For years, face with tears of joy (😂) was the undisputed emoji king… But following a multi-year decline, it slipped down the charts by 2025. Why? Because 😭 is a masterclass in modern vocabulary: It's hilarious, it's devastating and it captures absolute overwhelm.

All you need to do is make your trailer feel like a good verbal pitch. The best trailers pick 1 to 3 pillars and make those the key messages. Think of it this way: how would you describe a friend or family member to someone who's never met them before?

Scanlon calls the spending side aspirational displacement. Scott Smith calls the risk side risk-maxxing, the deliberate pursuit of high-variance outcomes when the conventional path no longer computes. Scanlon names the destination herself: a different version of the American dream.

The most successful eras of Star Trek did not emerge from chasing trends or forcing audiences into new platforms. They emerged when the franchise understood who its audience was, embraced the storytelling that best expressed its identity, and made that storytelling as broadly accessible as possible.

They need a pulse and a soul — not the cold precision of industrial CAD models.

The democratization of content generation leads to a paradox: While more people can create art, fewer people can make a living as an artist.

Still, the inexplicably botched rollout, relegating ChatGPT to second-class status behind Work and Codex, combined with the move to Electron, suggests OpenAI is more concerned with competing with Anthropic than with delivering a polished experience to its users.

The outbreak is likely not due so much to one specific type of produce. Rather, it reflects problems with our agricultural system and growing failures in food safety. As cases of Cyclospora-related diarrhea explode, the focus has been on identifying a particular food or ingredient that might be the source of the outbreak. But that narrow focus is short-sighted, missing that there are deeper factors that jeopardize us all.

Using 380 trillion tokens of realized AI consumption across more than four hundred large language models from the licensed proprietary OpenRouter dataset covering approximately 2 percent of current global monthly AI token consumption, we analyze how AI affects firms, markets, and workers.

In theory, in a place like Bangkok for fairly regular use, you might never have to plug this car in. And that is why it's so special.

Through intransigence and obsessive factionalism, Starmer and McSweeney had engineered their own defeat – and the revenge of the left.

Prediction markets are not producing 'collective wisdom', they're sanctioning insider trading against a younger and less financially secure demographic.

In December 2024 the government announced that it intended to replace all England's two-tier systems with unitary authorities. There'd no longer be local councils AND county councils, just the one authority locally, mainly to save money. It was also suggested that the new authorities should have a population of at least half a million.

Nobody is saying, 'Boy, do I love the game industry right now'. It's garbage right now. It was 'survive until '25', and well, we're past '25 and halfway through '26, and things are still garbage. So these two guys could have easily just folded up shop and said, 'You know what? Forget it. I've got an island to go to'. But they don't, because this is the thing they're passionate about.

Much has been written about how libraries can use AI tools internally—chatbots for reference, algorithms for cataloging, and predictive analytics for collection development. But there's another question we need to answer: How do libraries help communities navigate AI? And here's what I realized while building AI governance frameworks: these are not computer science problems. They're library science problems—questions about provenance, access, evaluation, and trust. The exact questions libraries have been answering for over a century, just dressed up in a new syntax.

What if The Wind in the Willows took place long after mankind disappeared? Created as a feature film proof of concept, this independent adaptation reimagines…

By spinning in flight at between 15 and 25 Hz, Phantom Twist takes advantage of humans' decidedly mediocre visual system to turn a solid spinning object into an opaque smear. Human eyes take some amount of time (typically about 100ms) to integrate what we see before sending the full scene off to our brains for processing. Moving objects can cause problems for this system, because if the movement is fast enough, our eyes are forced to average that motion across the scene, combining it with whatever is in the background and resulting in a transparent blur.

The CMA's investigation into Euro Car Parks is focusing on whether it is fair for drivers to receive parking charges while queuing for, or using, petrol pumps and other forecourt services such as car washes, plus its wider appeals process. It is in the evidence gathering stage, and is set to run until Spring 2027.

Clinging to a rock through a violent night, he says: Endure, my heart. You have endured worse than that. That is not a god speaking through him. That is one part of a man addressing another part of the same man. It is the first recorded act of a human being holding itself together through interior dialogue. Homer did not just tell a story about a man finding his way home. He recorded – perhaps without fully realizing it – the birth of human self-awareness.

We found that parent mental health is a strong predictor of the way parents use technology with their young kids, because technology is a lever parents can pull when parents don't have the resources to cope with their own poor mental health. Cultural conversations around technology and child development often focus on whether parents are doing the right thing for their kids. But a takeaway of this study, she said, isn't that these struggling parents are necessarily doing something wrong.