Alex Dobrenko

☝️ Leonardo da Vinci first attempted to unravel the mystery of gravity more than a century before Sir Isaac Newton – and he had a pretty good grasp of it, too, per a recent peer-reviewed study that examined da Vinci’s now-digitized notebooks. Click to see more stories.

✌️🎞 Earlier this week, Netflix announced that all five seasons of Arrested Development will be leaving the platform on March 15. And it’s not the only streamer saying “bye brother” to content.

🤔📱 BeReal's weekly downloads are down ~95% from its 2022 highs, according to a recent tweet from venture capitalist Sasha Kaletsky. Which begs the question: is BeReal about to BeDone?

☝️ A meter-long asteroid made impact with the Earth’s surface early Monday morning, creating a bright flash in the skies over Western Europe.

☝️ You’re looking at the winner of this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award, which shows a snow leopard in the Indian Himalayas; the pic was chosen from a pool of nearly 30,000 entries. Click to see more stories you should know for today.

🔥 It's Monday, February 13th – and here's what's hot, hot, hot.

☝️ You’re looking at the winners of the 32nd annual International Snow Sculpture Championships, which was recently hosted in Breckenridge, CO.

🤔💋 In a strange new twist on the classic “will they, won’t they” trope, the latest mystery swirling around Hollywood involves a kiss between the two leads of Netflix’s recently released You People, Jonah Hill and Lauren London.

☝️ Scientists have discovered the fossilized remains of the largest known penguin to ever roam the Earth, per a new peer-reviewed study published yesterday; the 340-pound behemoth, called Kumimanu fordycei, was roughly the same size as a gorilla, and swam in the oceans around New Zealand 50 million years ago.

🔎📉 Alphabet might as well change its name to Alexander, because it had a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day yesterday. Its stock dropped nearly 8% – erasing over $100B in market value – following Google's AI- and- search-focused event.

💰📺 Many of the 2023 Super Bowl ads have already been released. Take a peek.

☝️ Shift Robotics has invented new $1,400 “shoes,” called Moonwalkers, that reportedly increase walking speed by 250% without the wearer expending any extra energy. Click to see more stories you should know for today.

🔍🤖 Last week, a small group of Bing users were able to access a test version of the site that had a ChatGPT integration. It only lasted a few minutes, but revealed some details about Microsoft’s upcoming AI-infused search engine.

☝️ A train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in the Ohio village of East Palestine over the weekend, forcing thousands of residents to evacuate. Click to see more stories you should know for today.

☝️ Lily the dog sits in front of a series of canine paintings from a traditional English country house that’ll be auctioned off by Christie’s this week; the middle painting, called “The wounded hound,” is expected to fetch over $300,000.

🐊🎸 Elton John’s ongoing Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour has become the highest-grossing concert tour of all time, with ~$818 million in total ticket sales, per a recent Billboard report.

☝️ A suspected Chinese “surveillance balloon” is currently hovering above Montana.

💦 Welcome to the water wars...

☝️ Tyre Nichols’ family and friends celebrated the 29-year-old amateur photographer and skateboarder’s life with heartfelt tributes and songs of faith at his funeral in Memphis, TN, yesterday. 

📅🌤️ Today, up to 20,000 people are expected to visit Punxsutawney, PA, (pop. 5,770) to see if Punxsutawney Phil – who by the way has correctly predicted spring 69% of the time – will see his shadow.