Google cofounder Larry Page reportedly purchased property in South Florida. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/GettyImages Google cofounder Larry Page bought property in Florida amid California's proposed billionair...
The Verge CES ground crew posing for a group photo in the Linq Promenade during CES 2026. We spent last week running to meetings, demos, and the convention floors to see as much as we could at CES 202...
The Royal Navy called Leonardo's Proteus a new step in British aviation history. Royal Navy A European arms maker flew what the Royal Navy called "the UK's first truly autonomous full-size helicop...
Article URL: https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/discover-michelangelos-first-painting.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646263 Points: 15 # Comments: 6...
In 2025, India approved a number of major defence packages, together worth US$30 billion. Such rapid procurement approvals are relatively rare by Indian standards. However, what they signal to the reg...
Taco Bell has five new items on its luxe value menu, all priced $3 or under. Courtesy of Taco Bell We tried the five new items on Taco Bell's Luxe Value menu, which is all priced under $3. The new men...
Cast your mind back to the end of last year, and you may remember we reported that a group of volunteer modders had united to develop an online mode for Rockstar's Bully (also known as Canis Canem Edi...
Schools across parts of northern Nigeria started reopening on January 12, after months of closure triggered by the abduction of hundreds of students in November 2025. The move follows a circular fro...
LEGO's upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time set featuring Link and Zelda's climactic battle with Ganon has leaked online, alongside its pricing and release details. The Final Battle will be a...
There are a bunch of big Star Wars projects in the works, like the Jon Favreau-directed The Mandalorian & Grogu movie , the confirmation of Ahsoka: Season 2 , and a new Star Wars movie starring Ryan G...
"This bill is a scam. It is not a congressional stock trading ban," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Business Insider. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images A GOP-backed bill to cu...
Crypto majors are mostly flat headed into Monday open; btc even at $90,600; eth +1% at $3,110, sol +2% at $140; xrp -2% to $2.04. Ip (+20%) and xmr (+15%) led top movers; xmr hit a new ath at $590. Fe...
This week, Nintendo finally removed an infamous, adults only-themed island from Animal Crossing: New Horizons . Existing since 2020, the suggestive fan creation was almost as old as the game, and gain...
China has opened an antitrust investigation into Trip.com Group, the country’s largest online travel services provider, weeks before hundreds of millions of people on the mainland go away on holiday d...
China’s top counter-espionage agency has warned that overseas entities are attempting to steal the country’s geographic data through covert mapping operations that threaten national security. Foreign ...
The Chilean government has awarded a contract to Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech to supply its influenza vaccine ahead of the southern hemisphere winter. The vaccine will be part of Chi...
UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday he was "horrified" by the violence in Iran as a government crackdown continued. The Human Rights Activists News Agency estimated the death toll at 646 w...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is headed to Davos. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to call out President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum. Newsom has been a vocal...
HBO's latest Game of Thrones spin-off series, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms , is kicking off next week. Alongside the new series, Penguin Random House has just released a new version of George R.R. M...
China’s electric vehicle (EV) exports doubled in 2025 amid rising overseas demand for affordable cars and Beijing’s anti-involution campaign. The country – the world’s leading EV manufacturer – sold m...