Friday marks the fifth day since the last demonstrations in Tehran, FRANCE 24 correspondent Siavosh Ghazi reported from the Iranian capital. He said the news agency Tasnim, which is linked to the Revo...
The gunman charged with killing Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe was found guilty January 21 and jailed for life. The shooting more than three years ago forced a reckoning in a country with li...
Jim Butcher has been writing The Dresden Files books for over 25 years now. I first started reading this series back in the early 2000s and found myself immediately enamored with story and overall vib...
Between the premise and the creative team involved, the new Top Shelf graphic novel Punk'n Heads is immediately on our radar as one of the first must-read graphic novels of 2026. This new book about p...
State-owned China Telecom has developed the country’s first artificial intelligence models with the innovative Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture that are trained entirely on advanced chips from Hu...
US President Donald Trump's actions during his first year back in office have been "faster and more shocking than we even expected". That's the view of US domestic and foreign policy specialist Laurie...
As US President Donald Trump reaches the one-year mark of his second term in the White House, FRANCE 24's Oliver Farry looks back at his foreign policies and Washington's increasingly fraught relation...
Silicon Valley bosses who lined up behind the US president for his inauguration have fared well under his administration...
A cow in Austria has been observed using tools ― the first time such behavior has been recorded in cattle. Have we underestimated the gentle bovines all this time?...
Microsoft released its first security update of 2026 for Windows 11 on January 13th. Just four days later, it was forced to release an emergency out-of-band update to fix some pretty serious bugs, the...
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...
Colorado mom Shelby Wold, captured the moment her two-year-old kissed his newborn sister for the first time, but she never expected the reaction her daughter had....
Z.AI released GLM-Image, trained entirely on Huawei chips, as Beijing moves to block Nvidia H200 imports in a push for AI self-reliance....
Billionaire wealth surged at three times its recent pace last year to reach its highest level on record, deepening economic and political divides that threaten democratic stability, anti-poverty gr...
Amazon has revealed a first look at Sophie Turner as Lara Croft in the new Prime Video Tomb Raider series. The image, below, was released to coincide with the start of production. Turner, famous for p...
This year’s CES introduced a bevy of unique headphones, including Fender’s first set and a pair that roll up to become a Bluetooth speaker when you want to share your music with friends. However, desp...
Chinese artificial intelligence firm Zhipu AI said its new image generation model was trained on chips from Huawei Technologies, making it the first powerful open-source model to be developed on an en...
Kurdish-led forces withdrew from Syria's largest oil field on Sunday, according to a conflict monitor, as government troops expanded their control over vast areas in the country's north and east. As t...
The nationwide protests challenging Iran’s theocracy appeared increasingly smothered Thursday, a week on from authorities shutting the country off from the world and escalating a bloody crackdown that...
South Korean prosecutors called on Tuesday for the death penalty to be handed down to former president Yoon Suk Yeol for his December 2024 declaration of martial law, which plunged the country into ch...