The Lego Game Boy is a joy to assemble and display. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Deals on the Lego Game Boy are virtually nonexistent, save for the $10 discount that Costco and Sam’s Club offered their members when the set launched late last year. The deal is back — this time, at Kohl’s — and no membership is required to get $10 off. You can purchase the Lego Game Boy and have it shipped ...
The Lego Game Boy is a joy to assemble and display. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Deals on the Lego Game Boy are virtually nonexistent, save for the $10 discount that Costco and Sam’s Club offered their members when the set launched late last year. The deal is back — this time, at Kohl’s — and no membership is required to get $10 off. You can purchase the Lego Game Boy and have it shipped (or elect to pick it up in-store) for $49.99 when you use promo code TOYS10 at checkout. Lego Game Boy Where to Buy: $59.95 at Amazon $59.99 at Lego $59.99 $49.99 at Kohls (with code TOYS10) The Lego Game Boy is a 421-piece homage to Nintendo’s influential handheld from 1989. And, unlike most Lego sets, there are various ways to interact with the brick-based Game Boy that might evoke some strong memories if you ever owned this model. It features clickable buttons, a movable floating directional pad, and a set of Lego car tires that act as the Start and Select buttons. Clearly, Lego and Nintendo had fun designing this. The set includes two cartridges you can assemble ( The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and Super Mario Land ). While the mock cartridges obviously don’t boot into real games, the set includes lenticular screens that make it look like these games are running on the hardware. My colleague Sean Hollister reviewed the Lego Game Boy, and he adores the attention to detail and almost everything about it except the screen, which doesn’t match the original hardware’s limited green color palette. Even if you’re as particular as Sean is, there’s still a lot to love here.
Another run-of-the-mill streaming caper that fails to offer anything we haven’t seen done better many times before Back in his 2000s studio comedy heyday, there would have been something commercially grabby about a film that offered up two Vince Vaughns for the price of one. In that period, it would have been a wide theatrical release and probably a considerable draw in the wake of hits such as Do...
Another run-of-the-mill streaming caper that fails to offer anything we haven’t seen done better many times before Back in his 2000s studio comedy heyday, there would have been something commercially grabby about a film that offered up two Vince Vaughns for the price of one. In that period, it would have been a wide theatrical release and probably a considerable draw in the wake of hits such as Dodgeball, Wedding Crashers and The Break-Up. But cut to 2026, and the exhaustingly titled action comedy Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is a far shakier prospect, a drastically less marketable actor in a weakened genre that’s now almost exclusively streaming only. It doesn’t help that it also lands after a year packed with other actors doing double duty – Robert Pattinson in Mickey 17, Dylan O’Brien in Twinless, Robert De Niro in Alto Knights, Elle Fanning in Predator: Badlands, Theo James in The Monkey and an Oscar-winning Michael B Jordan in Sinners – and what might have felt like a unique selling proposition now feels like yet more of the same. The film, which recently premiered at SXSW and is now landing swiftly on Hulu/Disney+, is the very definition of more of the same, a flavourless soup of limp quips and needle drops that resembles any other star-led action comedy that one has already double-screened on a streamer in recent times. Continue reading...
Luis Alvarez/DigitalVision via Getty Images Back in January, SoFi Technologies, Inc. ( SOFI ) reported its fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 earnings , which looked like a beat-and-raise. For the quarter, revenue was roughly $1.01 billion, outpacing Wall Street estimates by 3.0%. Meanwhile, diluted EPS came in at about $0.13, also outpacing estimates by 12.59%. For the full year , revenue came in ...
Luis Alvarez/DigitalVision via Getty Images Back in January, SoFi Technologies, Inc. ( SOFI ) reported its fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 earnings , which looked like a beat-and-raise. For the quarter, revenue was roughly $1.01 billion, outpacing Wall Street estimates by 3.0%. Meanwhile, diluted EPS came in at about $0.13, also outpacing estimates by 12.59%. For the full year , revenue came in around $3.59 billion, while (diluted) EPS came in at roughly $0.39, both outpacing estimates by 0.97% and 5.97%, respectively. That said, SoFi stock has declined ~25% since earnings, and I will get into the why in the following sections. But considering the potential growth driver in the pipeline and the quality of the numbers that SoFi just printed, this roughly 25% dip looks like a compelling entry point for investors willing to look past the near-term noise. With that in mind, I’m rating SoFi a Buy. What Stands Out in SoFi’s Latest Financial Report? In the latest quarter , SoFi crossed $1 billion in revenue for the first time. Again, revenue reached around $1.01 billion, which increased 40% from the same quarter last year, and this tells us that the company may be entering a new phase of scale. Meanwhile, adjusted EBITDA rose 60% year over year to $318 million, which is essentially operating profit before items such as interest, taxes, and non-cash charges, while adjusted net income rose 184% to $174 million over the same period. Now, within the business, fee-based revenue increased 53% to $443 million. This is (basically) the money SoFi earns from financial services and fees, not income from the actual lending business. Moreover, revenue from both the Financial Services and Technology Platform segments reached a combined $579 million, which is up 61% compared with the same period last year. What that potentially suggests is that SoFi is steering the ship toward revenue that doesn’t require a ton of capital to generate, which is exactly what makes lending more demanding....
