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Ash Parrish

AGDQ 2025 earns $2.5 million for charity with its best event yet

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Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 has concluded, raising just over $2.5 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Every Games Done Quick event is worth tuning in to either live or later via VODs, but this AGDQ was uniquely fantastic, filled with runs that’ll go down as some of the best GDQ has to offer. Here are some of our favorites:

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

The great thing about the speedrunning community is that it’s often not enough to be the fastest...

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Jay Peters

Meta is already working on Community Notes for Threads

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Meta announced last week that it would be ditching fact-checkers in favor of X-like Community Notes, and self-described “leaker” Alessandro Paluzzi shared screenshots on Monday showing what the feature might look like in Threads.

Based on the screenshots, it appears you’ll be able to start the process of writing a Community Note from the three-dots menu on a post, which is where you can already access features like muting an account or reporting a post....

Mashable

Why the digital divide persists within Indigenous communities

In 2020, amid a global pandemic that highlighted a staggering digital divide among Americans, the federal government pledged to do something. 

Its solution? Some promising tech subsidies and a wave of funding for internet access initiatives, specifically high speed broadband. This money included the government's promise to fix the missing middle miles of fiber optic connections that have for decades kept many Indigenous areas offline.

At the time, the round of funding was a history-making...

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Jeffrey Gettleman and Ivor Prickett

Greenland to Trump: Not for Sale but Let’s Talk Business

The country’s prime minister said that while Greenlanders do not want to become Americans, “the reality is we are going to work with the U.S. — yesterday, today and tomorrow.”

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Jack Milko

Xander Schauffele withdraws from The American Express

Xander Schauffele tees off during the first round of The Sentry. | Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images

Xander Schauffele has decided to skip the third event of the 2025 PGA Tour season in Southern California.

World No. 2 Xander Schauffele has withdrawn from The American Express, according to the official PGA Tour Communications social channels.

Schauffele, who participated in TGL’s debut match against The Bay Golf Club on Jan. 7, was scheduled to play in the Coachella Valley this...

Fast Company

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Trader Joe’s exposed: The real story behind the quirky grocer

Your favorite grocer may have a cult-following but Fast Company’s Clint Rainey dives deep into the surprising truths on record product recalls, alarming safety violations, worker misconduct complaints, and an environmental track record that challenges its green image.

Your favorite grocer may have a cult-following but Fast Company’s Clint Rainey dives deep into the surprising truths on record product recalls, alarming safety violations, worker misconduct complaints, and an environmental...

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Andrew Webster

Nintendo’s Alarmo will be available for everyone starting in March

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Another day, another announcement from Nintendo that isn’t the next Switch. Today the company revealed that its alarm clock, Alarmo, will be available at select retailers starting this March. The announcement includes the US, UK, and Europe.

The $99 alarm clock launched late last year, but is currently only available to those with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. Today’s news opens that up to the larger public. The motion-controlled device...

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Emma Roth

Chinese social media app RedNote tops App Store chart ahead of TikTok ban

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RedNote, the Chinese social media app also known as Xiaohongshu, rose to the number one spot on the Apple App Store as a US ban closes in on TikTok. The app offers a mix of pictures, short-form videos, and text posts across “follow,” “explore,” and “nearby” feeds.

A cursory scroll through RedNote’s Explore page shows English-language posts scattered among those written in Chinese. Many American...

Mashable

What is RedNote? The Chinese app, aka Xiaohongshu, TikTokkers are flocking to

If the U.S. government wants to ban TikTok, Americans might flock to a different Chinese social media app. About a week before the potential ban, TikTokkers are posting about moving to RedNote, known in China as Xiaohongshu. So many are migrating to the app that it hit No. 1 on Apple's U.S. App Store on Monday.

Yes, TikTok might really be on its way out. It's unclear exactly what would immediately happen to the app on the Jan. 19 deadline — it'll likely at least disappear from app...

Mashable

Every single Amazon Fire tablet is on sale for up to 44% off

SAVE UP TO 44%: As of Jan. 13, every Amazon Fire tablet is back on sale. Find the new Fire HD 8 for 35% off, the budget-friendly Fire 7 for 44% off, and much more.

The best Amazon Fire tablet deals at a glance: BEST OVERALL ...

Mashable

We tried Sonys new XYN headset: a game-changer for 3D content creators

Over the past few years, the market has been flooded with VR headsets, including the Meta Quest, Apple Vision Pro, and numerous other contenders, as companies race to establish themselves in the space.

At CES 2025, Sony unveiled the latest addition to this landscape — a brand-new VR headset and an entire line dedicated to spatial 3D content: Sony XYN.

SEE ALSO: 13 new gadgets from CES 2025 that you can actually buy right now, plus 1 coming soon ...

Wired Top Stories

Zeyi Yang

With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’

Some say they joined Xiaohongshu, which translates to "little red book," to spite the US government after a ban on TikTok became more likely.

Wired Top Stories

Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica

Judge Ends One Man's 11-Year Quest to Recover $765 Million in Bitcoin by Digging Up a Landfill

A UK judge ruled against James Howells, who has been trying to get a hard drive with private keys to a cryptocurrency fortune out of a landfill for over a decade.

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Umar Shakir

eBay’s new acquisition could make it easy to buy a car from anywhere

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eBay has “signed a definitive agreement” to buy online automotive transaction platform provider Caramel to help make buying and selling vehicles on the auction site “more simple than ever.”

Caramel has a site and app that helps private parties and independent dealers sell cars by handling the paperwork, ownership transfer, financing, shipping, insurance, and more. The company has several marketplace and auction partners as well.

Although eBay has hosted listings for...

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Carrie Underwood Is Going To Perform At Donald Trump's Inauguration, So Obviously People Aren't Thrilled

Remember how a Mormon choir performed "America the Beautiful" last time...

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Mashable

Save up to 70% on new markdowns during Kohls Ultimate Clearance Event

SAVE 70%: Shop Kohl's Ultimate Clearance Event and save up to 70% on clothing, home goods, and more.

Best Kohl's clearance deals as of Jan. 13: Best fitness deal Fitbit Inspire 3 ...

Mashable

Severance Season 1 Recap: Everything you need to remember before watching season 2

Severance is finally back! Mashable Entertainment Reporter Belen Edwards is here to walk you through everything you need to remember going into season 2.

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Alan Feuer and Charlie Savage

Judge Allows Release of Half of Jack Smith’s Report on Trump Cases

Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who dismissed the classified documents case, blocked a volume about that matter from being shown to Congress but allowed the release of a volume about the election case.

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