For six months. That was the duration of Sora’s existence as a stand-alone application before OpenAI silently started turning off the lights and posted a farewell message on X. “To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,” the business wrote in a note. It was the type of statement that reads politely at first glance and a little hollow at second. One of the most significant AI products in recent memory was supposed to be Sora. Rather, it turned into a case study about the gap between what technology can accomplish and what…
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Every great tennis player has a turning point in their development when they begin to own the game rather than just learn it. Watching her defeat Karolina Muchova 6-1, 6-1 in the Miami Open semifinals on Thursday felt like one of those moments for Coco Gauff, though she would likely dispute that interpretation. It wasn’t as simple as the score indicated, in her opinion. She would be forthright about the first game she lost due to a double fault, and instead of focusing on the dominance of the score, she would highlight the 89 minutes needed to finish the game.…
On Wednesday night, Oracle Park was radiant. Behind the right-field wall, the bay was serene, with a few kayaks bobbing in McCovey Cove. Some of the kayaks had the Netflix logo on them, which seemed fitting considering the situation. Opening Night in San Francisco is never guaranteed to have clear skies, so fans who had anticipated the typical damp chill were a little taken aback to see baseball in the sun. The 2026 MLB season officially began when the lights came on and a disembodied hand rolled out on a skateboard.The hand belonged to Thing, or more accurately, to Netflix’s…
The floodlights illuminating the green outfield, the excitement of commentary teams settling in, and the way a crowd typically fills that oval with something electric are all unique aspects of opening night at Gaddafi Stadium. But the stands were deserted this time. When Fakhar Zaman left, there was no commotion. When Shaheen Shah Afridi took the ball, there was no commotion. Despite the lack of spectators at the start of PSL 11 on March 26 due to regional austerity measures, cricket managed to make an impression. In the tournament’s opening match, the Lahore Qalandars defeated the Hyderabad Kingsmen, who were…
Before a significant launch, a certain kind of silence descends upon Kennedy Space Center. The facility is humming with generators, technicians, and the low mechanical breath of something massive being prepared, so it’s not a quiet silence; rather, it’s a silence of anticipation, the kind that makes you conscious of your own heartbeat. That sensation has returned. NASA is just a few days away from launching humans around the Moon for the first time in over fifty years.Artemis II is not just another mission entry in a government log; it is slated to launch no earlier than April 1, 2026.…
These days, there’s a good chance the person taking your money isn’t reaching for a card machine if you walk into nearly any small coffee shop or weekend market stall in a mid-sized American city. They have their phone in their hands. Only their phone. The transaction is completed in a split second with a tap, beep, and vibration. No need to carry any hardware. No plug-in terminal. There’s no need to wait for a Bluetooth connection to catch up.Since Apple first released the feature in the US in 2022, it has been subtly expanding throughout North America. This is…
On the morning of March 26, 2026, Noelia Castillo Ramos was lying in bed in a Barcelona hospital room with a few close friends and family. Yolanda, her mother, had come with a packed bag, which is an almost intolerable human detail that sticks with you. Noelia wasn’t supposed to have the bag. It was for Yolanda, who two days prior had declared to a television audience that she would stay as long as her daughter would permit. Noelia was twenty-five. For over two years, she had been fighting for the right to die, both inside herself and in courtrooms…
There’s something strange about any residential area in Hyderabad right now. There are gaps in the typical rhythm of everyday life, such as the faint hiss of a gas burner, the clinking of pots, and the smell of cooking wafting through open windows in the early evening. Cylinders in hand, people have been waiting in line outside some gas stations since the morning. By the third day, the lines had somewhat decreased, but the anxiety remained. Despite the government’s strong preference for a different description, India is in the midst of what can legitimately be called an LPG crisis. The…
It’s difficult to argue with a certain type of phone. It’s the item that, after a week of real use, makes you question why you’d spend twice as much on something else, but it’s not the most thrilling thing in the room or the one that people line up around the block to take pictures of. Announced in March 2026, the Samsung Galaxy A57 5G appears to be vying for that title. Alongside its smaller sibling, the A37, Samsung unveiled the A57, continuing the progress the company has been making in its mid-range lineup for a number of years. The…
When a movie does something that trade analysts didn’t anticipate, a certain silence descends upon them. The kind of stunned silence that comes before a rush to edit every projection on the whiteboard, not the courteous silence of someone carefully selecting their words. That’s essentially what transpired in the days after Dhurandhar: The Revenge’s premiere weekend, when the national box office receipts demonstrated that this was more than just a popular follow-up. There was something more significant going on. Dhurandhar 2, which was released on March 19, 2026, made a whopping ₹102.55 crore on its official Day 1 after opening…