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Are My 25 Movie And TV "Hear Me Out" Crushes Weird Or Not?

LOOK hear me out... ???????? (yes I know some of these are really wild)

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The Ultimate Pasta Shape Showdown

I'm absolutely fed up with fettuccine.

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Reviewers Have Declared These 41 Amazon Products As "Must-Haves" So Don’t Be Surprised If They End Up In *Your* Cart

Soon you'll be adding your own 5-star, "must-have" review to the pile.

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Lauren Feiner

An effort to fund an internet subsidy program just got thwarted again

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images

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...

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Hue launches a pricey new sunrise lamp

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)...

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Justine Calma

Amazon union workers and the Teamsters have inked a deal

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...

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Megan Farokhmanesh

'Metroid Prime 4' Gets a Release Date After Years of Troubled Development

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has a release date and a new gameplay trailer, both of which were announced at Tuesday's Nintendo Direct.

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Jack Milko

Travelers Championship: SB Nation staff predicts winners for final PGA Tour Signature Event

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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Mark Schofield

Charles Leclerc joins Olympic torch relay ahead of Paris Summer Games

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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....

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YouTube tests own version of Community Notes ahead of 2024 election

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...

Mashable

Elon Musk's X revenue has officially plummeted, new documents show 

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...

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The Internet Is Debating Whether Or Not Chappell Roan Is An "Industry Plant," And I *Need* To Know What You Think

"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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Andrew J. Hawkins

Fisker tried to out Tesla Tesla, and now it’s bankrupt

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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Sean Hollister

The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

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...

Wired Top Stories

Caroline Haskins

STEM Students Refuse to Work at Google and Amazon Over Project Nimbus

Students and young workers from more than 120 universities have pledged to refuse work at Google and Amazon until the Israeli contract is dropped.

SBNation.com

Mark Schofield

Men’s College World Series: Kentucky-Florida moved to Wednesday due to severe weather

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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 —...

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