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Running with wet feet, in wet socks, in wet shoes is the perfect recipe for blisters. It’s also a fast track to low morale. Nothing dampens spirits quicker than soaked socks. On ultra runs, I always carry spares. And when faced with wet, or even snowy, mid-winter miles, the lure of weatherproof shoes is strong. Anything that can stem the soggy tide is worth a go, right?This isn’t as simple an answer as it sounds. In the past, a lot of runners—that includes me—felt waterproof shoes came with too many trade-offs, like thicker, heavier uppers that change the feel of…
In sports, competition fuels fandom and passion. However, Major League Soccer (MLS) is setting rivalries aside in favor of unifying the league’s 30 teams under one message: being a soccer fan is fun and entertaining.The campaign, “MLS Is Back,” launches during a pivotal year for soccer in North America. The FIFA World Cup starts in June, a few months after the MLS season begins, and will be played across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The global event offers the MLS a unique opportunity to reach large audiences.A unique challengeUnifying the MLS brand under one campaign required strategic thinking from MLS…
Aurora’s self-driving trucks can now travel nonstop on a 1,000-mile route between Fort Worth and Phoenix — exceeding what a human driver can legally accomplish. The distance, and the time it takes to travel it, offers up positive financial implications for Aurora — and any other company hoping to commercialize self-driving semitrucks. It takes Aurora about 15 hours to carry freight in its driverless trucks on the 1,000-mile journey, according to the company. Human truck drivers take much longer to complete the same distance due to federal regulations that limit how long they can be behind the wheel. For instance,…
At the start of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, US figure skater Amber Glenn spoke at a press conference about using her platform as an Olympian to support LGBTQ+ rights. “It isn’t the first time we’ve had to come together as a community,” she said. “I hope that I can use my platform and my voice throughout these Games to try to encourage people to stay strong.”A few days later, she posted an Instagram story saying she had received “a scary amount of hate/threats” following the comments on social media. “I’ve never had so many people wish me harm…
Apple Music captured Bad Bunny’s groundbreaking Super Bowl Halftime Show through the iPhone lenses of fans around the world. Days after the Puerto Rican superstar’s performance on Feb. 8, Apple released “The Day the World Danced,” the latest chapter in its long-running “Shot on iPhone” campaign.Created by Apple’s in-house team, the film features footage from 23 photographers and cinematographers who used the iPhone 17 Pro to document unfiltered reactions of Bad Bunny fans watching his halftime show.Set to Bad Bunny’s “DtMF (DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS) (I Should Have Taken More Photos),” the spot showcases intimate fan moments spanning 15 locations in…
On Thursday, OpenAI announced the release of a light-weight version of its agentic coding tool Codex, the latest model of which OpenAI launched earlier this month. GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is described by the company as a “smaller version” of that model, one that is designed for faster inference. To power that inference, OpenAI has brought in a dedicated chip from its hardware partner Cerebras, marking a new level of integration in the company’s physical infrastructure. The partnership between Cerebras and OpenAI was announced last month, when OpenAI said that it had reached a multi-year agreement with the firm worth over $10 billion.…
Sometime in the last five years, Samsung reached peak soundbar. After years of material updates to its flagship surround-sound HW-Q990, a multi-channel, multi-speaker whiz of a Dolby Atmos system, Samsung achieved what it looked to achieve. Once you put 22 speakers into an 11.1.4-channel masterclass of home theater efficiency, it becomes hard to improve upon materially. Audio physics only go so far, and processing only gets so much better.The last several models of the Q990 have seen only minor updates. We’ve gotten a slightly smaller and more efficient subwoofer, new software features, and—in the case of our current favorite, the…
The Everett, Washington-based fusion energy startup Helion announced Friday that it has hit a key milestone in its quest for fusion power. Plasmas inside the company’s Polaris prototype reactor have reached 150 million degrees Celsius, three-quarters of the way toward what the company thinks it will need to operate a commercial fusion power plant. “We’re obviously really excited to be able to get to this place,” David Kirtley, Helion’s co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch. Polaris is also operating using deuterium-tritium fuel — a mixture of two hydrogen isotopes — which Kirtley said makes Helion the first fusion company to do…
