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The Texas Observer
• Texas Observer Staff
Strangest State: Cute Robots, Killer Bugs, and Cloud Conspiracies
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Defector
• Israel Daramola
There’s No Getting Around The Money
Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about.
Ray: Well, Iz, you taught me a thing or two about Ol’ Dabo, and now we have to start worrying...
WIRED
• Henri Robbins
Corsair Sabre V2 Pro Ultralight Gaming Mouse Review: Impossibly Light
Corsair’s latest gaming mouse is unimaginably lightweight for the fast-paced gamers who need every gram to count.
WIRED
• Parker Hall
Best Wireless Earbuds (2025): Apple, Sony, Bose, and More
Ready to cut the cord? These are our favorite buds that will never, ever get tangled.
WIRED
• Simon Cohen
Yamaha YH-L500A Review: Extremely Comfortable Headphones
These cushy cans are great for critical listening but sacrifice a lot of handy features for portable listening.
WIRED
• Simon Hill
Can I Take Power Banks on Flights? We Explain the Rules (2025)
Before your next flight, read up on airline rules and restrictions about traveling with power banks.
WIRED
• Aarian Marshall
Tesla Is Urging Drowsy Drivers to Use 'Full Self-Driving'. That Could Go Very Wrong
The company’s FSD tech doesn’t actually self-drive. Experts say that advising customers to switch in on when they're drifting between lanes is exactly the wrong move.
WIRED
• Rhett Allain
5 More Physics Equations Everyone Should Know
These five equations should be part of your mental toolkit. They might even improve your bowling score.
WIRED
• Jill Duffy
Where to Go to Get Serious About Learning a Language: Lingoda, Preply, Fluenz
To really speak and understand a new language, you need to interact with humans.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Joab Jackson
Project infragraph: IBM’s Real-Time Model for Infrastructure Assets
As anyone who works with infrastructure knows, there are limited tools for understanding all of an organization’s IT assets, offering
The post Project infragraph: IBM’s Real-Time Model for Infrastructure Assets appeared first on The New Stack.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
P&B: Kris Howard
This is the 109th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Kris Howard and her blog, web-goddess.org
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WIRED
• Matthew Korfhage
6 Best Beard Trimmers (2025): Full Beards, Hair, Stubble
These beard tools deliver an excellent trim for all types of facial hair.
The Admiral
Despite growing up in the Soviet Union, host Garry Kasparov admired American values—believing America was one of the good guys. But is that still the case?
In the final episode of the second season of Autocracy in America, Garry is joined by Admiral Bill McRaven, perh...
The Daily
• The New York Times
The Indictment of James Comey
A grand jury indicted James Comey, the former F.B.I. director, on Thursday night. It is a case that President Trump has personally demanded that federal prosecutors pursue despite their own doubts about whether Mr. Comey committed a crime.
Devlin Barrett, who covers the Just...
WIRED
• Mara Magistroni
Could These Eye Drops End the Need for Reading Glasses?
Trials of vision-improving substances are showing good results, though so far only two have been authorized for use in the United States.
Trump’s Push to Jail James Comey Badly Undercut by Damning New Report
President Trump’s Justice Department is widely expected to indict former FBI director James Comey, someone the president has hated for years. Yet this push was just undermined when The New York Times reported a surprising turn of events: Career prosecutors reported...
Kimmel, Tylenol, and a Ukrainian TACO...
What a week. Joe gets into what Jimmy Kimmel's suspension - and his triumphant return - really means. What can we learn? And more importantly, what can we DO? And yeah, Trump's going after Tylenol now. How does Joe see this ending? Plus, Joe and Alex get to a bunch of your questions - what's with Trump's Ukraine flip flop? Is it game on for 2026 as of now? And check out the new podcast "Is it bad for the economy?" at http://isitbadfortheeconomy.com/.
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Social Warming by Charles Arthur
• Charles Arthur
Why PhDs survive where journalists don't
The mysteries of virality and consequences
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Harry Mack
I love the culture of freestyle rap, it’s so inspiring to see how people can create such rich poetry riddled with allusions and puns on command. Last week I got to meet Harry Mack and see him improvise live and it totally makes sense that he has a jazz drums background. If you’re not familiar … Continue reading Harry Mack →