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Will Knight

Why ‘Beating China’ In AI Brings Its Own Risks

The US is increasingly intent on winning the AI race with China. Experts say this ignores the benefits of collaboration—and the danger of unintended consequences.

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Megan Farokhmanesh

‘My Chinese Spy’ Memes Show Americans Aren’t Sold on the TikTok Ban

With a TikTok shutdown all but inevitable, users are dedicating their final days on the app to fictional agents of the Chinese government.

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Andrew Webster

Adam Scott on using Severance’s weird, retrofuturistic computers

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Much of Severance — the sci-fi workplace thriller on Apple TV Plus — takes place in a brightly lit office, with characters huddled over strange computers where they do work they’re told is both mysterious and important. In the show, that work looks a bit like an alternate reality take on Minesweeper, except the characters are attempting to find numbers that “feel scary,” even though they don’t know what that really means — and the cast is largely going...

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

The Google Home app will soon support the Nest Protect

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Will the last device leaving the Nest app please turn out the lights? The day finally arrived; Google has announced it’s transitioning the Nest Protect smoke and CO alarm to the Google Home app. This means you’ll be able to get alerts and notifications for your alarm directly through Google Home, as well as hush alarms, according to a blog post from Google. This means you no longer need the Nest app for any device, but you can still use it — for now, at least....

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Daredevil: Born Again trailer marks a bloody return for Matt Murdock, Wilson Fisk, and more

Marvel has released a new trailer for Daredevil: Born Again, a soft reboot of Netflix's Daredevil series. And from the looks of the it, Born Again isn't pulling any punches.

SEE ALSO: 2025 TV preview: All the TV shows you need to know, and where to stream them

The trailer opens on a diner chat between lawyer Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) and mobster Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio). "It's not entirely unpleasant seeing you again," Wilson tells Matt....

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Get the Govee Smart Outdoor String Lights 2 for 41% off and light up dark winter nights

SAVE 41%: Get a 144-foot set of the Govee Smart Outdoor String Lights 2 for just $100.02, down from the usual price of $169.99, at Amazon with an on-page coupon. That's $69.97 off.

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B&Hs Mega Deal Zone ends tomorrow at midnight — shop deals on TVs, laptops, and more

SAVE $250+: B&H's Mega Deal Zone sale ends tomorrow, Jan. 16. Shop hundreds of deals on TVs, laptops, and more before they're gone — including a Samsung 55-inch 4K smart TV for less than $300.

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Amazon deal of the day: Grab the Shark IZ163H Pet Plus stick vacuum for its lowest price ever

Check out the best Amazon deals of the day as of Jan. 15: OUR TOP PICK Shark IZ163H Pet Plus $199.99 ...

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The Dreame D10 Plus Gen 2 combo vacuum and mop is down to its Black Friday price at Amazon

SAVE $140: The Dreame D10 Plus Gen 2 combo robot vacuum and mop is on sale for just $259.99 at Amazon, down from the normal price of $399.99. That's a 35% discount that matches the lowest price we've ever seen at Amazon.

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Meta is reportedly laying off 3,600 employees

Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down on more cartoon villainy this week by proposing to lay off more than 3,600 employees — or roughly five percent of Meta's "lowest performers." Of course, in true capitalist fashion, he plans to backfill those positions later this year.

"I've decided to raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers faster," Zuckerberg said in an internal memo, according to Bloomberg. "We typically manage out people who aren't meeting expectations over...

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Wolf Man review: Can Leigh Whannell best his Invisible Man?

Be it the scorching rays of the sun, the sting of a silver bullet, or a brutal box office thrashing, nothing can truly kill the Universal Monsters. Since they first lurked onto the silver screen in the early 1900s, this motley crew of Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Wolf Man, the Invisible Man, and the creature from the Black Lagoon have risen again and again for a sequel, remake, or re-imagining, for better or worse. 

For worse, this has resulted in the aborted Dark Universe, which...

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How a digital tool brought Notre-Dame back to life in record time

When in spring 2019 a fire nearly destroyed Notre-Dame, one of Paris' most recognizable landmarks, president Emmanuel Macron vowed to restore the building and reopen it to the public by 2024, the year Paris would host the Olympics. Though the cathedral wasn't completed in time for the athletic competitions, it still opened its doors in December 2024, meeting an ambitious deadline.

At the centre of the effort was a cutting-edge software donated by U.S. tech company Autodesk, which the...

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I went to the Severance pop-up in Grand Central Station. It was wild.

A marketing stunt for AppleTV+'s Severance Season 2 shook up New York City's Grand Central Station on Jan. 14. And I witnessed it in all its surreal glory.

The pop-up began when a large glass box appeared in Grand Central's Vanderbilt Hall, containing a replica of the four-seated desk from Lumon's Macrodata Refinement department. Hired actors playing Lumon employees sat at their desks, doing Lumon things (by which I mean, sorting numbers while not having a clue what said numbers mean).

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ThomasCostello

The top 10 women’s college basketball players in the ACC, ranked

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SBNation’s take on the best players of the Atlantic Coast Conference, so far this season.

The ACC was not immune from expansion this season, joining the Big Ten in becoming a conference that now touches both the East and West Coasts. While it brings up questions, mainly surrounding its “Atlantic Coast Conference” name, it’s built up one of the most impressive group of programs in women’s college basketball.

These are...

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Mark Schofield

Sauber announce departure of senior figure ahead of 2025 F1 season

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Ahead of the 2025 F1 season more changes are coming to Sauber

Changes continue apace at Sauber ahead of the 2025 Formula 1 season.

The upcoming 2025 campaign is the last for the team ahead of Sauber becoming the Audi works operation starting in 2026. Ahead of this year the team signed veteran driver Nico Hülkenberg and incoming rookie Gabriel Bortoleto, giving Sauber a completely new driver lineup for 2025. Jonathan Wheatley will join the...

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James Dator

Deion Sanders and Shedeur Sanders to the Cowboys CAN happen, but it’s complicated

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Let’s dive into the wildest scenario in the NFL.

It started as a joke. In March of 2024, in our company Slack room, I laughed about how the “most Cowboys thing possible” would be for Jerry Jones to move on from Mike McCarthy after the season, hire Deion Sanders, and find a way to draft Shedeur Sanders as their starting QB.

At the time, it was so unimaginable that it became a recurring joke — but I couldn’t shake the idea of it being so...

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Doug.Farrar

NFC X-Factors for the NFL Playoffs Divisional Round

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Commanders, Lions, Rams and Eagles X-factors in NFL Playoffs Divisional Round

Now that the NFL is down to the Divisional Round of the playoffs, there are just eight teams and four games left in the tournament to ultimately decide which two squads will face off in Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Feb. 9. As these postseason games grow in importance, so do the performances from all the superstars you know.

But there are also crucial players with...

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Joseph Acosta

Why Chiefs vs. Texans can be the most intriguing game of the NFL Divisional Playoffs

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Houston’s defense will try and put Mahomes in a blender.

I’m actually quite intrigued by this matchup between the Chiefs and Texans, largely because I think the Texans’ defense is playing some of the best football in the NFL right now. What they did to the Chargers on Wild Card weekend might violate the Geneva Convention. They pressured Justin Herbert on more than half of his dropbacks, forced four interceptions and allowed a -0.58 EPA per...

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Pete Thamel

Longhorns QB Ewers declares for '25 NFL draft

Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers is declaring for the NFL draft.

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