Every Xbox owner can now claim a digital license for most Xbox One and Series X discs, playable without the disc and beyond the console. The catch is that the license lasts only as long as the disc st

The 20% Dell coupon code that headlines October's coupon pages is listed as expired by the desks that test codes; the live ones give 10%, and nothing on Dell's own deals page reaches a fifth off.

Grokipedia's v0.3 turns its homepage into a shelf of spinning books. The bigger story is the correction machinery that sat switched off for months while Elon Musk said nothing.

Ynon Kreiz, who took Barbie to the cinema, leaves Mattel to co-run the merged Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. Condé Nast chief Roger Lynch inherits a toymaker whose shares are down by a third th

Einstein Probe caught nearly ten minutes of soft X-rays after a half-second gamma-ray burst from a neutron star merger six billion light-years away, the longest such flash on record. The team behind t

Hugh Jackman's Long John Silver sails a month ahead of the Tatum-Hill reunion, while Helldivers retreats to the summer of 2028

Dhadakpur, the Bihar village that sells itself as crime-free, lost a dowry motorbike in season one. In Dupahiya Season 2 on Prime Video, a mobile tower on Banwari Jha's barren land sets off the rumour

Reddit will limit Old Reddit to people who used it in the last six months, blaming AI scraping. New accounts are shut out for good, RSS feeds end, and the scraping Reddit is suing over took a differen

Apple TV’s animated adaptation of Michael Buckley’s novels sends Sabrina and Daphne Grimm to a new school in season two. Six episodes, voiced by Ariel Winter and Leah Newman, build to a finale where S

Dominic West and Sienna Miller play a tech entrepreneur and a film star heading for divorce in War, George Kay's HBO and Sky legal drama. The rivals at its centre, though, are the two London law firms

Amir Bar-Lev's documentary for Apple TV follows John Snorri and Ali and Sajid Sadpara into the winter race for K2's last great first, won by a Nepali team led by Nirmal Purja. By the end of the season

Tim Federle, who created High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, moves to a New Orleans boarding school for teenage witches in Coven Academy on Disney+. Malina Pauli Weissman, Ora Duplass and Jo

OpenAI's new Dots keep working on your goals from their own cloud computer, connected to more than 4,000 apps. The first one comes with plans from $100 a month, and Pro subscribers in the UK, Switzerl

Samsung's new tablets ship with Adobe Photoshop preinstalled and an S Pen in the box, which finally gives Android artists the app iPad owners have had for years. The catch is a higher price and a free

Leah Williamson's goal-kick handball sealed Arsenal Women's draw at Paris FC, but Alessia Russo and Arsenal's own coaching staff point to a two-goal lead that was already slipping away.

Google's Fitbit Air goes on sale in India at ₹13,999, well above its $99 US price. The sensors work on their own, but the Gemini coach behind the pitch is a Premium subscription after a three-month tr

Former Studiocanal and TF1 executive Romain Bessi runs the producer-owned group behind Toni Erdmann, The Class and Sisu

Apple's emergency update closes a CoreGraphics hole that may have been used against targeted people. Anyone who has not moved to iOS 27 should install it now.

Warner Bros. has dated Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest for June 1, 2029. Its director and writer point to a chamber piece about three Targaryen siblings, not a war film.

Verity's first reviews split on Dakota Johnson: Variety calls her indifferent, IndieWire calls her inimitable. The divide says more about her career than about the film.

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang told AI labs to stop shipping unsafe products. Four days later his company launched the tools to do it, and OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra.

The Netflix originals architect leaves Paramount Skydance's streaming job, and her farewell memo shows Warner Bros. Discovery was the plan from the start

Essar's US arm, Mesabi Metallics, plans an $18 billion mine-to-mill project anchored by what its backers call the largest steel plant in the United States. The group's first Minnesota venture ended in

The trophy debate is the cheap part. The commission has turned £830m of disguised owner money into established fact, and Manchester City now faces an uncapped sanction, a narrow appeal and four rivals

Firesprite's sequel, written with Dispatch studio AdHoc, sends a ghost-hunting crew that stages its scares to an abandoned South Pacific resort island. Peter Stormare returns as Dr. Hill, and the game

Gravity between Earth's slightly lopsided inner core and dense rock in the mantle explains why the day has stretched and shrunk by a few milliseconds over decades, a Nature study finds. The same analy

Announcing World Labs’ sale to AMD, Fei-Fei Li restated the belief her lab was built on. From a chipmaker’s incoming chief scientist, it reads less like philosophy than a hardware bet.

