“Landman” will likely last for a long time given its popularity. For now, though fans are eagerly awaiting the third season of the series. Luckily, there are plenty of oil dramas just waiting to fill the void and “The Stars Fell on Henrietta” is one, Clint Eastwood-produced example. Unlike the Paramount+ series, this 1995 movie…
Google has been quietly building a desktop-like interface directly into Android, but the feature remains buried in developer settings where most phone and tablet owners will never find it. Called “Force desktop mode,” the toggle transforms how apps behave when connected to an external monitor or simulated display, offering resizable windows and a taskbar that…
Stephen Hawking spent decades warning that humanity faces a simple choice: spread beyond Earth or risk total extinction. The theoretical physicist argued that threats ranging from artificial intelligence to asteroid impacts made the planet too fragile a home for a single-planet species. His repeated, escalating warnings about the timeline for that escape have only grown…
In a recent interview, Phoebe Gates laid out how she is trying to build Phia as a stand-alone business, pushing back on assumptions that her family name is part of the product. That stance comes as investor demand has helped Phia scale quickly, with the app topping a half-million downloads in under six months while…
It’s 3:30 p.m. on a Monday, and a group of 16 senior dancers are grooving on the court at Chase Center. They throw their arms up and down, give a high kick, bend over low, draw a half circle with their hips, pop up and snap their necks back and forth, their grey and white…
Awards season burns bright overseas, as “One Battle After Another” and “Sinners” score some pre-Oscars heat. One of the final stops for top contenders on the Oscars trail really heated up the race on Sunday. Alan Cumming hosted the 2026 BAFTA Awards ceremony Feb. 22, with winners announced during a live telecast from the United…
Refik Anadol paints with what he calls “a thinking brush” The 40-year-old Turkish American is not an artist in the traditional sense; he uses a computer, massive amounts of data and artificial intelligence to create immersive, ever-changing visuals. His work, where man meets machine, has been embraced by some of the world’s most prestigious museums,…
For nearly three decades, Bill Gurley has been among of the most influential voices in Silicon Valley — a general partner at Benchmark whose early bets on companies like Uber, Zillow, and Stitch Fix helped define what modern venture capital looks like. Now, having moved to Austin and stepped back from active investing, the native…
Back in the ’90s and ’00s, seeing a home console game ported to a handheld platform usually resulted in something absolutely dreadful, but somehow, the Game Boy Advance versions of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater turned out to be essential parts of that platform’s library. These ports exist, in part, simply because developer Vicarious Visions was…
For the longest time, a handful of studios have dominated the animated movie landscape. Walt Disney Animation Studios was on top for decades, while Pixar came in and stunned everyone with their projects since the ’90s. DreamWorks has had some great moments, while Studio Ghibli puts out the most consistently great animated films around the…