Age verification through a live selfie or uploading a piece of government ID is the way that technology companies say will be used to keep children off harmful sites.
Lebanon's government has decided on an "immediate ban" of Iran-backed Hezbollah's military and security activity, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Monday, in an unprecedented move as Israel retaliated to rocket fire. Hezbollah is represented in both the government and parliament
Imagine trying to reconstruct the history of a city by studying only its oldest surviving buildings. You can't watch it being built, you can't interview the architects, all you have are the structures themselves, their materials, their arrangement, the subtle clues locked into
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to “Underland,” a critically acclaimed documentary from Robert Petit that takes viewers beneath the surface of the Earth. Based on the book “Underland” by Robert Macfarlane, the film premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film
Dubai has long been marketed as a safe, stable oasis in a troubled region, so the situation has left tourists and residents shaken.
The Last Week Tonight host joked about the company's successful bid for HBO parent company Warner Bros., cracking, "How the fuck do I get out of this?"
Diminutive fragments of fine mesh transform into charming tableaux in the artist's meticulous teabag pieces. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Ruby
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It's going to get worse before it gets better, that much seems clear.
Laura Fryer, who was director of the Xbox Advanced Technology Group at the time, said incident occurred in 2004 during the Game Developers Conference.
The Switch port makes Shiny hunting easier, but it also puts everyone in danger
Residents in Tel Aviv surveyed damage after an Iranian missile strike killed one woman, as sirens and further alerts sent people back to shelters.
Researchers in Hong Kong and the UK have revealed how one species of self-propelling microbes can actively change the path of their swimming motions, depending on how much light they receive. Reporting in Physical Review Letters, a team led by Zhao Wang at the University of
That Switzerland is considering tightening its immigration policy was no surprise to demographic and economic experts. After all, that's the trend among European countries, both within and outside the European Union.
Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way. The post What Crystals Older Than the Sun Reveal About the Start of the Solar System first appeared on Quanta Magazine
A survey of nearly 6,000 UK households warns of a sharp increase in those aged 40–59 years using buy-now-pay-later loans (BNPL). These loans are currently accessed by 18% of UK households (up from 15% in May 2025) and while BNPL use is highest among younger households, growth
KABUL/ISLAMABAD, March 2 - Afghanistan and Pakistan said on Monday that their militaries had targeted each other's posts across the border as their fighting entered a fifth day, fuelling instability in a region rocked by U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran and Tehran's retaliation.
Bethesda's open world sci-fi RPG could be available to pre-order on PS5 in about two weeks
The Windows publisher got a lesson in the Streisand Effect after banning the term
The latest Ghostface unmasking says a lot about the status of this long-running slasher series.
In 1957, Vancouver took a decisive turn in its urban development when city council lifted the eight-story height limit in the West End neighborhood on the downtown peninsula, opening the door to high-rise living along English Bay. Over the next two decades, more than 300 mid-
Content creator turned Netflix star Mark Rober is launching a new competition series for the streamer titled “Schooled!” Rober, a former NASA engineer, will also exec produce the series alongside Scott Lewers for CrunchLabs and Jimmy Kimmel and Scott Lonker for Kimmelot. Daniel
The ninth studio album by British virtual band Gorillaz is out and deals with death and grief by merging Indian classical instrumentation with the group's eclectic pop influences. It's an ambitious meditation that stands as an early highlight of 2026.
While Tasnim, an Iranian news agency linked to the Revolutionary Guards, frames Iran as defensively responding to U.S. and Israeli aggression, opposition media abroad celebrate Khamenei's death and Arab outlets question Iran's leadership
International efforts to tackle climate change reached a major milestone with the Paris Agreement, adopted by more than 190 countries. The agreement aims to limit the average global temperature rise to well below 2 °C, preferably to 1.5 °C. However, questions remain as to
