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Andrew Liszewski

It’s 2025 and the Nintendo Wii is getting a new Guitar Hero controller

Hyperkin says the Hyper Strummer features a similar design to older hardware but uses improved internal components. | Image: Hyperkin

Hyperkin opened preorders for a new guitar-shaped controller on New Year’s Day, but it isn’t compatible with Harmonix’s Fortnite Festival music game that debuted on the Switch in late 2023. In fact, the Hyper Strummer isn’t compatible with the Switch at all. It only works with the 18-year-old Nintendo Wii, and the older Guitar Hero and Rock Band...

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Victoria Song

Ultrahuman thinks its 18-karat gold smart ring is worth $1,900

Ultrahuman’s Rare smart ring in dune starts at £1500, roughly $1,900. | Image: Ultrahuman

CES 2025 is officially underway, and the adrenaline of a day of running around Las Vegas is fading fast. Yet I cannot fall asleep. Probably because I’ve been replaying the same three product teaser videos over and over and over. One opens with the familiar frenetic strains of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons violin concerto, panning to a CGI desert, where grains of sand blow in undulating wisps. The...

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Jess Weatherbed

Keychron is putting Hall effect switches into more keyboards

The Keychron Q6 HE (pictured) now supports Hall effect switches. | Image: Keychron

Mechanical keyboard specialist Keychron is adding fancy analog Hall effect switches to more of its lineup. Two of the models announced at CES today are launching immediately: the $169 Lemokey P1 HE QMK, and the $229 Keychron Q6 HE QMK, with three additional keyboards set to be released later this year.

Hall effect switches are notable for providing more customization features and a faster press than...

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Emma Roth

Getty Images and Shutterstock are merging into one stock photo powerhouse

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Getty Images and Shutterstock are joining forces in a merger valued at around $3.7 billion, the companies announced on Tuesday. The merger will allow the companies to expand their stock photo libraries as they face increasing competition from AI-powered image creation tools.

Getty Images CEO Craig Peters will remain the head of the combined companies when the merger closes, while a reworked board of directors will consist of members from both Getty Images and...

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Emma Roth

Discovery Plus is raising its prices

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Discovery Plus is going up in price, with its ad-supported plan going from $4.99 to $5.99 per month, and its ad-free plan increasing from $8.99 to $9.99 per month. The price hike will go into effect immediately for new subscribers, while existing subscribers will see the change during their next billing cycle or after February 7th.

Discovery Plus raised the price of its ad-free plan for the first time in October 2023....

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People Are Calling This GOP Senator's Husband "Petty" For Seemingly Refusing To Shake Kamala Harris' Hand After His Wife Was Sworn In

"Black woman to Black woman, I recognize every single breath, facial expression, and physical reaction to what Kamala Harris is experiencing."

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SBNation.com

Jack Milko

TGL: Xander Schauffele leads New York Golf Club in debut match against Wyndham Clark, The Bay

Wyndham Clark speaks to reporters during TGL Media Day on December 18, 2024. | TGL

TGL, the brand-new indoor golf league founded by Tiger Woods, begins Tuesday live on ESPN.

After more than two years of anticipation, the time has finally arrived. TGL kicks off on Tuesday night live from the SoFi Center, the incredible South Florida facility that will host every match.

New York Golf Club, led by Xander Schauffele, will face off against The Bay Golf Club, led by 2023 U.S. Open champion...

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ThomasCostello

Rutgers women’s basketball freshman star Kiyomi McMiller’s benching situation, explained

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A top freshmen in the country is having a tumultuous start to the 2025 calendar year, and took it to the public

Rutgers women’s basketball star freshman guard Kiyomi McMiller entered the New Jersey program ranked as the No. 27 prospect in the nation. Since debuting for the Scarlet Knights, Miller has played more like a No. 1 overall recruit, leading Rutgers with 19.9 points per game, already scoring at least 30 points in three...

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Reuters

How might Trump’s SEC pick handle Wall Street? Experts weigh in

In his previous tenure at the SEC, Paul Atkins voted against at least 10 enforcement actions punishing individuals and companies, including Citigroup and IBM.

President-elect Donald Trump’s SEC pick voted several times against punishing big companies and was extremely critical of the agency’s enforcement process when he was a top official there, according to public records and former SEC attorneys, in a possible glimpse of what is to come under his leadership.

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Associated Press

Getty Images and Shutterstock merge in $3.7 billion deal

The merger comes at a time when companies that use still images are facing increased competition from artificial intelligence.

