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Smartphones — the gadgets I spend most of my waking hours thinking about, testing, and tinkering with — are generally considered a mature product category. This means that, in any of the previous, oh, five years, you’d struggle to find a big defining moment for the industry. Likewise, there was no “iPhone”

• Russia's war in Ukraine created new smuggling opportunities for the country's criminal underground.
• The most lucrative items to smuggle into the country are designer handbags, according to a new report. 
• But more worrisome is smuggled

• The Colorado Supreme Court ruled to bar Trump from the 2024 ballot. 
• It cited the 14th Amendment rule barring insurrectionists. 
• But even critics of Trump believe voters should decide his political fate. 

The campaign to bar Donald Trump from office appeared to score an astonishing

As I battled my way through God of War Ragnarök’s new roguelike expansion, Valhalla, I was dying to learn the next part of Kratos’ story — and that story is what’s made me push through even when the game got tough.

God of War’s recent entries — the 2018 reboot and Ragnarök — are renowned for their cinematic storytelling. The tight camera makes you feel like a

• Electric scooter company Bird has declared bankruptcy.
• It was valued at $2.5 billion in 2019 as it rode a wave of hype for rented electric scooters.
• The pandemic almost bought its business to a halt and it was later left struggling for survival.

Electric scooter pioneer Bird, which once sought to become

• AI is helping to streamline and simplify dozens of tasks, from editing to copywriting.
• Content creators and creator-economy startups have been introducing it in their work.
• Here are some of the top ways creators and influencers have been leveraging AI.

The development of artificial

Nomad, a reputable producer of phone cases and accessories, has announced its first stand charger based on the new magnet-enhanced Qi2 standard. The $100 Stand Qi2 Magnetic Wireless Charger is capable of charging MagSafe and Qi2-enabled devices at up to 15W, and

• Airbus is set to break its record for the most aircraft orders, per Reuters.
• It's secured big deals with Turkish Airlines and easyJet in recent days.
• Airbus has orders for 2,000 aircraft compared to Boeing's 1,200 so far, per Bloomberg.

Airbus is set to break the record for the most planes sold in a year in 2023, Reuters reported.

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• Elon Musk has hit back at John Oliver after the comedian mocked him on his show "Last Week Tonight."
• Oliver had called Musk "erratic," "self-serving," and "increasingly racist" during the show.
• In response, Musk said Oliver "stopped being funny when he sold his soul to wokeness."

Elon Musk has hit back at John Oliver

What do "Padam Padam," Heartstopper, and "These gays, they're trying to murder me" have in common?

They're all major moments in 2023's Grindr Unwrapped.

Move over, Spotify Wrapped. It's Grindr's time to unwrap. Literally.

The app app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people surveyed more than 10,000 users on their favourite pop culture moments of 2023, and analysed anonymous activity data from its 13

NASA has a lot on its plate, between staring at strange things on Uranus, monitoring solar flares, investigating Enceladus, visualising Mars' wet past, probing dead stars, recovering space rock, figuring out what's going on with Voyager, and generally preparing to get humans on the moon.

But there's always time for a cat video, especially one beamed from deep space.

On Monday, NASA announced it had

• U.S. Bank has been fined $35.7 million for preventing some customers from accessing unemployment funds during the pandemic.
• The CFPB said it froze tens of thousands of accounts and made it hard for customers to regain access.
• The bank also failed to provide provisional account credits to some customers who reported unauthorized transfers, the CFPB said.

U.S. Bank has been fined