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Data WIRED collected during the 2024 Democratic National Convention strongly suggests the use of a cell-site simulator, a controversial spy device that intercepts sensitive data from every phone in its range.
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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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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...
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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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...
Before-and-after photos are beginning to reveal the impact of the LA fires.
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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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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...
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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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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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....
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...
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.
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...
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.
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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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....
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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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...
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...