Adapted from The Great Shadow: A History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy, by Susan Wise Bauer. Copyright © 2026 by the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press. CHAPTER 1: THE PRISM Our bodies are the crossroads where our most private selves meet the world outside, the…
Sony is paying approximately $460 milliion to purchase Peanuts [PDF] and its characters, including Snoopy and Charlie Brown, created by Charles M. Schulz. That’s a 41 percent stake Sony is buying from Canadian firm WildBrain. Since Sony bought 39 percent of the franchise back in 2018, this will give the company an 80 percent stake….
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Workers at the budget hotel in the southern Philippines, a region that has long battled Islamist insurgencies, said the two men rarely left their room.
Illustration of an asteroid passing nearby the moon MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The chances of a devastating asteroid impact briefly spiked in 2025, after astronomers discovered a building-sized asteroid hurtling towards Earth. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, was first detected by astronomers in late December 2024 and was estimated to be between 40 and 90…
This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. By all measures, Meta’s Threads app had a very good year. The app was Apple’s second-most-downloaded iOS app of the year, trailing only ChatGPT. Threads now has 400 million…
Rob Kardashian is a big fan of Christmas, according to his sister, Khloe Kardashian. During a recent episode of Khloé in Wonder Land, Khloé shared that her younger brother enjoys decorating his home for the holidays with his daughter, Dream, in mind. The conversation unfolded as Khloé and her mom, Kris Jenner, reflected on the…
Sarah Barshop Close Sarah Barshop ESPN Staff Writer Sarah Barshop covers the Los Angeles Rams for ESPN. She joined ESPN in 2016 to cover the Green Bay Packers for ESPN Milwaukee. She then moved to Houston to cover the Texans. She came to ESPN after working as a writer and editor for Sports Illustrated. Brady…
A reordering of the rules of trade, set on top of transformational change in technology, demographics and climate, is remaking jobs, politics and lives.
Anthropic said on Wednesday it would release its Agent Skills technology as an open standard, a strategic bet that sharing its approach to making AI assistants more capable will cement the company’s position in the fast-evolving enterprise software market. The San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company also unveiled organization-wide management tools for enterprise customers and a…
