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Kristin Toussaint

New York City is under a drought watch for the first time in over 20 years

An exceptionally warm and dry Autumn has led to drought conditions across the Northeast.

After a historically warm and dry start to fall, New York City is now under a drought watch—a first for the city in more than 20 years.

Fast Company

Dan Harden

Why the future of product design is all about how it feels

After nearly two decades of sleek minimalism in digital interactions, tactile design is emerging to use texture and materiality to bring back the lost art of touch.

In 2007, Apple won the smartphone wars by betting on our collective desire to fall into the iPhone’s looking-glass screen and explore the digital wonderland that waited for us on the other side. We’ve spent the intervening years building the cyberfrontier with a rampant fervor—designing innumerable digital products and...

Fast Company

Kristin Toussaint

Striking NYT workers are asking you to skip Wordle—but they made other games for you to play

The New York Times Tech Guild is striking for a contract—which they’ve been negotiating for more than two years.

New York Times tech workers are still on strike after walking out one day before the presidential election. That means they’re still asking people to skip their usual Crossword, Wordle, or Connections routines. But now, the union has released its own offerings for games lovers that keep them from crossing the digital picket line.

Fast Company

Sam Becker

Betting odds called the 2024 election better than polls did. What does this mean for the future of prediction markets?

They may have been more right this time around, but experts say there may be little to learn from it.

Election Day has come and gone, and once again, millions of people are sifting through the data and trying to make sense of it all.

SBNation.com

Jack Milko

Report: Rory McIlroy to cut back 2025 PGA Tour schedule severely

Rory McIlroy during a press conference ahead of the 2024 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. | Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images

The Telegraph reports that Rory McIlroy will alter his 2025 schedule significantly and not play nearly as much as he did in 2024.

One year after playing substantially more golf than in the past, Rory McIlroy says he will cut back his schedule significantly in 2025.

Speaking to James Corrigan of The Telegraph, McIlroy revealed that he hopes to play in 18 or 19...

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Ali Winston

764 Terror Network Member Richard Densmore Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison

The 47-year-old Michigan man, who pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting a child, was highly active in the online criminal network called 764, which the FBI now considers a “tier one” terrorism threat.

The Verge

Emma Roth

David Zaslav says Trump will fuel big media mergers

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Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav thinks putting Donald Trump back in the White House could offer a friendlier environment for major media mergers. “We have an upcoming new administration,” Zaslav said during an earnings call on Thursday. “It’s too early to tell, but it may offer a pace of change and an opportunity for consolidation that may be quite different.”

Zaslav made the statement in response to a question about...

The Verge

Jay Peters

A whole bunch of Sega classics are being delisted

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Sega is planning to delist a lot of its classic games from digital storefronts as of December 6th at 11:59PM PT.

Steam will be affected the most, losing 62 titles including Crazy Taxi, Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine, Jet Set Radio, NiGHTS into Dreams, and Sonic 3D Blast. Sega is pulling 12 titles from the Xbox store. The Nintendo eShop and the PlayStation Store will “just” lose SEGA Genesis Classics — but that title includes more than 50 old Genesis games, so it...

Mashable

Robert Downey Jr's Broadway debut 'McNeal' utilized Artificial Intelligence to create a theatrical immersive experience. Projection designer Jake Barton shows us how.

Robert Downey Jr plays an acclaimed novelist with an unhealthy relationship with Artificial Intelligence in 'McNeal'. Projectionist and designer, Jake Barton, was tasked in creating the visually immersive element of the play to not only harness the essence of AI, but utilize it within the art itself.

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Grist

5 states where voters embraced environmental ballot initiatives (including one that will surprise you)

Across the country, voters approved spending billions of dollars on climate resilience and conservation.

Climate change didn’t take center stage during this week’s presidential election; it did not even seem to be in the wings or in the theater. Instead, the U.S. elected a candidate who has a history of rolling back environmental protections and has spoken openly about his desire to “drill, baby, drill” for more fossil fuels.

