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New York City got hit with a hell of a snowstorm last week. And, inevitably, when I’m watching the snow fall, wandering the oddly quiet streets after dark, people hiding inside and staying warm, I put on M83’s sophomore record, Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts.Before Nicolas Fromageau left the band and Anthony Gonzalez embraced traditional pop song structures, saxophone solos, and teen angst, M83 released two albums of mostly instrumental music. The self-titled debut album is kind of forgettable, but the second one finds the French duo taking inspiration from the repetitive bombast of Mogwai and Godspeed You!…

Embrace who you are, and revel in it. Sometimes we try to show the world we’re flawless in hopes that we will be liked and accepted by everyone. But we can’t please everyone and we shouldn’t try. Take this to heart. You won’t find your worth in someone else’s approval — you find it within yourself, and then you attract those who are worthy of your energy. Because when you embrace who you are and decide to be authentic, instead of who you think others want you to be, all the new doors that open in your life will be…

Saturday night the Raiders wrapped up their second interview with Seahawks OC Klint Kubiak. Thus holding what was their most important interview for their vacant head coach position.Kubiak has looked like a top target for the Raiders job since they fired Pete Carroll the day after the season ended. And he was among the first wave of virtual interviews the team held. But since the Seahawks kept winning and are now playing in the Super Bowl, the team had to wait until this weekend to hold that crucial second in-person interview.AdvertisementSo, now what?The Raiders and Cardinals are the last two…

Indonesia has followed Malaysia and the Philippines in lifting a ban on xAI’s chatbot Grok. The Southeast Asian countries banned Grok after it was used to create a flood of nonconsensual, sexualized imagery on X (now a subsidiary of xAI), including images of real women and minors. In late December and January, Grok was used to create at least 1.8 million sexualized images of women, according to separate analyses by The New York Times and the Center for Countering Digital Hate. In a statement, Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs said that it was lifting the ban after X…

We independently select these products—if you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. All prices were accurate at the time of publishing.People have strong feelings about the best place to grocery shop. Scroll through social media and you’ll see that some people make it a part of their whole personality. In fact, there are entire accounts dedicated to finding the best new products at places like Aldi and Costco. Now, we have an official answer to which grocery store is most beloved. Recently the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), a national cross-industry measure of U.S. customer satisfaction,…

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Tesla CEO Elon Musk has spent months — years? — trying to position his company as something more than just a maker of electric vehicles. When Tesla acquired Solar City in 2016, he (and his comms team) pitched it as a sustainable energy company. Over the past year, he has pushed the idea of Tesla as an AI and robotics company.  Musk’s aspirational branding has slammed…

The Dallas Mavericks may have lost their last four games, but it’s clear they drafted a superstar in No. 1 overall pick Cooper Flagg.The Duke product scored 34 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in the 111-107 loss to the Houston Rockets, and delivered a 49-point explosion on 20 of 29 shooting in the 123-121 loss Thursday to the Charlotte Hornets. It marked the most points scored by a teenager in NBA history, and Flagg’s second 40-point game. LeBron James and Anthony Edwards are the only other teens to drop 40 points in multiple NBA games.It took Flagg some time to…

The Chinese government has given DeepSeek its approval to purchase NVIDIA’s H200 AI chips, according to Reuters. ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have also reportedly received permission from Beijing to buy a total of 400,000 H200 GPUs. Reuters says Chinese authorities are still finalizing the conditions they’re imposing on the companies to be able to proceed with their orders, so it may take a while before they’re able to receive their shipments. In addition, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told reporters that his company has yet to receive orders from the aforementioned firms and that he believed China is still finalizing their…

Movie posters for the documentary “Melania” featuring U.S. first lady Melania Trump are displayed in a New York City subway station, in New York, U.S., Jan. 14, 2026. Jeenah Moon | ReutersAmazon’s “Melania” earned $7 million at the domestic box office during its debut this weekend, the highest opening for a non-music documentary in more than a decade.Documentaries are not typically major ticket sales drivers, with the majority of releases over the last 10 years opening under $5 million and grossing $10 million to $20 million worldwide, according to data from Comscore. Documentaries and concert films by popular musical artists…

The light on the hill moved slowly, as if decelerated by the sub-zero air. At the top of the rise, a grove of aspen trees–glowing bone white in the night–served as a kind of abstract stage door. Through them, Moncler Grenoble’s models emerged one-by-one from the glade, with Gigi Hadid leading the charge. They would walk and wander through a mogul field, each concluding their lap on a different mound. What resulted was a finale tableau that, staging-wise, had been in the making since October, 2025 (that’s when the buildout for this show started).The performance marked the conclusion of Moncler’s…