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Meta has expanded its experimental Pocket app to U.S. users after testing it in Brazil. Pocket uses Meta’s Muse Spark model to turn natural-language prompts into small interactive games called “gizmos,” which can respond to taps, swipes, movement, sounds, photos and camera input. Users can play, share and remix creations through a social-style feed without […]

August 22, 2026

One fan allegedly spent $500 on Demon Hunter concert tickets thinking they were for a ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ show. Now the Christian metal band is taking Netflix and AEG Presents to court.

August 21, 2026

A cyberattack on CEVA Logistics has exposed information belonging to some Pokémon Center customers and disrupted European deliveries during Pokémon’s 30th anniversary year. Customers in the UK and Germany were warned that names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and order contents may have been accessed, although payment card information was not exposed. While CEVA client […]

August 21, 2026

Matchday twinning just got easier. Adidas has turned seven major football clubs into jerseys and accessories made specifically for pets.

August 21, 2026

Hundreds of millions of keyboard taps reveal how emoji evolved in 2025, with younger users giving familiar symbols meanings their designers probably never anticipated.

August 21, 2026

NASA has captured the clearest look yet at the 60-foot crater left after a spent SpaceX Falcon 9 stage slammed into the Moon at about 5,400 mph.

August 21, 2026

Google’s $10 million bid for Spirit Airlines’ internal data is facing opposition from the union representing the airline’s flight attendants. The archive includes more than 100 million employee emails, over 500 million Microsoft Teams messages and other business records that Google plans to use for product development and AI training. While customer and loyalty program […]

August 20, 2026

Bluesky has confirmed that a DDoS attack caused its roughly 24-hour outage across August 16 and 17, 2026, leaving users in several countries struggling to access feeds, notifications and threads. An Iran-linked group known as Islamic Cyber Resistance or the Iraq-313 Team has claimed responsibility, although Bluesky has not confirmed who was behind the attack. […]

August 20, 2026

Donald Trump has escalated the dispute over the Strait of Hormuz by sharing a Truth Social map labeling the strategic waterway “new U.S. territory.” The post followed Iran’s announcement that a 60-day negotiating window had expired without an agreement and that the strait would remain closed. Tehran wants Washington to lift its port blockade, release […]

August 20, 2026

On Wednesdays, Sims wear pink. ‘The Sims 4’ is bringing ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘Clueless’ into Create a Sim with two nostalgia-heavy fashion kits.

August 20, 2026

Claude’s writing may look exactly the same, but Anthropic is now embedding machine-readable watermarks that can leave a statistical trail across longer passages.

August 20, 2026

Unitree’s ‘Superman’ robot may not be ready for the Olympics, but a 28.3 mph top speed and 6.5-foot standing jump are enough to make the track look interesting.

August 20, 2026

Liquid Death and Garage Beer are taking the piss out of AI infrastructure, literally, with Jason Kelce fronting a campaign built around an $18 urine jar.

August 20, 2026

Marilyn Monroe would have turned 100 this year, and Mattel is celebrating with a Barbie Signature doll inspired by one of her most recognizable movie looks.

August 19, 2026

McDonald’s has launched its limited‑edition Hello Kitty x Godzilla Happy Meal, bringing eight collectible toys that merge Sanrio’s cutest characters with Toho’s iconic kaiju. Debuting nationwide on August 18, the promotion features mashups like Hello Kitty x Godzilla, Kuromi x Mechagodzilla, My Melody x Mothra, and Keroppi x King Ghidorah. McDonald’s marketing leads have called […]

August 19, 2026

Before ChatGPT, before OpenAI became a household name, someone tweeted “Stop chat gpt!!” in 2012. The internet has questions.

August 19, 2026

Bianca Censori directs Ye and Don Toliver’s official “OK” music video as a surreal short film set entirely inside a dark operating room. Medical workers perform a bizarre procedure on a decapitated Ye, removing unexpected objects from his body. Toliver emerges from a locker during his verse, approaches the table, reconnects Ye’s head, and revives […]

August 19, 2026

Johnny Depp could return as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean 6, although no agreement has been announced. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer says Disney is speaking with Depp while a screenplay is being developed, expressing hope that the project can move forward. Depp last portrayed Sparrow in 2017’s Dead Men Tell No Tales, and […]

August 19, 2026

An AirTag hidden inside a rare book has offered an unusual glimpse into Amazon’s book-scanning operation in Las Vegas. The tracked volume was part of a bulk purchase of nearly 1,000 titles and ended up at the company’s VGT3 facility, where workers reportedly remove bindings, scan pages, and discard the remaining books. Older, human-written texts […]

August 19, 2026

McDonald’s compiled a 515‑page file on California customer Reece Rogers after he requested all data the company held on him. The dossier detailed years of orders, loyalty‑program activity, Monopoly codes, promotional interactions, and behavioural categories such as “Food‑led afternoon snack” and “On‑the‑go lunch in a rush.” The sheer volume of information showed how deeply McDonald’s […]

August 19, 2026