Politics

Montreal mayor calls for halt to random police checks amid profiling probe

Montreal’s mayor has urged a stop to random police checks as the city’s force faces an internal investigation into racism and racial profiling by 16 officers. Soraya Martinez Ferrada told reporters that her husband, who is Black, had been stopped repeatedly while driving — “Like many other Black people

Culture

Glen Powell Confirmed for Sci-Fi Thriller Homewreckers

Glen Powell has been signed to star in and produce the sci-fi thriller Homewreckers, and Supergirl director Craig Gillespie is in talks to direct the project for Legendary Pictures. The film is based on an unpublished novella by Neil Paik, who is adapting the screenplay. Homewreckers sparked a competitive bidding

Culture

Bosch Officially Says Goodbye to Titus Welliver

Titus Welliver and Harry Bosch have been synonymous for 12 years, with Welliver leading seven seasons of Bosch and three seasons of Bosch: Legacy. That chapter closes with Bosch: Start of Watch, which casts Cameron Monaghan as a young Harry Bosch and does not involve Welliver at all. Welliver’s

Sports

Portugal player ratings vs Uzbekistan: Ronaldo leads 5-0 win

Portugal ran out 5-0 winners over Uzbekistan to record their first victory of the 2026 World Cup after opening with a draw against DR Congo. Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice, becoming his country's top goal-scorer in finals history and the first men's player to score at six

Culture

Friends compare Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s upcoming wedding to a royal affair

Friends of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce said excitement for the couple’s nuptials is reaching royal-wedding levels. Kyle and Kristin Juszczyk, speaking at the Tight Ends & Friends concert in Nashville, gushed over the pair. “Oh my gosh, everyone’s just so excited for them,” Kristin said; Kyle added,

Tech

Why the lubed Asus ROG Strix Scope II RX has been my daily driver for two years

I've tested many mechanical keyboards since 2013, starting with the Corsair K70 Vengeance and Cherry MX Reds, but nothing has come close to the Asus ROG Strix Scope II RX. I reviewed it in 2024 and was struck by the build quality, the switches, the sound dampening, and

Culture

Star Wars: Galactic Racer aims for a post-war story rooted in racing history

Fuse Games’ debut, Star Wars: Galactic Racer, treats racing as part of the wider political tapestry of a war-torn galaxy rather than just dropping familiar characters into podracers. The studio, founded by veterans of the Burnout series, set out to honour classic Star Wars racers while evolving the formula beyond

Culture

Sonic the Hedgehog 35th anniversary: best merch from Lego to Loungefly

Sonic the Hedgehog's 35th anniversary has arrived — it's been 35 years since the first game launched in the US on June 23, 1991. That means nearly four decades with the blue blur, chilli dogs, cheesy quips and the iconic Green Hill Zone, whose 16-bit music still

Sports

England given reality check by stubborn Ghana to leave group in the balance

Harry Kane had flagged the danger beforehand, noting that England had spluttered in their second games at the last three tournaments, but the team did not do better. Having hoped to build on the 4-2 win over Croatia, England laboured against an ultra-defensive Ghana and produced only late, pulse-quickening moments.

Tech

Bose SoundLink Flex 2 drops to $99 — IP67 waterproof portable speaker

The Bose SoundLink Flex 2 in Twilight Blue is on sale for $99, down from its usual $139 — an all-time low. The portable speaker is IP67-rated for dust and water protection, offers 12-hour battery life, Bluetooth 5.3, and uses PositionIQ technology. No Prime membership is required. IP67 means it’

World

On the Front Lines of Myanmar’s Forgotten War

Hannah Beech travels to the center of the armed resistance movement in Myanmar. She meets rebel fighters who are outgunned and undermanned after years of fighting in a civil war. The piece focuses on those fighters and the conditions at the front lines of the conflict. Myanmar myanmar, civil war,

Culture

Foundation Season 4 Keeps the Same Cleons as Timeline Pauses

Apple TV's Foundation has relied on large time jumps to adapt Isaac Asimov's sprawling space opera, but Season 4 changes how the show moves through its timeline. The next installment draws directly from the follow-up book, which continues the story without a jump, so the series

