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Updated May 22, 2026 09:18AMBrazilian shamans, psychedelics, breathwork, cold plunging. Ed O’Brien, the British songwriter and guitarist best known for his work with Radiohead, has embraced it all as part of his healing journey. “I am drawn to phenomena that are on the fringes and things you can’t explain,” he told Outside on a call from London. “I believe in magic. It’s inherent to music-making. Music doesn’t come from studied, accumulated knowledge. It comes through you.”Magic and mysticism are key themes in O’Brien’s second solo album, Blue Morpho, which dropped May 22. Four years in the making, the project is both…

A Utah data center proposed by Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary is expected to be massive. The project—called Stratos but also referred to as Wonder Valley—would be 40,000 acres, or roughly double the size of Manhattan. It could consume up to 9 GW of power, which is more than double the entire state’s average electricity use. That is, if it ever gets built. Right now, the reality of a 9 GW Utah data center doesn’t seem all that likely to Olivia Wang, a research analyst at Sightline Climate, an energy transition intelligence firm. Or at least, she says, not “at…

Two climbers of Indian origin died on Mount Everest on May 22. Both had reached the top and perished while descending. Two client climbers are dead on Mount Everest after a busy week on the mountain (Photo: Everest Live)Published May 22, 2026 09:19AMTwo climbers died on Mount Everest on Friday, May 22, amid another busy day on the summit.Outside learned of the fatalities from a liaison officer with Nepal’s Department of Tourism who is stationed at Mount Everest Base Camp. Both climbers were clients of the Nepali guiding company Pioneer Adventures. The deaths marked the first fatalities of the 2026…

Fans were more than a little annoyed when large portions of season 5 of The Boys, ahead of its ultimate ending, appeared to be a large ad for the upcoming Vought Rising prequel spinoff series. That stars Jensen Ackles’ Soldier Boy, who had almost the most screen time of anyone in season 5, and in the end, did not seem terribly necessary for where things ended up, and is put back on ice, right where he started.Now, the actual trailer for Vought Rising has been released, and while I may be predisposed to be annoyed with it after season 5,…

Published May 22, 2026 07:40AMUpdate May 2026: For this season’s guide, we chose two new category winners, and created three new categories (Most Versatile Tee, Most Breathable Tee, and Best Raceday Tee). We again worked with the Outside Lab for stats on air permeability and dry time, and added a new breathability test. Warm spring temperatures mean it’s time for runners to break out the tanks and tees. You’ll enjoy your miles more if you’re wearing a running top that moves with you, wicks sweat, and keeps you comfortable, so you can focus on fresh blooms and green grasses. Our favorite…

Remember Donald Trump’s response in the 2016 presidential debate, when Hillary Clinton blasted him for paying virtually no federal taxes?“That makes me smart,” Trump said.By that logic, Trump is looking smarter than ever now.On Tuesday, the Internal Revenue Service agreed to drop all pending probes of Trump over whether he’s paid his fair share of taxes, to settle a lawsuit brought by the president over a leak of his tax returns. That could include, assuming it was ongoing, a long-standing audit into a technique Trump reportedly used to avoid paying taxes years ago that could have hit him with an…

Aruna Veerappan is Senior Director of Engineering at Upwork, leading Developer Enablement to reduce friction and boost team productivity.Engineering leaders are discovering that the hardest part of AI agents isn’t the AI—it’s the architecture underneath.I learned this firsthand when a quarterly budget disappeared in weeks. Nothing was broken, the models worked and the engineers were strong. But the system hadn’t been designed for cost, and the bill arrived before a single workflow reached production.The root cause: we were pointing expensive models at every task. Verifying file existence. Checking ownership against APIs. Routing logic that could have been a single if-statement.…

The last time Los Angeles hosted the Olympic Games, designers had a relatively simple typographic system. It used the italic sans-serif Univers 66 as its logotype along with a blocky stencil-style “LA84” mark that appeared on venue and urban signage. More than 40 years later, the 2028 Los Angeles Games will use an entire bespoke four-font book. The typeface of the 2028 Games brand and design system developed by Koto Studios is called LA28, and it’s inspired by strip mall signage and hand-painted street lettering across L.A. The typeface comes in four distinct styles, Display, Sans, Serif, and Super, and…

Joan Vendrell, NeuralTrust CEO and cofounder, has 15+ years of technology leadership experience advancing enterprise-grade AI security.​I recently spoke with a CISO who was preparing for a major production rollout of an autonomous customer service agent. They had passed their traditional penetration tests with flying colors. But when I asked how the agent would handle a multi-step prompt injection attack that evolved in real time, there was a long silence. “We tested the model last month,” they finally said. “But the agent is learning and interacting with live data every hour.”This is the fundamental challenge of the agentic era. Traditional…

Published May 22, 2026 03:21AMThe results are amazing: a simple tweak to your warm-up routine improves mile time by two to three percent. That’s the key finding of a new study testing the effect of “combined cognitive and physical warmups,” in which you limber up both body and mind before exercise. Is this a magical new warmup style that will sweep the world? I’m not so sure—but I do think the results tell us something important about what a good warmup does (and doesn’t) do.What the Study Found A research team at the University of Birmingham in Britain, led by…