THURSDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 2026, 16:18
Barack Obama caused frenzy after saying aliens were real on a podcast – and was forced to clarify he had not seen any evidence of them in a statement posted to Instagram over the weekend.
There is a long-running conspiracy theory claiming that the US government is hiding extraterrestrials at Area 51, a highly classified air force site in Nevada.
Lucy Hough speaks to host of the Guardian’s...
Turkey – Through its collaboration with Samsung, Getmobil aims to set a new standard in the refurbished electronics market with its doorstep buyback and trade-in model developed in Turkey. Turkey-based technology company Getmobil, led by its co-founders Zeynep Uygun and Mehmet Uygun, is developing an end-to-end business model in the refurbished and second-hand electronics market […]
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Ireland has announced what it says is the world’s first permanent basic income program for artists, a scheme that will pay 2,000 selected artists $385 per week for three years, funded by an $21.66 million allocation from Budget 2026. The program follows a 2022 pilot — the Irish government’s first large-scale randomized control trial — that found participants had greater professional autonomy,...
The answer to today’s peaky poser
Earlier today I set you this logic puzzle. Here is is again with the solution.
(If you found it too simple. Here’s a harder version.)
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The social media site was the subject of user complaints early Monday.
The European Commission has adopted new measures under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) to prevent the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear. From a report: The rules will help cut waste, reduce environmental damage and create a level playing field for companies embracing sustainable business models, allowing them to reap the benefits of a...
Researchers find DMT – used in shamanic rituals – in tandem with psychotherapy has significant effect
People with major depressive disorder can see a rapid and lasting improvement after a single dose of the psychedelic drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT) when it is combined with psychotherapy, doctors have said.
A small clinical trial involving 34 people found that psychedelic-assisted therapy...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “close” to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the AI company a “supply chain risk” — meaning anyone who wants to do business with the U.S. military has to cut ties with the company, a senior Pentagon official told Axios. The senior official said: “It will be an enormous pain in the ass to disentangle, and...
Cloudflare, the tech company that provides services for a wide range of apps and websites, said it was working to fix an internal issue.
A measles outbreak among unvaccinated children in London comes amid a global increase in infections
A measles outbreak in London is affecting unvaccinated children under the age of 10, and comes amid an increase in infections globally.
The UK was among six countries to lose the measles-free status granted by the World Health Organization (WHO) last month. Experts are calling on governments to...
Sony is considering delaying the debut of its next PlayStation console to 2028 or even 2029 as a global shortage of memory chips — driven by the AI industry’s rapidly growing appetite for the same DRAM that goes into gaming hardware, smartphones, and laptops — squeezes supply and sends prices surging, Bloomberg News reported Monday. A delay of that magnitude would upend Sony’s carefully...
Moon was a distraction and Mars the goal for billionaire SpaceX chief – could Trump have influenced his U-turn?
Barely a year ago, the moon was “a distraction” to Elon Musk, the billionaire chief executive of SpaceX then fixated on his ludicrously ambitious project to build a self-sustaining city on Mars within 20 years.
Why bother returning to the orbiting chunk of rock humanity conquered half...
Silent Hill: Townfall is set in the fictional St Amelia, based on the real village of St Monans in the East Neuk of Fife.
IT productivity researcher Erik Brynjolfsson writes in the Financial Times that he’s finally found evidence AI is impacting America’s economy. This week America’s Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a 403,000 drop in 2025’s payroll growth — while real GDP “remained robust, including a 3.7% growth rate in the fourth quarter.”This decoupling — maintaining high output with significantly lower...
The Saatva Memory Foam Hybrid has been chosen for Olympians. Could it be the one for you, too?
I review laptops for a living, and it kills me when I see the PCs that Amazon and other retailers filter to the top.
AI creates brands, chats with customers and scans legal files, but who owns the output and who carries the risk?
Baker, who previously served as chief technology officer, takes the helm from Wim de Bruyn to lead the next phase of the bank’s technology evolution.
Andrew Baker, who previously served as chief technology officer, takes the helm from Wim de Bruyn.
Fears over a drug cartel drone over Texas sparked a recent airspace shutdown in El Paso and New Mexico, highlighting just how tricky it can be to deploy anti-drone weapons near cities.