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Brenda Stolyar

The 31 Best Gadgets From CES 2025 You Can Buy Right Now

From smartphones to smart glasses, here’s everything announced at this year's big tech trade show that you can actually order—or preorder—today.

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Makena Kelly

The Internet’s Future Is Looking Bleaker By the Day

While Meta enacts the X playbook, TikTok is on the verge of being declared illegal. Who wins? Probably not internet users.

The Verge

Sean Hollister Vjeran Pavic Antonio G. Di Benedetto

Up close with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 FE, an incredibly compact flagship video card

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

We might be skeptical of some Nvidia’s claims, like whether a $549 RTX 5070 will truly deliver the performance of a $1599 RTX 4090. But it’s almost impossible not to be impressed by the RTX 5090 Founder’s Edition, where Nvidia fit 575 watts of graphics power, including 21,760 CUDA cores and 32GB of GDDR7 memory, into a video card just two slots wide.

It almost has to be seen to be believed, and we sent my colleague Antonio around the CES show...

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How to watch Notre Dame vs. Penn State online

Wondering how to watch college football this season? Here are your best options: Best for live sports YouTube TV ...

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Target Circle 360 members can score a free gift for a limited time

FREE ITEM: As of Jan. 9, Target Circle 360 members can score a selected free item. This offer ends on Jan. 18.

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The best smart glasses at CES 2025 are inconspicuous

CES 2025 was the year of the smart glasses. AR / VR headsets were everywhere. Just when we thought we covered them all – check out our coverage so far on the XREAL One Pro and Chamelo – we'd come across yet another new pair of smart glasses.

Each had their own draws and features, things like AR glasses that focused on projecting your computer monitor or smartphone screen and devices made for AI transcription and translation. 

However, one thing became very clear after seeing all these...

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Score a 13-inch 2024 Apple MacBook Air for under $900

SAVE $200: As of Jan. 9, Apple's 2024 MacBook Air 13-inch laptop (M3 chip, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) is on sale for $899 at Amazon. This is 18% off its list price of $1,099.

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How to watch Golden State Warriors vs. Detroit Pistons online

TL;DR: Live stream Golden State Warriors vs. Detroit Pistons in the NBA with FuboTV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV.

The Golden State Warriors head to the Little Caesars Arena to face the Detroit Pistons in a non-conference matchup. The Warriors are 18-18, which puts them in 10th place in the Western Conference. The Pistons are 19-18, which puts them in eighth place in the Eastern Conference.

The Warriors have lost three of their last five games and are coming off back-to-back losses to the Miami...

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How to watch Portland Trail Blazers vs. Dallas Mavericks online

TL;DR: Live stream Portland Trail Blazers vs. Dallas Mavericks in the NBA with FuboTV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV.

The Portland Trail Blazers head to the American Airlines Center to face the Dallas Mavericks in a Western Conference matchup. The Blazers are 13-23, which puts them in 13th place. The Mavs are 21-16, which puts them in fifth place.

The Mavs have lost four of their last five games, but are coming off a win over the Los Angeles Lakers. The Trail Blazers have lost three of their last...

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How to watch Atlanta Hawks vs. Phoenix Suns online

TL;DR: Live stream Atlanta Hawks vs. Phoenix Suns in the NBA with FuboTV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV.

The Atlanta Hawks head to Footprint Center to face the Phoenix Suns in a non-conference matchup. The Hawks are 19-18, which puts them in ninth place in the Eastern Conference. The Suns are are 16-19, which puts them in 12th place in the Western Conference.

The Hawks have lost three of their last five games, but are coming off a win over the Utah Jazz. The Suns have lost four of their last five...

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How to watch Miami Heat vs. Utah Jazz online

TL;DR: Live stream Miami Heat vs. Utah Jazz in the NBA with FuboTV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV.

The Miami Heat head to Delta Center to face the Utah Jazz in a non-conference matchup. The Heat are 18-17, which puts them in seventh place in the Eastern Conference. The Jazz are are 9-26, which puts them in 14th place in the Western Conference.

The Heat have lost three of their last five games, but are coming off a win over the Golden State Warriors. The Jazz have also lost three of their last five...

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How to watch Charlotte Hornets vs. Los Angeles Lakers online

TL;DR: Live stream Charlotte Hornets vs. Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA with FuboTV, Sling TV, or YouTube TV.

The Charlotte Hornets head to crypto.com Arena to face the Los Angeles Lakers in a non-conference matchup. The Hornets are 8-27, which puts them in 13th place in the Eastern Conference. The Lakers are 20-16, which puts them in sixth place in the Western Conference.

The Hornets have lost four of their last five games, but are coming off a win over the Phoenix Suns. The Lakers have lost...

SBNation.com

David Fucillo

Your daily NFL trivia game, Thursday edition

Think you can figure out what NFL player we’re talking about? You’ll get five clues to figure him out.

We’re back for another day of the SB Nation in-5 daily trivia game, and we’re returning to our system of a new article each day for the game.

We tried using a single article for the game, updated with the latest game each day, but it was creating a bit of an unwieldy experience in the comments. So, we’ll have the current day’s game plus the previous three days in each...

Fast Company

Reuters

UAW petitions for union election at Ford joint venture plant in Kentucky

The BlueOval SK plant, owned by a partnership of South Korea’s SK On and Ford, is the latest battery battleground for the union.

The United Auto Workers union is petitioning the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election at a Kentucky battery plant run by a Ford Motor joint venture, the union said in a release Wednesday.

Fast Company

The Conversation

Research shows corporate-owned franchises outperform family-owned in food safety

Family-owned franchises also had more frequent ‘critical’ health code violations, like food contamination contributing to food poisoning.

Imagine going on a road trip and passing several seemingly identical McDonald’s restaurants. Despite their uniform appearance, their ownership may vary widely: One might be run by a family, another by an individual entrepreneur, and others owned directly by the corporation.

Fast Company

Nik Kinley

How power changes leaders

Power can enhance our strengths, but it also amplifies our weaknesses. For leaders, those aspects that become amplified are inevitably cascaded onto their people.

Whether you’re a frontline supervisor in your first management role or the CEO of a global multinational, being the boss changes you. Part of this is simply leaders adapting to the challenges and pressures inherent in all positions of power. Things like the wider scope of responsibilities, greater decision complexity, and...

Fast Company

Elissaveta M. Brandon

Warning labels worked for cigarettes. They could work for alcohol too 

Smoking and drinking both cause cancer, yet only tobacco products come with health warning labels. Experts say It’s time for a change.

Last week, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said that alcoholic drinks should carry a warning about cancer risks on their label. Alcohol consumption increases the risk of at least seven types of cancer, including breast, colon, and liver, yet less than half of Americans are aware of this connection. A warning label, he said, would help people make an...

Fast Company

Reuters

Oil companies place no bids in Alaska wildlife refuge drilling auction

Oil companies have been hesitant to pursue resources at Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in part because of high costs of development, and public relations challenges around drilling in a wildlife sanctuary.

The U.S. Interior Department said on Wednesday a congressionally mandated oil and gas drilling lease auction in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge received no bids from energy companies.

Fast Company

Hunter Schwarz

Tiger Woods’s Sun Day Red logo can’t catch a break

One logo, multiple fronts of litigation. But will they stick?

When Tiger Woods launched his apparel brand Sun Day Red in 2024, he joked that he wanted to “ruin” the logo—or at least render it obsolete.

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