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Welcome to our latest roundup of what’s going on in the indie game space. It’s Steam Next Fest week, with literally thousands of demos for upcoming games for us to dive into. I’m trying to check out as many as I can before the event wraps up on Monday. However, I made a near-critical error in my planning: I opted to try the Raccoin demo first. I could and would have happily played that all week.This is a coin-pushing roguelike deckbuilder that adopts the format of Balatro. To progress, you need to earn a certain number of points and the…

Now that the 2026 Olympic men’s hockey tournament is complete, those international superstars have returned to their NHL teams in time for the Stanley Cup playoff races to heat up.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedOn Saturday, many of those hockey heroes will be on the ice for an exclusive doubleheader on ABC and in the ESPN app.In the first matchup, the Pittsburgh Penguins — including Sweden’s Erik Karlsson and Rickard Rakell, but without the injured Sidney Crosby — face off against the New York Rangers, including USA forwards Vincent Trocheck and J.T. Miller, along with USA coach Mike Sullivan (and Swedish teammate Mika…

Others We TestedThere were multiple great bags we tried whose features or designs just didn’t add up to a place in the top spots above. However, everyone has something different they’re looking for in a toiletry bag, so while not perfect for us, some of these options may still be perfect for you.Photograph: Kat MerckPatricks BB1 Bathroom Bag for $189: This crush-resistant, shock-absorbing rectangular bag is basically a heavier-duty, unisex version of the Flat Lay, below, except it costs four times as much. I tested it in the Triple Black colorway, which is “strictly limited to 1,000 pieces globally.” This…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., hold a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 8, 2026.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesCongressional Democrats on Friday said they received a counteroffer from the White House to fund the Department of Homeland Security.The department has been shut down since Feb.14 after lawmakers failed to strike a deal on immigration enforcement restrictions.”We have received the White House’s counteroffer and are reviewing it closely. Democrats remain committed to keep fighting for real reforms to rein in ICE and stop the violence,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck…

We’ve landed back at Milan Fashion Week, once again. And look, I don’t really care for celebrity worship. (Which is very cool and interesting, I know!) I do, however, enjoy seeing them in the flesh—for around 15 minutes at a fashion show. I mean, even the most fame-cynical among us would perk up at the sight of Kim Cattrall making a rare appearance at Conner Ives’s fall 2026 show. (And willingly talking about Samantha Jones, no less.) Or, let’s say, Helen Mirren, flanked by Glenn Close, Ambika Mod, and Keira Knightley as they watch Erdem’s runway from her iPhone. Or…

Shopping for a MicroSD card can be a little daunting. There are a ton of numbers to consider, a huge number of brands producing cards with similar-sounding features and names, and words like Pro, Extreme, and Express getting thrown around everywhere.To make a long story short, unless you’re shooting a ton of photos and videos, and doing so even semiprofessionally where losing those shots might be detrimental to your professional reputation, you’re fine to buy a MicroSD card from any company whose name you’ve heard before. I prefer cards from PNY, SanDisk, and Lexar. Keep an eye out for the…

Liverpool made a decision to let Harry Wilson go back in 2021. The Welshman moved to Fulham initially on loan with a permanent four-year deal attached to the agreement.It’s been a stunning success for the playmaker – who enjoyed one season in the Championship with the Cottagers before making waves as a Premier League regular.AdvertisementThis season he has been his side’s chief creative weapon – scoring eight times in the top flight and providing five assists.Furthermore he has been in excellent form for his national side – scoring a hat-trick against North Macedonia back in November en route to a…

Starting this week, Perplexity subscribers will have a new agentic tool at their disposal. Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, “unifies every current AI capability into a single system.” More specifically, Perplexity says it is a computer user agent that can execute complex workflows independently using 19 different AI models, even creating subagents to handle specific problems. The tool is available now, only on the company’s highest subscription tier, the $200/month Perplexity Max. It runs entirely in the cloud, which might spare it some of the security concerns of other agentic tools like OpenClaw. TechCrunch hasn’t done a hands-on demo of…

On Thursday morning, I attended a Q&A panel with four top Samsung smartphone executives. Until 2025, Samsung was the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer, and by association, the world’s largest maker of cameras. It’s still the second largest after Apple.Samsung handed me the microphone first. I asked:We see a divide in society between people who want AI to do impressive things with their photos and videos, and those who don’t want AI to do anything with photos and videos because it’s eroding our ability to believe that what we have seen is real, destroying the concept of photographic evidence.Metadata tools like…

Getty Images The first conference tournament bracket for the 2025-26 season is set. The Sun Belt Tournament begins Tuesday with a pair of first-round matchups between teams that will be looking to extend their seasons for another day. Entering Friday, the final day of the regular season, seven different teams were mathematically alive for at least a share of the SBC championship. Troy captured the Sun Belt title after defeating UL Monroe to earn the No. 1 seed in next week’s tournament. Marshall earned the No. 2 seed and the bye into , and despite losing to Georgia Southern. There was…