Category: everydayblog


  • Ugreen’s new wallet tracker is thinner and cheaper than the rest

    Like Eufy and Pebblebee’s wallet trackers, Ugreen’s Finder Slim features a rechargeable battery instead of a disposable one. Battery life is claimed to be up to 12 months between charges, which is much shorter than the three years Tile says its wallet tracker will work, but you can potentially keep using Ugreen’s for even longer…

  • After Fleeing Violence in Guatemala, Their Child Was Killed in a U.S. School

    Josselin Corea Escalante was 9 when she and her mother and younger brother left Guatemala to seek asylum in the United States, believing it would offer them safety. They ended up in Tennessee, where Josselin — whose family calls her Dallana, her middle name — celebrated turning 15 in 2023 with a spring quinceañera in…

  • MultiVersus’ next season will be its last

    MultiVersus will go offline at the end of its next season, Warner Bros. Games announced on Friday. The free-to-play brawler’s fifth and final season starts on February 4th and runs through May 30th, 2025, after which you’ll only be able to play against AI opponents or through local co-op. It will also no longer be…

  • DeepSeek’s Answers Include Chinese Propaganda, Researchers Say

    If you’re among the millions of people who have downloaded DeepSeek, the free new chatbot from China powered by artificial intelligence, know this: The answers it gives you will largely reflect the worldview of the Chinese Communist Party. Since the tool made its debut this month, rattling stock markets and more established tech giants like…

  • Apple asks court to halt Google search monopoly case

    Apple wants to ensure it has a voice in the remedies trial for the Justice Department’s search monopolization case against Google, and filed an emergency motion to stay the proceedings while it appeals the district court’s denial of its request to be more directly heard in the case. Mehta denied Apple’s request to take a…

  • Opinion | Trump is Already Failing. That’s the Key to a Big Democratic Rebound.

    The Democrats are a party controlled by elites, liberals and special interest groups. They are out of touch with America’s middle class. They are personified by a president who let inflation get the better of him and world events spin out of his control. As a result, the Democrats lost the White House as well…

  • AI is ‘an energy hog,’ but DeepSeek could change that

    DeepSeek startled everyone last month with the claim that its AI model uses roughly one-tenth the amount of computing power as Meta’s Llama 3.1 model, upending an entire worldview of how much energy and resources it’ll take to develop artificial intelligence. Taken at face value, that claim could have tremendous implications for the environmental impact…

  • Gaza’s Border Crossing at Rafah Reopens to Let Sick and Wounded Leave

    Gaza’s border with Egypt is reopening to allow sick and wounded Palestinians to leave the enclave, officials said Friday, after more than eight months during which many were trapped there. Reopening the crossing at Rafah, which has long been the enclave’s lifeline to the outside world, is a key stipulation of the cease-fire deal between…

  • TikTok ban: all the news on the app’s shutdown and return in the US

    TikTok is mostly back online after briefly going dark in the US to comply with the divest-or-ban law that went into effect on January 19th. On January 20th, Donald Trump issued an executive order “instructing the Attorney General not to take any action to enforce the Act for a period of 75 days from today.”…

  • New Group Aims to Help Justice Dept. Employees Alarmed by Trump

    As President Trump aims to radically reshape and reduce the federal work force, a new organization is forming that aims to support Justice Department employees who say they are facing professional and ethical crises in dealing with the administration’s orders. The group, Justice Connection, is led by Stacey Young, a career federal prosecutor who stepped…