NHL Collaborating With Apple to Give Referees Apple Watches Apple is collaborating with the National Hockey League (NHL) to equip on-ice officials with Apple Watches featuring an app designed to help officiating during games (via The Verge). The NHL Watch Comms app allows referees to receive in-game updates by syncing with the NHL’s Oasis system. Officials can track the game clock and receive alerts for…

iPhone 16e Has an Action Button: Here’s Everything It Can Do Apple’s new entry-level iPhone 16e has inherited the Action button first seen on the iPhone 15 Pro and now found on all iPhone 16 models. The Action button replaces the traditional Ring/Silent switch – a staple of the iPhone since it launched in 2007. For users unfamiliar with the Action button, here’s a rundown of its functions – including one …

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: UNI Drops 7.1% as Nearly All Assets Trade Lower Aave (AAVE) joined Uniswap (UNI) as an underperformer, declining 7% from Thursday.

CME Group to Launch Solana Futures as Demand for Crypto Derivatives Grows CME Group expands its crypto offerings with Solana futures, set to debut in March.

NHL officials will start wearing Apple Watches on ice The Apple Watch is now the smartwatch of choice for National Hockey League officials. Apple and the NHL just announced a collaboration where on-ice officials will wear Apple Watches that are running special software to receive important in-game information. Using the custom-built NHL Watch Comms app, on-ice referees can view the game clock direc…

Microsoft is shutting down Skype in favor of Teams It’s the end of an era. Microsoft is shutting down Skype in May and replacing it with the free version of Microsoft Teams for consumers. Existing Skype users will be able to log in to the Microsoft Teams app and have their message history, group chats, and contacts all automatically available without having to create

DJI’s drone-in-a-box can now launch from moving vehicles DJI has announced the third iteration of its drone-in-a-box solution designed for missions like safely inspecting power lines and emergency response. As with previous versions, the DJI Dock 3 is small enough to be transported in the back of a pickup truck, but it’s the first that allows DJI’s new Matrice 4D and Matrice 4TD

The high stakes for AI Alexa Amazon has been trying to make virtual assistants happen for more than a decade. Alexa is, by many definitions, wildly successful, but it has so far failed to become the kind of omnipresent, omnipotent helper the company imagines. (It has also, by all accounts, failed to become a compelling business for Amazon.) This week, though,

Severance opens up a new kind of terror in latest episode Severance has always been a horror story, albeit one set in a mostly generic office. That blandness is a large part of what makes it so scary: underneath the corporate speak, drab decor, and unflattering fluorescent lighting is something very sinister. And in the show’s latest episode, it uses that energy to tap into a

Oil Companies Wanted Trump to Lower Costs. Tariffs Are Raising Them. The cost of steel pipe used to line oil and gas wells rose after President Trump said he would impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

Former Defense Secretaries Call Trump’s Firing of Military Leaders ‘Reckless’ The five men asked the House and the Senate to hold hearings “to assess the national security implications of Mr. Trump’s dismissals.”

What’s Next for the Gaza Truce? Look at the Border With Egypt. Israeli forces are supposed to begin withdrawing from the Philadelphi Corridor, a sensitive border zone between Gaza and Egypt, this weekend.

Dead Athletes. Empty Stands. Billions to Keep Horse Racing Alive. Let the sport of kings stand on its own.

The MAGA War on Speech If only the powerful are free to speak their minds, it’s not free speech.

In Zoe Saldaña, a Choreographer Finds His Dream Dancer The Academy Award-nominated actress discovers her inner dancer in “Emilia Pérez” with the help of the choreographer Damien Jalet.

Which Iconic Names Should Never Be Used On An Electric Vehicle? Car companies love raiding their old trademarks for an EV reboot, but what would be an electric step to far?

Aston Martin Built The Perfect City Car And It’s For Sale For The First Time Purists decried the Cygnet as unworthy of its badge. Instead of getting mad, Aston Martin raised the stakes.

Reprise Financial Loan I took out a loan with Reprise around 6 months ago. Incredibly stupid, I know. This is not on my credit reports on Credit Karma. The interest rate is like 35% so I haven’t made a dent in the loan over 6 months and am paying 250 dollars a month on it. What happens if I just stop paying it altogether?! If it’s not on my credit report now, can the…

Requesting Advice on How Best to Use My Disposable Income Hey Everyone I’m in a fortunate financial position where I’m earning a decent wage and able to still live with my parents. I have about £1,200 disposable each month. So far, I’ve been investing about 20% of that into stocks/shares, 20% into crypto, and the remaining 60% straight into an ISA. I’ll admit that this is not an educated plan – I simp…

Help me figure out what to pay off first. So I’m in my late 20s and have quite a bit of debt. I have 7k in student loans still at a very low interest rate. I have a consolidation loan of about 14k at 6.7% And I have a stupid credit card 12k owing at like 19% Initially what is in the consolidation loan was also part of my credit card but I had a pre approval to put 15k into the loan at a…