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Boone Ashworth

The FTC Suing John Deere Is a Tipping Point for Right-to-Repair

After years of complaints about “unlawful” repairability policies, the FTC is suing tractor manufacturer Deere & Company. Repairability advocates are calling it a milestone for consumer rights.

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Sorry In Advance, But Now That You Know These 26 Products Exist, You’ll Think About Them Every Day Until You Own Them

Forget about you. We're gonna have a hard time forgetting about a book of judgy fish stickers.

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Andrew Liszewski

Obsbot’s Tiny SE is a $99 pan and tilt webcam that tracks your movements

The Tiny SE includes an integrated stand allowing it to sit atop a laptop’s screen or a monitor. | Image: Obsbot

Obsbot has announced a $99 webcam with a two-axis motorized mount that’s capable of tracking and dynamically reframing subjects. The Tiny SE is available now for $99, making it one of the cheapest ways to add a tracking camera to your streaming setup.

To hit that price tag for a two-axis gimbal-mounted webcam with tracking capabilities, the Tiny SE comes with one...

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Jay Peters

USDOT sues Southwest Airlines over ‘chronically delayed’ flights

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The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) is suing Southwest Airlines for “illegally operating multiple chronically delayed flights and disrupting passengers’ travel,” according to a press release.

The USDOT’s investigation found that “Southwest operated two chronically delayed flights — one between Chicago Midway International Airport and Oakland, Calif, and another between Baltimore, Md. and Cleveland, Ohio — that resulted in...

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Edward Wong, Michael Crowley and Karoun Demirjian

Takeaways From Marco Rubio’s Senate Hearing

Mr. Rubio expressed views aligned with those of most senators who work on foreign policy, while taking care not to break from Donald J. Trump’s unorthodox ideas.

Mashable

John Turturro shares fascinating Stanley Kubrick story on Severance podcast

Listeners of The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott were treated to an unexpected story about Stanley Kubrick, courtesy of podcast guest Turturro.

In the podcast's Jan. 15 episode, during which Stiller, Scott, and Turturro discussed Severance Season 1, episode 8, "What's for Dinner?," Turturro mentioned that the series had a "Kubrickian approach" to it.

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

Fast Company

Joe Berkowitz

Coca-Cola and the new age of vice signaling for CEOs

After years of receiving backlash for progressive messaging, heads of companies from Facebook to Boeing have now signaled they may be ready to go in the opposite direction.

It was far from the usual Coke and a smile. The Coke was diet, for one thing, and there were two smiles involved. One of them belonged to Donald Trump, the world’s foremost Diet Coke lover, and the other to James Quincey, CEO and chairman of Coca-Cola, who presented the returning president with a commemorative Diet...

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The Conversation

California’s wildfires: Here’s why human-caused wildfires are hard to contain

The answer lies in a mix of wind speed, changing climate, the legacy of past land-management practices, and current human activities that are reshaping fire behavior and increasing the risk they pose.

Investigators are trying to determine what caused several wind-driven wildfires that have destroyed thousands of homes across the Los Angeles area in January 2025. Given the fires’ locations, and lack of lightning at the time, it’s likely that utility infrastructure, other equipment or...

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Kris Rhim

Jim Harbaugh to have 2 procedures in offseason

Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh said Wednesday that he will have a cardiac ablation this offseason and hip replacement surgery.

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Shams Charania

Sources: Suns get Richards in trade with Hornets

The Suns added some much-needed frontcourt help, acquiring center Nick Richards from the Hornets for guard Josh Okogie in a trade that includes multiple draft picks, sources told ESPN.

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Paresh Dave

Not Many Meta Employees Will Have to Move to Texas After All

Mark Zuckerberg said content moderation teams in California will relocate to Texas to help reduce bias. In practice, employees aren't expecting many forced relocations.

Mashable

Substack users can livestream now

Broadening out from its text-only beginnings and just days before millions may lose access to their beloved video app TikTok, Substack has announced it's adding a sitewide live streaming option for all users.

The new video tool is an expansion of an earlier "bestseller"-only feature, which offered platform-based live streaming options to its top contributors, referred to as "publishers." Now, any contributor with at least 10 free subscribers can go live. Once the live stream is over,...

Mashable

Ben Stiller jokingly addresses his Severance Season 1 cameo in the official Severance podcast

Ben Stiller isn't just a director and executive producer of Severance — he also had an uncredited voiceover cameo back in Season 1.

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

In a 2022 interview with ET Online, Severance stars Britt Lower and Dichen Lachman confirmed that Stiller voiced the animated version of Lumon founder Kier Eagan that congratulates Helly (Lower) for reaching quota in Season 1,...

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Joseph Acosta

Ravens vs. Bills will be a kaiju fight between two of the NFL’s scariest monster offenses

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These two teams are a lot a like. Now the slugfest begins.

Normally, I spend this section talking about a specific matchup. What one side of the ball needs to do to the other, or something that I’m watching. However, this kaiju battle between two of the best offenses in football actually reminds me of a quote from one of the world’s greatest scribes, Norman Osborn.

The titan-fight between the Baltimore Ravens and Buffalo Bills is the pinnacle...

Fast Company

Kristin Toussaint

Wildfires are still ‘just hype’: Trump’s Energy pick stands by his past comments

During his confirmation hearings on Wednesday, oil and gas executive Chris Wright denied the link between climate change and worsening wildfires.

Chris Wright, an oil and gas executive who’s Donald Trump’s nominee for Energy Secretary, faced questions about his climate change denialism during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday. 

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Hoffman: O's, Braves backed off deals with me

The Baltimore Orioles and Atlanta Braves backed out of agreements to sign Jeff Hoffman because of concerns about the reliever's pitching shoulder.

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Bo Jackson gives up $21M in lawsuit vs. family

Bo Jackson is giving up a $21 million judgment against his niece and nephew, whom he said harassed and tried to extort money from him.

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Saban, Meyer, Vick, Strahan top '25 HOF class

Urban Meyer will join Nick Saban in the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame class, and Michael Vick and Michael Strahan are among the 18 former players who will be inducted next December.

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Associated Press

NCAA approves paying women's tourney teams

Women's basketball teams will be paid for playing games in the NCAA tournament each March just like the men have for years under a plan approved Wednesday at the NCAA convention.

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ESPN Staff

MMA rank 1-50: Pereira? Aspinall? Topuria? Which fighter will have the best year?

Which fighters will top our list of the best 50 fighters in MMA based on their expected 2025 performance?

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