Culture

AGT launches first-ever multi-hour premiere livestream today

The 21st season of America’s Got Talent premieres tonight, and fans don’t have to wait until 8/7c to start celebrating. A multi-hour livestream will air today, June 2, across more than 50 social platforms, hosted by creators Lauren-Ashley Beck and CourtRevolution. The stream will revisit iconic AGT

Culture

Wolverine’s healing ability breaks Magic: The Gathering’s damage rules

Magic: The Gathering’s upcoming Marvel Super Heroes set spans the Avengers and several X-Men, and it brings back Wolverine as a Gruul Legendary Mutant Berserker Hero. Wolverine, Fierce Fighter is a four‑cost, 3/5 with Haste that fights another creature when it enters the battlefield, and the card

Tech

Slate Auto gets serious about privacy for its bare-bones EV pickup

Slate Auto may be one of the most interesting companies in the American automotive industry right now. Based in Warsaw, Indiana, the startup is taking a completely different approach to building an electric pickup truck. Forget Ford’s clean-sheet “skunk works” story; the Slate Truck’s design has been stripped

Tech

PlayStation State of Play: Wolverine preview and how to watch

PlayStation is holding a new State of Play showcase today, ahead of the main Summer Game Fest events later this week. Expect more than 60 minutes of updates on upcoming PS5 games, with a particular emphasis on Marvel's Wolverine. The stream starts at 2PM PT / 5PM ET / 10PM

AI

Work IQ: Microsoft’s bet on agent-first enterprise IT — and the concerns

Microsoft's Work IQ rethinks enterprise software around AI agents that decide in real time which tools to use across systems. The company positions the product as a complete redesign of how enterprise IT operates, shifting from human-coded integrations to agents that can query and act across an environment.

Culture

Toy Story games getting remastered in Retro Roundup

Disney, Atari and Digital Eclipse announced Toy Story: Retro Roundup on June 2. The collection remasters 11 games — nine Toy Story titles and two A Bug’s Life games — from consoles such as PlayStation, SNES and Game Boy, and is due this October on consoles and PC. Included are classic

Culture

'Michael' Officially Sets Digital Streaming Release Date

Lionsgate announced that Michael will be available to purchase on premium video on demand on Tuesday, Jun. 9. The film can be bought on Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Prime Video, and YouTube Movies & TV for $24.99, and is expected to be rentable for $19.99 for a

Culture

Jack White review – art like a 12-year-old’s first visit to Tate Modern

Ai Weiwei has inscribed the F-word in buttons across the front of one of Jack White’s amplifiers, a gesture at once cynical and louche; Damien Hirst has added a model of a rotting cow’s head to another. Those dangerous, nihilistic sparks are precisely what this exhibition at Hirst’

Culture

Oscar Best Picture Quiz: Find Your Perfect Film

Ten questions will figure out which Oscar Best Picture winner suits you. The quiz asks what kind of film experience you want, how you like your story told, and what you want to feel walking out of the cinema. Parasite is described as a film about class, desire, and the

Sports

Messi granted private room at Argentina's 2026 World Cup camp

Lionel Messi has been given a private room for the duration of Argentina's 2026 World Cup camp in Kansas City as he prepares to lead the nation in a record-breaking sixth tournament. The Inter Miami forward is staying alone in room 202, next door to friends Rodrigo De

AI

Trump privately signs scaled-back AI order shortening review to 30 days

President Donald Trump on Tuesday privately signed a scaled-back executive order that gives AI and tech companies a brief window to let the federal government voluntarily review AI models. The order, issued after repeated federal conversations with leading AI firms including Anthropic, would allow frontier model makers to provide access

Tech

Former Forza creative director unveils Clutch, Maverick Games' debut racer

It did not look like a happy ending for Maverick Games when Amazon ended its publishing deal earlier this year. The studio has now unveiled its debut project, Clutch, and says a full trailer will debut at the Summer Game Fest showcase on June 5. Co-founder Mike Brown, the former

Science

NASA Testing Wastewater Treatment Facility for Future Moon Base

A mobile wastewater treatment system built at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center departed the spaceport and arrived at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. Graduate students there will test the technology under conditions designed to closely mimic the challenges of operating on another planetary surface. Called the Divergent

