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A windy day in Honolulu saw Waialae Country Club show some teeth in Friday’s second round of the Sony Open, with tougher scoring conditions condensing the top of the leaderboard and sending some big names home early. After yielding a pair of 62s on Thursday, the best anyone could do on Friday was a 64, with Davis Riley firing a 6-under second round to surge into a share of the lead and Ryan Gerard matched him for low round of the day to climb into the top 10. Riley credited a hot putter and an improved ball-striking day for moving him…

As we predicted, the world’s biggest consumer electronics show was a bit of a bust for gamers this year! CES 2026 brought us several neat gamepads, but barely any handhelds and no new desktop GPUs — not from Nvidia, not from Intel, and not from AMD.But if you dig deep, AMD said two things at this year’s show that are worthy of attention. Did you catch that the company’s about to make socketed mobile chips again? Or that its answer to Intel is to lower the price of its monster Strix Halo silicon?Publicly, AMD barely acknowledged consumers at the Consumer…

“I think we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not,” Joan Didion famously wrote in Slouching Towards Bethlehem. It could be argued, however, that the current internet trend of posting pictures from 2016 is taking Didion’s advice just a smidge too far.That’s how I felt at first, anyway, watching my timeline fill up with people’s decade-old selfies and party shots from the year that Prince died, Hamilton fever hit, and the biggest controversy in pop culture was an all-female Ghostbusters reboot. I was overcome by…

If you’re looking to up your privacy game on the internet in the new year, you can do so for a little less than usual thanks to ExpressVPN’s latest deal. Its two-year plans are up to 78 percent off right now: the Advanced tier is on sale for $101 for two years, plus four additional free months. That works out to $3.59 per month during the promotional period.We’ve consistently liked ExpressVPN because it’s fast, easy to use and widely available across a large global server network. In fact, it’s our current pick for best premium VPN. One of the biggest…

Max OlsonJan 16, 2026, 05:14 PM ETCloseCovers the Big 12Joined ESPN in 2012Graduate of the University of NebraskaDuke starting quarterback Darian Mensah is entering the NCAA transfer portal.Mensah submitted his request for transfer paperwork Friday, ahead of the midnight deadline for FBS and FCS players to enter the portal.”This wasn’t an easy decision, but after talking with my family, I believe it’s in my best interest to enter the transfer portal,” Mensah said in a post on X.Miami looms as the expected favorite in Mensah’s recruitment when he officially becomes available. The Hurricanes have signed transfer quarterbacks in consecutive years…

Compare 9 Top Wi-Fi RoutersOther Routers We Have TestedI have tested many other models and have several more in the queue. These aren’t as great as the picks above, but they are worth considering.Photograph: Simon HillTP-Link Archer BE6500 (GE400) for $220: This dual-band Wi-Fi 7 gaming router is a solid performer. At close range on the 5-GHz band, it can go toe-to-toe with most of the devices on this list. It also offers dedicated gaming features, though some of them require subscriptions. I was disappointed by the limited range, and the comparable TP-Link BE6500 (BE400) is currently on sale for…

Elon musk and the xAI logo.Vincent Feuray | Afp | Getty ImagesThe Environmental Protection Agency closed a loophole this week that Elon Musk’s xAI had exploited to rapidly stand up its first data center in Memphis, Tennessee. Musk’s artificial intelligence startup created a kind of off-grid power plant for its Colossus facility by using a cluster of gas-burning turbines. The company was able to avoid air pollution permitting by classifying the turbines, which were mounted on trailers, as “non-road engines.”The EPA’s updated rule clarifies that those kinds of turbines can’t be designated as non-road engines and companies must also obtain…

Leaders at Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab confronted the startup’s cofounder and former CTO, Barret Zoph, over an alleged relationship with another employee last summer, WIRED has learned.That relationship was likely the alleged “misconduct” that has been mentioned in prior reporting, including by WIRED.To protect the privacy of the individuals involved, WIRED is not naming the employee in question. The individual, who worked in a different department than Zoph and was in a leadership role, is no longer at the lab.Murati approached Zoph to discuss the relationship, sources say. The cofounders’ working relationship broke down in the months following that…

If Kansas basketball’s win over Baylor on Friday, Jan. 16 proved anything, it was that Darryn Peterson is in fact one of the best players in men’s college basketball.The freshman star guard took over in the Jayhawks’ 80-62 win over the Bears at Allen Fieldhouse with 26 points on 11-of-13 shooting from the field with two rebounds and three assists.AdvertisementHis 26-point outing gives him his fourth game of at least 20 points in Kansas’ last five games. It’s the sixth game this season that Peterson, who has missed some time with a hamstring injury, has reached that mark, as well.And…

Earlier this week, the California attorney general’s office announced that it was investigating xAI over reports that the startup’s chatbot, Grok, was being used to create nonconsensual sexual imagery of women and minors. On Friday, the government followed up by sending a cease-and-desist letter to the company, demanding that it take immediate action to stop the production of nonconsensual intimate images and CSAM — child sexual abuse material. “Today, I sent xAI a cease-and-desist letter, demanding the company immediately stop the creation and distribution of deepfake, nonconsensual, intimate images and child sexual abuse material,” said California AG Rob Bonta in a…