Hulu Noted sci-fi fan Seth MacFarlane created his first live-action television series with “The Orville” in 2017. Proudly displaying its genre influences, the show has Captain Ed Mercer (MacFarlane) lead the titular exploratory starship as it ventures across the cosmos on behalf of the Planetary Union. Though … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Another Conservative shadow minister has jumped ship to Reform UK, adding momentum to Nigel Farage’s populist right-wing party and posing a fresh headache for Tory leader Kemi Badenoch. Andrew Rosindell, who was shadow minister for … Read more
Netflix For five seasons and almost 10 years, the world watched Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and her pals battle the threats of the Upside Down to protect the town of Hawkins and the world as a whole. There was a time, however, when this fictional and frightening story … Read more
François Ozon’s black-and-white Albert Camus adaptation The Stranger won Best Film at France’s 31st Lumière Awards in Paris on Sunday evening. The film, which premiered in Venice last September, was the frontrunner in the contest at the nomination stage making it into six categories. Benjamin Voisin won Best Actor for his performance as the novel’s nihilist … Read more
This season, we’re opting for understated elegance and trends that are easy to adopt, which is why the “Olsen tuck” is establishing itself as the star hairstyle of 2026. It requires no tools, sophisticated products, or hours in front of the mirror, yet manages to convey a modern and profoundly cool aesthetic. Its success is … Read more
Sequoia Capital is reportedly joining a blockbuster funding round for Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude, according to the Financial Times. It’s a move sure to turn heads in Silicon Valley. Why? Because venture capital firms have historically avoided backing competing companies in the same sector, preferring to place their bets on a single winner. … Read more
CBS The Writers Guild of America named “Everybody Loves Raymond” among the 101 best-written shows of all time, so no one can dispute that its creators knew what they were doing. However, Ray Romano — who plays Raymond Barone on the multi-Emmy Award-winning sitcom, which aired for … Read more
Etro staged its presentation in the dim back rooms of a Brera trattoria, swapping white cubes for low light and a faintly Wunderkammer-ish atmosphere. The space was intimate and plush, populated by mannequins crowned with Venetian-made papier-mâché animal heads—foxes, owls, rams, bears—turning the display into a well-dressed menagerie with impeccable table manners. Marco De Vincenzo … Read more
Nate arrives at Cami’s office to find her poring over boxes of files; she says that she found them in the basement, and they contain all the information that they’ve been looking for all season. She wonders why Monty chose to go old-school with the format. “So if there was a criminal investigation or civil … Read more
Vitalik Buterin framed 2026 as the year Ethereum reverses a decade of convenience-first compromises. His thesis: the protocol stayed trustless, but the defaults drifted. Wallets outsourced verification to centralized RPCs. Decentralized applications became server-dependent behemoths that leak user data to dozens of endpoints. Block building is concentrated in the hands of a few sophisticated actors. … Read more