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UsherVittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty ImagesSince 1999, Ralph Lauren Palazzo has stood regally on Milan’s Via S. Barnaba, with its Italianate stone and majestic columns and archways. Yet once inside, the venue is undeniably a tribute to the all-American charm the label is so synonymous with. That patriotic pride and spirit was amplified—five-rings-fold—this evening as the brand hosted a kickoff party for the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic Games, which officially begin on Friday.Since 2008, Ralph Lauren has outfitted Team USA with ceremony and off-duty wear, and this year, the collection is among its more thematically varied. There’s everything from leather aviator jackets—similar to…

Amazon Web Services ended 2025 with its strongest quarterly growth rate in more than three years. The company reported Thursday that its cloud service business recorded $35.6 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2025. This figure marks a 24% year-on-year increase and the business segment’s largest growth rate in 13 quarters. Annual revenue run rate for the business segment is $142 billion, according to Amazon. The cloud service also saw an increase in its operating income from $12.5 billion in the fourth quarter compared to $10.6 billion in the same period in 2024. “It’s very different having 24%…

Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO — Mike Vrabel is preparing his New England Patriots to play the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl LX, but the head coach will bring some hardware back from Santa Clara regardless. At Thursday’s NFL Honors, Vrabel was named Coach of the Year for the 2025 season after spearheading an eye-popping turnaround with New England. What Vrabel was able to accomplish in Year 1 with the Patriots was nothing short of remarkable. The franchise had endured back-to-back 4-13 seasons, which resulted in the team moving on from Bill Belichick after the 2023 campaign and then firing Jerod Mayo after a lone season in 2024. Vrabel…

If you haven’t yet played Alan Wake 2, here’s your chance to immerse yourself in its terrors for free. Prime members can play it this month on Amazon’s Luna cloud gaming service at no additional charge.The “fantastic” Alan Wake 2 oozes “psychedelic terror,” as Engadget’s Jessica Conditt put it in our review. The 2023 horror-survival game uses a dual-protagonist motif, alternating between the lost author Wake and the stoic FBI agent Saga Anderson. It “tells a twisted, serpentine story of paranormal murder, shifting realities and demonic possession, with two brooding investigators at its core.” Not a bad way to sublimate…

We’re going down, down, down by the river, and back to the city of Baldur’s Gate… albeit on TV, rather than in a game. Deadline reports that HBO is working with Hasbro to develop a Baldur’s Gate TV series, which will be set immediately after the events of Larian’s third entry in the beloved RPG series. Craig Mazin, who has been the at-times-controversial figure behind HBO’s other big-ticket video game adaptation, The Last of Us, will create, write, executive produce, and showrun the new series. Jacqueline Lesko, Cecil O’Connor, and Hasbro Entertainment’s Gabriel Marano will join Mazin as executive producers, while Chris Perkins—the…

Michael VoepelFeb 4, 2026, 08:30 AM ETCloseMichael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball and other college sports. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996.Multiple AuthorsFive Division I women’s teams are shooting 50% or better from the field this season. Three are in the SEC, and two meet Thursday in the second game of a blockbuster doubleheader on ESPN: No. 4 Texas and No. 5 LSU, which both maintain their spots this week in ESPN’s women’s college basketball Power Rankings.The Longhorns and Tigers will be preceded by Duke…

HBO is developing a Baldur’s Gate TV show that will continue the story of Larian Studios’ hit RPG Baldur’s Gate 3, according to Deadline. The Last Of Us co-creator Craig Mazin will serve as the show’s creator, writer, executive producer, and showrunner.While it’s set to feature new protagonists, the plan is for existing characters from the game to return, and Mazin plans to reach out to cast members from Baldur’s Gate 3 with “ideas for them to participate in the TV adaptation and ways that would make that possible,” Deadline says. (I hope the whole main cast returns because they’re…

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, speaks during an unveiling event in New York, Feb. 26, 2025.Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAmazon’s stock plunged 11% in extended trading on Thursday, dragged lower by market jitters around the company’s $200 billion capex plans, the highest spending forecast among the megacap companies. The forecast is a sharp increase from Amazon’s capital expenditures last year, and it was more than $50 billion above analysts’ expectations. The company reported spending roughly $131 billion on purchases of property and equipment in 2025, up from about $83 billion in the year prior. Tech companies have laid…

Maybe it’s through word of mouth or (ironically) through your regularly scheduled online scrolling, but chances are high that you’ve heard of Brick or seen somebody say they locked out of social media (an alternative version of the salacious “bricked”). The chronically online—no judgment here!—have been crediting the palm-sized magnetic device with helping them stay offline. But is it just a marketing ploy?At a time of peak exhaustion with our smartphones and being inundated with study after study that shows how excessive screentimes increase our chances of experiencing insomnia, anxiety, and depression, many are looking for ways to log off.…

The countdown is on, and Super Bowl LX, between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, is less than a week away. This year’s game will be held at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA, and the Bay Area will be host to loads of other football events this week, too, including Thursday’s NFL Honors, where we’ll learn who this season’s MVP is. (That event, which will be held in San Francisco, will air live on NBC and the NFL Network on Thursday at 9 p.m. ET.) While we’re curious to see who will snag the most prestigious awards at…