Year Archives: 2026

Crypto

Nexo Launches Zero-Interest Crypto Loans for Bitcoin and Ether Holders

Nexo has launched a zero-interest crypto lending product that allows Bitcoin and Ether holders to borrow against their assets through fixed-term loans.According to a company announcement, the product, called Zero-interest Credit, offers fixed-term loans for users who hold Bitcoin (BTC) and ETH (ETH), with repayment conditions set in advance. Loans are...

Money

The Nobel Prize winners have a lesson for us all

Three economists jointly won a Nobel Prize in late 2025 for their groundbreaking quantitative work analyzing how, and why, economies grow. Their math is complicated — but their conclusion is simple: to foster economic expansion, policymakers need to promote technological innovation and stoke competition between rival firms. The surest way...

nutrition

Is Surgery Necessary to Reverse Diabetes?

Losing weight without rearranging your gastrointestinal anatomy carries advantages beyond just the lack of surgical risk. The surgical community objects to the characterization of bariatric surgery as internal jaw wiring and cutting into healthy organs just to discipline people’s behavior. They’ve even renamed it “metabolic surgery,” suggesting the anatomical rearrangements...

Music

Hilary Duff Teases Dive Bar Hookup Song Amid Mama Drama

As the fervor stemming from Ashley Tisdale’s “toxic” mom group essay continues to unfold across parts of the internet, Hilary Duff — whose husband Matthew Koma entered the chat, further escalating the dramatics — is tuning it all out. On Wednesday, Duff ramped up the anticipation for her new album, teasing...

Tech

Waymo is rebranding its Zeekr robotaxi

Waymo has spent the past three years refining and testing a minivan-like vehicle made by Chinese automaker Zeekr. And now, before this robotaxi joins Waymo’s official commercial fleet, it’s getting a new name, the company told TechCrunch. The Zeekr RT robotaxi will now be named Ojai (pronounced “oh-hi”) — after...

News

Trump calls for US military spending to rise more than 50% to $1.5tn

President Donald Trump has called for US defence spending to be increased to $1.5tn (£1.1tn) in 2027 for what he called "these very troubled and dangerous times".That would be more than 50% higher than this year's $901bn budget, which was approved by Congress in December."This will allow us to build...

Science

Hunting with poison arrows may have begun 60,000 years ago in Africa

The San people of southern Africa hunt with poison arrows, and this practice may have truly ancient originsimageBROKER.com / Alamy Traces of plant toxins have been found on 60,000-year-old arrow tips in South Africa, showing that ancient hunters made use of poisons much earlier than previously known. Until recently, the...

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