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One of World’s orbs. | Image: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge On the evening of April 30th, the hottest ticket in San Francisco was a buzzy crypto startup’s coming-out party at a warehouse-like complex on the northern edge of the city. It had all the makings of an event you’d only find near Silicon Valley:…
A transgender swimmer won five women’s races at the U.S. Masters Swimming Spring National Championship last weekend. The swimmer, 47-year-old Ana Caldas, dominated all five races the athlete competed in, taking gold in the women’s age 45-49 category in five races, including the 50- and 100-yard breaststroke, freestyle and the 100-yard individual medley. The controversy…
A satirical play based on UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione will debut next month in San Francisco. “Luigi: The Musical” is a comedy show centered on Mangione, 26, the Ivy League graduate accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, in December outside a Hilton hotel in New York City. The show’s website calls…
President Trump announced his first judicial nominee of his second term, kicking off what will be a historic next four years as he continues to build on the most consequential accomplishment of his first term by appointing even more bold and fearless judges. The stakes could not be higher as Democrat activist judges are actively sabotaging…
Hope Walz, the daughter of former vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz, attacked a popular running influencer on social media for interviewing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt this week. Kate Mackz, a running TikToker with 783,000 followers, interviews celebrities, often while taking a jog, for her online series “Post Run High.” She’s interviewed well-known…
Apple and Anthropic are building an AI-powered coding tool that will work in Xcode, Apple’s code-writing tool, Bloomberg reports. A new version of Xcode will integrate Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model to “write, edit and test code on behalf of programmers,” Bloomberg says. Apple is slowly rolling this new version out internally initially and apparently has…
Form and function. Nothing cements your relationship status with a new hobby like buying a special bag for it. Hiking? Cycling? Photography? You bet there’s a special bag designed for just that. Getting into a new thing and accumulating gear for it is a joy. An important and underappreciated subcategory of that enjoyment is finding…
Firefox could be put out of business should a court implement all the Justice Department’s proposals to restrict Google’s search monopoly, an executive for the browser owner Mozilla testified Friday. “It’s very frightening,” Mozilla CFO Eric Muhlheim said. The DOJ wants to bar Google from paying to be the default search engine in third-party browsers…
Two planes had to perform “go-arounds” to avoid crashing into a military helicopter on Thursday at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), where a commercial plane and a Black Hawk Army helicopter crashed in January, killing 67 people. At about 2:30 p.m., air traffic control instructed Delta Air Lines Flight 1671 and Republic Airways Flight…
Broncos legend John Elway retained a Denver, Colorado-based lawyer following a deadly golf cart incident in California. Elway’s agent and longtime friend Jeffrey Sperbeck, 62, fell off the back of a golf cart on Saturday night at the Madison Club in La Quinta, according to officials. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said in a press…