With the conclusion of the NFL regular season fast approaching, players have only a few weeks left to show off their most fashionable pregame fits. Editor’s Picks 1 Related Weather, of course, can be something of a detriment to stylish fits this time of year, at least in some parts of the country. But players…
T.A.T.u’s 2002 anthem “All The Things She Said” served as one of the best needle drops on television this year, soundtracking a pivotal moment in last week’s episode of Heated Rivalry, and now its streams are skyrocketing. According to data Spotify shared with The Hollywood Reporter, the song’s streams on the platform have more than…
The TikTok sale is officially happening, with a consortium of American investors set to take over U.S. operations of the video platform next month on Jan. 22, 2026. The deal means that TikTok, the fast-growing social video platform that upended the strategies of competitors like YouTube and Meta Platforms Inc., will have a new joint…
Walt Disney Pictures is weaving a Tangled web as it searches for the actors to inhabit the live-action adaptation of its 2010 animated movie. The studio quietly conducted screen tests and chemistry readings in London last week for the parts of Rapunzel, the curious and plucky would-be princess with magical hair, and Flynn Rider, the…
Paul King is going from cuddly jam-eating bears to cute-ugly monsters. A month after nabbing the film rights to Labubu, Sony has tapped Paddington and Wonka filmmaker King to bring to life a big-screen take on one of the world’s biggest collectible sensations. King is set to direct the feature project and will producewith Department…
A prominent population expert from the University of Hong Kong has stepped down as an associate faculty dean and agreed with the retraction of a paper after the institution ruled it contained references to non-existent publications generated by AI. Professor Paul Yip Siu-fai of the department of social work and social administration had stepped down…
App developers looking to launch their programs in ChatGPT can now submit them for review and potential publication, OpenAI said Wednesday.The company also introduced a new app directory within Chat’s tools menu that has swiftly been dubbed an “app store.” In October, the company announced the arrival of apps in its chatbot, explaining that the…
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…
In 2022, we called a simple magnetic ring from Anker the best MagSafe phone grip, but things have evolved dramatically since then! You can buy two or even three magnetic rings joined at the hip these days to wield your iPhone, recent Pixel, or really any phone if you stick a magnetic case or included…
James Tynion IV is getting animated. The comics author behind Something Is Killing the Children and The Nice House on the Lake, and his production house Tiny Onion are making a big play in the adult animation business. They are launching a muscular slate of titles based on the ideas and works of the creator….
