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TikTok’s last stand: Supreme Court hears arguments over potential ban

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One last chance before the divest-or-ban law takes effect on January 19th.

TikTok has just over a week before it’s forced to either separate from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or functionally cease operations in the US. An appeals court upheld a divest-or-ban law, but the Supreme Court offers one final chance for the company and its users to make their case. The court is expected to issue a decision quickly...

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Andrew Webster

The best mobile skateboarding game now has a New York sequel

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For me, skateboarding has always been about getting into a flow state. Much like playing Tetris, I’m at my best when I’m skating almost subconsciously, not thinking and acting in the moment. It’s not an easy zone to get into, and music has always been my shortcut. So the greatest compliment I can give to Skate City: New York is that I’ve spent the past week fine-tuning the perfect playlist, all so that I can also perfect my runs in the game.

New York is a sequel...

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Andrew Liszewski

Swappable lenses let you place this laser projector exactly where you want it

Valerion’s VisionMaster Max projector at the company’s CES 2025 booth. | Image: Valerion

Valerion announced a new feature for its VisionMaster Max projector at CES 2025 that will improve setup flexibility. The company will offer alternate lenses for the projector — a feature typically only offered on professional-grade home theater hardware — that can be swapped by users to change the size of the image it produces or how far it can project. That will accommodate a wider range...

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Umar Shakir

PowerSchool data breach leaks info of students and staff at schools across the US

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Schools across the US and Canada are warning parents that a data breach may have leaked information for students and employees. The K-12 operations platform PowerSchool, which supports over 60 million students and has over 18,000 customers worldwide, suffered a breach that could’ve exposed names and addresses of students and educators and, in some cases, more sensitive information like Social Security numbers, medical information, and...

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23 Heartbreaking "Before And After" Photos That Highlight The Devastating Damage Of The LA Fires

Before-and-after photos are beginning to reveal the impact of the LA fires.

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How to watch Osaka vs. Garcia online for free

TL;DR: Live stream Osaka vs. Garcia in the 2025 Australian Open for free on 9Now. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

The first Grand Slam of the season is finally here. The Australian Open showcases the best of the best from the world of tennis, and that very much includes Naomi Osaka. Sure, she hasn't won a Grand Slam since 2021, but she has won four of them. And she has won the Australian Open twice, so she deserves respect.

If you want to watch...

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Noa Dalzell

New York Liberty guard sheds light on free agency: “I want to be valued”

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Courtney Vandersloot is fresh off of a WNBA championship with the Liberty — but could be headed elsewhere in free agency.

Courtney Vandersloot — a five-time WNBA All-Star and two-time WNBA champion — is one of dozens of high-impact free agents this summer.

In her 14th season, the veteran point guard averaged 6.4 points and 4.8 assists in 22.3 minutes per game, and helped the New York Liberty to their first-ever franchise championship as a key...

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Mark Schofield

Jeremiyah Love’s TD run against Penn State already the stuff of Notre Dame lore

Notre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love bullied his way into the end zone against Penn State

Football fans of a certain vintage may look back with fondness at the coaching career of Bill Parcells.

The legendary head coach was a treasure trove for NFL Films, delivering incredible content whenever the cameras and microphones were trained in his direction. Perhaps one of his most memorable moments on the sidelines came during a game when Parcells was the head coach of the New York Giants, when he...

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Mookie Alexander

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are the hottest offense no one is talking about

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Under first-year coordinator Liam Coen, the Buccaneers have quietly become one of the NFL’s most elite offenses.

For the second season in a row, Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are riding into the playoffs on a sizzling (and necessary) late-season stretch.

Through Week 10, Todd Bowles’ team was 4-6, effectively three games behind the 6-4 Atlanta Falcons for the NFC South lead due to Atlanta’s head-to-head tiebreaker. Chris Godwin...

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Noa Dalzell

Angel Reese’s praise for Unrivaled couldn’t be more resounding

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The Chicago Sky star expressed her appreciation for the new 3-on-3 league’s amenities, the opportunity to play with veterans like Kahleah Copper, and more.

