decade she led development of the company's multi-award-winning Studios, which was recently named Best Branded Content Studio of the

Tech

Fly Foundational Robots to test a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit

Set to launch in late 2027, Fly Foundational Robots (FFR) will deploy and operate a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit, turning the spacecraft into an in-space platform and destination for robotic demonstrations. Developed by small business Motiv Space Systems, the arm can perform dexterous manipulation, autonomous tool use,

Culture

Swatter of GTA 5 actor sentenced to four years

Ned Luke, the actor who plays Michael in Grand Theft Auto 5, was swatted during a Thanksgiving livestream in 2023. He posted an Instagram message with a photo of a Department of Justice letter he said resolved the case, writing: "Don't drop the soap in the shower

Culture

Netflix’s Devil May Cry Renewed for Third and Final Season

Netflix announced that the animated series Devil May Cry will return for a third and final season. In a press release, showrunner Adi Shankar wrote: "For those of you who have been paying attention to the episode names, I have been showing you the structure the entire time. This

Tech

How to smash vending machines in Forza Horizon 6

Vending machines are scattered across the Japan map in Forza Horizon 6, often outside shops and gas stations. Smash five of them to complete a Festival Playlist challenge for the winter season and unlock the 2023 Lotus Emira; driving into the machines breaks them and awards 1,000 skill chain

Crypto

Bitcoin Must Hold $60,000 Next After $2 Trillion Crypto Market Wipeout

Bitcoin returned below $64,000 after Thursday’s Wall Street open as bulls nursed 13.5% weekly losses. The focus is on $60,000 and its ability to hold as support, a key line in the sand for bulls. Price strength barely recovered after a slide to the lowest levels

Tech

Series S Memory Issues Delay Xbox Port; Calls to Change Parity Rule

Moon Studios’ top-down action RPG No Rest for the Wicked is headed to PlayStation 5 after an extended early access run on PC, but Xbox players will have to wait while the studio optimizes the game to run on the smaller Xbox Series S. The PlayStation reveal came during Sony’

Culture

National Symphony Faces Uncertain Season as Kennedy Center Plans Closure

The National Symphony Orchestra has been unable to finalize its next season without an approved budget or a secured venue. Since President Trump took over the Kennedy Center at the start of his second term, audiences have diminished, artists have canceled and key staff have departed. The center’s plan

Culture

Alan Ritchson Stars in New Poster for Motor City

One of the buzziest action films of the year features almost no dialogue and centers on a raging Alan Ritchson seeking vengeance after being incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit. Set in 1970s Detroit, the revenge thriller will draw Reacher fans when it hits theaters later this

Culture

2026’s Biggest Fantasy Blockbuster Officially Breaks Fandango on Ticket Sale Day

Tickets for Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey went on sale today for IMAX and other premium formats, and the rush overwhelmed ticketing site Fandango. The crash occurred earlier today, and users are still having trouble selecting seats even as other parts of the site appear to

Sports

Proposed record transfer collapses as Said El Mala turns down Brentford

Said El Mala was expected to leave 1. FC Köln this summer after one season, but a proposed record transfer has now fallen through. Bild said Köln had decided to accept FC Brentford's €50 million offer — €45m up front with €5m in add-ons, a 15% sell-on clause, a