On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to roll back the endangerment finding, which underpins the US’s ability to regulate the greenhouse gases that cause climate change. The rollback, the result of more than 15 years of work from right-wing special interest groups, represents the most aggressive move against climate regulation in the US to date—and will introduce a lengthy fight that’s almost certain to wind up in front of the Supreme Court.The move could also create significant legal and regulatory uncertainty for a wide swath of industries, from oil companies fighting state and local climate lawsuits to car…
Web hosting company WP Engine has filed an amended complaint with brow-raising new allegations in its ongoing legal battle with WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and his company Automattic (WordPress.com’s parent company). The company now claims that Mullenweg intended to target 10 different hosting companies with royalty payments for their use of the WordPress trademark and tried to get payment processor Stripe to cancel its contract with WP Engine. At the heart of the dispute, Mullenweg believes WP Engine is profiting from the open source WordPress project without contributing back to the community, and demanded the hosting company pay 8% of…
I’m not above doing some gig work to make ends meet. In my life, I’ve worked snack food pop-ups in a grocery store, ran the cash register for random merch booths, and even hawked my own plasma at $35 per vial.So, when I saw RentAHuman, a new site where AI agents hire humans to perform physical work in the real world on behalf of the virtual bots, I was eager to see how these AI overlords would compare to my past experiences with the gig economy.Launched in early February, RentAHuman was developed by software engineer Alexander Liteplo and his cofounder,…
After months of telegraphing the move, the Trump administration today officially repealed the EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding,” which found that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane were a threat to human health and welfare. The finding had so far supported the agency’s regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Currently, the new rule only applies to car and truck tailpipe emissions, but it’s expected to be the first of several similar changes to federal air pollution regulations. Before the endangerment finding can be fully repealed, though, the EPA must go through a lengthy process. The original…
Once Alexa+ is active, go into the notebook you want to share and tap the share icon in the upper-right corner. (You’ll likely need to tap the top of the page for the menu bar to appear.) Once you click it, it’ll ask if you want to share just the page or the notebook. Both options can be used to share with Alexa. Once you choose one of those, a new menu will appear at the bottom of the screen with a prompt to send to the email your Amazon account is linked to, and a “Send to Alexa” option…
After two years of initial hesitation, YouTube has finally unveiled its dedicated app for the Apple Vision Pro. When Apple’s headset first launched, YouTube opted for a web-based approach instead of developing a dedicated app, directing viewers to use Safari to access content. Until now, anyone wanting to watch YouTube on the headset has missed out on helpful features like offline downloads — making it much less useful for travel or offline viewing. To fill the gap, third-party options, such as Juno, briefly appeared on visionOS before being removed for violating YouTube’s Terms of Service. Today’s announcement changes the game,…
One folds out to the left, one to the right, and one upwards; your laptop (there’s room for up to a 17.3-inch machine) is meant to sit in the middle of this arrangement, providing the fourth screen in a quad-display setup. The screen on top can swivel back so that it faces away from the user, offering the potential to use that screen for presentation purposes (while still giving you three forward-facing screens to work on yourself). The panels have no audio capabilities.Fully extended, the thing is a monster, stretching nearly 46 inches (nearly 4 feet) from side to side…
It still feels like a technological marvel: Waymo’s autonomous cars are now transporting passengers across six cities. Alas, this driverless future comes with its own set of problems. These vehicles can be rendered inert if a passenger accidentally leaves the door open. According to a Reddit post, one DoorDash driver discovered this issue when an odd request appeared in their queue. Instead of making a delivery, the driver was offered $6.25 to drive less than one mile to a Waymo vehicle and close its door. After “verified completion,” they would get an extra $5. “You actually ‘door’ dashed,” one commenter…