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Emily Mullin

Neuralink Plans to Test Whether Its Brain Implant Can Control a Robotic Arm

Elon Musk’s brain implant company is launching a new study to test whether its wireless device can control a robotic arm.

Mashable

Microsoft Outlook outage: What happened?

A Microsoft outage on Monday has affected Outlook and Teams users. Microsoft is aware of the issue and working on a fix, but said it's "facing delays in our recovery efforts."

Reports of issues began around 8 a.m. ET and spiked around 12:30 p.m. ET, according to DownDetector (which shares a parent company with Mashable). Reported outages have since tapered off, suggesting the issue might be resolved soon.

The Microsoft 365 account on X said, "We’ve identified a recent change which we...

The Verge

Elizabeth Lopatto

I have some notes on Sam Altman’s note-taking advice

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Nilay’s main love language is trolling, and so he sent me this video of Sam Altman talking about note-taking, because he knew it would annoy me.

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Now I recognize there is a school of thought which will say something like “Whatever it is that will get you to successfully take notes is correct.” This is true if you are...

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Wes Davis

YouTube shares a final blog post from Susan Wojcicki on fighting lung cancer

Photo: Dennis Troper (Facebook)

YouTube has shared a final blog post from Susan Wojcicki, the company’s former CEO and one of Google’s earliest employees, detailing her unexpected diagnosis and two-year battle with lung cancer. Wojcicki wrote the message in the last weeks of her life and had planned to publish it this fall, according to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan. Wojcicki died unexpectedly in August.

In the blog post, Wojcicki discusses life with the disease, along with her efforts...

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Wes Davis

Google is inserting search links into webpages in the Google App now

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The Google App for iOS can automatically convert some website text into links to Google Search results, as announced in a community post that SERoundtable spotted.

Google calls the feature “Page Annotations” and says it “extracts interesting entities from the webpage and highlights them in line,” which can then take you out to Search results when you tap them — inserting links without explicitly asking the user or the site owner first. It seems like...

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Eric Woodyard

Prosecutor: Lions' Williams won't face gun charges

Prosecutors have decided that no legal action will be issued against Detroit Lions WR Jameson Williams stemming from his traffic stop on Oct. 8.

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All The Best Toys And Games To Buy During Walmart’s Black Friday Sale

For the little kids, the big kids, and even the adults who embrace their inner kid.

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Antonio Piemontese

COP29 Agreement Says Someone Should Pay to Help Developing Countries, But Not Who

Rich countries have agreed to pay developing nations $300 billion a year to help them with their climate actions—but the agreement doesn’t say who specifically should contribute or how.

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Jack Milko

Tiger Woods makes Hero World Challenge decision sure to disappoint fans

Tiger Woods at the 152nd Open Championship. | Photo by Andy Buchanan/Getty Images

Tiger Woods has made his decision on whether or not he will play in next week’s Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas.

Tiger Woods will not be playing at the Hero World Challenge next week, the tournament he hosts every December in the Bahamas.

He made the announcement on social media.

“I am disappointed that I will not be able to compete this year at the Hero World Challenge, but always look forward...

The Verge

Wes Davis

Meta’s mixed-reality attempt at a Wii Sports knockoff is coming

Home Sports remembers that bowling was the best part of Wii Sports. | Image: Meta

A new game called Home Sports is coming to the Meta Quest 3 and 3S on December 11th, and from its aesthetic to its music, this $19.99 title is clearly trying to be the Wii Sports (or Nintendo Switch Sports if you like) for mixed reality.

Images: Meta / Nintendo That logo looks very familiar.

Like Nintendo’s simplistic motion control-based sports series, Home Sports offers several games: hockey,...

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Catie Edmondson

Mitch McConnell Is Ready to Pick His Own Fights After Senate Leadership

The longest-serving Senate leader is relinquishing his post in the next Congress and planning to use his influence in ways that could put him at odds with President-elect Donald J. Trump.

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Katie Barnes

Judge rejects request to sit SJSU volleyball player

A judge rejected a request to block a San Jose State women's volleyball team member from playing in the Mountain West tournament on grounds that she is transgender.

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Jeff Carlisle

WC, Olympic champ Naeher retiring from USWNT

United States goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher announced her international retirement on Monday, calling the past 15 years "the greatest honor."

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ESPN staff

Surprise ROY? Repeat MVPs? Expert picks for NBA early-season awards

Our NBA insiders break down their choices for the six major awards based on players' and coaches' performances one month into the 2024-25 NBA season.

Mashable

Are you holding space for the lyrics of Defying Gravity?

It's time to trust your instincts, close your eyes...and try holding space for "Defying Gravity." Or at least that's what Wicked fans will have you believe after an interview with stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo went viral late last week.

SEE ALSO: 'Wicked' review: Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo aspire for movie musical magic

In the video, Tracy E. Gilchrist, an interviewer from Out Magazine who was apparently through with playing by the...

Mashable

Intels 20-year-old AI ethics prodigy on the future of artificial intelligence

Ria Cheruvu has been ahead of the curve for most of her life. After graduating from her Arizona high school at just 11, the student deemed prodigy became one of the youngest people to ever graduate from Harvard. Her collegiate record is a marvel to many. 

Following a period studying neurobiology and during the completion of her first computer science degree, Cheruvu was hired for Intel's ethics team — preceding the AI boom that would soon hit mass markets, and years before the phrase...

Mashable

Amazon workers plan global protests and strikes on Black Friday

Amazon employees around the world are preparing for protests and strikes on Black Friday.

The global effort has been organized by UNI Global Union, which represents service industry workers, and activist group Progressive International. 

Amazon workers in more than 20 countries plan to strike and take part in protests starting on Black Friday, one of the biggest annual shopping days for retailers. The protest efforts will go on into Cyber Monday, one of the biggest online shopping days of the...

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Justine Calma

UN climate negotiations were a major bummer

Activists protest against fossil fuels and for climate finance on day 11 at the UNFCCC COP29 climate conference on November 22nd, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan.  | Photo by Sean Gallup / Getty Images

Maybe it was the host of the UN climate summit in Azerbaijan this month calling oil and gas a “gift of God.” Or the US, the world’s biggest oil and gas producer, reelecting a president who says “we don’t have a global warming problem” just before the conference. Then again, the...

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