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Umar Shakir

Audi’s lifted Q6 E-tron Off-Road concept is ready for winter driving

Looking like a true brute of an off-roader. | Image: Audi

Audi has revealed a new dual-motor electric off-road vehicle concept based on the Q6 E-tron that looks ready for a snowpocalypse. The automaker built a working prototype that lifts the vehicle by 6.3 inches and widens it by 9.8 inches, giving it a stance that wouldn’t be out of place if it appeared in Truck Country, USA.

Audi’s CEO Gernot Döllner calls the “Q6 E-Tron Off-road concept” a “reinterpretation of...

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Jay Peters

Apple makes a change to its AI team and plans Siri upgrades

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Apple is making an executive change to try and improve its AI efforts and Siri. Kim Vorrath, who recently helped get the Vision Pro software out the door and has been at Apple for 36 years, has been brought over to Apple’s artificial intelligence and machine learning division and will serve as a “top deputy” to AI boss John Giannandrea, Bloomberg reports.

The company made a big splash about its AI / Apple Intelligence efforts at WWDC last year,...

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Light The Fireplace, Turn On The TV, And Get Ready To Sink Into Your Couch All Night With These 29 Relaxing Products

If you're ready to plop onto the couch (and stay put for the rest of the night), check out this heated massager and fleece loungewear set.

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Mashable

Can apps stop you doomscrolling? Yes, but not how you think.

"Hi, are you doomscrolling? Our bodies were not designed to be anxious and stressed for this long."

Back in the very anxious year of 2021, a friendly little bot on Twitter — the Doomscrolling Reminder Bot — came along to offer mindfulness reminders like this. Created just after doomscrolling became the 2020 word of the year, the Doomscrolling Reminder Bot soon became a kind of anxiety index. It gained its largest bump in followers during Elon Musk's chaotic takeover of Twitter.

The Bot...

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If You Love The Feeling Of Sitting In A Well-Decorated Home, These 20 Target Products Are For You

Cancel your plans and just enjoy your own space.

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Karoun Demirjian

Senate to Vote on Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation, With Outcome Uncertain

With two G.O.P. senators opposed, Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s pick for defense secretary, can afford to lose only one more. If he is confirmed, it is likely to be by the smallest margin for that post in modern times.

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David Gelles, Claire Hogan and Christina Shaman

What Is the Future of the Paris Agreement?

On President Trump’s first day in office, he pulled out of the Paris Agreement, a pact among nearly all nations to fight climate change. Reporting from Davos, Switzerland, David Gelles, a climate journalist for The New York Times, explains what this decision means for the rest of the world.

The Verge

Jay Peters

TikTok still isn’t in the App Store

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Nearly a week after it was removed, the TikTok app is still missing from Apple and Google’s app stores.

The app was pulled from both stores after the US’ ban-or-divest law went into effect last weekend, which resulted in the service going dark within the United States. While TikTok came back online shortly after the ban, the app didn’t return to either mobile store. Apple and Google are at risk of paying billions in fines if they make TikTok available, and...

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Richard Lawler

Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’

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Ever since Elon Musk closed his deal to buy Twitter he’s claimed the company, now called X, is in “a very dire situation from a revenue standpoint.” Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that banks are preparing a coordinated move to sell off some of the $13 billion in debt they loaned Musk to finance the deal. It mentions an email sent to employees this month, also confirmed by The Verge, where the Chief Twit said, “...we’ve...

SBNation.com

Mark Schofield

Jalen Hurts injury update: Eagles QB ready for NFC Championship Game vs Commanders

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The Eagles QB is a full go for the NFC Championship Game

The Philadelphia Eagles got some good news on the injury front ahead of the NFC Championship Game against the Washington Commanders. Quarterback Jalen Hurts, who was limited earlier in the week with a knee injury he suffered in the NFC Divisional Round game against the Los Angeles Rams, was listed as a full participant in the team’s final injury report and will be good to go against the...

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Kyle Thele

The Sun Belt Conference is using a Royal Rumble to name a champion

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Seven games in seven days: Welcome to the Sun Belt Thunderdome

Everyone loves an underdog story in March. The NCAA Tournament has become an institution in the sports world because of the upsets each year. Fans of all different teams come together to watch a scrappy underdog no one had heard of two weeks ago take a Blue Blood down to the wire.

Those upsets help put teams, and sometimes an entire conference, on the map. So you can understand why a...

Mashable

3 things all Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 reviews are saying about the graphics card

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is finally here. Everyone in the tech space has at least heard something about Nvidia's most powerful graphics card yet. The company stole the show earlier this year at CES, the biggest technology conference in the world, when it announced the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU.

Now, the reviews are coming out from outlets that have had a chance to give the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 a spin. While Mashable hasn't tested the GPU out ourselves, our sibling publication PC Mag did! And...

Mashable

How to spot and avoid the E-ZPass scam texts everyones getting

There's a new, quite common E-ZPass scam text making the rounds — don't fall for it.

In case you haven't heard of it, the scam text in question claims the receiver has unpaid tolls and that they need to pay their balance in order to avoid consequences such as fines or losing their license. It also leads out to a link, which you should not click. We've got the details on the scam and what to do if you get the text.

What is the scam and how to spot it?

The scam text shouldn't be hard to...

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Luke Broadwater and Zolan Kanno-Youngs

Trump Supports the Police, Just as Long as They Support Him

President Trump’s flurry of pardons this week sent a message to law enforcement: He will “back the blue” if they back him.

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Quentyn Kennemer

Here are the best robot vacuum deals right now

You don’t have to pay a lot for do-it-all robot vacuums like the SwitchBot S10. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

We’re in an age where you can realistically delegate tasks to smart hunks of metal, whether it’s a self-driving car or a robot that can clean on your behalf. Most of us probably won’t be able to afford the helpful sentient humanoids being developed in our lifetimes, but robot vacuums are an affordable way to experience that promised utopia right now....

The Verge

Sean Hollister

The $900 Ayaneo 3 is the most exciting PC handheld the company’s yet made

Ayaneo builds the best-looking handheld PCs in the business, but they’ve always been boutique. The 2023 Ayaneo 2, for example, cost $1,300 for an arguably worse experience than the $400 Steam Deck. But that experience isn’t dampening my excitement for the new 7-inch Ayaneo 3.

Not only does this one start at $900, within striking distance of the highest-end handhelds you’ll find at retail, it’s the most feature-packed portable I’ve seen — with two USB4 ports and OcuLink...

The Verge

Andrew Liszewski

Windows 11 is getting colorful new battery icons that are easier to understand at a glance

The battery icon in Windows 11 is getting a colorful update. | Image: Microsoft

Microsoft is releasing a new Windows 11 Insider Preview Build today with some welcome improvements to the operating system’s battery icon – possibly sparing you the realization that you’ve chosen a dead outlet, or improperly plugged in your power adapter, or let your battery drain too much, before it’s far too late.

Windows’ battery icon, which has traditionally been black, is being updated with...

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ESPN

Dodgers land another star? Jays do (or don't) extend Vlad Jr.? Bold predictions for the rest of the MLB offseason

Here's what our experts think could still go down between now and spring training, from free agency to off-field drama.

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Beth Mole, Ars Technica

This Man Eats So Much Butter, Cheese, and Beef That Cholesterol Oozes From His Skin

High cholesterol is considered 240 mg/dL. The man’s was over 1,000 mg/dL.

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