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You’d Swear These 36 Sensible Wardrobe Upgrades Came From A High-End Boutique

These pieces scream "high fashion" on the outside but their price tags tell a whole different story.

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Jack Milko

Golf on TV: PGA Tour ZOZO Championship in Japan, LPGA, DP World Tour in Asia

Xander Schauffele during the Wednesday Pro-Am at the ZOZO Championship. | Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images

If you are an American golf fan this week, get ready for some late nights and early mornings. Pro golf is on the other side of the world.

Three of the four largest pro golf circuits are in Asia this week, making it difficult for American fans to watch.

The PGA Tour is in Japan for the ZOZO Championship, which features a strong field headlined by Collin Morikawa and Xander...

The Verge

Andrew Liszewski

This $50 case turns your phone into an e-reader minus the benefits of an e-reader

The Bookcase undoes years of smartphone makers working hard to reduce the size of screen bezels. | Image: Astropad

Astropad’s new Bookcase is a smartphone accessory designed to make reading on a smartphone feel more like reading on an e-reader. No, it doesn’t give your phone an easy-on-the-eyes screen, longer battery life, or any other features that have made devices like the Kindle popular. Instead, for $50 the Bookcase is really just designed to make a smartphone easier to hold...

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Andrew J. Hawkins

Tesla has been testing a robotaxi service in the Bay Area for most of the year

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Tesla has been testing a robotaxi service in the Bay Area for the past few months, Elon Musk said during the company’s earnings call Wednesday.

The company’s employees have been able to summon an autonomously operated Tesla vehicle for trips using the company’s prototype ride-hailing app, Musk said. The vehicles arrive with safety drivers behind the wheel, ready to intervene in case anything goes wrong.

But Musk said the vehicles...

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Wes Davis

Guess who’s suing the FTC to stop click to cancel

Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge

Three industry groups are suing to prevent the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from enforcing its new “Click to Cancel” rule that requires companies to make it easy to cancel subscriptions, according to Reuters. And yes, it’s exactly who you’d expect.

Click to cancel expands the Negative Option Rule to forbid businesses from making customers cancel services using a method that differs from how they signed up. So, if you sign up online,...

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41 Products You’ll Feel Like You’re The First To Discover

Be the first person you know to get your hands on a pillow for your laptop, a pair of fondue mugs, a smudge-correcting nail polish, and so much more.

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Mark Schofield

Franco Colapinto and Williams looking forward to ‘unique challenge’ of F1 Mexico City Grand Prix

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Alexander Albon will try and bounce back after a ‘tough weekend’ in Austin at the Mexico City Grand Prix

Formula 1 heads to Mexico this week for the Mexico City Grand Prix, a race that poses one of the most unique characteristics of the entire F1 season. With the track in Mexico City situated at over 7,000 feet above sea level the altitude — and thinner air — has implications for the cars and the drivers. The thinner...

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Jack Milko

Wyndham Clark offers blunt assessment on LIV Golf stars returning to PGA Tour

Wyndham Clark during the third round of the 2024 Tour Championship. | Photo by Ben Jared/PGA Tour via Getty Images

On a recent episode of the ‘No Laying Up’ podcast, Wyndham Clark delved into what the PGA Tour should do to welcome back LIV golfers.

Wyndham Clark, the 2023 U.S. Open champion, is never afraid to express his opinion.

Whether it be his exuberant self-confidence—he once proclaimed himself a better player than Rory McIlroy—or his declaration that the greens at...

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Oliver Fox

The Celtics apocalypse is underway, and the Knicks showed no one else has a chance

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The Celtics’ ring night was a day of reckoning for the NBA

The apocalypse is now for the Eastern Conference.

Now ascendant, the Boston Celtics have begun their coercive crackdown on contenders and pretenders alike. The New York Knicks, perhaps the only team in the East with the talent to do something about this, were embarrassed by Boston on opening night. Is there any hope?

In their active offseason, acquiring both Mikal Bridges and...

Mashable

'Venom: The Last Dance' review: Half a great, stupid movie

Tom Hardy is a one-man comedy duo who deserves better than Venom: The Last Dance. The English actor has played a variety of tough guys, from gangsters (Legend) and supervillains (The Dark Knight Rises) to the ultimate road warrior (Mad Max: Fury Road). But he might be at his very best as the oft-frustrated journalist Eddie Brock and his alien symbiote Venom, who is basically intrusive thoughts in the form of a goo demon. And for three movies (more if you count post-cred cameos), Hardy has...

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'Laid' trailer: Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet investigate a literal body count

Peacock's new comedy, about a woman whose previous sexual partners are mysteriously dying, premieres Dec. 19.

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12 days before election, Meta oversight board frets about political speech moderation

With 12 full days left until the 2024 U.S. presidential election, there are still concerns about if Meta can properly moderate political content on its platforms.

Two months ago, a Facebook user put the faces of presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on top of Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels' characters in the Dumb and Dumber movie poster. The poster features Carrey and Daniels' characters grabbing each other's nipples — you know...

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Police may track you to an abortion clinic with this tool, report shows

Your smartphone is likely being tracked by a tool called Locate X. Law enforcement and other U.S. state agencies use it. And they don't need a warrant to track you either.

This may or may not exactly be news to you. Locate X, created by a data surveillance company called Babel Street, previously received coverage in 2020. At the time, numerous reports uncovered a Secret Service document concerning the agency's contract with the company for usage of the tool.

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Theodore Schleifer and Glenn Thrush

Justice Department Warns Musk That His $1 Million Giveaway Might Be Illegal

Elon Musk’s super PAC, which supports Donald Trump’s presidential bid, is giving cash prizes to registered voters who sign a petition.

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Wes Davis

Dodge Chargers with semi-solid-state batteries may hit the road in 2026

2024 Dodge Charger Daytonas. | Image: Stellantis

Stellantis says it will put a “demonstration fleet” of Dodge Charger Daytonas on the road by 2026, equipped with solid-state battery technology that’s lighter, more energy-dense, and could eventually make for cheaper EVs. The company calls the demo fleet a “key next step” toward making solid-state EVs that you can actually buy.

The cars will be built on its STLA Large EV platform, which is meant to underpin more than just the...

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Sheena Vasani

Google open-sourced its watermarking tool for AI-generated text

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Google’s SynthID text watermarking technology, a tool the company created to make AI-generated text easier to identify, is now available open-source through the Google Responsible Generative AI Toolkit, the company announced on X.

“Now, other [generative] AI developers will be able to use this technology to help them detect whether text outputs have come from their own [large language models], making it easier for more developers to build AI...

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John Keim

Daniels status uncertain for Williams showdown

Commanders QB Jayden Daniels did not practice Wednesday, but the rookie's status for Sunday's game against the Bears remains uncertain.

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Rob Demovsky

Saleh joins friend LaFleur, Packers in 'fluid' role

Just over two weeks after being fired by the Jets, Robert Saleh was on the Packers' practice field Wednesday in a new role.

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Ohm Youngmisuk

How Steve Ballmer brought the Clippers' Intuit Dome to life

Ballmer's $2B investment makes its NBA debut as the Clippers open the regular season at the Intuit Dome.

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NBA insiders

Grizzlies comeback, 76ers success? Biggest questions for NBA opening week

Answering the biggest questions surrounding the start of the season, including the unknowns about Kawhi Leonard and the Suns big three's chemistry.

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