Getty Images is buying Shutterstock to create a $3.7 billion visual content company.

The merger comes at a time when companies that use still images are facing increased competition from images generated by artificial intelligence.

The companies said Tuesday that they have complementary portfolios and that a merger will provide customers with a broader array still...

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McDonald’s joins Walmart and John Deere in ending DEI initiatives

The burger giant is the latest big company to shift its tactics in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action.

Four years after launching a push for more diversity in its ranks, McDonald’s is ending some of its diversity practices, citing a U.S. Supreme Court decision that outlawed affirmative action in college admissions.

McDonald’s is the latest big company to shift its tactics in the wake of the 2023 ruling and a conservative backlash against diversity, equity and...

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Andrew Webster

Severance season 2 somehow gets even weirder, wilder, and darker

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I’m not going to spoil anything because the new season of Severance doesn’t premiere for 10 days. But I want to be clear — the first season of the sci-fi thriller wasn’t a fluke. The Apple TV Plus series burst onto the scene in 2022 with a story about tech workers who were forced to live in purgatory thanks to an experimental procedure that split their brains in two: one who lived a normal life outside of the office, and another who could never leave. It was tense...

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Jess Weatherbed

Razer’s prototype gaming chair blasts you with hot or cold air

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It’s becoming a tradition for Razer to show off some pretty wild prototypes at CES, but the concept gaming chair with integrated heating and cooling it just unveiled actually sounds downright practical. Project Arielle is a mesh gaming chair that features a bladeless fan system that’s designed to keep you at a comfortable temperature regardless of what environment you’re in.

We briefly tried it here at CES 2025 and it’s cool! Or warm, depending on the mode you...

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Jess Weatherbed

Razer’s RGB dock turns gaming handhelds and phones into TV consoles

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Razer has announced some new handheld gaming goodies, including remote PC streaming capabilities for the Kishi Ultra mobile controller and a folding multiplatform RGB dock for the Steam Deck, Nintendo Switch, and more.

Razer says its Handheld Dock Chroma is a “6-in-1” docking station that transforms phones, tablets, or handheld gaming devices “into powerful gaming consoles” with 100W power passthrough support for charging. It’s...

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David Pierce

Withings is making a cardiologist checkup part of its health subscription

The BPM Vision is another way to track your heart health — and there’s a new way to make sense of the data, too. | Image: Withings

If you’re a Withings device owner and a Withings Plus subscriber, there’s a new feature coming to your health tracking system. It’s a telemedicine service called Cardio Check-Up, designed to make it easy to check in on your heart health with a professional.

Any Withings device that collects electrocardiogram data (which is most of them at this...

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Sean Hollister

Razer Project Ava: would you pay an AI to help you get good at games?

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Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer is introducing what might be its most controversial “project” yet — an “AI gaming copilot” designed to help you get better at video games. With your permission, it takes thousands of pictures of your screen, then tells you how to play a game, optimally in real time, as you continue to play.

“By analyzing millions of simulations within seconds, I’ll always have an answer to your toughest...

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Chris Welch

Audio-Technica’s latest earbuds have marathon battery life and a useful trick

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Audio-Technica’s wireless earbuds don’t always receive the same amount of buzz that larger brands get, but they’re consistently good performers that deliver on all the most important criteria. Here at CES 2025, the company is introducing the new ATH-CKS50TW2. These buds feature Audio-Technica’s usual tuning and sound quality, but there are two main selling points for this latest model.

First, battery life seems almost endless. Audio-Technica says the...

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Ash Parrish

Sony is giving the PS5’s accessories an all-black makeover

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You can finally make your PS5 gaming set up all black everything. Sony has announced that it will soon release the rest of the PS5 suite of accessories in the midnight black colorway.

Sony’s offering the Dual Sense Edge Controller, the Pulse wireless headphones and earbuds, and the PlayStation Portal in sleek and sexy midnight black to match the PS5 cover and Dual Sense controller it released back in 2021.

Though the announcement wasn’t specifically apart of the CES...

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Hugh Jackman And Sutton Foster Were Pictured Holding Hands Just Over A Year After He And Deborra-Lee Furness Got Divorced

Hugh and Deborra split after 27 years of marriage in September 2023, while Sutton filed for divorce from her husband of ten years in October 2024.

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Mashable

CES 2025: How to buy Dell Pro laptops

TL;DR: Dell announced a refresh of its AI-powered PCs at CES 2025. The new Dell Pro business laptops are now available to purchase.

Purchase Dell's new range of Pro laptops right here Dell Pro 14 Plus Laptop ...

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