Several iconic companies have announced significant rebrandings in recent weeks, upending a series of commercial and cultural landmarks.
When Katja Vogt considers a Jaguar, she pictures a British-made car purring confidently along the Italian coastline — a vision of familiarity that conveys “that dreaming, longing feeling we all love.”
She’s not sure what to think about Jaguar now after the 89-year-old company announced a radical rebranding this week that featured loud colors and...
Nearly half of the nation’s approximately 2 million farmworkers lack legal status.
U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in the United States illegally.
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The UConn coach refused to take the blame for his technical foul in overtime that ended the Huskies’ winning streak.
Dan Hurley has made a habit out of chewing out the officials on the UConn Huskies way to back-to-back national championships in men’s college basketball. On Monday, the refs finally got the last laugh on Hurley, and it cost his team the game.
The Memphis Tigers beat UConn, 99-97, in overtime in the opening round of the Maui Invitational. Memphis led by 13 points...
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Google and the Department of Justice met one final time in an Alexandria, Virginia courtroom to debate the future of Google’s online ad tech juggernaut.
Over about three hours of closing arguments, attorneys for each side delivered their last arguments before US District Court judge Leonie Brinkema, who is expected to rule on it by the end of 2024. If she declares Google’s ad tech system a monopoly, the case will progress to a second...
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Musically speaking, I’d say Drake lost the tit-for-tat feud this year between himself and Kendrick Lamar, which culminated in Lamar’s hit song “Not Like Us.” But Drake (real name: Aubrey Graham) doesn’t seem to want to accept defeat that easily. In a petition filed in New York’s state Supreme Court on Monday, Drake is accusing Universal Music Group — the label that’s represented him for his entire career and also represents Lamar —...
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Zoom is changing its name from Zoom Video Communications Inc. to just Zoom Communications Inc. In a post on the company blog, Zoom Communications CEO Eric Yuan writes that Zoom is now an “AI-first work platform for human connection” that delivers “modern, hybrid work solutions.” It’s a muddy, if vague, change compared to its 2020 rise when the classic Zoom Meetings product became synonymous with video conferencing and thrived as...
Unranked Memphis withstands a late rally to take down No. 2 UConn 99-97 in overtime at the Maui Invitational.
Marlena Velez was arrested after broadcasting her haul of allegedly stolen goods in a video to her social media followers.
Marlena Velez, 22, who goes by the TikTok handle @marlenavelezz, was arrested for shoplifting after broadcasting her haul of allegedly stolen Target goods in a video to her 350,000 followers. The influencer was charged with one count of petty theft in Florida.
Another round of wintry weather could complicate travel leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday, according to forecasts across the U.S.
Airports and highways are expected to be jam-packed during Thanksgiving week, a holiday period likely to end with another record day for air travel in the United States.
Elon Musk’s brain implant company is launching a new study to test whether its wireless device can control a robotic arm.
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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...
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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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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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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...
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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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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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...