Four hundred thousand years ago, near a water hole on grasslands bordering a forest in what is now southern England, a group of Neandertals struck chunks of iron pyrite against flint to create sparks, lighting campfires on multiple occasions. A new analysis of those remnants — including fire-striking tools and geochemical traces of the burns…
The man who rushed Ariana Grande at the Singapore premiere of her new movie Wicked: For Good was kicked out of a Lady Gaga concert in Australia on Tuesday. Videos posted to social media show Johnson Wen getting escorted out of Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane ahead of Lady Gaga’s Mayhem Ball concert. People around the social…
new video loaded: The Battle for Warner Bros. Discovery Nicole Sperling, a Times reporter who covers Hollywood and the streaming revolution, breaks down the competing bids from Netflix and Paramount to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. By Nicole Sperling, Edward Vega, Laura Salaberry, Jon Hazell and Chris Orr December 9, 2025
On May 10, 2024, a John Deere dealer sent out a strange press release. “Please be advised that there is significant solar flare and space weather activity,” it read. The company, a maker of tractors and ball caps, isn’t the first entity you’d turn to for advice about the sun. But the star’s storms were…
The Senate is heading toward dueling partisan votes on health care this week after Republicans said Tuesday that they had united around a plan, for now, that would allow COVID-era health care subsidies to expire. Both the Republican plan, which would replace the subsidies with new savings accounts, and a Democratic bill to extend the…
Big 12 Conference commissioner Brett Yormark said Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua was “totally out of bounds” for his comments on the Atlantic Coast Conference this week. Notre Dame have a football scheduling alliance with the ACC and are a full member of the conference in other sports. Bevacqua has claimed the ACC damaged…
10 December 2025 John Cena can “operate” without sleep for 40 hours straight. John Cena can survive without sleep for 40 hours The Hollywood star – who will wrestle his last ever WWE match on Saturday (13.12.25) at Saturday Night’s Main Event – has opened up about his hectic schedule this year, which has seen…
He replaces John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois in one of the most high-profile decisions of Bari Weiss’s early tenure as the network’s editor in chief.
Instagram has warned under 16s that their accounts will be closed Stringer/AFP via Getty Images Australia’s unprecedented ban on social media for under 16s has finally come into force, but day one of the new law has revealed some teething problems, including the fact that some children have managed to outsmart age-verification technology designed to…
Design tool Figma launched new AI-powered image editing features today, including the ability to remove and isolate objects and expand images. The company said that these features will save the hassle of exporting images to other tools for editing and importing them back. It added that generation models like Nano Banana are good for creating…
