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aespa bets LEMONADE can make K-pop’s most complex mythology feel human

Music

aespa bets LEMONADE can make K-pop’s most complex mythology feel human

aespa's second full album opens a new lore portal between the digital and real worlds, with ten tracks, no Spotify, and 23M+ YouTube views.

Alice Lange

Movies

A backdrop still from Leela Varghese and Emma Hough Hobbs's animated comedy Lesbian Space Princess.

Lesbian Space Princess turns the manosphere into space villains for UK cinemas

Sydney Sweeney makes Honey Trap’s first swing ‘Hollow,’ a literary-horror package, not a star vehicle

Chiwetel Ejiofor in Backrooms (2026)

A24 bets its record $118M ‘Backrooms’ can franchise as Kane Parsons plots a feature anthology

A still from Ryusuke Hamaguchi's All of a Sudden, set in a Paris care home.

All of a Sudden wins Efira and Okamoto a shared Cannes prize before its Japanese release

TV Shows

The Witness - Netflix

The Witness on Netflix tells the Rachel Nickell case through the child who saw it

Wimbledon Common once looked like the safest place in England to walk a child. Netflix’s three-part drama tells the murder of Rachel Nickell from the height of the one witness who could never testify, her two-year-old son, and the father who spent the next two decades rebuilding a life around him. The case that failed them runs at the edge of the frame, where it always was for them.

The Murder of Rachel Nickell

The Murder of Rachel Nickell: Netflix and the Honeytrap That Let a Killer Kill Again

Night Shift For Cuties

Night Shift For Cuties on Netflix Sends Two Minimart Superfans After the K-Pop Idols Who Set Their Beauty Rules

Michael Jackson: The Verdict — Netflix reopens the trial everyone judged and almost no one watched

Poldi - Netflix

Poldi premieres on Netflix on Podolski’s 41st birthday, days before the 2026 World Cup

Sports

Aerial view of Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, a 2026 FIFA World Cup venue

Messi and Ronaldo reach a sixth World Cup — and won’t take the exit

Twenty years after they walked on as kids in Germany, Messi and Ronaldo are the last of their generation still standing. A sixth World Cup is a record nobody has touched — and a question about what it costs to still be here.

The Croatia national football team in an open training session — the squad whose long-game identity the piece is built on.

Croatia don’t win in ninety minutes — they outlast you, and at 40 Modrić still sets the clock

The Uruguay national football team — the celeste-shirted side whose century of identity the piece is built on.

Uruguay won a century by refusing to lose — Bielsa wants them to stop waiting and start hunting

Christian Pulisic playing for the United States men's national soccer team

America has spent a decade calling this its best soccer team ever — a home World Cup is where the promise comes due

Technology

Geoffrey Hinton, computer scientist and AI pioneer, photographed in 2026

Geoffrey Hinton says the AI on your phone is already conscious

Meta’s AI Reset Instagram Passwords for Hackers Who Just Asked

Analysis

Editorial still life: a canvas tote bag with a matcha cup, an unmarked paperback and a single wired earbud laid out like catalogued evidence under a hard spotlight on dark glass.

The performative male contest catches everyone except the men faking it

Anonymous teenager lit only by a phone screen in a dark room, an empty lit doorway behind — editorial illustration on AI companions and adolescence.

The Teenagers Using AI Companions Are the Ones Asking for Limits

Editorial conceptual still life: a single unbranded injection pen on dark polished stone beside a half-finished plate, dramatic cool-toned studio light.

Ozempic personality is not a side effect — it is the point

Music

Official music video still from Masayoshi Oishi's Kimi wa Koibito, featuring two actors in a contemporary Tokyo romance

Masayoshi Oishi bets ‘Kimi wa Koibito’ can carry the anime without the anime

Masayoshi Oishi’s new single for The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten Season 2 comes with a music video that contains no anime footage — and 1.2 million YouTube views.

tripleS ASSEMBLE26 LOVE&POP pt.1 highlight medley promotional still

tripleS built K-pop’s most complex system — pt.1 makes it feel simple

Arashi performing in the official music video for their farewell single Five

Arashi’s disbandment single ‘Five’ shatters Japan’s Oricon first-day streaming record

aespa performing live on stage, group portrait

Zedd remixes aespa’s LEMONADE — K-pop stakes its EDM claim

Science

Abstract editorial microscopy-style illustration of a calm translucent cell surrounded by quieting immune-cell filaments, in cyan and magenta.

One year of a drug delayed rheumatoid arthritis for four years in at-risk patients

LD 350-1 hominin mandible from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia

Thirteen teeth show two human lineages lived side by side 2.8 million years ago

Abstract editorial illustration of a hot gas-giant planet, one hemisphere wrapped in translucent mineral-cloud bands and the other dark and clear, with cyan and magenta accents.

James Webb found a planet where rock clouds form each morning and clear by night

Business

European Union flags in front of the Berlaymont building, European Commission headquarters in Brussels

Europe let its antibiotics drift to China. Sandoz is asking Brussels to fight back

The Ferrari factory in Maranello, Modena

Ferrari built an EV to take on China. Its own fans turned on it first

Rope was the first general-purpose technology. We let the evidence rot

More News

Cybersecurity

Malicious code hid inside Red Hat’s npm packages and spread to steal cloud keys

U.S. soldiers loaded with packs and rifles board a UH-1 Huey helicopter on a muddy airstrip in Vietnam

History

Why Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket Can’t Agree on Vietnam

AI

Anthropic files to go public and bets safety can survive Wall Street

A backdrop still from Michael Sarnoski's The Death of Robin Hood, with Hugh Jackman as a wounded Robin Hood.

Movies

Hugh Jackman plays a dying Robin Hood in Michael Sarnoski’s The Death of Robin Hood

The animated heroes of Vox Machina in the world of Exandria — the Critical Role universe that grew from a Dungeons & Dragons livestream into a Prime Video animated series

TV Shows

The Critical Role Universe, Explained: From D&D Tabletop to Prime Video Animation

Ariana Grande in the official music video for hate that i made you love me

Music

Ariana Grande made millions love her — her new single says that was a mistake

Colony, directed by Yeon Sang-ho and starring Gianna Jun

Movies

Yeon Sang-ho’s ‘Colony’ proves the K-zombie engine still roars, past 3.5M Korean admissions

Wingman

Movies

The Art of the Wingman: Harland Williams and Justin Levine Bring Back Comedy

The Mexico national football team (El Tri) posed together as a full squad

Soccer

Mexico has lost the same World Cup match seven times — at home, Aguirre has run out of excuses