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NCAA has its prop bet ban request sunk by Missouri watchdog
Missouri gambling regulators have rejected the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) request to block prop bets on college games. With months of fiascos surrounding the style of...
Gambling deductions tax fix shot down once again
The ongoing battle to restore gambling loss deductions has failed once again. This comes as an amendment to bill H.R.7148, which was shot down in a recent committee hearing. Representative Dina...
The end of the Sony era in TVs
There aren't many tech companies that can claim Sony's level of influence in how we live our lives. From the Walkman to the PlayStation to the Trinitron, Sony has been making excellent gadgets in...
Anbernic’s next wireless controller adds a screen and heart rate monitoring
The RG G01’s screen is potentially far more useful than its pulse sensor. | Screenshot: YouTube Anbernic has announced its second wireless controller through a teaser video on YouTube highlighting...
Influencers are pushing suspicious peptides. How much are you willing to risk?
This vial has haunted me since the day it arrived. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and...
Malaysia lifts ban on Grok after taking X at its word
After being one of the first countries in the world to block Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot, Malaysia has now lifted its ban. Along with Indonesia, the country moved swiftly to temporarily halt access to...
AI labs wage a reputational knife fight at Davos
Demis Hassabis, chief executive officer of DeepMind Technologies Ltd., during a panel session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images This is an...
Get the 512GB Samsung P9 microSD Express card for 33 percent off right now
MicroSD Express cards are still a little hard to find, considering they're pretty new and only really started becoming popular last year once the Switch 2 came out. These upgraded versions of...
Tesla finally kills Autopilot in a bid to boost FSD subscriptions
Tesla scrapped its Autopilot driver assist feature that used to come standard in new vehicles, as it attempts to steer customers to its newly subscription-only Full Self-Driving (FSD) system....
Samsung Bespoke Fridge with AI review: All the bells and whistles
At their core, refrigerators are relatively simple devices. If you're the type of person to view every extra feature as a component that could potentially go wrong, basic iceboxes are probably the...