From Kurosawa and Ozu to Miyazaki, Kore-eda and Hamaguchi: the fifteen Japanese filmmakers who gave world cinema the most, ranked on what they invented and what survived them.

Investigation Discovery's three-part docuseries lays a three-dimensional, AI-assisted likeness of Aileen Wuornos over actress Morag Peacock's performance. The words come from transcripts and firsthand

Curry Barker’s Anything but Ghosts opens in May 2027 via Focus Features. Told to cut 30 pages, the Obsession director kept every one and sacrificed shots instead.

Coco Gauff joins the relaunched World Team Tennis as player-owner of the Florida Flamingos. Her stake is tied to one club in her home market, and it fits the career she is building off the court.

Minecraft Dungeons II is out on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC. Critics split by audience, but nearly all of them praise the Sift, the new dimension Mojang is moving into Minecraft.

Browser assistants can now read a Shopify checkout, change the delivery address and submit the order once the shopper approves it. They still cannot type in a new card, and nobody has settled who pays

HOYO-MiX’s theme for Genshin Impact’s sixth anniversary arrives in four languages, sung partly by the game’s own voice cast, with a free in-game reward riding on one million plays.

The Eagles treated the Bears' third-string quarterback like a rusty backup and sent pressure. Case Keenum answered with the one skill a long career sharpens: knowing the answer before the snap.

Nadella praised the cuts at Xbox and, in the same breath, admitted the gaming business still lacks a model that pays. The second sentence is the one that matters.

Anthropic's draft prospectus warns that many of its biggest customers can cut their spending at will, just as Tinder, AT&T and other companies move routine AI work to far cheaper open-weight model

Two-one up on the world champions at Wembley, Harry Kane's standing foot gave way on the penalty that could have finished Spain. England lost 3-2. What he said afterwards explains why the next one is

The Vikings sold their first-round quarterback for a late pick, and the Giants insist he won't start. What J.J. McCarthy needs in New York is the long, healthy stretch of football his career has never

IRAS 18293-0941, a dust-buried binary star that sat forgotten in catalogues, launches a jet close to our line of sight. It is the strongest case yet for a microblazar inside the Milky Way, and its oth

First-look images land as the BBC and MGM+ wrap filming in the Czech Republic, with Charlie Hunnam as Alec Leamas

Moonshiners opens its sixteenth season with a $70,000 order for tariff-free corn whiskey from Canadian buyers, and Discovery is selling the whole run as 250 years of Americans dodging the taxman. The

HBO and NFL Films go back to the two seasons ABC put comedian Dennis Miller in the Monday Night Football booth beside Al Michaels and Dan Fouts, with Miller, his partners and the executives who hired

ElevenLabs' new speech model laughs, whispers and switches accents on command, and it clones a voice from a clip shorter than a voicemail. Free accounts get it too, which makes it the most capable voi

Luke Littler's World Grand Prix defence ended in round one against Luke Woodhouse. After a bruising fortnight of boos in Amsterdam, his light-hearted reaction and his opponent's plea said more than th

The Spanish dancer reveals in his memoir that he has lived with multiple sclerosis since 2015, and that for two years he preferred not to know what he had.

The big camera-testing guides agree on the hardware. The monthly fee and the privacy score are where Ring, Nest, Arlo, eufy and Reolink really split, and where the Fall Prime Week deals should be judg

Jeremy Garelick turns the day he lost his teenage son at Rolling Loud into a comedy starring Owen Wilson and Matt Rife, shot partly inside the real festival. Produced by Live Nation, it arrives with T

After rallying past the Rams from 16 points down, Sean Payton warned that the Broncos’ comeback habit will “cost us in bigger games” and put the slow starts on himself before Bo Nix.

Most countries decide who they can tax by residence, not citizenship. Day counts, homes, family ties and treaty tie-breakers explain why a remote worker or retiree can end up owing two governments at