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The Dallas Cowboys announced Tuesday that they are releasing cornerback Trevon Diggs. The veteran defensive back is subject to waivers. If he passes through waivers, he will be free to sign with any team. Any club that claims Diggs becomes responsible for the $472,000 he is due in base salary for Week 18, and $58,823 if he is active this week, per ESPN. Diggs signed a five-year, $97 million extension with Dallas prior to the 2023 season, in which he tore his ACL. While he is technically signed through 2028, there is no more guaranteed money remaining on his deal after this year.Diggs’…

In some ways, 2025 was when AI dictation apps really took off. Dictation apps have been around for years, but in the past they’ve proved slow and inaccurate — unless you speak with particular accents and enunciate clearly. But advances in large language models (LLMs) and speech-to-text models have helped improve the systems that can decipher speech better while retaining the context to format the text. And developers have built in features to automatically format text, remove filler words, and ignore fumbles to output text that would need fewer edits. But with the soaring popularity of everything AI, there’s dozens…

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks as Apple holds an event at the Steve Jobs Theater on its campus in Cupertino, California, Sept. 9, 2025.Manuel Orbegozo | ReutersApple has one heck of a mulligan coming ahead of its 50th anniversary in 2026.After failing on its promise to launch an artificial intelligence-supercharged version of Siri in March, Apple said it’s on track to make it happen in the new year.The stakes are enormous. Apple’s AI failure this year put even more pressure on it to deliver a breakthrough AI experience on the iPhone. Another whiff like that will only cement the idea…

Amid historically low birth rates and economic pressures from its aging population, China will eliminate a decades-old tax exemption on contraceptives.China aims to impose a unique strategy to address a falling birth rate that threatens its long-term stability. As of January 1, 2026, the government will levy a 13 percent value-added tax (VAT) on various contraceptives, including condoms.The decision amends the Value Added Tax Law, which in 1993 exempted birth control products from taxation. At the time, the measure was part of China’s effort to contain its accelerating population growth. However, that policy has become a hindrance to the world’s…

Myron MedcalfDec 30, 2025, 02:19 PM ETCloseMyron Medcalf covers college basketball for ESPN.com. He joined ESPN in 2011.Without new rules to stop teams from adding players with professional experience to their rosters, the value of American high school players will rapidly decrease, John Calipari said in a postgame rant about the state of the sport Monday night.In a six-minute response about college basketball, days after Baylor announced the addition of former NBA draft pick James Nnaji to its roster, Calipari said the sport’s youngest talents will suffer if players who’ve played professionally — domestically or internationally — are allowed to…

OneXPlayer is quickly establishing itself as a company that isn’t afraid to get weird as hell. (Take, for example, its transforming dual-screen gaming portable.) Its latest venture is another retro gaming handheld that, at first glance, looks like a standard dual-screen model. But the Android-powered OneXSugar Wallet uses a single foldable screen instead.The device was teased via a 54-second video on the Chinese video-sharing platform Bilibili. Retro Handhelds reports that the Wallet uses an 8.01-inch OLED with a 2,480 x 1,860 resolution. (That’s a 4:3 aspect ratio when unfolded.) The video also shows an asymmetrical analog stick layout with a…

Call it the Sopranos effect: Over the last two decades, more tonally depressing crime shows have hit our screens than I care to count, despite the fact that the HBO mob series that spawned them all was nothing if not funny and sartorially inventive. And worse, beyond being grimmer than they need to be, these knockoff shows are frequently too visually dark for their own good. As a great tweet once put it: Men of LA, stop becoming influencers! We need gaffers!Maybe that’s why Hulu’s Deli Boys thrilled me so much this year. The show, about a pair of spoiled…

Folding OLED displays are still most commonly found on premium smartphones and laptops, but One-Netbook is bringing the tech to a new gaming device. Its new OneXSugar Wallet is reminiscent of the company’s folding OneXSugar Sugar 1 handheld that launched earlier this year. But instead of two screens, the Wallet handheld unfolds to reveal just one big 8.01-inch OLED screen with a 4:3 aspect ratio, as spotted by Retro Handhelds.The OneXSugar Wallet was announced on China’s Weibo yesterday, but with few details about its features and capabilities. That folding OLED screen has a resolution of 2480 x 1860 pixels, and…

Tottenham Hotspur Respond to Bayern Munich’s Interest in DefenderTottenham Hotspur have spent recent windows trying to get ahead of the curve at centre-back, and that is why Luka Vušković matters. The Croatian teenager is only 18, yet his loan spell at Hamburger SV has pushed him into the winter conversation sooner than expected, and it has drawn eyes from the Bundesliga’s biggest names.AdvertisementIn a report by Caught Offside, Spurs are said to have received informal interest from Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig. Tottenham’s response, per the same piece, has been decisive, the club see Vušković as a long-term asset, not…

Two former employees at cybersecurity firms — one of whom was a ransomware negotiator — have pleaded guilty to carrying out a series of ransomware attacks in 2023. The Department of Justice announced the guilty pleas on Tuesday, saying 40-year-old Ryan Goldberg and 36-year-old Kevin Martin extorted $1.2 million in Bitcoin from a medical device company and targeted several others.Goldberg, Martin, and an unnamed co-conspirator were indicted for the attacks in October, which involved using ALPHV / BlackCat ransomware to encrypt and steal data from their victims. As reported by the Chicago Sun-Times, Martin and the third conspirator worked as…