Jimmy Kimmel told viewers during his Feb. 2 monologue that he will demand to host the Oscars in 2027 if “Melania” ends up nominated in the best documentary category. The late night host was mocking Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany, who reacted to “Melania’s”
The "cease and desist" demand was posted to the MindsEye Discord just minutes after Cyber Boi's video went live.
PepsiCo plans to slash prices by as much as 15% on classic snacks like Lay’s potato chips, Doritos and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos to counter inflationary price hikes.
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DUBAI/WASHINGTON, Feb 3 - Iran is demanding that talks with the U.S. this week be held in Oman not Turkey, and that the scope be narrowed to two-way talks on nuclear issues only, a regional source said on Tuesday, casting doubt on whether the meeting will go ahead as planned.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) fired back at President Trump on Monday after he accused the GOP lawmaker's wife of being a part of the “radical left” in a Truth Social post. “So now he’s attacking my wife who voted for him three times,” Massie wrote in a post on the social platform
Indian entrepreneur and business leader Ananya Birla has launched Birla Studios, a new production company dedicated to developing prestige-driven commercial cinema that bridges cultural relevance with broad audience appeal. The venture aims to champion narratives that combine
Columnist and author Michael Wolff on Sunday clapped back at President Trump's threat of filing a lawsuit against him claiming Wolff and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein conspired to hurt him politically, prompting the writer to tell the president to "bring it on." Wolff,
Sony Music’s RCA Records will relaunch the Jive label as a stand-alone company under the direction of Mike Weiss and David Melhado, who until recently were EVPs at United Masters, it was announced today. Jive, of course, was the blockbuster label launched by Clive Calder in
A couple of weeks ago, AI company Anthropic published the constitution that they use to train their Claude LLM (“under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Deed , meaning it can be freely used by anyone for any purpose without asking for permission”). From the company’s news release :
"He dresses exactly like Iger. Sweaters, collared shirts," a Disney source said. "He's a good guy, well liked. Iger likes to note how much 'charisma' Josh has."
Josh D'Amaro replaced Bob Chapek as chairman of Disney Parks. Hopefully this time the transition sticks
The US military has announced it has targeted and downed an Iranian-owned drone in the waters of the Arabian Sea.
Rapper's legal team argues the proposed evidence will unfairly prejudice a jury
There appears to be a thin line between 'One Battle After Another' and reality, after all.
James Gorman has completed his first mission for Disney: CEO transition, take two. Tuesday’s news of Josh D’Amaro’s elevation to CEO and Dana Walden’s ascent to the new post of president and chief creative officer marks a more considered process than the one that unfolded in
The Trump administration is targeting free speech with a little-known legal tool: administrative subpoenas. The Washington Post reports that a retired Philadelphia man, Jon, 67, found himself in the government’s crosshairs after he emailed a lead prosecutor at the Department
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee unveiled deposition dates for former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday. The Clintons agreed Monday to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in its probe
A US military spokesman says the drone was shot down while approaching an American vessel in the Arabian Sea.
The U.S. military shot down an Iranian drone on Tuesday after it approached the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, as the tension between Washington and Tehran ratchets up. An F-35C fighter plane downed an Iranian Shahed-139 drone after the unmanned aircraft
The milestone reflects the US retail giant's booming e-commerce business and investors' embrace of its AI investments.
To hold us over in the meantime, Firaxis added everyone's best friend: Gilgamesh.
UCLA researchers have developed a mineral sunscreen formulation that significantly reduces the white, chalky cast that keeps many people from wearing sun protection daily. For decades, dermatologists have urged people to apply sunscreen daily to protect against ultraviolet
President Trump tore into The New York Times early Tuesday over reporting that his administration is dropping a cash ask to settle investigations into Harvard University. "The Failing New York Times story was completely wrong concerning Harvard University," Trump wrote in a
For the first time, physicists in China have virtually eliminated the friction felt between two surfaces at scales visible to the naked eye. In demonstrating "structural superlubricity," the team, led by Quanshui Zheng at Tsinghua University, have resolved a long-standing
This year’s ceremony will air live on Mar. 15 from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.
