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Quantum computing will not be replacing supercomputers in 2026, let alone reaching industrial scale. And yet, investor appetite for companies pursuing the elusive quantum advantage hasn’t dwindled — it has increased. Quantonation Ventures, a venture firm investing in quantum and physics-based startups, has closed its oversubscribed second fund at €220 million, or approximately $260 million. That’s more than twice the size of its inaugural fund, and comes in addition to other signals that the quantum winter isn’t coming yet. While some warned that too much quantum hype and not enough tangible outcomes would eventually cause funding to collapse, the opposite…

Todd ArcherFeb 21, 2026, 04:51 PM ETCloseTodd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Dallas Cowboys. Archer has covered the NFL since 1997 and Dallas since 2003. He joined ESPN in 2010.Multiple AuthorsFRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys kept a key player to their offense Saturday, agreeing to a three-year deal with running back Javonte Williams that guarantees him $16 million, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.The total deal is worth $24 million and includes a $6 million signing bonus, according to sources.When the Cowboys head to Indianapolis for the NFL scouting combine next week, they can turn…

The first major astronomical event visible in 2026 is a total lunar eclipse, or “blood moon.” This phenomenon is highly prized by stargazers because the entire lunar disk takes on a reddish color for a few moments.The total lunar eclipse will occur on March 3. It will be clearly visible in North and Central America, while in Central and South Asia it will only be partially visible. It will not be visible in Europe or Africa.Although the eclipse will begin in the early morning, totality will occur almost at dawn on March 3. A few hours before sunrise, the full…

Given the surreality of last year’s ceremony—when she endured freezing temperatures that forced celebrities into red carpet puffers, a Take That performance of “Greatest Day,” and presenter David Tennant comparing her to a lookalike—you might have reasonably assumed Kylie Jenner would chalk the BAFTAs up to a bad dream and move on. And yet: here she is again, returning to the scene of the crime to support Timothée Chalamet’s bid for best actor in a vampy black Mugelr dress from about 1999, purchased from Tab Vintage.Since her inaugural awards-season appearance at the 2024 Golden Globes, Jenner has developed a red…

Have you ever thought, “what would Mortal Kombat look like on ice?” If so, look no further than the Winter Olympics to see how it’d fare. On Saturday, Georgian figure skaters Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava did a performance based on the popular fighting game, with Berulava dressed as Sub-Zero and Metelkina as Kitana. The entire performance, which you can see below, has some fun nods to the games: not only does the iconic theme song play, the skaters bounce back and force like idle animations in the earlier games, they incorporate basic attacks into their routine. It’s a good performance, and…

Freestyle skiing superstar Eileen Gu got gold at last at the Milan/Cortina Games when the Chinese overcame a fall to dominate the halfpipe competition on the closing day Sunday.Coming off Big Air and slopestyle silvers, Gu fell in her first run but then showed her class in the second and third where she was a class apart and got gold with 94.75 points.AdvertisementSilver also went to China in the form of Li Fanghui, who tallied 93.50 points. World champion Zoe Atkin of Britain earned bronze with 92.50.US-born Gu, 22, earned back to back golds in the discipline and now has…

While Elon Musk’s Neuralink likes to say it’s “pioneering” brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), China’s BCI industry is already quietly moving from research to scale. A new wave of startups is racing to commercialize both implantable and noninvasive BCIs, backed by stronger policy support, expanding clinical trials, and growing investor interest. So says Phoenix Peng, who has founded not one, but two BCI startups. He’s a co-founder of NeuroXess, maker of BCI implants, as well as founder and CEO of noninvasive ultrasound BCI startup Gestala. His belief in the potential of this market is founded on concrete action: Provinces such as Sichuan,…

A Secret Service agent guards the Mar-a-Lago home of former President Donald Trump on March 21, 2023 in Palm Beach, Florida.Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesAuthorities fatally shot a man who was carrying a shotgun and a gas cannister as he tried to enter President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida early Sunday morning, the Secret Service said.Trump was at the White House at the time of the incident. The president maintains a residence at Mar-a-Lago, and frequently dines and hosts events at the Palm Beach club.The man, who was in his early 20s, was shot by Secret Service agents and…

At the start of the month, Elon Musk announced that two of his companies — SpaceX and xAI  — were merging, and would jointly launch a constellation of 1 million satellites to operate as orbital data centers. Musk’s reputation might suggest otherwise, but according to experts, such a plan isn’t a complete fantasy. However, if executed at the scale suggested, some of them believe it would have devastating effects on the environment and the sustainability of low Earth Earth orbit.Musk and others argue that putting data centers in space is practical given how much more efficient solar panels are away…

CBS Sports Graphic Saturday’s NCAA March Madness Bracket Preview show could not have come at a better time — specifically six hours before Michigan and Duke tipped in what would become the most-attended neutral-court game of the season. That’s because what the selection committee told us during a 30-minute program on CBS is that if the 2026 NCAA Tournament would’ve started Saturday, the top two seeds in the bracket would’ve been Michigan and Duke — point being that at least in the committee’s eyes, what we had inside Capital One Arena was a No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown 22…