Fast Company

Mark Wilson

This shapeshifting map shows how big Trump’s 2024 win really is

American landmass doesn’t match electoral college votes. Unless you change everything about America, like this.

[Map: Courtesy of Jetpack.AI]

Almost every part of America drifted right this election (even if some of that drift was because so many liberals seem to have sat out of voting altogether).

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Sarah Bregel

‘The working class has abandoned them’: Bernie Sanders on where Democrats went wrong with Kamala Harris’s election campaign

The Vermont senator, who just won reelection, called out the Democratic party for failing to understand where Trump voters are coming from.

Now that the election is over, Bernie Sanders is speaking candidly about the Democratic party. In a memo shared on Instagram on Wednesday, Sanders expressed frustration with his view that the party is leaving behind many Americans and ignoring the issues that Democrats so deeply care about.

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Joe Berkowitz

How the right won podcasting—and helped Donald Trump win the election

For years, the podcasting space has been lurching to the right. Trump and his team handily figured out how to navigate that welcoming space, with no equal opposition.

When Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White made a speech at Trump’s victory party this week, he closed on a note of gratitude: “I want to thank the Nelk Boys, Adin Ross, Theo Von, Bussin’ with the Boys, and last but not least, the mighty and powerful Joe Rogan.”

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Reuters

COP29: Here are the key issues at the UN climate summit

As COP29 aims to set a much higher climate financing target for the years ahead, wealthy nations insist the money cannot come entirely from their budgets.

This month’s U.N. climate summit—COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan—has been dubbed the “climate finance COP” for its central goal: to agree on how much money should go each year to helping developing countries cope with climate-related costs.

SBNation.com

Mark Schofield

Oh boy, Stephen A. Smith addressed the idea of running for President in 2028

Stephen A. Smith addressed the idea of running for President in 2028, because, why not at this point

Votes are still being counted in the aftermath of Tuesday’s General Election in the United States of America. However, one race that is not in doubt is the race for President. Former President Donald J. Trump was returned to office on Tuesday, putting him in a position to become just the second President in U.S. history along with Grover Cleveland to serve non-consecutive...

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Doug.Farrar

NFL’s All-Underrated Team: 8 defensive players surprising us halfway through the 2024 season

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Zach Allen, Azeez Ojulari, Kerby Joseph among midseason Secret Superstars on defense

At SB Nation, we like to reveal the names and games of those NFL players whose performances outstrip their name recognition on a weekly basis in the “Secret Superstars” articles.

Now that we are as close to a halfway point in a 17-game season as we’ll ever be, it’s time to broaden the view a bit and focus on those players who have outperformed public...

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Rohan Chakravarthi

Meet Jarvis and Myles Hayes: Why the sons of an NBA veteran are starting to stand out at the national level

The son of seven-year NBA player Jarvis Hayes have been standing out during their high school play.

When it comes to the current era of basketball, sons of former NBA players have been taking the spotlight, headlined by Bronny James, the son of LeBron James who was just taken with the No. 55 pick in the 2024 NBA Draft.

That’s not where the line ends though, as recruits such as Kiyan Anthony, the son of Carmelo Anthony and a four-star in the Class of 2025, have also gotten in the...

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The case for each of the Classic Baseball Hall of Fame candidates

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Luis Tiant, Dick Allen and Tommy John are among eight players on this year’s Classic Era ballot.

The Baseball Hall of Fame has had some form of “Veterans Committee” ballot in its induction process going all the way back to 1939. The committees have taken various forms over the years, but the most recent process breaks up potential candidates into three groups: Contemporary Era players (since 1980), Contemporary Era non-players, and the...

Wired Top Stories

Vittoria Elliott, Angela Watercutter

After Trump's Victory, the 4B Movement Is Spreading Across TikTok

The 4B movement, from South Korea, calls for women to not date, marry, sleep with, or have children with men. Women are calling for the movement to take off in the US after Donald Trump won the election.

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