Month Archives: January 2026

Gambling

What’s Next for the Luckless Silver and Black?

Posted on: January 3, 2026, 02:31h.  Last updated on: January 3, 2026, 02:33h. Raiders look to finish last and lock down the No. 1 draft pick RB Jeanty finishing season strong Rumours swirling about head coach Carroll’s future, more Brady involvement in team decisions What’s next for the 2-14 Las Vegas...

Education

Bad News: A Game About The ‘Success’ Of Fake News

by Terry Heick Want to help students learn to think critically about ‘fake news’? A simple, browser-based game could help. What is Bad News? Bad News is a simple tool to help students understand ‘fake news,’ the (modern?) phenomenon of misinformation and ‘content as news’ propagated, at least in part,...

Crypto

Bitcoin’s Spot Price Remain Solid Despite US Attack on Venezuela

The price of Bitcoin (BTC) remained firm at about $90,000, despite geopolitical tensions between the United States and Venezuela reaching a boiling point in the early hours of Saturday morning.Bitcoin briefly fell below $90,000 on Saturday before climbing back up above the $90,000 level, where it is trading at the...

Music

Nicki Minaj Deportation Petitions Gain Over 120,000 Signatures

Several Change.org petitions to deport Nicki Minaj to her native Trinidad and Tobago have amassed more than 120,000 signatures combined. The most popular petition — garnering over 83,000 signatures — started on July 9, 2025, and lists Minaj’s “harrass” of “the Carters” as one of the inciting issues (Minaj had...

Business

Winter Classic (Game 43) Open Thread: Rangers at Florida

The Rangers got Tom Wilson’d the other night, losing both Conor Sheary and Noah Laba for multiple weeks. With them out, the Rangers recalled three AHL forwards and, for the most part, are dressing what can only be described as a preseason lineup at best. Even with all of Florida’s...

Tech

India orders Musk’s X to fix Grok over ‘obscene’ AI content

India has ordered Elon Musk’s X to make immediate technical and procedural changes to its AI chatbot Grok after users and lawmakers flagged the generation of “obscene” content, including AI-altered images of women created using the tool. On Friday, India’s IT ministry issued the order directing Musk’s X to take...

Real Estate

3 New Moves We’re Making This Year

2026 is finally here! And if you can still read this sentence without seeing double, you’ve made it!But this year, things are going to be a little… different. We usually talk about the best places or strategies for buying rentals, but we’re going on a bit of a detour to...

News

Four challenges facing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Getty ImagesSpeaking to a cheering crowd of thousands at his inauguration, Mamdani pledged to "govern expansively and audaciously"On the first freezing winter day of 2026, surrounded by thousands of cheering New Yorkers and progressive Democratic allies, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani pledged to tell a "new story of our...

Science

Fossil analysis adds to debate over how earliest known hominin walked

Sahelanthropus fossils (centre) compared with a chimpanzee (left) and a human (right)Wiliams et al., Sci. Adv. 12, eadv0130 A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like chimpanzees, or walked upright, like humans, may have been settled – but not everyone is...

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