Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 is easier to recommend now it starts at $260

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Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 is on sale in multiple colors. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 is on sale in multiple colors. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 is one of the best Android smartwatches you can buy right now, especially if you’re already using a Samsung phone. Right now the 40mm, Bluetooth-enabled version’s on sale for $289.99 ($60 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Samsung, which is its second-best price this

Meet the ICE contractor pivoting from detention facilities to 'man camps' for data center construction workers

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Giant data centers like the Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas are under construction across the country.

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  • Target Hospitality stock is up about 60% since March 31.
  • The company landed a $550 million deal to house 4,000 workers building a data center in Texas.
  • It is one of many companies outside the tech industry that is benefiting from the AI boom.

A low-profile Texas company that

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CBS News is hiring a former ABC News bureau chief who abruptly left last year

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CBS News just hired a veteran journalist who was in an HR investigation at ABC News.

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  • CBS News is hiring Joshua Hoyos as editorial director of its live news streamer.
  • Hoyos was previously the New York bureau chief at ABC News and underwent an HR investigation.
  • Read the full memo about Hoyos' hire.

CBS News is hiring a former newsroom leader at ABC News who abruptly left last year

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The world's biggest TikToker goes quiet on $975 million deal

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Khaby Lame's $975 million deal is facing trouble as brokerages restrict trading in the stock tied to it. The TikTok star had planned to merge his company with Rich Sparkle Holdings so everyday investors could buy in, but uncertainty has sent the stock down over 90% since January.

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NASA’s Artemis II mission to fly around the far side of the Moon

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In this handout image provided by NASA, Orion snapped this high-resolution selfie in space with a camera mounted on one of its solar array wings during a routine external inspection of the spacecraft on the second day into the Artemis II mission on April 3rd, 2026. | Photo: NASA via Getty Images
In this handout image provided by NASA, Orion snapped this high-resolution selfie in space with a camera mounted on one of its solar array wings during a routine external inspection of the spacecraft on the second day into the Artemis II mission on April 3rd, 2026. | Photo: NASA via Getty Images

Humans haven’t set foot on the Moon since NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in 1972. Now, the space

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A maverick hacker got Mac OS X running on a Wii

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You may already know that emulators can run Wii games on a Mac. But one developer has flipped the script. Bryan Keller now has an ancient version of the Mac's operating system running on Nintendo's 2006 game console (via Kottke). Why? Because they said it couldn't be done.

The developer first had the idea in 2013 while a sophomore in college. However, they found renewed motivation five years ago

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How cocaine trafficking actually works, according to a former drug smuggler

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Andrew Pritchard was arrested for smuggling $130 million dollars worth of cocaine through the Caribbean to Europe using shipping containers in the 1990s and 2000s.

Pritchard initially smuggled cocaine for the UK club scene using hard-sided suitcases packed with concealed drugs and decoy luggage to evade airport security. He then began smuggling from Guyana to the Caribbean to the UK, shipping in

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