USA Update

The M4 MacBook Pro has been selling on the black market for a few weeks, with at least two YouTubers posting unboxing videos of the new laptop. The clips show the laptop’s biggest upgrades, and we have benchmarks online to back up those claims. There’s no question that the MacBook Pro in Russia is the […]

Bed Bath & Beyond will get a brick-and-mortar renaissance of sorts after going out of business last year.  Midvale, Utah-based Beyond Inc., formerly Overstock.com, which bought the big-box retailer out of bankruptcy, will re-introduce Bed Bath & Beyond branded products at its more than 100 physical Container Store locations.  The initiative is part of a […]

Everyone knows how great the companions are in Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s the gospel; it’s the truth. However, I want to talk about Astarion — everyone’s favorite Vampiric Boy. Specifically, I can’t stop thinking about an Act 2 moment with him. (Spoilers ahoy for an important Act 2 character moment for Astarion.) So, I infiltrated […]

Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, was killed during an Israeli military operation, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz confirmed late on Thursday. The October 7 mastermind  was the architect behind the October 7 terror attacks last year on Israel, which left some 1,200 people dead and led to hundreds being taken hostage. Those terror attacks prompted Israel’s […]

Right for America, a super PAC supporting former President Donald J. Trump, is running this 30-second ad on television stations in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona at a cost of $500,000 over the past three days, according to AdImpact. Another $360,000 has been spent to run a Spanish-language version, mostly in Arizona. Here’s a look at […]

Shoppers spent more than expected on a wide range of goods last month, a sign that consumer demand, the engine of U.S. economic growth, remains solid. Retail sales, which are not adjusted for inflation, rose 0.4 percent in September from the previous month, slightly ahead of economists’ expectations, the Census Bureau reported on Thursday. Sales, […]

The latest benefit from the artificial intelligence revolution: saving American taxpayers billions of dollars. The U.S. Treasury Department said its increased use of artificial intelligence in fraud detection helped prevent or recover more than $4 billion over the past year. In a release Thursday, Treasury officials said it had been leaning especially into machine learning, […]

If you watch one movie this year that features both former CIA director William Colby and Polygon co-founder Justin McElroy, make sure it’s Polygon’s documentary on Spycraft: The Great Game. A relic of the 1990s, Spycraft: The Great Game is an FMV point-and-click adventure that places you in the shoes of a CIA recruit thrust […]

This was supposed to be a golden, glorious week for New York baseball fans. The Mets are in the playoffs! The Yankees are too! A fated Subway Series, the first time the teams would be meeting in the World Series in more than two decades, is but a few wins away. You’d think fans would […]

EXCLUSIVE: Tika Sumpter (Sonic the Hedgehog 3) has co-written and is starring in a new Tyler Perry rom-com for Amazon MGM Studios, Deadline can exclusively reveal. She comes to the project after collaborating with Perry on films like A Madea Christmas and shows like The Haves and the Have Nots. Currently in production, the film […]