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Your smartphone or wearable could be a lifeline in emergencies. These apps could make all the difference.

It’s round four for the iMac on Apple silicon. Turns out the first time was the charm, but this one’s great too.

You may not be able to watch some of your favorite shows because of regional streaming restrictions. Using a VPN service is a handy workaround

Apple’s basic desktop computer is now a bit smaller and slightly more powerful, but it’s not for everyone.

The M4 Pro CPU pushes the performance envelope. But when the only real competition you have is with yourself, what then?

Republicans now see the value in collaborating with influencers and content creators. Their plan? Bring them under their red tent for many elections to come.

Ben Rubin, cocreator of hit pandemic chat app Houseparty, has launched a new group messaging platform that aims to solve the problems undermining trust in public conversation—using blockchain. If it fails, that’s OK by him.

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Conspiracy theories about missing votes—which are not, in fact, missing—and something being “not right” are being spread widely on X in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory.

Prediction markets like Kalshi beat pollsters in forecasting the 2024 US election. Mansour now says financial marketplaces are the future of political prognostication.

The crypto industry is celebrating the return of Donald Trump to the White House in anticipation of an easier ride under his regime.

On the ground, the Trump campaign was at a disadvantage to Kamala Harris’s massive canvassing operations. But many misunderstood the power—and purpose—of influencer marketing campaigns.

More than two years after a historic Supreme Court decision ended the national right to an abortion, some states are fighting back—but the future of abortion rights remains in doubt.

“Many many many executions are warranted,” one Trump supporter wrote on Truth Social. “These traitors are a terminal cancer that MUST BE completely eradicated to make America healthy again.”

Users donned their virtual avatars and took to services like Horizon Worlds and VRChat to celebrate or bemoan the election. It was chaos.

The controversial AI search engine, accused of aggressively scraping content, went all in on providing AI-generated election information.

Donald Trump owes at least part of his victory to the manosphere—the amorphous assortment of influencers who are mostly young, exclusively male, and increasingly the drivers of the remaining online monoculture.