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Quillan Salkilld submitted Mateusz Gamrot by rear-naked choke for his fourth straight first-round finish Saturday night in his first UFC main event.

Darren Elkins didn’t get a fairytale ending after he suffered a brutal knockout courtesy of Yadier del Valle at UFC Vegas 120.

With their latest directorial outing, 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma', Jane Schoenbrun deconstructed the toxic elements of the slasher genre.

"Go see the film," star Callum Turner tells those wondering about the rules of the rom-com's alternate reality outlawing premarital sex (apart from one 12-hour window). "You'll realize pretty quickly what the realm is that you're working within."

Shanahan publicly addressed the accident for the first time on Saturday

Is Apple the reason the Fold 8 turned out so great?

Louisiana health officials are urging residents to take precautions against a flesh-eating bacterial infection following the deaths of five people this year.

Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Kirk Cousins and defensive end Maxx Crosby were suspended from team drills Saturday after a fight during practice the day before. Coach Klint Kubiak says the team has addressed the issue and is moving on. Rookie QB Fernando Mendo…

Apple's September launch of the iPhone 18 Pro family is more than tradition. It is a key part of the entire ecosystem, all built around this fixed date in the calendar.

With just a few days left to go before Google’s Pixel 11 launch event, a hands-on leak has shown off...

Moderna’s mFLUSIVA is the first mRNA flu vaccine approved in the US. It could make flu shots faster to update, but access remains unclear.

Researchers say the phages can overcome bacterial resistance

Kellogg's Froot Loops and Apple Jacks cereals are ditching artificial colors, but the company says the iconic rainbow cereal will keep its familiar look.

Customers still having trouble with their service should restart their devices, the wireless carrier said. Verizon did not provide ⁠a reason for ⁠the outage.

Porter Airlines flight 444 from British Columbia was canceled after a toddler refused to buckle their seatbelt, stranding passengers overnight.

Passengers aboard an Orlando-bound Delta flight had to evacuate via slide after the aircraft made an emergency landing on a taxiway at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport shortly after takeoff Saturday morning.

LAX’s long-delayed airport train was 97% complete in May 2024. More than two years later, it still hasn’t opened, and now it has a new target date.The $3.34 billion project is targeting passenger s…

Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is the 64th richest person in the world.

Two drivers of Mercedes AMG cars have filed a class action lawsuit against the luxury car company, saying that the AMG logo on their driver’s seat gets so hot that it literally brands them and causes burns. A court document filed earlier this week in Californ…

A belligerent British Airways passenger derailed a flight to Vegas when he erupted into a raging fit before take-off — making several vicious attempts at attacking other travelers before bein…

Shutting down locations has not stopped the financial bleeding, and more locations than planned may close.

The Nobel prizewinner and DeepMind founder will focus on curing ‘all disease’,

In an affordability crunch, social media's viral "maxxing" trend could lead to long-term financial security.

CDN and cybersecurity giant Cloudflare held its Q2 earnings call on Thursday, during which chief financial officer Thomas Seifert gave a concerning prediction about what the web...

American Airlines is expanding Pecan Lodge BBQ from DFW, and I’m deliberately changing an upcoming trip just to try the brisket.

My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustrati…

The luxury phone customizer has fresh new “insider” details pages alongside its now-live pre-orders for the phones. It’s not uncommon for Caviar to kick...

After layoffs ripped through Doom developer id Software in July, lead services programmer Chris Hays has taken aim at Xbox: "They fundamentally don't understand art."

After four years with my M1 MacBook Air, the M5 changed more about my daily workflow than I expected.

We’ve had iOS 27 in our hands for about two months now. Of course, it’s a beta – and the...

Commemorating three decades of the transformative 3D shooter, id Software releases a surprise new expansion and limited merch collection with composer Trent Reznor

Samsung’s smart glasses claim nine hours of active use and seven case recharges, compared with Meta’s eight-hour rating and six full charges.

Like other Google apps, Messages for Android A/B tests many features. It can take the RCS/SMS client a rather long...

Insider sources and leaked AMD documents have revealed details about Sony's next generation of gaming devices. The following are currently in development...

Reanimal DLC, Eternal Life of Goldman and more

Modders have demonstrated access to the Windows desktop running behind GeForce NOW sessions. The Trove-based workaround uses an executable replacement inside Steam.

Microsoft's Scott Hanselman confirms a faster Windows 11 is in the works, with RAM optimization, WinUI, and fewer ads across the whole OS.