Tech

PlayStation exclusive game sales fall sharply over five years

Data compiled by Stephen Totilo at Game File shows Sony’s first-party game sales have fallen over the past five years, with fiscal year 2020 standing out as a recent high point at 58.4 million sales. That period included The Last of Us Part 2 (4 million sold in

Tech

Square Enix says Dragon Quest and Nier games rely heavily on outsourcing

Square Enix producer Yosuke Saito said at BitSummit Punch that both Dragon Quest and Nier titles are often created largely by external teams rather than being made entirely in-house. Nier: Automata, for example, was developed by PlatinumGames with direction from series creator Yoko Taro and music by Keiichi Okabe. Saito

Crypto

Georgia Announces Crackdown on Illegal Bitcoin Mining

Georgia will install electricity meters across villages and settlements in Mestia to curb illegal cryptocurrency mining that officials say has strained the local power grid. Vice Prime Minister Mamuka Mdinaradze said the activity pushed Mestia’s electricity consumption to 133 million kilowatt-hours in 2025, more than 13 times the level

Culture

Backrooms Director Planning Sequel, Seeking New Screenwriter

Backrooms is currently at the top of the box office, and 20-year-old director Kane “Pixels” Parsons is already moving toward a follow-up. Per Deadline, he is actively looking for a “screenwriting collaborator” to develop the next movie, presumably buoyed by an opening weekend that saw the film gross $118 million

Culture

Every New Movie and TV Show Coming to Prime Video in June 2026

Prime Video's June 2026 slate leans into romance, with a new franchise movie, pristine K-drama and a YA romance series among the originals. The Legend of Vox Machina also returns for a fourth season, so it’s a convenient month to binge the series and catch up. The

Culture

Marvel Personality Quiz: Which MCU Hero Are You?

Marvel Personality Quiz: Which MCU Hero Are You? Six heroes. One destiny. Answer 10 questions to discover which Marvel Cinematic Universe hero shares your personality, values, and fighting spirit. Your Hero Has Been Identified. Your MCU Hero Is… Based on your answers, the Marvel hero who matches your spirit, values,

Sports

Shocking revelations in Spygate scandal around Tonda Eckert

The spying scandal involving Southampton FC and manager Tonda Eckert has produced a flood of new details after the EFL published facts from the 20 May appeal hearing. The documents show opponents were systematically and secretly spied on, and the club released a detailed statement from Eckert explaining the circumstances,

Business

Fed: Remote work, not AI, is driving Gen Z unemployment

The New York Fed says remote work, rather than generative AI, helps explain much of the recent rise in youth unemployment. In a June 1 Liberty Street Economics post, research economist Natalia Emanuel wrote, 'We estimate that remote work can explain 64 percent of the recent increase in unemployment

Culture

Tina Fey: SNL women's group chat has an "unfortunate" name

During her June 1 appearance on The Tonight Show, Tina Fey said she still keeps in touch with several of her former Saturday Night Live colleagues and revealed the surprising name of their group chat. The thread, Fey explained, includes Amy Poehler, Ana Gasteyer, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and longtime

Health

Kenyans fear US plan for Ebola quarantine site

People in Nanyuki, near Laikipia Air Base, have criticised a US proposal to set up an Ebola quarantine facility there, saying it would expose locals and demonstrate double standards. “Everybody should be quarantined in their home country. We shouldn’t allow foreigners to bring us diseases,” said Charles Mathenge, a

Culture

Jennifer Lopez covers herself head-to-toe in $60K worth of red leather

Jennifer Lopez arrived at NBC’s “Today” show Tuesday wrapped in nearly $60,000 worth of burgundy, reptile-effect leather. She coordinated a glossy $17,980 Tom Ford snake-embossed leather coat, belted at the waist, with a matching leather midi skirt that retails for $5,190, and carried a burgundy Hermès

AI

Huang calls fears AI will reduce jobs 'complete nonsense'

Speaking at Nvidia's GTC in Taipei, CEO Jensen Huang said, "People talk about AI reducing jobs—complete nonsense." He argued that "useful AI" has arrived and is prompting companies to hire more software engineers: "If you can hire a software engineer and you