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Atlanta Dream coaching hires demonstrate the value of WNBA experience

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The Dream hired two assistant coaches with significant WNBA coaching experience — LaToya Sanders and Brandi Poole — to bolster their coaching staff.

With WNBA free agency beginning later this month, teams across the league are continuing to finalize their 2025 coaching staff and front office members. On Monday afternoon, the Atlanta Dream announced several new hires; the organization will bring in LaToya Sanders and Brandi Poole as...

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Andrew J. Hawkins

John Deere says its self-driving tractors and trucks will help address labor shortages

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The next time you pass a farm tractor tilling a field, check to make sure there’s somebody in the cab. Chances are, there won’t be.

Today at CES, John Deere announced a host of new fully autonomous vehicles that it says will revolutionize farming, landscaping, and construction. Among the new vehicles the company will have to show off are an autonomous tractor, a robot lawn mower, a crewless dump truck, and another driverless tractor, but this one designed...

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Ash Parrish

Marvel Rivals is adding The Fantastic Four with its first season update

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With the Marvel Rivals train firmly on its way, it’s time to start the game’s first official season. In a short trailer, Marvel Rivals developer Net Ease has announced that season 1 begins later this week on January 10th.

According to the trailer, season 1 features the arrival of Dracula who plunges New York City into eternal night by *checks notes* teaming up with Dr. Doom to tamper with the moon’s orbit. (Hey, it’s a comic book game, weird nonsensical...

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Allison Johnson

‘Max Ink Mode’ makes TCL’s screens even inkier

Regular smartphone by day, e-reader by night. | Image: TCL

Look, I haven’t picked up the TCL 60 XE, but I can already tell you the name of its best feature: Max Ink Mode. The 60 XE is the latest of TCL’s phones to use its Nxtpaper display technology, aimed to go easy on the eyes with reduced glare and an E Ink-like monochrome mode.

The phone has a full-color 6.8-inch display by default, but if you flip a slider on the side of the device, you enter Max Ink Mode. In addition to...

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Chris Welch

TCL’s first Mini LED TV of 2025 offers impressive specs at a tempting price

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Rather than roll out a whole series of new TVs here at CES, TCL has decided to take a staggered approach in 2025. So it came to Las Vegas with just one model to show off: the QM6K Mini LED. The company is claiming that this TV, the first of a new Precise Dimming series, “offers a level of picture quality that has never been offered in its price band before.” TCL has found itself in a fierce battle with Hisense in the Mini LED category; both brands have delivered...

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This Peloton deal doesnt just build stamina, it also saves you $250

GET $250 OFF: Dec. 6th, the Peloton Tread is currently on sale for 8% off. Get it now for $2,745 and save $250.

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Samsung and LG TVs add AI with Microsoft Copilot

In case there was any doubt, "put AI in everything" continues to be the tech world's rallying cry in 2025 — and Samsung and LG are here to prove it.

At CES 2025, Samsung and LG both announced Microsoft Copilot integration for their respective TV lineups, bringing generative AI to smart TVs for various tasks.

Long gone are the days when a TV was just a screen on which to watch stuff. Every year, our largest home screens are tricked out with more features like personalization and integration...

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Matina Stevis-Gridneff

How Canada’s Voters Turned on Justin Trudeau

Canada’s prime minister gained global renown 10 years ago for his unabashedly progressive politics. But at home, voters turned sour on him long ago.

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NFL 2025 opponents list: Who’s on each team’s schedule?

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All 32 NFL teams’ home and away opponents for the 2025 season

We’re still weeks away from the NFL’s schedule release for the 2025 season. But with Week 18 in the books, we now know which opponents each NFL team will face in 2025.

Each team will play six divisional games (three home, three away), eight games against a rotation of divisions (one from each conference), and three games determined by final place finishes.

For example, the...

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Rob Demovsky

Source: Initial tests show Pack's Watson tore ACL

Initial tests showed that Packers receiver Christian Watson suffered a torn ACL, a source told ESPN.

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Jay Peters

LG TVs are getting Xbox Cloud Gaming

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Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to some LG TVs “later this year,” Microsoft and LG announced at CES 2025. When the feature is available, if you have an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, you’ll be able to stream games from the Xbox Game Pass library and select titles that you already own from the LG Gaming Portal.

LG says you’ll be able to use Xbox Cloud Gaming on its “latest Smart TVs,” but doesn’t specify exactly which models. In a footnote, LG says...

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Emma Roth

Google will use more mics and Gemini AI to get you to talk to your TV

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Google TV is getting a Gemini integration that’s supposed to make interacting with your TV “more intuitive and helpful,” the company announced at CES on Monday. With the update, which is set to arrive later this year, you’ll be able to search for content and ask questions without starting with “Hey Google,” as reported by Bloomberg and Android Police.

As pointed out by Android Police, the integration will allow you to search for...

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Chris Welch

Hisense’s TriChroma TV could be the middle ground between Mini LED and MicroLED

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CES is always a showcase of giant-sized TVs, and true to form, Hisense has brought two enormous new models to Las Vegas this year: the 136-inch MicroLED 136MX, and the 116-inch TriChroma LED TV.

It seems like, for five or six years now, we’ve been hearing how MicroLED will usher in the next era of home theater and leapfrog OLED in terms of picture quality — without any of the potential risks such as burn-in or panel degradation over time. But the technology remains...

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Wes Davis

More Android phones with Qi2 wireless charging will finally show up in 2025

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The Wireless Power Consortium announced at CES on Monday that more Android devices will use the MagSafe-based Qi2 charging standard in 2025. That doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll all have magnets, though; the WPC says it now has a “Qi2 Ready” certification for phones that need a case to add the magnetic alignment ring but otherwise meet the charging standard’s spec.

The announcement of Qi2 Ready could explain recent rumors that...

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The 6 most WTF robots at CES 2025

Tech has, in many ways, migrated away from gadgetry — just look at everything AI — but CES 2025 has already shown there is still room for odd, physical pieces of tech. Case in point: Look at the all the weird, fun robots at this year's version of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The massive event kicks off this week and we've already gotten a look at some of the, well, WTF-inducing robots. Here's a rundown of all the odd and neat robots thus far.

Mi-Mo: A walking stool, lamp...

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Apple AirTags are back at their record low price of under $70 for a 4-pack

SAVE 29%: A 4-pack of Apple AirTags is on sale at Amazon for just $69.99, down from the usual price of $99. That's a savings of $29.01 which matches the record-low price at Amazon.

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Our top VPNs are running big deals — browse privately from anywhere in 2025.

TLDR; Jan. 6th, 2025, our top VPNs including TunnelBear, NordVPN, and ExpressVPN are running deals up to 74% off.

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Google, Apple, Samsung sign onto new universal certification for smart home devices

The Internet of Things, or the vast networks of "smart objects" now powering most of our digitally connected lives, is a step closer to living in a single ecosystem.

Google Home, Apple's HomeKit, and Samsung's SmartThings are all now accepting a new smart home testing and compatibility certification that will enable a wider array of smart gadgets to connect to your home network, according to the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA). The CSA is a coalition of companies and technologists...

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