Picture this: last month, I was sitting in a hotel corridor waiting for my turn to conduct interviews for The Handmaid’s Tale spinoff, The Testaments. Inside a nearby room, Lucy Halliday (Daisy), Chase Infiniti (Agnes) and Ann Dowd (Aunt Lydia) are waiting. I scroll through Instagram on my phone when I notice the below post…

If you’ve been considering adding a coffee machine to your kitchen, or upgrading an old one, you’re not exactly short of options. Yet, if all you want is an easy route to a cafe-quality caffeine hit, then only a fully-automatic coffee machine will do — and you can now save a huge 50% on a…

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Thursday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, April 16 (game…

The UK Gladiators series 3 wrapped up recently on March 28, with George McDonald and Emily Bell emerging as winners. But if you’re already missing the thrill of everyday people taking on highly trained athletes, American Gladiators (2026) reboot is here with a fresh 10-episode series. The format is as gladiator-esque as ever, with everyday…

The new growth method runs 1,000 times faster than conventional techniques Liquid gold and tungsten form the bilayer substrate for this process Monolayer tungsten silicon nitride films reached 1.4 by 0.7 inches in size Chinese researchers have developed a wafer-scale 2D semiconductor growth method that operates roughly 1,000x faster than conventional techniques. The team from…

Engineered wood stores solar heat and releases it to generate electricity Nanoscale modifications turn balsa into a heat-driven power material Phosphorene coating enables broad-spectrum sunlight absorption and efficient heat conversion Ordinary balsa wood can now absorb sunlight, store heat, and generate electricity even in the dark after a team of Chinese scientists reengineered its cellular…

The Fraunhofer IISB motor delivers 1,000 horsepower from a 94 kg package Power density reaches 8 kW per kg, beating typical EV motors A single motor matches three Tesla Plaid motors for total output A new electric motor developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology delivers 1,000 horsepower from a unit…

China has successfully tested a new subsea cable cutting vessel The vessel uses a self-contained electro-hydrostatic actuator While designed for civilian purposes, the vessel has military application China has completed the first successful test on a new deep-sea vessel that is capable of cutting subsea cables at a depth of 3,500 meters (11,483 feet). A…

Judge Pauline Ayers (Christine Dunford) hasn’t been on my Marshals: A Yellowstone Story radar at all — but after episode 7, she’s bringing the drama thick and fast. After surviving an attempted car-bombing and her house being shot at by a sniper, the team moved Ayers’ husband and daughter to East Camp for their own…

Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana Android may soon make it easier to tell which SIM is ringing. Code spotted in an experimental Android Canary build suggests Google is testing custom ringtones for individual SIM cards. If the feature ships, it could arrive with Android 17… though nothing is confirmed. The change would help users…