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Skateboarder Carlos Ribeiro during X Games Ventura 2024. | Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Roku got the exclusive US streaming rights to next year’s X Games Aspen and a “soon-to-be-announced” X Games event in the summer, the company announced on Wednesday. Both events will air on Roku’s free 24/7 sports channel as the service continues…
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on whether a bill that could ban TikTok violates the First Amendment. The arguments will take place on January 10th, just over a week before a potential ban could take effect. While the outcome is far from guaranteed,…
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., has compared America’s practice of doling out aid to foreign countries to a preposterous hypothetical scenario in which an individual waters their neighbor’s yard while their own house burns. “US foreign aid spending is like watering the neighbor’s yard while your house is on fire,” he tweeted. The congressman followed up…
Congressional leaders struck a deal to avert a government shutdown that includes a provision stating that the federal government will fully pay for the rebuilding of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The provision also allows the Treasury Department to recoup at least some funds spent through insurance payments, as well as federal and…
Image: LG Often at CES, you’ll see a very impressive new technology debut at exorbitant prices before trickling down to more affordable models a couple years later. Lo and behold, that’s exactly what we’re seeing with LG and its Zero Connect Box. We got our first look at it with the M Series OLED in…
Image: Seagate It’s been more than two decades since Seagate began working on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) — and now the company may finally be ready to release a hard drive using the technology. A new product page spotted by Tom’s Hardware shows an Exos M hard drive sporting up to 32TB of storage using…
Image: Wing Wing, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is expanding its drone delivery service to DoorDash customers in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Starting today, 50 merchants from malls in Frisco and Fort Worth will be available for drone delivery through the DoorDash app, dropping meals and items to homes “in as little as…
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump’s second term is a regulatory wild card hanging over Big Tech. Read the full story at The Verge.
The House Ethics Committee has decided to release its report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. Lawmakers on the secretive panel voted to make the report public after the final votes of this year – which are slated for Thursday. The House Ethics Committee’s multi-year investigation into Gaetz, involving allegations of sex with a minor…
So many social media influencers attending a recent White House Holiday party prioritized getting pictures with Hunter Biden and publicly praising him that it prompted some onlookers to wonder if they were following a “script.” Harry Sisson, Majid Padellan, Chris Mowrey, “@JoJoFromJerz,” and others – all liberal, Democratic Party-supporting influencers with millions of followers between…