First LEGO Pokémon Minifigures Revealed, Including Professor Oak and Red, Plus Pikachu and Eevee

LEGO has now officially announced its Iconic Trainer Moments: Poké Ball set, and confirmed it will launch on October 1, priced at $299.99.

Today's official announcements also include details of a range of other LEGO Pokémon sets, including a 757-piece Munchlax build, 1,190-piece Arcanine set, and a 1,083-piece Rayquaza model which includes a Zinnia minifigure.

AI Music Start-Up Suno Hires Atlantic Records, YouTube Alums to Lead Marketing and Music Business Development (EXCLUSIVE)

Suno, the controversial AI music generation company eager to partner with the music industry, has tapped two executives with longstanding ties to the business in VP roles.

The company has hired former Atlantic Records executive Grace James as vice president and head of artist marketing and editorial. In addition, Christian Bowne, former YouTube head of major label business development, will join as Suno’s head of music business development. James will lead Suno’s efforts to market its artists, including those who emerge from its incubator program Spark, while Bowne will be charged with developing its licensing strategy and partnering with the industry.

Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution

Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a rake through a bed of dark, wet wood chips on his family’s land in Hickman, a tiny town in the state’s agricultural heartland.

World Cup 2026: How Lionel Messi and Mohamed Salah have become national icons

Lionel Messi v Mohamed Salah.

Footballing legends. National icons.

Argentina face Egypt in Atlanta on Tuesday (17:00 BST) for a place in the 2026 World Cup quarter-final. It is also a meeting of two of the game's greatest players.

Scientists just measured the smallest possible contacts for future computer chips

Scientists just measured the smallest possible contacts for future computer chips
Schematics and XSTM measurements across the Bi/MoS2 interface. Credit: Nature (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10707-0

The rise of AI has created an almost insatiable appetite for computing power. Training and running AI systems requires vast numbers of transistors, and engineers are now racing to pack more of them onto every chip. With their existing designs, however, silicon transistors are rapidly running up against physical limits on how small they can get.

Midjourney founder says new AI coding tools are leaving his friends more productive — and 'extremely drained'

Midjourney founder David Holz is pictured.

Midjourney founder David Holz described the feeling amongst his friends about AI coding.

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Your programmer friend is thrilled — and tired.

Soft & Chewy Sugar Cookie Bars

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Microsoft Expected Game Pass Would Have 77 Million Subscribers by Now but It Reportedly Only Has 30 Million, as Xbox Boss Admits the Strategy Has Failed

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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has admitted Game Pass has failed to grow as Microsoft had expected, with reports indicating it is tens of millions of subscribers short of previous targets.

Xbox layoffs mean that Elder Scrolls Online's roadmap is "shifting" just two days before Season One's release... the plan put in place for the MMO after the last round of cuts

Back to the drawing board

The Thieves Guild in Elder Scrolls Online Season One
Image credit: Xbox Game Studios / Zenimax Online Studios

Yesterday brought the news that Microsoft were cutting 1600 staff, spinning out four studios, and finding a further 1600 jobs to cut in the year to come. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said in an email to staff that she was "making reductions" and "shifting investment to focus on higher priority projects".Today, we're starting to learn what those cuts mean for the teams that Xbox retained, and the projects they were working on. The most public and immediate of these is Elder Scrolls Online.

Textbooks were wrong: Scientists reveal how human hair really grows

For decades, biology textbooks have taught that human hair grows because cells at the base of the follicle divide and push the hair shaft upward. But new research suggests that explanation is incomplete. Scientists have now found evidence that hair growth is driven by a hidden pulling force generated by moving cells inside the follicle.