Healthcare may end up being one of your biggest expenses in retirement, if not the biggest. So it's an important thing to budget ahead of time. You may be familiar with Medicare costs on a basic level. Part A, for example, does not typically charge enrollees a premium, but Part B works differently. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Healthcare may end up being one of your biggest expenses in retirement, if not the biggest. So it's an important thing to budget ahead of time. You may be familiar with Medicare costs on a basic level. Part A, for example, does not typically charge enrollees a premium, but Part B works differently. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
JHVEPhoto/iStock Editorial via Getty Images The near-term outlook for key semiconductor customers in the auto and industrial markets is still murky, but exposure to growth opportunities in data centers, sensing, robotics, and power continues to resonate well with investors. To that end, STMicroelectronics’ ( STM ) recent efforts to highlight its leverage to these markets, as well as growing confid...
JHVEPhoto/iStock Editorial via Getty Images The near-term outlook for key semiconductor customers in the auto and industrial markets is still murky, but exposure to growth opportunities in data centers, sensing, robotics, and power continues to resonate well with investors. To that end, STMicroelectronics’ ( STM ) recent efforts to highlight its leverage to these markets, as well as growing confidence that the worst is behind the business, have boosted sentiment for these shares. STMicro shares are up about 20% since my last update , a strong result relative to the broader semiconductor space, as well as more direct comparables like Infineon ( IFNNY ), NXP Semiconductors ( NXPI ), ON Semiconductor ( ON ), and Renesas Electronics ( RNECY ). Provided that the ongoing hostilities between the United States, Israel, and Iran don’t trigger a broader downturn for the economy, STMicro’s business should recover in 2026, with notable acceleration in the second half of the year continuing into 2027 and beyond. Moreover, while STMicro does face meaningful competition across multiple markets, opportunities in areas like data centers (or DCs), power, robotics, and sensing do support a more bullish outlook. A Quick Look Back Expectations for STMicro’s fourth quarter were modest, and the company basically met them. Revenue was basically flat from the prior year and up more than 4% from the prior quarter, which was good for a small beat relative to the Street. While the auto business remains pressured (down 15% yoy and up 3% qoq), personal electronics, industrial, and communications markets were all stronger. Gross margin declined 250bp from the prior year as excess capacity continues to weigh, but did improve about two points sequentially on a better mix. Operating income declined 28% yoy and rose 23% qoq, with margin down about three points yoy to 8%, with pronounced weakness in its auto-driven Power & Discrete Products driving the weakness. Inventory days improved by 5 to 130 in ...
PhonlamaiPhoto/iStock via Getty Images X-Energy Is Seeking An IPO On High Cash Burn X-Energy, Inc. ( XE ) has filed to raise general corporate working capital from an IPO, according to an S-1 registration statement . The company is developing small modular reactors (SMR) and related fuels. XE is seeking what may be as high as a $300 million IPO for its general R&D and operating costs as it pushes ...
