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Hitchcock Mayor arrested after sweeping gambling investigation targets City Hall operations
A wide-ranging gambling investigation in Hitchcock, Texas, has led to the arrest of the city’s mayor after authorities fanned out across town with dozens of search warrants. Investigators with the...
Samsung updates Bixby to become more conversational
Bixby isn’t typically part of the conversation when it comes to virtual assistants for mobile devices, but Samsung is clearly hoping that you would use it more. The company has launched the latest...
Trump’s dream is a giant slush fund Congress can’t touch
President Donald Trump addresses the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the Davos Congress Center on January 21, 2026 in Davos, Switzerland. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images After President Donald Trump...
Will Stancil, man of the people or just an annoying guy?
Will Stancil | Photo by Jack Califano / The Verge I met Will Stancil two days before he got booted from his neighborhood Signal chat. We were at the Uptown Minneapolis VFW at an event hosted by Rep....
Google Play used AI to help block 1.75 million bad apps in 2025
Google has announced that with the help of AI, it blocked 1.75 million apps that violated its policies in 2025, significantly down from 2.36 million in 2024. The lower numbers this year, it said,...
The House of Representatives is too small
For more than a century, the size of the House of Representatives has been frozen at 435 seats; in that same period, the US population has tripled. This means that today, the average representative...
Apple inks deal for IMAX screenings of live Formula 1 races
Formula 1 has been receiving star treatment from Apple for awhile, and now the racing series will literally be getting even bigger. Apple is partnering with IMAX to show five races from the 2026...
Meta's metaverse is going mobile-first
Meta is formally sectioning off Horizon Worlds, the closest thing it has to a metaverse, from its Quest VR platform, according to a new blog post from Samantha Ryan, Meta's VP of Content,...
The executive that helped build Meta’s ad machine is trying to expose it
Brian Boland spent more than a decade figuring out how to build a system that would make Meta money. On Thursday, he told a California jury it incentivized drawing more and more users, including...
The Pitt has a sharp take on AI
Each episode of HBO's The Pitt features some degree of medical trauma that almost makes the hospital drama feel like a horror series. Some patients are dealing with gnarly lacerations while others...