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Don’t hold your breath for a resurgence of government internet subsidies. Republicans and Democrats can’t seem to agree on a way forward to fund the program, and passing such bills will only get more difficult as Election Day inches closer.
Democrats and Republicans have introduced dueling bills to reauthorize the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum auctions, where the agency doles out access to...
Hue’s new Twilight bedside lamp costs $280. | Image: Philips Hue
Following leaks last week, smart lighting company Philips Hue has confirmed it has a new sunrise lamp called Twilight. The company also announced several other new products, including a less expensive light strip, new decorative Lightguide bulbs, and the Datura ceiling light. The new products are available now, except the ceiling light, which is coming on September 10th.
The Philips Hue Twilight ($279.99 / €279.99)...
Union organizer Chris Smalls speaks following the April 1st, 2022, vote for the unionization of the Amazon Staten Island warehouse in New York. | Photo by ANDREA RENAULT / AFP via Getty Images
Amazon Labor Union (ALU) members voted to affiliate with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in a move they hope will bring new life to a yearslong struggle to secure union contracts for Amazon warehouse workers.
Amazon has tried to block various efforts to unionize across different...
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has a release date and a new gameplay trailer, both of which were announced at Tuesday's Nintendo Direct.
Keegan Bradley celebrates with the trophy after winning the 2023 Travelers Championship. | Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images
The final Signature Event of the season is here and the SB Nation staff has made their picks on who will prevail in Connecticut.
The final Signature Event of the 2024 season has arrived, as 71 golfers will tee it up at this week’s Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut.
Rory McIlroy will not be there, as he opted to take some time off following his...
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The Olympic flame is making its way to Paris, and F1 driver Charles Leclerc was part of the relay
The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics are just over a month away, the the Olympic flame has begun its journey to the Opening Ceremonies.
And on Tuesday, the Olympic torch relay had a Formula 1 feel.
As the relay made its way through Monaco, Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc was one of the individuals tapped to carry the torch through the Principality....
YouTube videos are getting the Community Notes treatment.
The platform will be experimenting with a community-driven fact-checking feature, announced June 17, and designed to provide "relevant, timely, and easy-to-understand" context to YouTube videos — an apt endeavor as misinformation (and disinformation) proliferates online.
"This could include notes that clarify when a song is meant to be a parody, point out when a new version of a product being reviewed is available, or let viewers...
By now, you've probably heard about Elon Musk's grand plan to turn X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, into an "everything app." One of the major pillars of Musk's reimagining of X includes a payment platform much like PayPal or Venmo.
New documents obtained by Bloomberg shed new light, not only into Musk's financial service vision for X, but also into just how much the company has struggled financially since he acquired it in October 2022.
These new documents are prepared...
"It's actually so insane that people are calling Chappell Roan (a lesbian) an industry plant… the music industry would literally never."
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Fisker CEO Henrik Fisker. | Photo by Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images
Earlier today, Fisker finally did what has seemed inevitable these past few turbulent months: declared bankruptcy.
“Like other companies in the electric vehicle industry, we have faced various market and macroeconomic headwinds that have impacted our ability to operate efficiently,” the company said in a statement. “After evaluating all options for our business, we determined that proceeding with a...
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What if your laptop didn’t need a processor from an established brand like Intel or AMD? What if it didn’t even rely on proprietary paid architectures like Arm and x86? RISC-V is one of the answers to those questions — it’s free for anyone to use! — and modular computer company Framework has just decided to welcome RISC-V into its laptop lineup.
Specifically, Framework has partnered with DeepComputing, the company behind the very...
Students and young workers from more than 120 universities have pledged to refuse work at Google and Amazon until the Israeli contract is dropped.
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With forecasters calling for severe weather in Omaha Tuesday evening, Tuesday’s elimination game between Kentucky and Florida has been postponed
Florida and Kentucky are set to square off at the Men’s College World Series, in a do-or-die game for both teams.
Now they will have another night to think about what needs to be done.
With the threat of severe weather looming over Omaha — forecasters are calling for thunderstorms and heavy rain —...
"Me every day unsure if I'm texting him or my doctor."
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New Zealand’s Marcus Daniell (TOP) and Michael Venus compete against USA’s Austin Krajicek and Tennys Sandgren during their Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games men’s doubles tennis match for the bronze medal at the Ariake Tennis Park in Tokyo on July 30th, 2021. | Photo by Vincenzo Pinto / AFP via Getty Images
Athletes are raising concerns about how extreme heat might affect the Summer Olympic Games in Paris, according to a new report. They’re worried that soaring temperatures pose...
The Portal is getting a very slow trickle of software updates. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge
The PlayStation Portal is getting a couple of modest features it should have had in the first place. Sony announced on its PlayStation Blog that a software update for its handheld remote player will allow users to connect their devices to public Wi-Fi networks that require sign-in, like free ones found at hotels and cafes.
Also in this update are new visual cues when you tap...
Butterflies AI.
So far, generative AI has been mostly confined to chatbots like ChatGPT. Startups like Character.AI and Replika are seeing early traction by making chatbots more like companions. But what happens when you dump a bunch of AI characters into something that looks like Instagram and let them talk to each other?
That’s the idea behind Butterflies, one of the most provocative — and, at times, unsettling — takes on social media that I’ve seen in quite a while. After a...
Image: TikTok
TikTok recently launched a new Instagram-like photo-sharing app called Whee, as spotted by Android Police and APKMirror founder Artem Russakovskii.
TikTok is explicitly positioning Whee as an app for sharing photos with only your closest friends. “Capture and share real-life photos that only your friends can see, allowing you to be your most authentic self,” according to Whee’s Google Play description. “Whee is the best place for close friends to share life...