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Aarian Marshall

As Questions Swirl Around Tesla’s Superchargers, the Race Is On to Fill the Power Gap

The company's decision to eliminate the team building its charging infrastructure comes at a delicate time for the EV industry. Other players are eager to pick up where Tesla left off.

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33 Products That Prove We’re All A Bit Icky At Times (It's Not Just You, I Promise)

Spoiler alert: You're not the only one with boob sweat, ear hair, and funky toes.

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Savannah Leigh Richardson

Gary Player: ‘Tiger Woods’ PGA Tour career completely ruined’ amid “wrong decision”

Photo by Oisin Keniry/R&A/R&A via Getty Images

Player dropped a bomb regarding Tiger Woods’ career and how changes prevented him from winning more majors on the PGA Tour.

Gary Player joined the German KW Golf YouTube channel to discuss various topics, including his health, fantastic golf courses, exercise, golf coaches and the difference between pros and amateurs.

But most interestingly, he voiced his opinion on Tiger Woods' career and how the Big Cat’s choices saw him...

BuzzFeed - Latest

Keep Or Pitch: 2024 Aesthetics

There's aesthetic for everything nowadays...

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BuzzFeed - Latest

"In My 20s, I Shouldn't Have Even Been Around A Child": Eva Mendes Reveals Why She's Happy To Be An Older Mother

"I could not have raised kids in any other era of my life but now, for sure."

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BuzzFeed - Latest

Just 34 Quirky Products That’ll Put You In A Silly, Goofy Mood

If you've ever felt compelled to dramatically slam a door when you knew it wasn't ~appropriate~, grab this mini one you can slam whenever you want.

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The Verge

Sean Hollister

Asus won’t say if the ROG Ally’s SD card reader will ever be truly fixed

The Asus ROG Ally. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

What is Asus hiding?

Two weeks ago, I told you how Asus has officially extended its warranty on the ROG Ally gaming handheld’s SD card reader to two full years in the United States, presumably to give you more time to get it fixed. But Asus refuses to confirm to The Verge that it’s actually identified a fix for the issue. If you ship your Ally back to Asus, there’s no guarantee the problem won’t reappear.

Early on, some...

Mashable

Hands-on with the Claude AI app: It's pleasant to use, but janky

Anthropic's Claude is arguably the best consumer-facing large language model at the moment, with its top-tier version having bested OpenAI's GPT-4 in at least one major benchmark test and on a popular LLM user evaluation site. So it's only natural that Anthropic would take advantage of the halo effect by releasing a Claude iOS app. 

After all, if Anthropic had kicked this can down the road a few months, it most likely would have been releasing an app to promote a language model that had just...

Mashable

TikTok is avoiding Apple commissions for App Store purchases

In 2020, Apple banned the popular video game Fortnite from the App Store. The game's publisher, Epic Games, attempted to get around paying Apple its 30 percent commission for in-app purchases of the game's V-Bucks currency. In response to Fortnite's workaround that sent users outside of the App Store to make a purchase, Apple kicked the game out of the App Store.

Fast forward to 2024 and it looks like TikTok has now deployed a similar tactic in its iOS app. The question now though: is TikTok...

ESPN.com

Tim Bontemps

NBA: Refs missed Maxey travel on 4-point play

Officials missed a travel on 76ers guard Tyrese Maxey with 25.4 seconds to go in Tuesday's Game 5 win over the Knicks, the NBA said on Wednesday.

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Jess Bidgood

How Six-Week Abortion Bans Went From Fringe to Reality

Even opponents of abortion saw such curbs as too controversial just over a decade ago. Times have changed.

The Verge

Umar Shakir

Snapchat will soon let you edit your messages after sending

Edit messages, AI Bitmoji fashion, and reminders round out the new Snapchat update. | Image: Snap

Snap is launching a slew of new features in Snapchat, including the ability to edit already sent messages allowing you to rectify a “your” vs. “you’re” typo or other embarrassing errors. Snapchat is also getting emoji reactions, map reactions, and a new AI-powered reminders function.

The edit message feature does have a short window: you need to act within five minutes of...

ESPN.com

Kyle Bonagura

Coach Prime, son belittle CU transfer, FCS player

Colorado coach Deion Sanders and QB Shedeur Sanders, his son, clapped back to a former player, another FCS player and other critics on social media.

Wired Top Stories

Sofia Barnett

How Sidechat Fanned the Flames of University Campus Protests

Amid tensions about free speech on university campuses and the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, anonymous social media app Sidechat has become a hotbed of vile rhetoric.

NYT > Home Page

Marcus J. Moore

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Bass

Writers, scholars, radio hosts and musicians, including the bassist Ron Carter, share songs that shine a light on an instrument that lays the foundation of jazz.

NYT > Home Page

Alice Callahan and Dani Blum

Bird Flu Highlights Concerns Around Raw Milk

Testing suggests that pasteurization inactivates the virus. But what about raw milk and cheese?

NYT > Home Page

Claire Fahy

Veteran Collected Benefits After Lying About Purple Heart, U.S. Says

Sharon Toney-Finch, who served in Iraq in 2010, was charged with fraudulently claiming to have a Purple Heart and with defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs.

NYT > Home Page

Alan Rappeport

Giant Pandas Are Returning to San Diego, China Announces

“Panda diplomacy” has represented an area of cooperation between the United States and China despite tension over weighty issues of trade and national security.

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