S ony has announced it will end Blu-ray Disc media production in February, marking the end of its nearly two-decade run. Unfortunately, it will also mark the end of optical media ...

Additionally, even Blu-ray discs can rot and fall victim to mold, especially when stored in damp areas. In the past, artists were able to earn from the sales of their shows or movie box sets long ...

Read on to see if you might be dealing with brain rot yourself, and secure some tips to help you avoid it altogether in 2025 and beyond. It takes more than a few rat memes to qualify for brain rot.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US government’s V-Disc label (“V” for victory), founded to boost the morale of the military, ran ...

Others expressed stronger emotions. “He will rot in hell,” one man in his 50s who did not give his name said outside the building. “Carter’s failure… to properly deal with Iran made his ...

We’ve also seen brands and retailers exit the 4K Blu-ray market, whether it’s selling discs or players. In two of the major news stories for 4K Blu-ray, Best Buy decided to stop stocking 4K ...

According to Oxford University Press, Brain rot is defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state” after the overconsumption of material considered to be ...

SINGAPORE – “Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law,” wrote 19th-century Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. Today, as Gen Z and Gen ...

It turns out that the slang "brain rot" may not be an inaccurate description of what's actually going on in our domes while we endlessly scroll TikTok. The nefarious thing? These symptoms are ...

The Oxford University Press word of 2024 was “brain rot”— meaning both the “low-quality, low-value content” found online and the intellectual deterioration from its overconsumption.