Tech

‘People like cheap energy’: the bagel shop saving money and emissions with plug-in batteries

A pilot scheme in Brooklyn is giving businesses batteries to form an electricity storage network – part of a growing number of innovative DIY energy ideas around the world

What is Pokopia? Inside the calming Pokémon game that ditches battles for gardening

We explore the cosy world-building spin-off with Game Freak’s Shigeru Ohmori and his fellow developers – and learn how it began with a Pokémon-hunting dream

From Brontë to Ballard, Orwell to Okri: the best songs inspired by literature

As Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights gets a boost from a new film adaptation, we survey the surprising, seditious and sensual ways in which prose has influenced pop

Finger-pointing, feuding, and frustration over El Paso airspace fiasco

CONFUSION, LACK OF COORDINATION, OVER EL PASO: What may have been an incursion from a Mexican drug cartel drone, or sources say, more likely, a mylar party balloon floating harmlessly over the skies over El Paso, Texas, triggered a high-tech response that resulted in massive confusion.

ULA Vulcan rocket suffers booster problem while launching classified Space Force payloads

Updated on: February 12, 2026 / 6:59 AM EST / CBS News

Russia blocks WhatsApp as messaging app crackdown gathers pace

WhatsApp on Thursday said Russia had attempted to "fully block" its service, with 100 million users affected. The Kremlin later confirmed the move.

Thirty years later, Section 230 Is protecting the wrong people

Sometimes when my teenage son attempts to educate me about the internet, I find myself tempted to quote Aslan from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, “Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written.”

Here’s a key task for the new boss at the BBC: solve the mystery of all the disappearing women

A report detailing how the careers of female presenters are curtailed should be a clarion call. The problem has endured for too long

'I wasn’t acting: that was me’: how non-actors took over Oscar season

From One Battle to Another to Marty Supreme, supermarket magnates, professors and special agents have been stealing scenes on screen

Super Nintendo by Keza MacDonald review

A portrait of the company whose ‘toymaker philosophy’ stands in contrast to the tech giants that rule our lives

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast review

When old school friends reunite at a funeral, they suspect foul play. Cue this frenetic, witty caper from Derry Girls’ Lisa McGee – complete with a sensational performance from Saoirse-Monica Jackson

Cybersecurity experts explain how surveillance footage of Nancy Guthrie's home was recovered

Updated on: February 11, 2026 / 6:05 PM EST / CBS News