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The Verge

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Apple’s first smart display needs to make the smart home just work

Some Apple Home users have shoehorned iPads into wall-mounted home controllers. However, reports indicate Apple is developing a dedicated home control device. | Photo By Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

The smart home has an interface problem. Searching for an app on your phone, fighting with a confused voice assistant, and fiddling with a “smart” display to turn off a light is enough to send anyone running back to the wall switch. But now,...

The Verge

David Pierce

The government’s plan to break up Google

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For two decades, Google Search has been unstoppable. Invincible. So thoroughly dominant that would-be competitors often couldn’t even get funding, because investors didn’t see the point in trying. But earlier this year, a judge declared that Google’s power, and the way the company wields it, was an illegal monopoly. And so now the US Department of Justice has to figure out how to undo it.

On this episode of The Vergecast, we dig into the DOJ’s...

Fast Company

Jesus Diaz

New study shows Tesla makes some of the most dangerous cars on the road

An analysis of accidents from 2018 to 2022 show Tesla’s fatal accident rate is double the national average.

A new study on U.S. road fatality data from 2018 to 2022 shows that Tesla is the brand with the most fatal accident rate: “They have a fatal accident rate of 5.6 per billion miles driven […] The national average fatal accident rate for all vehicles in the U.S. is 2.8 per billion miles.”

Fast Company

Reuters

How quickly can Trump’s new DOGE panel scrap federal regulations?

Experts say eliminating federal regulations can be a monumental task.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who were tapped by Republican President-elect Donald Trump to lead a new Department of Government Efficiency, have revealed plans to wipe out scores of federal regulations crafted by what they say is an anti-democratic, unaccountable bureaucracy.

Fast Company

Christopher Zara

Dog lovers blindsided as fast-growing startup Bark Social abruptly shuts down all locations

The company, which offered annual memberships to pet-friendly social spaces, said it has hit an unexpected funding crunch and must immediately close its doors

Dog owners in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and other Northeast cities were left stunned yesterday when Bark Social, a fast-growing startup that runs a network of pet-friendly social clubs, said it would abruptly close its doors.

BuzzFeed - Latest

I Highly Doubt You Can Match These 15 Common Quotes To Their Movies

There are HUNDREDSSSS of movie quotes that have become so popular that people don't even realize when they are using them!

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Wired Top Stories

Chris Haslam

Carv 2 Digital Ski Coach Review: Cheaper, Easier, Better

This tech-led, ski-school outfit thought they'd make their virtual snow instructor hardware better by taking out a key component. Amazingly, it's worked.

Mashable

Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones have dropped to the lowest-ever price for Black Friday

SAVE OVER $100: As of Nov. 22, Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones are on sale for $298 in Amazon's Black Friday sale. This is 25% off their list price of $399.99.

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Mashable

Amazon Black Friday ad: The best deals you can buy online

Black Friday has become some sort of unstoppable monster that grows larger every year. We get that for some people, Black Friday is an irritating event that floods their screens with ads for sales they don't want or need. But for others, it's the single best time of the year to shop.

You can find deals on just about everything from leading retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, Target, and Home Depot. You can expect some really impressive offers from these sales, but when it really comes down to...

Mashable

Bowen Yang takes on Hot Ones, stays impressively cool

Bowen Yang is clearly a man of many talents.

Alongside his work on Saturday Night Live and his upcoming role in Wicked, it turns out another of Yang's talents is handling very spicy wings with minimal concern. In the Hot Ones episode above the star chats to host Sean Evans about standout filming moments from Wicked, his first ever conversation with Lorne Michaels, and favourite sketches he's pitched to celebrity guests on SNL, all while chomping through sweltering wings and keeping an...

Mashable

All We Imagine As Light review: A resplendent portrait of womanhood

Amid the heady haze, unrelenting traffic, and humidity of the city of Mumbai, three complex women sit at the core of Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light. Written and directed by the Mumbai-based A Night of Knowing Nothing filmmaker in her first fiction feature, the film is as much an ode to modern womanhood as it is to the bustling city itself.

With exquisite, vulnerable, and dynamic performances from Kani Kusruti (Girls Will Be Girls), Divya Prabha (Ariyippu), and Chhaya Kadam (Sister...

SBNation.com

Mark Schofield

Yuki Tsunoda and VCARB hope to keep improving at the Las Vegas Grand Prix

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After a tough FP1, both Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson made some gains in FP2 at the Las Vegas Grand Prix

The Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix got off to a slow, and dusty, start during the first practice session Thursday night. With the circuit set on the busy Las Vegas streets, dust that accumulated during the day on the surface led to drivers slowly winding their way around the track during FP1, struggling to find grip, and posting slower...

SBNation.com

Mark Schofield Joseph Acosta James Dator

NFL Week 12 upset picks include Bears over Vikings and a shocker in Carolina

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Here are our upside picks for Week 12.

Every week is tough when trying to identify potential NFL upsets.

Week 12 of the 2024 NFL season might be tougher than most.

Thanks to some games between evenly-matched teams, and a few potential blowouts on paper, our writers here at SB Nation struggled to pick out some potential upsets for this week.

But alas, we forge on. Here are four potential upsets for Week 12 of the 2024 NFL season.

New York Giants (+6)...

SBNation.com

RJ Ochoa

Victor Cruz believes the New York Giants need to evaluate the talent they have across the board

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Victor Cruz believes the Giants are working towards the future.

The New York Giants are down quite bad at the moment. This is fact.

Such has been the case for a very long time now for those unaware. It sounds silly to say something like “if they hadn’t won two Super Bowls” because the Giants have lifted the Lombardi Trophy twice since 2007 (only the New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs can claim the same), but the reality is that outside of two...

SBNation.com

Doug.Farrar

Will the 2024 NFL season reset the running back market? 

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Saquon Barkley and Derrick Henry are having great seasons, but will it have a lasting impact on running back contracts?

There are some singular contracts that don’t just reset the thought process for the teams offering those deals – they change the concept of overall and positional value in a much larger sense. Back in 2007, when rookie contracts were pretty much whatever teams wanted them to be, the then Oakland...

SBNation.com

Mark Schofield

Toto Wolff compares 2025 F1 launch event to the NFL Draft

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Mercedes boss Toto Wolff compared the 2025 F1 launch event to the NFL Draft

While the 2024 Formula 1 is still in its final act, plans are already underway for the 2025 campaign. Next year looks to be a transformative season in F1, with Lewis Hamilton moving to Ferrari and the sport entering its final year under the current regulations before new technical directives are implemented in 2026.

2025 also marks the 75th season of F1, and to commemorate that...

ESPN.com

Jason Kelce to host late-night TV show on ESPN

Former NFL player Jason Kelce announced during an appearance on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" that he will host "They Call It Late Night with Jason Kelce" on ESPN.

Fast Company

Rob Walker

Donald Trump sends a message—in a Big Mac Combo Meal

Donald Trump’s photoshoot with RFK Jr. made a statement about McDonald’s, even as it rolls out half-gallon jugs of McRib Sauce.

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Prepare To Be Impressed: These Popular 55 Beauty Products Will Make You Go “Oooooh”

You're guaranteed to find a new personal fave in this line up.

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15 Super Weird Hazing Stories From Members Of Sororities And Fraternities That Left Me Speechless

"I walked into a fraternity house once and saw a pledge duct-taped to the wall wearing skis and goggles while drinking a beer. He didn’t seem to mind."

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