Chicago Sky star Angel Reese is one of 36 WNBA standouts playing in Unrivaled this summer, and her first impressions of the new professional 3-on-3 basketball league couldn’t be more positive.

“I would stay here forever,” Reese said in her first Unrivaled media availability....

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Chris Morris

AI taught me to be a (slightly) better badminton player at CES

The Industrial Technology Research Institute was in Las Vegas to show off a new AI-driven trainer that uses image analysis and data inference to improve an athlete’s performance. The sport that served as our demonstration? Badminton. 

I am not what you would call a finely tuned athletic machine. I am, if anything, an outdated lawnmower engine held together by duct tape and rust. So when I was offered the opportunity to let AI help make me a better athlete at CES, I jumped at the...

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Grace Snelling

Dunkin’ does deodorant, Enron is back (sort of), and Honda reveals new EV prototypes

Here’s the branding news we’re keeping up with this week.

This week in branding news, Enron (yes, that Enron) staged its 2025 return, Dunkin’ and Native introduced a donut-inspired deodorant, and Honda’s new EVs turned heads. Here’s everything you need to know.

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Devastating L.A. wildfires could impact California’s home insurance market. Here’s how

The vast property damage in a disaster-prone state with high real estate prices could make coverage more expensive and even harder to find.

The wildfires that destroyed homes in multiple sections of the Los Angeles area will test California’s efforts to stabilize the state’s insurance marketplace after many insurers stopped issuing residential policies due to the high fire risk.

The wind-driven blazes that started Tuesday roared through neighborhoods from the Pacific Coast inland to...

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TikTok SCOTUS Live Blog: The Court Hears Arguments Over Potential Ban

We're tuning in live as the justices consider what could be one of the most consequential First Amendment cases of the past several decades.

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Makena Kelly

The Government Wants to Protect Robux From Hackers

In a new proposal issued Friday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking to regulate virtual currencies used in Roblox and other video games like US dollars.

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Dominic Preston

WhatsApp really hopes you want to talk with AI bots

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Meta’s popular messaging app WhatsApp is testing a new design that gives prominent space to a suite of AI chatbots. The design, currently only accessible through the app’s Android beta, adds a dedicated tab for AIs on the app’s homescreen.

WABetaInfo spotted the change, which devotes one of WhatsApp’s four tabs solely to its AI features. It includes a selection of “Popular AI characters” to talk to, along with others organized by subject matter....

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto

The coolest laptops of CES 2025

Lenovo’s rollable laptop stole the show, but there are a bunch of upcoming models I’m excited to test when the time comes. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

The new CPUs, GPUs, and laptops announced at CES this week set the tone for Windows computers in the year to come — and so far, 2025 is looking pretty promising. There are a bunch of new notebooks I’m excited to test out when they come around, many of which are gaming-focused since the launch of Nvidia’s RTX...

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Emma Roth

Venu Sports shuts down before it ever launches

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Venu, the live sports streaming service from ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery, isn’t happening. In a joint statement on Friday, the three companies announced the decision “not to move forward with the contemplated joint venture:”

After careful consideration, we have collectively agreed to discontinue the Venu Sports joint venture and not launch the streaming service. In an ever-changing marketplace, we determined that it was best to meet the...

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Jess Weatherbed

Drone takes out Super Scooper fighting Los Angeles wildfires

A Super Scooper drops ocean water on the Palisades fire. | Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

An aircraft helping to fight wildfires that are raging across Los Angeles was struck by a civilian drone on Thursday. The collision damaged the wing of the aircraft — a CL-415 “Super Scooper” capable of scooping up 1,600 gallons of ocean water to drop onto nearby blazes — according to a statement by the LA County Fire Department posted on X, putting it out of...

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David Pierce

The Vergecast at CES 2025: the biggest stories and best gadgets

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CES is a TV show. And a car show. And a wearables show. And this year, oddly, kind of a pool-vacuum show? It is the biggest, most elaborate, most bizarre tech show of the year, during which practically the whole industry flies to Las Vegas to show off new stuff and make big deals.

On this episode of The Vergecast, a special live edition of the show from the Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas, we talk through as much of it as we can. (Thanks to everyone who came...

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