ProPublica has confirmed the names of the two immigration enforcement agents wo shot and killed Alex Pretti. And their identities might be surprising to many liberals who are forming their impressions about Border Control and ICE from Democratic talking heads on cable news.
Highguard's central mode is genuinely cool, but it's overstuffed with FPS trends that should go away for a while.
California's most devastating wildfire—the 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 and destroyed nearly 19,000 structures—forced nearly half of all residents living within designated fire perimeters to relocate within a year.
ANKARA, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan met Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh on Tuesday and told him Turkey was determined to take relations to a higher level in areas including renewable energy and defence industry, Erdogan's office
Feb 3 (Reuters) - Iraq's former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, nominated by a powerful alliance of Shi'ite political parties to return to the premiership, said on Tuesday that he would welcome a decision to replace his candidacy. On January 27, U.S. President Donald Trump said
DUBAI, Feb 3 (Reuters) - A group of Iranian gunboats approached a U.S.-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz north of Oman, maritime sources and a security consultancy said on Tuesday. The Iranian boats ordered the tanker, the Stena Imperative, to stop its engine and prepare
While pilots are flying in a VR simulation, their brainwave patterns can be fed into an AI model that assesses how challenging they are finding a task and adjusts the difficulty accordingly
Can a single particle have a temperature? It may seem impossible with our standard understanding of temperature, but columnist Jacklin Kwan finds that it’s not exactly ruled out in the quantum realm
A 14-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing in a classroom on Tuesday.
Michael Peña and Zazie Beetz discuss the possibility of reprising their Marvel roles as Ant-Man's Luis and Deadpool's Domino.
The latest revival of “Mystery Science Theater 3000” is off to a strong start. At the time of this publishing, the Kickstarter campaign for the four new episodes of the beloved series has generated $1.17 million dollars in just 24 hours. To put that in perspective, that is
The White House has proposed a 10 percent cap on credit card interest rates, a move that has been met with resistance from the banking industry but has gained support from both parties in Congress, as the American public is tired of feeling like the house always wins.
These parasitic beetle larvae lure in bees with complex floral aromas before hitching a ride back to their nests and eating their eggs.
After President Trump slammed Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and his wife on Monday, former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) criticized her former Republican colleagues for not standing by the Kentuckian. In a lengthy post on the social platform X, Greene wrote that Trump
Six Iranian boats also approached a U.S.-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, ordering it to stop, but the vessel instead increased its speed and was escorted to safety by a U.S. warship. The incident comes as Iran signals it may withdraw from upcoming nuclear talks with
You also sent more than 100,000 gifts on the Epic store, which seems pretty good for a service that only rolled out in mid-November.
The Case of the Green Covers is a risograph-printed zine that documents the history of the “Green Penguins”, “a series of hundreds of crime novels published with green covers by the UK publisher Penguin in the 1960s”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Some mammals hibernate to survive in winter, but the Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus) employs Dehnel's phenomenon to get through it. This is a metabolic process that enables shrews to conserve energy by shrinking their brain and other energy-consuming organs. In the
Broadway legend Patti LuPone is calling on supporters of the arts to sound the alarm about President Trump's plan to temporarily close the Kennedy Center, saying he "cannot touch" the Washington institution. "I'm sorry but I'm so mad," the former "Evita" star said in closing
For generations, farmers have spent backbreaking hours tearing down and rebuilding fences just to move livestock to fresh grazing fields. Now, thanks to a groundbreaking project at the University of Missouri's Center for Regenerative Agriculture, that chore is becoming a thing
Today's Cisco looks little like the hardware-centric growth engine that briefly became the world's most valuable company at the height of the internet mania.
The House is set to vote on a bill to fund the government and reopen it, while President Trump is meeting with Colombian President Gustavo Petro to discuss Venezuela and the flow of drugs, and the search for Savannah Guthrie's missing mother continues.
Plants fix 258 billion tons of CO2 in their chloroplasts through photosynthesis every year. For these cell organelles to work properly, they require certain minerals—particularly ions of the metals iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), and zinc (Zn). Disruptions of ion
