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Shane Goldmacher

How Biden Is Leveraging His Defiance to Try to Stem Democratic Defections

In private and in public, President Biden made clear he holds all the cards when determining his political future. Can he get his Democratic critics to fold?

The Verge

Sean Hollister

Why your Philips Hue bulb is randomly setting itself to 100 percent brightness

Philips Hue smart LED light bulb gear. | Image: Philips

Are your Philips Hue smart light bulbs seemingly going rogue, randomly turning themselves up to full brightness even if you’ve set them dimmer? Philips Hue parent company Signify is aware of the issue, has figured out the root cause, and tells The Verge that a fix is coming as soon as next week.

“After extensive analysis, we have identified an interoperability issue with the Matter smarthome standard, in which random...

Mashable

Google Maps is experimenting with showing you pop-up ads while you drive

Google Maps is testing a new feature that may drive — no pun intended — you up a wall. Anthony Higman, a Google Maps user, posted on X about it, pointing out that he spotted a never-before-seen pop-up ad while driving with the navigation app near Atlantic City, New Jersey.

"Yo Check Out This Wild New Ad Format On The Google Maps App," Higman wrote. "I Put In Directions Down The Shore And Then When I Passed This Gas Station This Royal Farms Ad Popped Up With 'Add Stop.'"

Higman added that...

ESPN.com

Djokovic rips 'disrespect' of crowd in post-win rant

Maybe the Centre Court crowd was hailing Novak Djokovic's foe by saying his name. Maybe they were booing Djokovic, trying to rattle him. The 24-time Slam champion was sure it was the latter -- and he let everyone know he was not happy about it.

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Yung Gravy And Bbno$ Want To Form A Musical Throuple With Justin Bieber — Now, It's All I Can Think About

Move over Tashi, Art and Patrick, there's a new throuple in town.

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The Verge

Wes Davis

Meta’s $24.99 monthly pay later plan covers the Quest 3 and Quest Plus

Photo: David Pierce / The Verge

Meta is now offering an interest-free $24.99 monthly payment plan to get its Quest 3 VR headset, along with two years’ worth of a Meta Quest Plus gaming subscription and its extended warranty. That starting price is for the 128GB model, but 10 bucks more per month will get you the 512GB version. Whichever way you go, you could pay almost $200 less than you otherwise would by buying everything individually.

The loans are supplied by Affirm, one of the...

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Ricky O'Donnell

Cooper Flagg’s dominant USA Basketball practice is putting NBA hype in overdrive

Cooper Flagg took over the scrimmage against the all-time legends on the U.S. Paris Olympics roster

Cooper Flagg already feels like a lock to be the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. The 17-year-old from Maine has enrolled at Duke after stamping himself as the top high school player in the country regardless of class, and he’s poised to become college basketball’s biggest one-and-done star since Zion Williamson. Flagg’s arrival to the NBA was already going to be a...

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Víctor Fernández García, Cristina Santín

Extreme Wildfires Have Doubled in Frequency and Intensity in the Past 20 Years

These findings align with other evidence that wildfires are getting worse—such as the total area burned each year ratcheting up.

Wired Top Stories

Simon Hill

17 Best Early Amazon Prime Day Deals (2024)

Prime Day falls on July 16 and 17, but we’ve handpicked deals on WIRED-tested products—from tech to blenders to hair straighteners—sitting at some of their lowest prices ever.

BuzzFeed - Latest

This Handheld Spin Brush Is A "Game Changer In Cleaning" — And It's 50% Off

This electric scrubber will cut your cleaning time in half, and save you pain in the process.

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Fast Company

Shalene Gupta

Toxic bosses who get away with being awful share one key trait

According to a new study, people are more okay with abusive management in these cases.

What’s the line between what people view as an abusive boss versus one who simply dishes out “tough love”?

Fast Company

Chris Morris

Now that Paramount has found a buyer, what’s next?

Skydance’s David Ellison and Jeff Shell hint at some of their plans for the company, including $2 billion in potential cuts.

The long–running saga of Paramount’s sale is finally at an end, but the real work might just be beginning.

The Verge

Jay Peters

iOS 18 has a new ‘dynamic’ color-shifting wallpaper

Imagine this wallpaper, but then it shifts colors. | Image: Apple

iOS 18’s third developer beta includes a “dynamic” version of the default iOS 18 wallpaper that shifts colors, as reported by 9to5Mac. Previous betas had four color options (and dark mode counterparts) for the wallpaper, but this new dynamic option changes between colors over time.

Check out this video from leaker ShrimpApplePro to see the wallpaper and some of the color shifts. I think it looks pretty...

Mashable

In case you missed it, ChatGPT on Mac suffered a serious security issue

OpenAI released a ChatGPT app for Mac less than two weeks ago – and there's already been a security issue.

It turns out the ChatGPT for Mac app had been storing users' conversations with the AI chatbot in plain text. 

OpenAI has since fixed the issue with an update, so its important to download the latest ChatGPT for Mac version from the OpenAI website.

SEE ALSO: It’s not just ChatGPT. A new AI chatbot is coming to iPhone, according to new report. ...

Mashable

Donald Glover and Jordan The Stallion link up for lookalike TikTok

Multihypenate talent Donald Glover, who just dropped his new single "Lithonia," can add another accomplishment to his resume: a major collaboration on TikTok. OK, so it's not necessarily the same as the award-winning series Atlanta, but Glover teamed up with TikTokker @Jordan_The_Stallion8 to film a video joking about the fact that many folks seem to think they look alike.

If you're unfamiliar with Glover, well, where have you been? He's a movie and TV star, an accomplished musician under...

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Jacey Fortin and Jonathan Wolfe

Intense Heat Suspected in 4 Weekend Deaths in Oregon

Temperature records have been shattered from California and Nevada to North Carolina in the last few days, and relief is still days away, forecasters say.

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Shannon Sims

Tropical Storm Beryl Spawned a Symphony of Spawning Toads

As the storm crossed Houston on Monday morning, the call of the toads echoed from every flooded street corner.

ESPN.com

Steelers CB Sutton suspended for eight games

Steelers cornerback Cameron Sutton has been suspended eight games for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy, the league announced Monday.

Fast Company

Associated Press

TSA breaks its record for single-day passenger screenings as travel surges

Eight of the 10 busiest days in TSA’s history have come this year as the number of travelers tops pre-pandemic levels.

More than 3 million people passed through U.S. airport security on Sunday, the first time that number of passengers have been screened in a single day as travel surges, according to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

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