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The 16-inch MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR display set a Tom’s Guide lab record as 2026's brightest laptop, reaching nearly 2,000 nits and beating all competitors.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Nicolas Cage (Longlegs), Alexander Ludwig (Bad Boys franchise), Gabriel Basso (The Night Agent), and Oscar nominee Maria Bakalova (The Apprentice) are aboard to star in true crime movie The Brand, based on the investigative New Yorker article by bestselling author and acclaimed journalist David Grann, whose stories have served as source material […]

First come love, then comes marriage, then comes renewal. Nobody Wants This has joined an elite group of Netflix live-action comedy series, which have run for four or more seasons as Erin Foster’s rom-com starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody has been picked up for a fourth season. It has been another quick renewal too, […]

Are Arsenal going too far with their theatrics, dirty play and gamesmanship? Or do people just have a problem with it because it's working? Our reporters air their thoughts on the 'dark arts' in pursuit of trophies.

EXCLUSIVE: Atlantic Records and Teddy Park’s Korean outfit The Black Label have come on to produce the soundtrack for the upcoming K-pop thriller Perfect Girl. Atlantic and The Black Label are also joining Badlands, Thunder Road, and Renegade as producers on the project, with Atlantic President Kevin Weaver serving as an executive producer. Described by […]

The star-studded event, now entitled ‘extraORDINARY: fashion and the poetics of the everyday,' will look to put the the media storm over honoring the controversial French designer behind it.

AT&T's smart home security system now integrates with Gemini for Home. The company says its Connected Life system is the "first" home security product to integrate with Google Home Premium, enabling a bunch of Gemini-powered features that can summarize home events, search your video history, and more. With the update, Gemini for Home can provide […]

Detecting a single photon is a challenge in itself. But what if you also want to know exactly how many photons arrive at a particular point at the same time? Physicist Erik Baalbergen is working on light detectors that can do just that. They form a key building block for the optical quantum computer of the future.

From a drone carrying traffic lights to a remotely operated robot, exhibitors at Milipol Qatar demonstrate equipment designed for emergency response, surveillance and work in dangerous places.

When was the last time you had to call customer support with a problem? Can you remember how it went? If you’re like most Americans, the answer is “probably not very well.” And that may be understating it: As of 2025, according to the “National Customer Rage Survey” — yes, it’s a real thing — […]

As parents look for alternatives to unrestricted smartphones, a growing number of companies are building phones designed specifically for kids, from feature-limited mobile devices to minimalist home phones.

Xbox's former chief operating officer, Helen Chiang, suddenly left Microsoft less than two weeks ago after being promoted into the role in July. I wrote in my Notepad newsletter last week that it seemed very weird for Chiang to suddenly depart Microsoft after 21 years with a surprisingly short memo from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma. […]

Anker announced a new indoor security camera that's designed to watch your yard, driveway, or front porch through a window, instead of monitoring what's inside your home. The new Anker Eufy Window Camera E10 takes a similar approach to the Wyze Window Cam that launched nearly a year ago. It installs right against a window […]

We cannot let the billionaire class take unprecedented risks with our future America is a divided country in crisis. Despite the sunny economic forecast coming from the Trump administration, millions of Americans are struggling to find and keep jobs, getting crushed under the rising cost of living, and losing health insurance when they need it the most. Meanwhile, via corporate consolidation and political corruption, the billionaire class is getting richer faster than ever before: a 40% increase in wealth in just the last two years. Today, the combined wealth of nearly 3,000 global billionaires equals one-fifth of the entire world’s yearly output. Nearly 1,000 billionaires live and do business in the United States. Continue reading...

MS NOW host Symone Sanders Townsend appeared to suggest Florida Gov.-elect Byron Donalds wasn't true "kinfolk" with other Black Americans because of his conservative policies.

EXCLUSIVE: Universal’s Snoop Dogg biopic Snoop continues to round out key supporting cast. Yesterday came the news that Cynthia Erivo is joining as Tupac’s mom, and today we can reveal that college basketball player Hercy Miller, in his feature debut, is set to portray Master P, while Zachariah Rogers (P-Valley) will be rapper The D.O.C., […]

Helene Hahn Loyd, the executive who was part of the executive team that built DreamWorks SKG and was instrumental in Disney’s renaissance of the 1980s and ’90s, died Oct. 24 in Park City, Utah. She was 78. Born Helene Bulakoff in Westbury, New York, she graduated from Hofstra University and moved to Los Angeles. She […]

When Kinnear was 10, his beloved father Roy died in an on-set accident. This affected how he now approaches his work as an actor, and also his understanding of life’s most important questions At first glance, Rory Kinnear is Mr Normal. Bald head, nice face, wholly unremarkable. As an actor, he’s not one for flashy tricks – no dramatic weight loss or gain, rarely disguising himself with prosthetics or CGI. Yet, somehow, whatever role Kinnear plays, he’s totally different. So here I am in his dressing room at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London, face to face with the man I’ve just seen on stage, and whose films and TV shows I’ve pored over for the past week, failing to recognise him. For starters, at 6ft, he’s taller than he should be. And more hench. And, actually, hotter. Continue reading...

In a rare event, three American astronauts voted in Tuesday's US midterm elections from the International Space Station, using advanced links to send electronic ballots to officials on Earth.

This is Part 1 in a two-part series on Nigerian waterleaf. Part 2 will be published soon. “These are the ones that survived the rain,” Enono Koka said, gesturing at a patch of short, spindly waterleaf plants across her large farm in downtown Calabar, in southern Nigeria’s Cross River. It was an unseasonably sunny morning […]

Matt Damon still can’t get “Ted” out of his head. Damon confirmed he passed on starring in the 2012 comedy as the foul-mouthed teddy bear’s best friend, John, who was later played by Mark Wahlberg “I don’t want to live with the regret, but I can tell you that I passed on ‘Ted’ and I’ve […]

Heston Blumenthal is a third wheel as the pair reveal all about their culinary stardom and infamous beef. Expect endless juicy gossip, from pan-throwing to gatecrashing weddings … and mid-service kitchen sex Never mind the scallops, here’s the Chef Pistols. Rise of the Rockstar Chef portrays the fine-dining dons of the 90s and 00s in the manner of a band biopic. In place of musical differences is a stolen reservations book and an argument about red mullet that reduced Gordon Ramsay to tears. How’s that for a kitchen nightmare? As Ramsay, Marco Pierre White and Heston Blumenthal look back at their storied careers, it’s a culinary willy-waving contest. “We were bigger and better than the Beatles,” brags White. “And we fed more people than they did.” It’s hard to argue with the latter claim, unless you count Linda McCartney’s veggie sausages. Continue reading...

If you’ve ever looked for a homegrown replacement for the imported olive, canola and palm oils that typically fill grocery store aisles and home kitchens, there’s a small but growing alternative. A network of sustainability enthusiasts is now making oil from a resource native to Pennsylvania, one of the fastest-growing hubs for this production—bitternut hickory […]