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...
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.”
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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World No. 2 Xander Schauffele has withdrawn from The American Express, according to the official PGA Tour Communications social channels.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...
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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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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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...
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...
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 ...Over the past few years, the market has been flooded with VR headsets, including the Meta Quest, Apple Vision Pro, and numerous other contenders, as companies race to establish themselves in the space.
At CES 2025, Sony unveiled the latest addition to this landscape — a brand-new VR headset and an entire line dedicated to spatial 3D content: Sony XYN.
SEE ALSO: 13 new gadgets from CES 2025 that you can actually buy right now, plus 1 coming soon ...Some say they joined Xiaohongshu, which translates to "little red book," to spite the US government after a ban on TikTok became more likely.
A UK judge ruled against James Howells, who has been trying to get a hard drive with private keys to a cryptocurrency fortune out of a landfill for over a decade.
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eBay has “signed a definitive agreement” to buy online automotive transaction platform provider Caramel to help make buying and selling vehicles on the auction site “more simple than ever.”
Caramel has a site and app that helps private parties and independent dealers sell cars by handling the paperwork, ownership transfer, financing, shipping, insurance, and more. The company has several marketplace and auction partners as well.
Although eBay has hosted listings for...
Remember how a Mormon choir performed "America the Beautiful" last time...
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Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who dismissed the classified documents case, blocked a volume about that matter from being shown to Congress but allowed the release of a volume about the election case.
In the hills above Pacific Palisades, there is crime scene tape and scattered debris, clues to what may have caused the initial fire that eventually raged through thousands of structures.
The president argued in a speech that he strengthened U.S. alliances during his four years in office and that America’s adversaries are weaker than when he took over.
Media organizations are taking unusual steps to prepare for what they fear will be a legal and political onslaught from the new administration.