The Brooklyn band Geese was labeled an “industry plant” by those who questioned its sudden ubiquity. Maybe it was. Essentially, the firm creates networks of social media pages (typically on TikTok) ...

Apple discontinued the iPod in 2022, but older models are surging in popularity as young people seek distraction-free music and a break from smartphone dependency. eBay searches rose 25% for the iPod ...

Much like we saw in 2023, when Modern Warfare 3 immediately followed Modern Warfare 2 from the year before, forgoing the biennial release schedule of alternating Call of Duty games between Infinity ...

Of all the film festivals to fill the theaters throughout the year in Chicago, the Chicago International Film Festival offers the broadest scope and the biggest selection of films from names familiar ...

Meowmere from Terraria! Meowmere, the first "bullet-firing melee weapon" in Palworld, has been added. This is only a small taste of the Palworld x Terraria collab, and in 2025, even more collaboration ...

Analysis - The encrypted details of hundreds of thousands of taxpayers are being given by Inland Revenue to Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Google for targeted advertising - but how good is the ...

At 14, I wore out my copy of Cage the Elephant’s second LP, Thank You Happy Birthday. I was obsessed with “Aberdeen” and “Shake Me Down,” and I believed that Matt Shultz was my generation’s Iggy Pop ...

As mathematical abstractions go, graphs are among the simplest. Scatter a bunch of points in a plane. Connect some of them with lines. That’s all a graph is. And yet they are incredibly powerful. They ...

A 16-year-old from Argentina is blowing up with the most puerile plugg rap ever produced. AgusFortnite2008’s deeply overwhelming aesthetic teeters between creative and corny (think Chief Keef worship, ...

In July 2022, a pair of mathematicians in Belgium startled the cybersecurity world. They took a data-encryption scheme that had been designed to withstand attacks from quantum computers so ...

Cryptographers want encryption schemes that are impossible for tomorrow’s quantum computers to crack. There’s only one catch: they might not exist. When we check email, log in to our bank accounts, or ...