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We independently select these products—if you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. All prices were accurate at the time of publishing.As a home trends writer, it’s my job to test out household hacks. My at-home testing is usually pretty uneventful, except for that time last summer when I nearly broke my 7-year-old dishwasher while testing various detergent tablets (oops!). The machine, which had seen daily or every-other-day use up till then, was clearly not pleased to be on its third cycle of the day. When the door started leaking, I knew my dishwasher had made its…

You’d think there’d be more excitement around the new year—we’re only three weeks in, people!—but instead everyone’s occupied with plumbing the depths of their camera rolls for relics of their 2016 selves. A quick refresher on what occurred a decade ago: It was the year of creative directors who defined the era–Alessandro Michele at Gucci, Hedi Slimane at Saint Laurent, and Phoebe Philo at Celine. Skinny jeans, millennial pink, and pointed ankle boots ruled street style, Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” topped the charts, La La Land swept awards season, and the Costume Institute explored the relationship between fashion and technology with its…

Google is appealing a federal court’s decision ruling it an illegal online search monopolist. The company filed a notice to appeal on Friday, requesting a pause on the court-ordered remedies meant to restore competition to the online search market.“As we have long said, the Court’s August 2024 ruling ignored the reality that people use Google because they want to, not because they’re forced to,” Google’s vice president of regulatory affairs, Lee-Anne Mulholland, said in a blog post. “The decision failed to account for the rapid pace of innovation and intense competition we face from established players and well-funded start-ups. And…

Monday night’s College Football Playoff National Championship Game between No. 1 Indiana and No. 10 Miami shapes up as a grueling, physical battle between two teams that have embraced that identity all season. The unbeaten Hoosiers are trying to become college football’s first 16-0 national champion, but they must get past a resurgent Hurricanes team playing on its home field.Miami’s path has been anything but easy. The Hurricanes knocked off No. 7 Texas A&M on the road, eliminated No. 2 Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl and outlasted No. 6 Ole Miss in the Fiesta Bowl to reach the title…

X seems to be working again after struggling with an outage that took the service offline and made it slow to load for much of the morning. According to X’s developer platform page, there is an ongoing incident related to streaming endpoints that’s caused increased errors. The incident started at 7:39AM PT, according to the page.That roughly coincides with a spike in reports at Down Detector. The issues seemed to be somewhat intermittent. At some points, X’s website loaded partially and only showed older posts. At other times, the app and website failed to load at all.As of 9:30AM PT,…

Da-kuk | E+ | Getty ImagesAs many Americans struggle to keep up with the rising cost of living — housing, groceries, electricity and other necessities — their financial stress is getting more attention in the workplace.In 2025, employer discomfort at their workers’ financial well-being reached a new high: 48% rated their concern at 9 or 10 on a scale of 1 to 10, compared with 43% in 2024 and only 39% in 2023, according to recent research from the Employee Benefit Research Institute. As recently as 2019, the year before Covid, that share stood at 22%. Since 2022, “we’ve seen…

Runpod, an AI app hosting platform that launched four years ago, has hit a $120 million annual revenue run rate, founders Zhen Lu and Pardeep Singh tell TechCrunch.   Their startup journey is a wild example of how if you build it well and the timing is lucky, they will definitely come. The story includes bootstrapping their way to over $1 million in revenue; landing a $20 million seed round after VC Radhika Malik, a partner at Dell Technologies Capital, saw some Reddit posts; and gaining another key angel investor, Hugging Face co-founder Julien Chaumond, because he was using the product…

Tim BontempsCloseTim BontempsESPN Senior WriterTim Bontemps is a senior NBA writer for ESPN.com who covers the league and what’s impacting it on and off the court, including trade deadline intel, expansion and his MVP Straw Polls. You can find Tim alongside Brian Windhorst and Tim MacMahon on The Hoop Collective podcast.Brian WindhorstCloseBrian WindhorstESPN Senior WriterESPN.com NBA writer since 2010 Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two booksJan 16, 2026, 07:00 AM ETAlthough last week’s Trae Young deal was the first trade of this NBA season, Thursday marked an important milestone on the league’s calendar. That’s when nearly every…

Apple currently sells MacBooks equipped with its own M-series processors in a wide range of sizes and price points, all of which run the company’s newest operating system, macOS 26. Purchasing a new MacBook can be complicated if you’re trying to figure out what specs you need, but finding a deal on a relatively speedy model is surprisingly easy, especially since Apple increased the starting RAM on several models in late 2024.These days, it’s not uncommon to see various MacBooks discounted by up to $800. Alternatively, purchasing refurbished options directly from Apple is another way to save money without waiting…

We independently select these products—if you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. All prices were accurate at the time of publishing.When the clock strikes 2 p.m., I’m likely reaching for a snack. Usually my savory go-tos are pretzels or Sun Chips, but I recently discovered a new snack that’s crunchy, tangy, and everything I want in a quick and easy midday bite. And what’s amazing is that I can get 12 packs in three delicious flavors for just $37 on Amazon. What You Should Know About Freestyle Snacks’ Pickle Variety Snack PacksThere are three flavors you…