/Top Stories/ Last Updated: Tue, Dec 24th, 2024 @ 10:00am EST

SBNation.com

Kris Willis

Biggest needs heading into Christmas for each National League team

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images

The Mets and Cubs have made big moves, but several other contenders still need to strike.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! December is a time full of giving and receiving gifts to celebrate the holidays.

Now that the winter meetings have passed, only a few days remain before Christmas and turning the page to 2025. Each team has question marks worth answering, some with presents under the tree for you and me.

Without further ado, here are...

SBNation.com

Austin Bechtold

Biggest needs heading into Christmas for each American League team

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images

Several teams still have some long shopping lists.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! December is a time full of giving and receiving gifts to celebrate the holidays.

Now that the winter meetings have passed, only a few days remain before Christmas and turning the page to 2025. Each team has question marks worth answering, some with presents under the tree for you and me.

Without further ado, here are some of the most pressing topics...

The Verge

Chris Welch

2024: a good year for earbuds

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images

This year paved the way for a future where earbuds are much more than audio accessories.

Read the full story at The Verge.

The Verge

Allison Johnson

The Barbie Phone is plastic, fantastic, and impractical

Hi, Barbie!

The Barbie Phone, much like the doll it pays tribute to, is a thing of beauty. But like that doll whose proportions, historically, are impossible, the Barbie Phone just isn’t built for the modern world.

Even if the ultra-feminine aesthetic isn’t your thing — and it’s not really mine — you have to hand it to the Barbie flip phone. From the box it comes in, to the interchangeable back plates, rhinestone stickers, and Barbie-fied interface, it’s a delight. The...

Wired Top Stories

Skye Battles

Home Is Where the Couch Is: Photos by Natcha Wongchanglaw

Natcha Wongchanglaw’s Couchsurfing photos explore how travel turns transient encounters into meaningful—and vulnerable—moments.

Wired Top Stories

Julian Chokkattu

Woosh Smart Air Filter Review: No More Guessing

I spent nearly a year with Woosh's smart air filter, which can give you a better idea of when to replace your home's HVAC filter.

SBNation.com

RJ Ochoa MTPeterson

We absolutely need to see the Cincinnati Bengals in the playoffs

Katie Stratman-Imagn Images

This Bengals team is too good for us to not see in the playoffs.

The NFL’s pre-Christmas Sunday slate is in the books and what a glorious round of football action it was.

While there is still some question as to whether or not the RedZone channel will remain commercial-free for the rest of time there is zero question that the San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals will all be headed home when the regular season concludes. They were each...

The Verge

Jess Weatherbed

American Airlines resumes flights across the US following ‘technical issues’

Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images

American Airlines temporarily grounded all of its flights in the US this morning due to unspecified technical issues, disrupting travel at the start of a busy Christmas Eve. Service has now resumed as of 8AM ET according to a statement American Airlines spokesperson Sarah Jantz provided to CNN.

The airline suffered a massive system outage according to multiple travelers on X who are facing delays, which prevented boarding passes from being scanned...

BuzzFeed - Latest

If You Want To Get Your Life Together Before 2025, Here Are 36 Things To Check Out

There's no better way to ring in the new year than by resting well in tangle-free sheets and getting organized thanks to a fresh set of bullet journaling pens.

View Entire Post ›

BuzzFeed - Latest

40 Products With Reviewer Photos That Belong In A Museum

These would draw in more crowds than the Mona Lisa.

View Entire Post ›

Mashable

NASA spacecraft just plunged into the sun and broke stunning records

Early on Christmas Eve in 2024, a NASA craft swooped at blazing speed through the sun's atmosphere.

The Parker Solar Probe, equipped with a robust heat shield, made the closest-ever approach to our dynamic star, coming some 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) from the stellar surface. That's seven times closer than any other probe. The mission is designed to fly into the sun's corona, or outer atmosphere, which spawns many of the powerful solar storms and weather that impact Earth....

Wired Top Stories

J. Clara Chan

Disney Pulled the Plug on This Game in 2013. A Group of Teens Kept It Alive

Thanks to a bunch of game-makers who were still teens when Toontown Online disappeared, the beloved online world lives on as Toontown Rewritten.

BuzzFeed - Latest

35 Cool, Random, And Inexpensive Things To Treat Yourself To So You Don’t Turn Into The Grinch

You *may* just become the new mayor of Whoville for scoring these cheap, cheerful finds.

View Entire Post ›

The Verge

Jess Weatherbed

This solid aluminum keyboard costs as much as a MacBook Pro

Image: Serene Industries

If statement keyboards are your thing and you have some serious cash to burn, you should check out this brutalist flagship offering from Serene Industries. The Icebreaker is a wedge-shaped mechanical keyboard constructed from a single block of CNC-machined aluminum, featuring hot-swappable aluminum keycaps with configurable RGB backlighting.

Preorders are available now, with pricing starting at $1,500 for the wired version. A Bluetooth wireless and a wired...

Fast Company

Jared Newman

The 25 best new apps of 2024

Productivity boosters, AI standouts, hidden gems, and more.

One of the most pleasant surprises about this year’s best new apps have nothing to do with AI.

Fast Company

Nate Berg

5 great design films you should watch right now

Epic and influential designers, both real and imagined, hit the screen.

Given their visual allure, it’s an obvious jump for objects of design to make their way to the big screen. But seeing a piece of architecture or industrial design on film can be more than just a different view.

Fast Company

Lars Schmidt

7 ways HR will look different in 2025

The field of HR is being re-written in the age of AI, a new administration, and a climate where stability is a thing of the past.

The workplace is at an inflection point. Rapid advancements in AI, intensifying polarization, eroding employee perks and protections, and shifting employee expectations are transforming the role of HR in unprecedented ways. These trends demand bold, strategic responses from HR leaders who must balance technological adoption with human-centered leadership, global...

Fast Company

Reasons to be Cheerful

How these simple electric trucks are helping Rwandan farmers boost their profits

In Rwanda, farmers often watch their harvest spoil before it can reach the market. Ox Delivers is changing that.

Esperance Dushakimana looks at her field of potato in Musanze district in North Rwanda. “It is hard,” she says. “We till the land, sow the seeds, reap the harvest and then watch helplessly while at least a fifth of it perishes before it reaches the market.” Barely 30 miles away in Rubavu, mushroom farmer Vincent Ngamije is forced to sell his harvest on the cheap across...

The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program.
The time or date displayed (including in the Timeline of Articles feature) reflects when an article was added to or updated in LooksNeat.