Warning: Contains major spoilers for The Bear Season 4. The Bear is a show that loves its famous guest stars, and Season 4 is no exception. This season sees a mixture of new and returning faces, with some of the big names we saw in Season 2’s “Fishes” episode making another appearance, and other new…
In The Bear Season 4, episode 1, Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) reaffirms his quest for The Bear to get a Michelin star. After all, if the restaurant earns one, the recognition could bring in more customers and save The Bear from financial ruin. By the end of Season 4, The Bear has not heard…
In its third season, The Bear turned its spotlight on chef Tina Marrero (Liza Colón-Zayas), with its “Napkins” episode centering her in a similar way to how Season 2’s “Honeydew” and “Forks” centered on Marcus (Lionel Boyce) and Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach). That focus granted viewers a new appreciation of the longtime Beef/Bear staff member. “Napkins”…
In the world of K-pop Demon Hunters, saving the world is just another item in an idol’s busy schedule. But for the young women of Huntrix, a K-pop trio who double as supernatural warriors, the real battle isn’t with monsters. It’s with the pressures of perfection, the weight of expectation, and the question that haunts…
NASA’s Curiosity rover has started drilling into a bizarre landscape on Mars that could upend assumptions about when the Red Planet truly dried out. After a long drive, the Mini Cooper-sized robot reached a so-called boxwork region, where a gridlike pattern of ridges splays over six to 12 miles. For years, orbiters had observed this…
Meta just won a major ruling in a landmark case about how copyright law and fair use applies to AI model training, the second such loss for authors this week. Just days ago, Anthropic won a fair use case as well. Late Wednesday afternoon, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California Vince Chhabria…
Apple has my heart (at least in terms of smartphone ownership), but if I were in the market for a new handset this year, Samsung provides some serious temptation. My pink iPhone 16 is doing just fine, but plenty of folks out there will be left with a difficult choice in the latter half of…
The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times‘ revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe. With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who…
Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the “common threads between words.” And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier…
This article contains spoilers for Materialists. In Celine Song’s latest movie Materialists, matchmaker Lucy (Dakota Johnson) is cynical about love. She sees love as a numbers game and a business transaction, both for her clients and herself. In fact, matchmaker and CEO of Agape Matchmaking Maria Avgitidis told Mashable that if Lucy were her client,…
