Semafor CEO Justin Smith says his company hosted close to 100 events in 2025. His ambition is to build a Washington, DC-based event that's supposed to rivals the annual Davos gathering in Switzerland....
Department stores, then and now. Bettmann/Getty Images ; Kamil Krzaczynski/Getty Images Department stores have changed dramatically over the last 100 years. Department stores once sold necessities. No...
Developer Embark Studios says Arc Raiders update 1.12.0 patched some infamous out-of-bounds exploits – but players say "rats" still live in the walls of Stella Montis. Community lead Ossen took to the...
Elaborate movie tie-in popcorn buckets are all the rage these days at movie theaters. These buckets are pricy — clearly a cash grab in the era of dwindling ticket sales — but they’re often cleverly de...
Hi HN! We're Kamran, Raaid, Laith, and Omeed from Constellation Space. We built an AI system that predicts satellite link failures before they happen ( https://youtu.be/069V9fADAtM ). Between us, we'v...
Google Gemini hopes to help students study for the SAT with AI. Alex Brandon/AP Google released new SAT practice exams in Gemini, with questions reviewed by the Princeton Review. It's yet another AI e...
US President Donald Trump delivers a speech during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump gave his 70-minute-long speech in Dav...
Michael Burry Jim Spellman/WireImage Michael Burry says AI is a bubble so big that it will tank the market and economy when it pops. The "Big Short" investor said the government will try to he...
Cartier is expected to keep gaining momentum in 2026. Yuriko Nakao/Getty Images First-time watch buyers are reshaping the luxury watch market with new purchasing trends in 2026. Younger consumers favo...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said there was an "avalanche of reports detailing the non-consensual, sexually explicit material that xAI has produced." Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty I...
AI chatbots are increasingly able to buy things on users' behalf, a concept known as agentic commerce. Philip Dulian/picture alliance via Getty Images OpenAI broke new ground when it enabled shopping ...
Amazon has some certifiably fantastic deals on TCGs right now, and that's including an all-time new best price on the Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution - Phantasmal Flames Elite Trainer Boxes . It was a hug...
Haven’t you heard? Phones are boring now . And that’s just fine! Most people buying a new phone just want something familiar that works better than the device they’re replacing. If that’s your MO, the...
Disney Lorcana has seemingly gone from strength to strength since its debut, with Winterspell marking its eleventh set when it arrives in February. Ravensburger has been pulling from just about everyw...
Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy has discussed a list of Star Wars projects as she exits her role as company president — though curiously there was no mention of the previously-announced standalone mov...
China's JY-27A radar didn't appear to be effective during the US raid on Venezuela. US Air Force Photo Venezuela's Chinese air defense radars weren't game-changing during the US raid to capture Maduro...
Akaash Vishal Hazarika. Courtesy of Akaash Vishal Hazarika Akaash Vishal Hazarika shares how AI is reshaping the skills required for software engineering jobs. Tech companies now expect engineers to i...
From left: Barbara Face pictured as a teenager when she first started drinking, at the height of her alcoholism, and sober, as she is today. Courtesy of Barbara Face Barbara Face began drinking at 14 ...
Glorious' long-running Model O series expanded again in 2025 with the Model O Eternal, a cheaper, lighter version of the beloved original that ranked as one of the best gaming mice of its day. I had h...
Zootopia 2 is now the highest-grossing animated Hollywood film of all time, with a huge $1.703 billion worldwide ($390 million domestic and $1.313 billion international). The Disney film has overtaken...