The author had no idea how far behind her son was in reading. Courtesy of the author I'm a mom and an educator, and I didn't know how to teach him to read. My son's reading struggles were wrongly attr...
Shortly before the US military launched an attack on Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro , an account on Polymarket made some very suspiciously timed investments. The prediction mar...
AI isn't new to Hollywood - but this was the year when it really made its presence felt. For years now, the entertainment industry has used different kinds of generative AI products for a variety of p...
It's harder than ever for a new video game to crack the top of the most-played list. According to the Circana Player Engagement Tracker and video game market analyst Mat Piscatella, in 2025, the top f...
Wider is better. Lenovo is at it again with wild laptop concepts for CES 2026, and the biggest one is the Legion Pro Rollable gaming laptop. It has a flexible OLED display that expands horizontally - ...
We were rightly skeptical of AMD's Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" laptop chips in 2024. Now they're in some of the very best laptops you can buy , arguably hitting the sweet spot of price, performance, an...
Madi Ford tattooed her family over the holidays. Courtesy of Madi Ford Madi Ford is a 28-year-old tattoo artist in Missoula, Missouri. She has always been supported by her family to pursue tattooing a...
2025 was a big year for gaming, and that includes gaming hardware. Nintendo launched its Switch 2 console in June, and since then, numerous Switch 2 titles and noteworthy updates for original Switch g...
Elizabeth Taylor, Mike Todd, and Debbie Reynolds at the Golden Globes. Darlene Hammond/Getty Images The 83rd annual Golden Globes will air on CBS and Paramount+ on Sunday night. Photos taken throughou...
Garry Tan is a top seed investor. Courtesy Y Combinator founders seized the AI boom in 2025, with increasingly younger teams securing millions in seed funding. Founders launched companies ranging from...
Flappy Bird was almost preposterously simple. If you ever played the game, even once, you surely remember how it worked, but here's a summary just in case. You were a bird. Your job was to fly, left t...
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I have a bad habit of saying I am done buying games, then immediately proving myself wrong. This week was one of those moments where curiosity, discounts, and a slightly weak spine all lined up. I hav...
An Amazon return center inside a Kohl's department store. Kohl's Many retailers are extending their typical returns period for items bought during the holiday season. Amazon, Walmart, Target, and more...
Matt Blumberg built an AI agent that acts as a fantasy board of directors Markup AI Matt Blumberg, a serial tech CEO, created an AI agent that acts as a dream board of directors. The board is like a f...
Season four of "Bridgerton" premieres in January. Liam Daniel/Netflix The first trailer for season four of "Bridgerton" dropped on Christmas. The next season will focus on Benedict Bri...
"Zootopia." Disney These are the 15 highest-grossing animated feature films of all time. Franchise hits like "Toy Story" and "Minions" and musicals like "Frozen" and &#...
The author married her husband and imagined her life as a "Brady Bunch" family. Courtesy of the author I married into a big blended family and quickly learned optimism wasn't enough. Forcing u...
Hi HN I recently got married, promptly had a bit of a meltdown, and decided to lock myself in a room and build for a while. At the same time, I was trying to outbound sell for my startup and kept runn...
"The Odyssey." Universal Christopher Nolan's follow-up to "Oppenheimer" is based on the famed ancient Greek poem by Homer. "The Odyssey" stars Matt Damon as the hero Odysseus a...