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If Vogue’s recent Best Dressed list of 2025 proves anything, it’s that this year was a seriously fashion-filled one. While there were plenty of A-list sightings on the red carpets—Rihanna! Jennifer Lawrence! Jacob Elordi!—the best style sightings of the year were served by the more emerging talents in Hollywood, too. Wondering which new rising stars are making a splash with their bold fashion choices? Meet Vogue’s breakout red carpet stars of 2025 below.From leading ladies like Myha’la and Eva Victor, to dapper gents like Archie Madekwe and Christopher Briney, these are the stars who are having a buzzy moment in…

If you want to expand the storage of your Nintendo Switch 2, you’ll need a microSD Express card. This is not the same as the more traditional microSD cards you may have bought for the original Switch or other gaming handhelds; Express cards are newer, faster and significantly more expensive on average. But they’re your only choice, and given how much space certain Switch 2 games chew up, you’ll probably have no choice but to get one eventually. Which to buy, though? If you’re looking for the best microSD card for the Switch 2 today, we’ve broken down what you…

The truth does not cease to exist when it is forgotten or ignored. You know how you can hear or read something dozens of times in various ways before it finally sinks in? The truths listed below fall firmly into that category — timeless lessons that many of us probably learned years ago, and have been reminded of ever since, yet for whatever reason we tend to forget in the heat of the moment. This, my friends, is my attempt at helping all of us, myself included, “get it” and “remember it” once and for all… 1. Life is relatively…

Dec 28, 2025, 09:19 PM ETNEW YORK — New Orleans Pelicans guard Jose Alvarado was suspended two games, and Phoenix Suns center Mark Williams received a one-game suspension for their roles in a fight during the third quarter of Saturday night’s game.The NBA announced the suspensions, which come without pay, Sunday.Alvarado will miss the Pelicans’ home game against the New York Knicks on Monday and their game at the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday. Williams will miss Monday night’s game at the Washington Wizards.The 7-foot-1 Williams and 6-foot Alvarado exchanged punches after a foul call on Alvarado. Phoenix won 123-114 for…

In 2026, we won’t see terrorism incidents similar to 9/11, when hijacked airplanes struck the World Trade Center, or the Oklahoma City bombing, when ammonium nitrate–packed trucks leveled federal buildings. Instead, the next act of terror will begin with the buzzing sound of the drone rotors spinning at 5,000 rpm, audible only seconds before the swarm will reach its target.In recent years, drones have become an integral part of modern warfare. On the battlefield, we’ve undeniably entered the age of precise mass in conflict, where low-cost attributable drones, powered by widely available commercial technology, open software, and AI, are now…

The LKAB facility in Kiruna, Sweden. The company said on Jan. 12 that it found Europe’s biggest known deposit of rare earth elements there.Jonas Ekstromer | Afp | Getty ImagesThe ripple effects from Europe’s growing appetite for raw materials extend all the way to Sweden’s far north. Thousands of residents and buildings are being uprooted in Kiruna, a city that lies 145 kilometers (90 miles) north of the Arctic Circle. The relocation project is regarded as one of the world’s most radical urban transformations.Kiruna is physically on the move because of ground subsidence from the expansion of a sprawling underground…

On a drizzly and windswept afternoon this summer, I visited the headquarters of Rokid, a startup developing smart glasses in Hangzhou, China. As I chatted with engineers, their words were swiftly translated from Mandarin to English, and then transcribed onto a tiny translucent screen just above my right eye using one of the company’s new prototype devices.Rokid’s high-tech spectacles use Qwen, an open-weight large language model developed by the Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba.Qwen—full name 通义千问 or Tōngyì Qiānwèn in Chinese—is not the best AI model around. OpenAI’s GPT-5, Google’s Gemini 3, and Anthropic’s Claude often score higher on benchmarks designed…

The final Sunday in 2025 provided football fans with a memorable game that featured plenty of offensive firepower.With how the Chicago Bears and San Francisco 49ers moved the ball and scored, it felt like a game that would end with whatever team had the ball last.AdvertisementCaleb Williams and the Bears had their shot with 2:15 left in the game, down by four points.The Bears quarterback led his team on a 15-play drive that ended on the 49ers’ 2-yard line after Williams attempted to extend the play to find an open receiver. With the 49ers’ defense closing in, Williams threw a…

Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the top 20 compete on the big stage to become the winner, taking home the Startup Battlefield Cup and a cash prize of $100,000. But the remaining 180 startups all blew us away as well in their respective categories and compete in their own pitch competition. Here is the full list of the health and wellness Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on why they landed in the competition.  Akara   What it does: Uses AI…

Every year when the leaves fall from the trees and the weather turns crisp, I haul my fondue pot out from the back of my kitchen cabinet, purchase a borderline obscene amount of Alpine cheese, and prepare to host one of my favorite gatherings of the year: a fondue party.Fondue parties are comforting and convivial, the perfect way to embrace the it’s-dark-by-5 p.m. season with soft lighting, cozy vibes, and a bubbling communal pot of cheese at the center of it all. The Swiss have been dipping bread in molten dairy for centuries, and the fondue entertaining craze of the…