Tarr's films were long, dark, and often abstract explorations of everyday life and politics.

Last year, for Black History Month, NPR's Scott Simon spoke with Edith Renfrow Smith of Chicago, who has died at 111 years old.

Once a fierce advocate for Trump and his MAGA base, Greene has broken with the president and resigned from Congress. New Yorker writer Charles Bethea discusses Greene's past — and what may lie ahead.

Economists may have a pretty dismal record with predictions. But we're still interested in what they see in their non-existent crystal balls.

Ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife pleaded not guilty in New York yesterday. And, the CDC scales back routine childhood vaccine recommendations at President Trump's direction.

California is writing rules to limit plants around buildings to protect them from wildfires, after the Los Angeles fires a year ago. Some homeowners are pushing back over losing their greenery.

Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat serving on the House Armed Services Committee, says Trump administration officials offered "vague talk" in briefing about the long-term strategy for Venezuela.

Older adults are the fastest-growing homeless population across the U.S. Now some shelters are trying to make it easier to accommodate older people.

Now begins what could be a lengthy legal process of pretrial motions, potential plea negotiations and possibly a jury trial of the authoritarian leader who ruled Venezuela for more than a decade.

President Trump is set to meet with House Republicans Tuesday at the Kennedy Center as lawmakers in both chambers are calling for more details on the recent operation in Venezuela.

It came as European allies rallied behind Denmark, which is pushing back against Trump's ambitions for the Arctic island.

The White House has said that 'utilising the ‌US military is ‍always an option at the commander-in-chief's disposal'

The announcement was made by UK PM Sir Keir Starmer after a meeting of Ukraine's allies in Paris.

The Met Office warns about potential injuries from slips and falls as icy conditions continue.

A minimum learning period of up to six months could be introduced for learner drivers

The BBC's Cuba correspondent, Will Grant, explains what's the nature of the relationship between Venezuela and Cuba.

Concern is growing among supporters the bill won't pass parliamentary hurdles in the allotted days.

US officials have a warrant to seize the Russian-flagged ship accused of breaking sanctions.

South Yorkshire Police says it mixed up the identities of the teen with another male in the car.

Lego says its new tech-enabled products are its "most revolutionary innovation" since it launched its mini-figurines in 1978.

The company has also redesigned the X1 Carbon’s internals for easier repairs

If there was a kingdom of laptop screen flexibility, Lenovo would take the crown. Last year, the company released the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, with a mechanical screen that could roll out to increase its size from 14 to 16.7 inches. Now, it’s back with the ThinkPad Rollable XD concept laptop that expands from 13.3 to 16 inches at the touch of a button or a swipe, along with the ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist, which uses a motor to rotate its screen and follow you around the room.…

Amazon's community surveillance biz bets on AI to recognize danger

A year after a series of fires obliterated communities in Los Angeles, Amazon's Ring security service has announced a feature called Fire Watch intended to mitigate future wildfire risk.…

Long after CVEs issued and open source flaws fixed

Last fall, Jakub Ciolek reported two denial-of-service bugs in Argo CD, a popular Kubernetes controller, via HackerOne's Internet Bug Bounty (IBB) program. Both were assigned CVEs and have since been fixed. But instead of receiving an $8,500 reward for the two flaws, Ciolek says, HackerOne ghosted him for months.…

Munge that corporate data using the LLM of your choice

The data platform Snowflake is putting Google's Gemini to work inside its Cortex AI, aiming to give customers access to a foundational model within the boundaries of their data environment across supported clouds, the company told The Register.…

Have your privacy cake and consume the web too

Brave Software has reworked its browser's Rust-based adblock engine to make it significantly more memory efficient and perhaps more secure. So you get fewer ads now with fewer MB of RAM.…

Atlas will be deployed to Hyundai and Google facilities this year

CES 2026 Remember when Elon Musk predicted that there would be thousands of Optimus robots at Tesla factories by the end of 2025? Well, that didn't happen, but competitor Boston Dynamics has just announced that its humanoid robot, Atlas, is going to the big time.…

Crimson Collective claims 'sophisticated attack'

Internet service provider Brightspeed confirmed that it's investigating criminals' claims that they stole more than a million customers' records and have listed them for sale for three bitcoin, or about $276,370. …

Neat idea, but with no mention of a dev kit it's another sign of Lego's descent into designing nothing but fun on rails

Not even Legos are safe from the inexorable march of smart technology, as the Danish construction toy stalwart introduced a new tech-in-a-brick Smart Play system at CES this week. …

It's crazy, a million-to-one shot, but it might just work

What if, rather than make a Linux distro that can run Windows apps, you built the whole distro around Windows binaries instead?…

New Year glitch leaves users staring at connection errors instead of market data

For many, the start of a new year is a time to take stock. For Microsoft, it was a time to stop giving it as the company kicked off 2026 with a bug that broke Excel's StockHistory function.…

Motorola is light on details but heavy on hype for its first book-style foldable.

The most familiar, full-fledged PC experience you can get from a keyboard.

Nvidia's only GeForce announcements this year were about software improvements.

"Jamming will block all communications," including 911 calls, CTIA tells FCC.

Dell moves from pushing "AI PCs" and back to what matters in laptops.

OpenAI's loss in privacy fight could lead to sharing even more deleted chats.

The Trump admin can't arbitrarily set university reimbursements to a low flat rate.

Four new monitors promise "effective motion clarity of a theoretical 1,000 Hz monitor."

Trump administration had suspended Danish group’s work on major wind farm off coast of Rhode Island.

"The question isn’t ‘are you prepared to die?’ The question is ‘who will you be when you close your eyes?’”