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At just $8, you owe it to yourself to grab Inscryption
Humble is offering a substantial discount on Inscryption, the acclaimed deckbuilding roguelike from developer Daniel Mullins, cutting its Steam price to $7.99 from the usual $20. The timing follows Gamescom 2026, where Mullins revealed a trailer for his upcoming title Pony Island 2: Panda Circus, making this a good opportunity for newcomers to discover his…
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Man, 34, arrested after 14-year-old girl is ‘raped by stranger in woods’
A 34-year-old Southampton man has been arrested on suspicion of rape after a 14-year-old girl reported being sexually assaulted in a wooded area of Swaythling, Southampton. The allegation, reported to have occurred in broad daylight, has prompted a major police investigation and specialist support for the girl. Police were called shortly after 3pm on Sunday…
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Mother-of-four died in a ferocious blaze at her £1.2m home despite her estranged husband climbing up the drainpipe in desperate bid to save her
An inquest in Rochdale heard how mother-of-four Kate Mulcahy, 37, died in a fierce fire at her £1.2 million home in Middleton, Greater Manchester, despite her estranged husband John’s desperate attempt to reach her by climbing a drainpipe onto the roof. Ms Mulcahy had been sleeping alone in the attic bedroom after the couple separated,…
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US Air Force transport jet makes ‘highly unusual’ landing in Moscow sparking frenzy of theories
A US Air Force C-17A Globemaster III transport jet made an unannounced landing in Moscow on 25 August, prompting widespread speculation online given the highly unusual nature of a US military aircraft entering Russian airspace. The flight, using the call sign RCH4555, travelled from Riga in Latvia to Vnukovo International Airport in roughly 74 minutes,…
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Android is getting its own weird dots to cure car sickness
Google is rolling out Motion Assist, a new Android feature designed to reduce or eliminate motion sickness when using a phone in a moving vehicle. It mirrors Apple’s Motion Cues, introduced in 2024, and works by displaying moving dots on screen that counteract the mismatch between what the eyes see and what the inner ear…
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Seam me up, Scotty! After 60 years, Star Trek has had a muppet takeover. About time too
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is breaking a 60-year franchise tradition by featuring a full puppet episode, with the Enterprise crew transformed into muppets by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop in the episode Level-Five Transporter Accident. Unlike Star Wars, which has used puppetry since the 1970s with characters such as Yoda, Star Trek has historically relied…
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‘I woke up to two men standing at the foot of my bed’: The terrifying dark side of Travelodge revealed… as our investigation shines light on appalling security lapses and the women whose room keys were given to strange men
An investigation has exposed serious security failures at Travelodge, Britain’s largest hotel chain, after multiple women reported being endangered when reception staff handed out key cards to their rooms to men who had no right to them. In one case, a 44-year-old marketing consultant staying alone in east London was left terrified when a man…
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‘There’s a baby on the field’: Toddler invades pitch during Minnesota’s MLS win over San Jose
A toddler ran onto the pitch during Minnesota United’s 5-1 Major League Soccer win over San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday, prompting the referee to halt play with just a minute and a half remaining. The incident, at PayPal Park in San Jose, California, briefly startled broadcasters, with an Apple TV analyst exclaiming “There’s a baby…
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Review: Chuwi’s $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo
Ars Technica has reviewed the Chuwi Unibook, a Chinese-made budget laptop priced at $449 that undercuts Apple’s MacBook Neo and rival Windows machines from Dell, Acer, Asus and Lenovo, all of which have struggled to match its low cost despite using the same new Intel “Wildcat Lake” chip. The review frames the Unibook as a…
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I’m a psychiatrist, and I’ve seen what happens when estranged families end up living near one another again… and it’s rarely good. This is the ONE thing Prince Harry needs to do to make things right with William
A Daily Mail psychiatrist columnist, writing after news broke that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex plan to move back to Britain with their children, warns that physical proximity often forces estranged families to confront rifts they have long avoided, rather than automatically producing reconciliation. Drawing on clinical experience, the writer argues that distance allows…