Culture

Which Sci‑Fi World Would You Survive? Take the Quiz

Sci‑Fi Survival Quiz: Which Sci‑Fi World Would You Survive? The eight-question quiz matches your instincts to one of five universes: The Matrix, Mad Max, Blade Runner, Dune, or Star Wars. Questions probe priorities such as whether you guard knowledge, fuel, trust, water, or ships and credits; what threats

Science

Super Mario is mathier than you think

You control a plumber who jumps and stomps through pipes and monsters to rescue a kidnapped princess. Research from the MIT Hardness Group shows that for some custom Super Mario levels it is impossible to write a computer program that always correctly predicts whether Mario can reach the goal; deciding

Culture

Congratulations On Your Purchase is a 10-minute Steam game that costs $1000

Congratulations On Your Purchase is a walking simulator on Steam released in May that costs $999.99 and lasts about 10 minutes. It presents itself as a “luxury experience,” putting the player on a red carpet flanked by paparazzi and separated from the crowd by a velvet cord “because some

Culture

Pragmata’s solution to controller limits: balancing shooting and hacking

Capcom followed Resident Evil Requiem with Pragmata, a third-person "dad-and-daughter" shooter set in a lunar facility overrun by a rogue AI. Themes of duality run through the game—humanity versus machine, shooting versus hacking, and two little android girls created with a very specific purpose. The community response

Culture

Call of Duty Mobile’s Persona 5 skins draw criticism

Crossovers have become common in the video game industry, with characters from one title turning up in many others. Persona 5 has been a frequent collaborator; Atlus has repeatedly licensed the Phantom Thieves for outside appearances. The latest example is a Call of Duty Mobile collaboration. A new trailer gives

Culture

Gunn's Superman Tops Prime Video Streaming Charts

James Gunn's Superman has become the most popular movie on Prime Video in the United States, topping the platform's chart per Flix Patrol and edging out newcomers Your Fault: London and Jack Ryan: Ghost War. The 130-minute film, which debuted July 11, 2025, served as the

Culture

Revisiting Five Days, a Grim and Gripping Five-Part Crime Drama

Five Days is a five-part crime drama released in 2007 as a BBC and HBO co-production. Years before Broadchurch, the series delivered a realistic, emotionally driven investigation with early performances from Hugh Bonneville, David Oyelowo, Rory Kinnear and Penelope Wilton. The plot follows Leanne (Christine Tremarco), a mother who vanishes

Tech

How ZDNET makes product recommendations

ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites, and we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real

Tech

Steam Machine price helps PS5 and Xbox, threatens PS6 and Helix

Valve insists the Steam Machine is not a console: it is an open, customizable system that works best with SteamOS but is not locked to it, and games tend to be cheaper on Steam. That claim has merit, yet the device is also a compact, sleekly engineered box meant to

Culture

Whoosh! Jacques Henri Lartigue’s world of colour

A new major UK exhibition gathers the rarely seen colour photographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue, better known for his black-and-white images of high society. Jacques Henri Lartigue: Life in Colour is at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, until 4 October. Lartigue began experimenting with early colour photography as a teenager, taking

Tech

Path of Exile co-creator rethinks live service as not always 'the future'

Grinding Gear Games co-founder Chris Wilson, who led Path of Exile until he left Grinding Gear in 2025, says he once believed the live-service model was unquestionably the future. In a recent YouTube video responding to a fan question, he describes how that conviction shaped his thinking for years. Wilson

Culture

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 shows clear improvements over earlier games

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3, formerly known as Dragon Ball Project: Age 1000, is developer Dimps’ and publisher Bandai Namco’s third foray into the Xenoverse series and is set to release at some point in 2027. The latest trailer for the action RPG looks like a marked improvement over the

Culture

First Trailer Debuts for Animated Batman: Knightfall Trilogy

Batman’s future in movies and television has been uncertain despite several projects in development. While DC Studios advances The Brave and the Bold and Matt Reeves works early on The Batman — Part II with Robert Pattinson, the character is also returning to animation. Warner Bros. released the first trailer