The 10 Best Bruno Mars Songs of All Time

The 10 Best Bruno Mars Songs of All Time

Bruno Mars is perhaps pop music’s greatest creature of reinvention. Since his 2010 debut, the singer-songwriter has evolved on the genre’s main stage from a supple young crooner with stars in his eyes to a chest-thumping juggernaut, mastering everything from soft millennial ballads to pimp-strutting party anthems. Last we heard from Mars on a full-length…

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Europe’s Deep-Tech Paradox

Europe’s Deep-Tech Paradox

Europe does not suffer from a shortage of capital. What it lacks is the legal courage and analytical competence required to direct that capital toward the areas where it can create the greatest long-term value: SciTech startups. This gap shapes the entire continent’s innovation landscape, and Sweden is no exception. Even as Sweden is celebrated…

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Ports 1961 Fall 2026: Mental Nomadism

Ports 1961 Fall 2026: Mental Nomadism

The original Ports 1961 focus was all about travel. “I dream of having breakfast in the Sahara and dinner in New York,” its founder, Canadian entrepreneur Luke Tanabe, is often quoted as saying. As the brand marks its 65th anniversary this year, design director Francesco Bertolini sought to bring that nomadic spirit back to the…

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“What Does That Nature Say to You”: Don’t Meet the Parents

“What Does That Nature Say to You”: Don’t Meet the Parents

Filmmakers like to call themselves storytellers for the same reason that politicians like to call themselves public servants: it’s a show of deference toward a popular ideal. Yet few of them treat stories as their fundamental unit of creation. One who does so is the Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo, whose narrative imagination is so fertile…

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Commentary: The Pentagon is demanding to use Claude AI as it pleases. Claude told me that’s ‘dangerous’

Commentary: The Pentagon is demanding to use Claude AI as it pleases. Claude told me that’s ‘dangerous’

Recently, I asked Claude, an artificial-intelligence thingy at the center of a standoff with the Pentagon, if it could be dangerous in the wrong hands. Say, for example, hands that wanted to put a tight net of surveillance around every American citizen, monitoring our lives in real time to ensure our compliance with government. “Yes.…

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‘Back to the Future’ Star Crispin Glover Accused of Holding Former Model ‘Captive’ as ‘Sex Slave’ in New Lawsuit

‘Back to the Future’ Star Crispin Glover Accused of Holding Former Model ‘Captive’ as ‘Sex Slave’ in New Lawsuit

Crispin Glover has been sued by an alleged former girlfriend who claims the “Back to the Future” actor used her for “sex and free labor” after luring her with the promise of a job opportunity in Los Angeles. According to a civil complaint filed Wednesday and obtained by Variety, Glover is being accused of “battery,…

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7 signs your startup culture is quietly killing momentum

7 signs your startup culture is quietly killing momentum

You hit your numbers last quarter. The product works. Investors are not panicking. On paper, things look fine. But inside the company, something feels heavier than it should. Decisions drag. Energy dips. Small problems turn into week-long Slack threads. You start wondering if it is just the normal chaos of early-stage life or something deeper.…

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