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Amazon’s Alexa Tablets are coming for the iPad
Amazon is launching a new lineup of tablets that bear almost no resemblance to any tablet Amazon has ever launched before. They're not even called Fire, the name Amazon has used for its tablets for...
Joe Rogan and Spotify renew massive podcast deal
Spotify has renewed its licensing agreement with Joe Rogan, whose podcast remains the number one show on the platform - and in the world. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, the multi-year...
Sportsbook VIP Promotions Face Wider Congressional Scrutiny
Sen. Richard Blumenthal plans to seek information from DraftKings and prediction-market platforms including Kalshi and Polymarket, while continuing to press FanDuel for details about its VIP bettor...
Xbox is launching a new film and TV division
Jack Black in A Minecraft Movie. | Image: Warner Bros. Xbox is launching a new division, called "XP," that's dedicated to Xbox experiences that aren't video games, including films and TV...
What if making your neighborhood safer means breaking the rules?
Across the country, civic paralysis has compelled a legion of guerrilla urbanists to take their city’s matters into their own hands. | Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Jonathan Hale...
The rise of gas station opioids
Products containing kratom from the brand Feel Free on sale at a tobacco store in Huntington, New York. | Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday RM via Getty Images They have fun names like Feel Free,...
Teenage Engineering will stop making synths to focus on… whatever it feels like
Teenage Engineering, the company famous for its synths, is going to stop making... synths.
Black Democrats are facing a crossroads
Democratic US Senate candidate, Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon. | Getty Images Welcome to The Midterms, Actually. Every week I’ll be writing about two things: one big idea or trend I see forming...
How one city made gains on school integration without trying
Most of America’s major cities have made little to no progress reducing racial segregation in their public schools over recent decades. Many have slid backward, and are more polarized today than...
The new BMW iX4 is the X4 reborn as an EV
BMW has brought the X4 design to its third Neue Klasse EV with an electric version called the iX4.