Pokémon GO’s August 10-16 2026 week has us well into the post-GO Fest season of Forever Forward! The Summer Marathon comes to an end, and Nickit features for Community Day. Plus the weekly rotating Raid Hours, Spotlight Hour, Dynamax Battles and Mega Raids.

After a flurry of deals, new apps, membership clubs and other middlemen are fighting over access to high-spending customers and the eateries they love

There are loads of flashlights out there that advertise very high lumen counts, like 10,000. They do usually hit this mark, but there's a very big catch.

A woman was at the lake enjoying a campfire when multiple spiders crawled all over her, leaving bites. After four days, Miller said a painful bruise led her to the hospital.

Some people using weight-loss drugs say their cravings for alcohol disappeared or they felt nauseous when they drank.

What is the best snack to beat a mid-afternoon slump? Dietitians say it’s a snack that offers complex carbs, fiber, protein, and healthy fats, which will give you a boost of energy without the crash.

"At the time, the doctors had no answers for why I was in such bad chronic pain," Sabrina Castaldi told Newsweek.

What you thought was inevitable aging might actually be preventable—if you treat your hearing loss, fix your vision, and address a dozen other overlooked health conditions.

Comparing canned and dried beans, the one thing to consider is sodium — if you buy canned beans and rinse them well, you can reap the benefits and convenience.

A new study has identified three health factors that could delay dementia for up to 13 years.

Experts call for coordinated deer culls, wildlife vaccines as disease spreads in US

The prefrontal cortex, a brain region long associated with learning more flexible behaviors, can sometimes block the ability to think outside the box, a new study in mice shows. The finding by biologists at Emory University was published in Science Advances.

Changing how much sweet-tasting food people eat may not change how much they crave or enjoy sweetness after all. In a six-month trial, researchers found that people assigned to high-, low-, or average-sweetness diets showed no meaningful differences in their …

Most cancer deaths are caused not by the initial tumor but by the spread of cancer cells to distant organs in the process called metastasis. Since it occurs at the cellular level, the earliest stages of metastasis are difficult to observe in patients.

A dietitian ate sweet cherries every day for a week on assignment. Here's what the research says and what she actually noticed.

One year after a massive stroke nearly incapacitated him, Todd Meiklejohn is opening up about his experience.

Portions of Cunningham Falls State Park in Maryland remain closed to visitors after two people were attacked by rabid beavers.

Lipoprotein(a) isn’t part of a standard lipid panel and is largely driven by genetics. Here’s why it’s important to get your level checked.

Certain areas are seeing a notable increase.

Dietitians explain why berry chia pudding is the perfect Mediterranean diet breakfast, packed with fiber, protein, antioxidants and healthy fats.

Watching a lot of television was linked to smaller brain volume in areas important for language and thinking, new study finds. Here’s what that means.

A giant impact can explain Uranus's 97.77-degree tilt and sideways moons, but a lost satellite and gravitational resonance offer a plausible rival history.

Meet Bailey and Alfie, gene-edited sister beagles who won't make allergic people sniffly

Our entire understanding of Uranus might rest on a cosmic coincidence—a single spacecraft encounter that may have captured the planet during an extraordinarily rare atmospheric state.

A NASA panel is setting a Mars dust exposure limit, drawing on what 12 Apollo moonwalkers learned.

Scientists are racing to unlock an energy source that could power civilization for centuries—or accelerate climate catastrophe if it escapes.

The person you've studied in mirrors your entire life is not the person everyone else knows.

Voyager 2’s four-planet route depended on a rare chain of planetary encounters, successive transfers of orbital momentum and a launch window that will not return until the 2150s.

Microplastics, which are plastic particles under 5 millimeters, are a major and growing threat in both soil and water. They damage soil fertility, disrupt nutrient cycling, harm aquatic and terrestrial life, and can move through the food chain.

Scientists still don't fully understand why some lakes can spontaneously suffocate entire communities with invisible gas, or how to prevent the next catastrophe.

Custom-designed machines could identify hazards on the moon and help astronauts collect rock samples, source water ice, researchers say.

The idea was simple and a little mad

The clouds above Mars glow in colors that defy everything we know about how planets work, revealing an atmosphere far stranger than we imagined.

Curiosity’s JPL Morse-code wheel marks double as visual-odometry references, helping the rover compare commanded wheel rotation with its actual movement across difficult terrain.

"We believe the horses were pretty much nothing more than props."

The confidence that you understand something is often the very thing that prevents you from actually learning it.