As we've all sadly learned since 2016, when it comes to actual events that happen in real life, there's no such thing as "too on the nose." If you've been living under a rock for the last decade and ...

TNR’s Greg Sargent takes a critical look at the day’s political news and the stories leading NewRepublic.com, and speaks to leading journalists and newsmakers.

Newsflash! Gary Lineker is going to be hosting a new game show called The Box on ITV. The former Match of the Day presenter will be heading up the show which revolves around 10 yellow boxes (hence the ...

It’s unclear when Vonn and Sinner became friends, but the two have nothing but praise for each other. “I always thought it was really special that he was a former ski racer and that’s obviously where ...

While this year’s box office performance is still expected to outperform 2024, the summer did little to inspire confidence that the movie theater business is back in any real way. Two years ago, ...

Founded by former OpenAI staff members and funded by Amazon and Google, Anthropic has raised the stakes in the GPT wars. Anthropic's Claude Desktop app often outshines its ChatGPT rival in various ...

A new box set collecting Husker Du live performances from 1985 will be released in the fall. 1985: The Miracle Year includes a full concert from the band's hometown appearance at Minneapolis' First ...

Pop Mart will make pre-orders available once again for its "The Monsters Big into Energy Series." The series, which originally launched in April 2025, is one of the latest Labubu blind boxes to come ...

The deadly U.S. Steel plant explosion that killed two people and hospitalized nearly a dozen others near Pittsburgh happened ahead of planned maintenance, the company said. In preliminary findings, ...

Let’s be real, Magic: The Gathering is complicated. I've been playing it for decades, but knowing how or where to start is intimidating if you haven't – until last year, when a product called the ...

Apple is still hard at work on becoming a relevant player in AI. The latest missive from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg suggests that Apple is shifting its artificial intelligence goals to center on new ...

Demand for AI “companion” applications outside of bigger names, like ChatGPT and Grok, is growing. Of the 337 active and revenue-generating AI companion apps available worldwide, 128 were released in ...