PhonlamaiPhoto/iStock via Getty Images X-Energy Is Seeking An IPO On High Cash Burn X-Energy, Inc. ( XE ) has filed to raise general corporate working capital from an IPO, according to an S-1 registration statement . The company is developing small modular reactors (SMR) and related fuels. XE is seeking what may be as high as a $300 million IPO for its general R&D and operating costs as it pushes forward in commercializing its SMR technologies in the U.S. amid strong demand from AI data center operators. While the market environment is favorable, the firm’s ability to navigate through regulatory and approval processes after decades of inertia is its primary challenge. I’ll provide an update once we learn additional details about the IPO. What Does X-Energy Do? X-Energy designs small modular reactors and manufactures nuclear fuels in the United States. It is developing its flagship product, the Xe-100 High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) type SMR, which is designed to generate 80 megawatts of electric power or 200 megawatts of heat or a combination of the two. The technology has been in development by the company for ten years but has a longer operating history in previous versions, ‘including those at Peach Bottom in the U.S., and Dragon in the U.K. in the 1960s-1970s, and more recently with China’s ongoing deployments of HTGRs in the 21st century.’ The firm has developed a close relationship with the U.S. Department of Energy and has been awarded contract funds from the DoE’s ARDP (Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program) as one of two awardees of the $2.4 billion program. X-Energy is eligible for up to $1.2 billion in reimbursement from that program and has been reimbursed $438 million through the end of 2025. The firm’s 2025 revenue contribution is shown in the chart below: SEC XE is led by Chief Executive Officer J. Clay Sell, who has been with the firm since 2019 and was previously president of Hunt Energy Horizons, the renewable energy unit of Hunt Consol...
Sundry Photography/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Synopsys ( SNPS ) partnered with Arm ( ARM ) to produce the UK-based company's new AGI CPU , which was designed for data centers. Synopsys provided electronic design automation, interface IP, and hardware-assisted verification during the process. "Designing data center silicon for increasingly complex AI workloads requires rigorous validation ac...
Sundry Photography/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Synopsys ( SNPS ) partnered with Arm ( ARM ) to produce the UK-based company's new AGI CPU , which was designed for data centers. Synopsys provided electronic design automation, interface IP, and hardware-assisted verification during the process. "Designing data center silicon for increasingly complex AI workloads requires rigorous validation across the full system," said Mohamed Awad , executive vice president of Arm's Cloud AI Business Unit. "The Arm AGI CPU reflects the strength of our SoC design and the effectiveness of our collaboration with Synopsys. Their design, IP, and verification solutions supported the development and validation of our breakthrough performance-per-watt chip for next-generation AI infrastructure." The new CPU for data centers means Arm will be competing in the space with chipmakers such as Nvidia ( NVDA ), Intel ( INTC ), and AMD ( AMD ). Meta Platforms ( META ) will be one of the initial major customers of the new chip, which will be produced by Taiwan Semiconductor ( TSM ). More on Synopsys and Arm Holdings Arm Holdings: Resilience In Smartphone Revenue Justifies Hold For Now (Rating Upgrade) Synopsys: Design IP Weakness Doesn't Really Matter Post Transition Arm Holdings: Best Business Model In Its Sector, But There Are Concerns Arm unveils data center CPU as it looks to take on Intel, AMD Elliott's stake in Synopsys a 'near-term positive,' focus on 'margin' - analysts
Vladimir Zakharov/iStock via Getty Images Market Summary Technology stocks, particularly AI-related names, remained in the spotlight during the fourth quarter, with much market attention on the rally's sustainability and the scale of capital expenditures. Investor concerns grew about whether outsized investments in AI would deliver expected returns, prompting some to reduce overweight tech positio...
Vladimir Zakharov/iStock via Getty Images Market Summary Technology stocks, particularly AI-related names, remained in the spotlight during the fourth quarter, with much market attention on the rally's sustainability and the scale of capital expenditures. Investor concerns grew about whether outsized investments in AI would deliver expected returns, prompting some to reduce overweight tech positions, with interest broadening to other areas, including biotech and metals & mining stocks. Despite tech's prominence, healthcare was the quarter's top sector in the S&P 500® Index, which tracks 500 of the largest U.S. companies. Across market capitalizations, value stocks were favored over growth stocks, and investors appeared to be positioning for a cyclical upswing, supported by lower interest rates and expectations for accommodative fiscal policy. Fund Performance The Virtus KAR Small-Cap Value Fund returned -2.80% (Class I) in the quarter, underperforming the Russell 2000® Value Index's 3.26% return. Stock selection in financials, combined with stock selection and an underweight position in healthcare, detracted from performance. Stock selection and underweight positions in information technology and real estate contributed positively to performance. RBC Bearings ( RBC ) and CSW Industrials ( CSW ) were the largest contributors to performance during the quarter. RBC Bearings, an international manufacturer of highly engineered precision bearings and products, continues to benefit from robust growth across its aerospace business. > CSW Industrials, which manufactures industrial chemical products, benefited from an upward revision in the valuation of the business due to its perceived prospects going forward. Construction Partners ( ROAD ) and Houlihan Lokey ( HLI ) were the largest detractors from performance in the quarter. Construction Partners, a leading civil infrastructure company specializing in road construction and maintenance, reported strong operating results, bu...