Author: Vidya Saras

Aave founder and CEO Stani Kulechov has outlined a broader strategic vision for the protocol following a contentious governance vote that rejected a proposal to transfer control of Aave’s brand assets and intellectual property to its decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).The failed vote has prompted renewed debate within the Aave community over the protocol’s long-term direction and governance structure, an issue Kulechov addressed directly.In a post published Friday on the Aave governance forum, Kulechov argued that the protocol must evolve beyond its core decentralized finance (DeFi) lending business to pursue opportunities in real-world assets (RWAs), institutional lending and consumer-facing financial products. He…

12. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the ReapingWith or without Jennifer Lawrence’s heroic archer, Katniss Everdeen, audiences can’t get their fill of The Hunger Games, so 2023’s The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is being followed by another prequel adapted from one of Suzanne Collins’s novels. This one is set 24 years before the first set of Hunger Games films, so it features younger versions of several of the main characters from the Katniss saga. It should be fun to see how well the new actors match the old ones. Ralph Fiennes plays President Snow, who was played as an older…

Bold and the Beautiful jumps into 2026 and we are looking ahead to predictions for the year ahead. From Katie Logan (Heather Tom) to Hope Logan (Annika Noelle), Deacon Sharpe (Sean Kanan) to Carter Walton (Lawrence Saint-Victor), Bill Spencer (Don Diamont), Luna Nozawa (Lisa Yamada), and more, we expect big stuff in this new year. Bold and the Beautiful Prediction: Deacon Bails on Sheila Our first prediction kicks off with Deacon and Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown). I suspect they might split soon, even if they eventually get back together. Deacon is still crushing on Taylor Hayes (Rebecca Budig), and Sheila…

Multisectoral groups on Monday raised their recommendations on the P6.793-trillion national budget approved by the bicameral for 2026, following their concerns on the P633 billion worth of projects at risk for corruption and patronage. “We recommend that the President take action on more than P633 billion worth of projects at risk of corruption and patronage in the bicam version of the budget,” the Roundtable for Inclusive Development (RFID) and People’s Budget Coalition (PBC) said in a joint statement. Both chambers of Congress separately ratified the bicameral conference committee report on the proposed national budget for 2026 on Monday. The first…

Cross-section of a two-month old cerebral organoid observed under a fluorescence microscope. Institut Pasteur-SupBiotech/NASA hide caption toggle caption Institut Pasteur-SupBiotech/NASA Research on conditions like autism, schizophrenia and even brain cancer increasingly relies on clusters of human cells called brain organoids. These pea-size bits of neural tissue model aspects of human brain development as they grow for months and even years in a lab. They also make many people uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self. A group of scientists, ethicists, patient advocates and journalists met for two days in Northern California this…

Breath is invisible It has no form, no fixed rhythm, no single state. And yet it shapes everything: the nervous system, emotional regulation, presence, and healing. The challenge behind Frequency Breathwork was not to “design a website for a wellness practice”, but to translate an intangible physiological and emotional process into a digital, interactive experience — without reducing it to clichés. frequencybreathwork.com This article explores how concept, motion, sound, and code were woven together to create a site that breathes rather than simply presents information. Learn modern web animation using GSAP 3 with 34 hands-on video lessons…

FRIDAY, JANUARY 2 ■ Full Moon tonight (exactly full at 5:03 a.m. Saturday morning EST). The Moon is above Jupiter, Castor, and Pollux this evening, as shown below. Appearances are very deceiving in astronomy, because its realities are far outside the ordinary realms of human experience that shape our intuitions. Jupiter, for example, is actually 41 times larger in diameter than our close-to-home Moon, and pointlike Pollux, an orange giant star, is 44 times larger in diameter than Jupiter. ■ Jupiter’s Great Red Spot should cross the planet’s central meridian (the line down its middle from pole to pole) around…

Tommy Freeman ended 2025 in style, carving through Bath’s defence like a hot knife through butter to score a stunning hat-trick in a statement Northampton win. With Freeman to the fore in a team missing a host of his England colleagues, the Saints inflicted a first home league defeat on the reigning champions since October 2024. It was a display of pace and panache that marked Phil Dowson’s men out as a side clearly capable of winning the PREM Rugby title in 2026. It rubberstamped Freeman as one of the best players in the country and brought the curtain down on a…

Makuochi Okafor,BBC Africa, LagosandIan AikmanSocial MediaThe former heavyweight champion was a passenger in the crash, which killed his team members Latif Ayodele (left) and Sina Ghami (right)Anthony Joshua’s driver has been charged after a crash in Nigeria injured the boxer and killed two of his team members, police have said.Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, 46, was charged at the Sagamu Magistrates’ Court on Friday. Police sources told the BBC the charges included causing death by dangerous driving.Joshua’s personal trainer, Latif Ayodele, and strength coach, Sina Ghami, died on Monday after the vehicle they were travelling in crashed into a stationary truck on…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Electric vehicles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Tesla lost its crown as the world’s biggest electric-vehicle maker in 2025, as it was overtaken by Chinese rival BYD following a second year of declining vehicle sales. Elon Musk’s carmaker delivered 1.64mn fully electric vehicles last year, a 9 per cent fall from the 1.79mn it shipped in 2024.BYD said on Thursday that it sold 2.26mn pure EVs in 2025, up 28 per cent from a year earlier following its expansion in Europe and other overseas markets. The Chinese group had…