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Umar Shakir

Google Messages brings back customizable contacts

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Google is adjusting the “profile sharing” feature in its Google Messages app to allow users to set custom contact names and photos on their own devices for their stored contacts and others they send text messages. As reported by 9to5Google, a change rolled out late last year that overrode your custom names and photos with each individual’s broadcasted profile, but now you can change it back to give friends, colleagues, and family members the names and...

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Sheena Vasani

Apple’s latest iPad Mini is down to its lowest price to date

The seventh-gen iPad is the cheapest tablet in Apple’s current lineup to support Apple Intelligence. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge

If you’re in the market for a highly portable tablet, Apple’s smallest tablet has fallen to its lowest price to date at multiple retailers. Right now, the latest iPad Mini is on sale at Amazon and Best Buy with Wi-Fi and 128GB of storage starting at $399 ($100 off). If you need more storage, you can also buy the step-up model with 256GB of...

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I Apologize In Advance, But Non-Americans Think These 18 American Foods Are Absolutely "Disgusting"

"I hate those Midwestern 'fruit salads' where half the ingredients are marshmallow fluff or mini marshmallows, jello, whipped cream, etc. I have a high tolerance for American food, but I cannot handle these or even comprehend why and how they exist."

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Jesus Jiménez and Jack Healy

L.A. Wildfire Evacuees Scramble to Find Shelter, Exacerbating Housing Shortage

More than 90,000 people under evacuation orders are making do however they can.

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Emma Roth

‘Goodbye to my Chinese spy’ might be the last great TikTok trend

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TikTokers are coping with the app’s potential ban with an unusual trend: by bidding farewell to their “personal Chinese spy.” The trend, which pokes fun at security concerns surrounding the app, has users thanking their “spy” for surveilling them and filling their For You page with entertaining content, while others proclaim that they’d rather share their data directly with the Chinese government than switch to Instagram Reels...

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After Thematically Naming Their Kids, Patrick And Brittany Mahomes Have Welcomed Baby No. 3 And Revealed Their Name

The pair also share a 3-year-old daughter and a 2-year-old son.

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Noah Weiland

How Does Senate Confirmation Work?

The Senate’s role of “advice and consent” is a marathon of meetings and paperwork.

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Jack Milko

What would a LIV Golf team look like in Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s TGL league?

Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka walk to the first tee during The Showdown. | Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images

LIV Golf stars could add an enticing element to Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s TGL league.

For almost a century, golfers and fans associated team play with international competitions, such as the Ryder Cup or Solheim Cup.

LIV Golf has since changed that. When it launched in 2022, the Saudi-backed circuit incorporated a team element. Thirteen squads now exist, each...

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Ash Parrish

AGDQ 2025 earns $2.5 million for charity with its best event yet

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Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 has concluded, raising just over $2.5 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Every Games Done Quick event is worth tuning in to either live or later via VODs, but this AGDQ was uniquely fantastic, filled with runs that’ll go down as some of the best GDQ has to offer. Here are some of our favorites:

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

The great thing about the speedrunning community is that it’s often not enough to be the fastest...

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Jay Peters

Meta is already working on Community Notes for Threads

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Meta announced last week that it would be ditching fact-checkers in favor of X-like Community Notes, and self-described “leaker” Alessandro Paluzzi shared screenshots on Monday showing what the feature might look like in Threads.

Based on the screenshots, it appears you’ll be able to start the process of writing a Community Note from the three-dots menu on a post, which is where you can already access features like muting an account or reporting a post....

Mashable

Why the digital divide persists within Indigenous communities

In 2020, amid a global pandemic that highlighted a staggering digital divide among Americans, the federal government pledged to do something. 

Its solution? Some promising tech subsidies and a wave of funding for internet access initiatives, specifically high speed broadband. This money included the government's promise to fix the missing middle miles of fiber optic connections that have for decades kept many Indigenous areas offline.

At the time, the round of funding was a history-making...

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Jeffrey Gettleman and Ivor Prickett

Greenland to Trump: Not for Sale but Let’s Talk Business

The country’s prime minister said that while Greenlanders do not want to become Americans, “the reality is we are going to work with the U.S. — yesterday, today and tomorrow.”

SBNation.com

Jack Milko

Xander Schauffele withdraws from The American Express

Xander Schauffele tees off during the first round of The Sentry. | Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images

Xander Schauffele has decided to skip the third event of the 2025 PGA Tour season in Southern California.

World No. 2 Xander Schauffele has withdrawn from The American Express, according to the official PGA Tour Communications social channels.

Schauffele, who participated in TGL’s debut match against The Bay Golf Club on Jan. 7, was scheduled to play in the Coachella Valley this...

Fast Company

vsingh

Trader Joe’s exposed: The real story behind the quirky grocer

Your favorite grocer may have a cult-following but Fast Company’s Clint Rainey dives deep into the surprising truths on record product recalls, alarming safety violations, worker misconduct complaints, and an environmental track record that challenges its green image.

Your favorite grocer may have a cult-following but Fast Company’s Clint Rainey dives deep into the surprising truths on record product recalls, alarming safety violations, worker misconduct complaints, and an environmental...

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Andrew Webster

Nintendo’s Alarmo will be available for everyone starting in March

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Another day, another announcement from Nintendo that isn’t the next Switch. Today the company revealed that its alarm clock, Alarmo, will be available at select retailers starting this March. The announcement includes the US, UK, and Europe.

The $99 alarm clock launched late last year, but is currently only available to those with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. Today’s news opens that up to the larger public. The motion-controlled device...

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Emma Roth

Chinese social media app RedNote tops App Store chart ahead of TikTok ban

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RedNote, the Chinese social media app also known as Xiaohongshu, rose to the number one spot on the Apple App Store as a US ban closes in on TikTok. The app offers a mix of pictures, short-form videos, and text posts across “follow,” “explore,” and “nearby” feeds.

A cursory scroll through RedNote’s Explore page shows English-language posts scattered among those written in Chinese. Many American...

Mashable

What is RedNote? The Chinese app, aka Xiaohongshu, TikTokkers are flocking to

If the U.S. government wants to ban TikTok, Americans might flock to a different Chinese social media app. About a week before the potential ban, TikTokkers are posting about moving to RedNote, known in China as Xiaohongshu. So many are migrating to the app that it hit No. 1 on Apple's U.S. App Store on Monday.

Yes, TikTok might really be on its way out. It's unclear exactly what would immediately happen to the app on the Jan. 19 deadline — it'll likely at least disappear from app...

Mashable

Every single Amazon Fire tablet is on sale for up to 44% off

SAVE UP TO 44%: As of Jan. 13, every Amazon Fire tablet is back on sale. Find the new Fire HD 8 for 35% off, the budget-friendly Fire 7 for 44% off, and much more.

The best Amazon Fire tablet deals at a glance: BEST OVERALL ...

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