Old faces seem to crease and crumble as we watch in Richard Avedon Immortal: Portraits of Aging, 1951–2004. Avedon was a pioneer in presenting cool, stark, tough beauty. Shades of decadence are one thing, but decrepitude? Old age is timeless as well as time-limited.

If you’re doing something creative, important, or new, rejection is a signal. The reasons listed in rejection letters are almost certainly made up, but we personalize and amplify the pain anyway. Watch what people do, not what they say, and change the situation to learn the real lesson.

So, you think you’re an Elder Scrolls superfan? Tell me, then: What do you think of The Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey? Now you can experience this obscure 2004 mobile RPG in upscaled 4K on PC, completely free and with no ancient Nokia N-Gage hardware required.

Phota Labs is a new iOS app that uses a personal AI photo assistant to turn everyday snapshots into professional-looking shots while preserving personal identity and authenticity. Founded by former Adobe employees, the startup aims to automate the editing process so anyone can easily get better photos.

California voters narrowly rejected Proposition 40, a wealth tax that threatened the state's startup economy. The measure originated from an intellectual movement driven by a French academic project, an elite public university, and union backing. Wealth-tax advocates are regrouping, making this California battle a preview of fights nationwide.

ShopPurple is a collection of hundreds of reader-nominated stores worth detouring past Amazon to get to. Built with no business model and only light curation, it features hotlist, category, and random views designed to give small creative businesses a bit of a boost.

The recent US elections sparked memories of a notorious press conference as this week's 15 punchlines in search of a question arrive to test your grasp of topical news, general knowledge and pop culture. Let’s be having you!

SoftBank took a multi-billion-dollar bath on over-ordered natural gas turbines, highlighting the risks of electricity mania in the AI boom. While data center operators may be finding a ceiling for gas ambitions, the demand remains too massive for mass cancellations.

Republicans face a defining choice between free-market principles and interventionist visions, while Democrats’ ideological divisions could push health-care proposals toward full government control. Looming entitlement shortfalls and AI disruption will make policy debates harder to avoid. Will be the election when policy makes a comeback.

Elizabeth Warren thinks interest on consumer credit cards is too high and wants to cap it at 10 percent. Like any other price ceiling, this would create a shortage of the product it attempts to make more affordable. In trying to rescue consumers from their own financial decisions, Warren would deprive them of their plastic and consign them to infinitely more treacherous alternatives.

Children, and our relationships with them, are full of possibility. You don’t yet know how this one will unfold. Approach what comes next with curiosity and openness, and leave the space wide to see what fills it.

Microsoft’s Outlook and several other major services, including Teams, SharePoint, and Copilot, suffered a widespread outage caused by a large number of servers unexpectedly becoming unavailable, forcing the company to redistribute connection traffic across its worldwide infrastructure.

Following the resignation of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Donald Trump floated Apple executive chairman Tim Cook as his potential successor, pointing to Cook's unparalleled track record of succeeding a bigger-than-life founder.

The Trump administration is right to take on the problem of improper enrollment. Democratic senators criticizing the crackdown get insurers' financial incentives backward, ignoring how expanded subsidies fueled phantom enrollments that reward unscrupulous brokers and leave taxpayers to foot the bill. Renewing those subsidies risks reviving fraud incentives.

Private firms are engineering Halifax harbour to remove atmospheric carbon by adding an alkaline slurry to seawater, speeding up naturally occurring cycles. While proponents champion this ocean alkalinity enhancement to combat the climate crisis, marine scientists warn that adding materials to a stressed ecosystem without sufficient research risks toxic effects.

Google Search is getting a major upgrade with its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model, promising faster, cheaper, and smarter handling of complex, multi-part questions, nuanced user intent, and advanced reasoning tasks.

Tanuki: Pon’s Summer is a game of quiet restoration that tasks you with repairing an ancient shrine and delivering mail on a BMX. It is a reminder of how much magic video games can find in the pleasing business of putting things back together again.

Congressional Democrats are already eyeing your money with expansive spending agendas, renewing calls for massive federal programs. But the Trump administration's veto power offers a vital constitutional check against these ambitions. Legislative restraint is a feature of the Founders' design, not a failure.

We meet the unnamed narrator of Transcription on a train to Providence, Rhode Island. Ben Lerner’s novella is a thoughtful meditation on memory, storytelling and lives lived through technology. The narrator’s anxiety over his phone falls away as he engages with the world around him and with his past.

Fitness band maker Whoop is launching a social network called Whoop Humans that lets members share health data with friends and family, as the company pushes further into medical wellness and targets an aging population.

Three acts share their stories as they prepare to represent Bhutan, South Korea, and the Philippines in Bangkok for the inaugural Asian edition of Eurovision: a bar singer taking his first flight, a K-pop veteran aiming to win, and a young pop diva representing the strength of Filipinas.

United Airlines will restrict access to AI agents seeking to book flights and manage reservations, joining banks in citing cybersecurity risks and password-sharing dangers. The airline warns that autonomous assistants expose sensitive data and threaten compliance with federal aviation rules.

An 11-month-old South Carolina boy buried alive in a dog crate by his father was rescued after 24 hours, crying and covered in dirt, and is expected to make a full recovery. The father has been charged with attempted murder after the dramatic search in the woods.

Marketing operating system Nectar is launching an AI agent designed to automate influencer marketing, from finding the right creators across hundreds of millions of profiles to contacting them with personalized messages, managing partnerships, and tracking campaign results.

More than 40 years after Jill Posener immortalised a graffitied Fiat billboard with a big fuck you to the establishment, a new retrospective celebrates a 50-year career of cheeky, feminist photography and social justice.

Jensen Huang’s resignation leaves Nvidia’s commitment to open source in limbo, as the loss of its chief advocate threatens to shift company strategy and embolden Washington critics pushing for tighter restrictions on open-weight AI models.

Burberry has returned to profit as its back-to-basics strategy drove strong sales of the British brand’s coats, jackets and handbags over the summer. Our strategy is working.

A cyberattack on AI platform Fireworks AI breached its cloud provider and exposed billing information and datasets, including Notion AI chat transcripts belonging to about one percent of Notion customers, highlighting how modern tech supply chains leave companies vulnerable to spillover breaches.

Whatever you thought the early 2020s were going to throw up musically, it’s highly unlikely you would have predicted the arrival of Blackhaine. Saints in the Wethouse is an experience that wrings the listener out, dragging them headlong through an unforgiving musical landscape. Whatever Blackhaine claims about copyists, he sounds pretty inimitable.

Nine early-stage South Korean startups pitched at DETO 2026 in Seoul to earn a spot in TechCrunch Disrupt 2027's Startup Battlefield 200 competition. Voinosis, an AI healthcare startup that detects changes in brain health through voice analysis, won the competition and is raising a Series A round.