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Super Bowl Tailgate photo essay: Bad Bunny, Big Tech, and the Big Game

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🔥 Read this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Culture News,Photo Essay ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Jim Lockhart, from Boston:Did you travel to get here today?Yes, we came early Friday morning. Planes, trains and cars from Logan Airport.Where do you live?InterContinental Hotel, right in San Fran, downtown.Beautiful. I'm from San Francisco, born and raised, so I'm proud of my hometown. Hope you enjoy your stay.Oh, you know what? They did an incredible job. San Fran was very convenient. Everyone has been great. Friendly bartenders, waitresses, concierges and Uber guys. Everyone's been great, man. They did a great…

Turning Point USA’s halftime show was exactly what you’d expect

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🚀 Explore this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Music,Anti-Climax ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: On Sunday evening, during Bad Bunny's rousing halftime performance at Super Bowl LX, a crowd of what appeared to be fewer than 200 people at an undisclosed location was greeted by an alternative concert, titled "The All-American Halftime Show," presented by the right-wing student organization Turning Point USA.Conceived as culture war counter-programming to a show hosted by a Puerto Rican megastar who raps and sings in Spanish and has been an outspoken critic of ICE, the event featured four MAGA-aligned country stars and…

Inside Bad Bunny’s historic Super Bowl halftime show

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🚀 Check out this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Music,Culture / Digital Culture,Super Bowl 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: every time Dating back nearly 60 years, putting on a Super Bowl halftime show is getting tougher. Sometimes logistics are complicated by concerns about protecting the turf. On other occasions, some aspects of the show leak online, as happened last year before Kendrick Lamar's performance. In the lead-up to Bad Bunny's performance at Super Bowl LX, I wondered if concerns about the potential presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at the Big Game would be the…

Public health workers resign over their assignments at Guantanamo

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🚀 Check out this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: The Big Story,Science / Health,Science,In the Dark 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Rebecca Stewart, A A nurse with the US Public Health Service received a call last April that made her cry. She has been selected for deployment to the Trump administration's new immigration detention operation at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This post combines Donald Trump's long-time passion for using the overseas base to move "some bad guys" out of the United States with a promise he made shortly after his inauguration to detain thousands of non-citizens there. The naval base…

Why are the Artemis II crew in quarantine before their trip to the moon?

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✨ Check out this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Science,Science / Space,Keep It Clean 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Artemis program The first manned flight to the moon may be delayed a little, but the crew is still on standby. While most of the attention at NASA is focused on pre-launch preparations for the Orion spacecraft and its SLS rocket, the four astronauts face a noticeably different protocol. Because they live and work among people, they cannot physically touch anyone and cannot go outside. A simple stomach ache or cold could seriously delay the first human journey to the…

For $4,550, would you buy one distinctive watch or a collection of more affordable watches?

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🚀 Read this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Decision Time 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: To be a viable alternative to the GADA Tudor, a value collection must include a time travel watch. We looked at Farer's 36mm Lander IV, with its preppy color scheme and distinct character, but in the end we chose another favorite from the affordable end of the Swatch Group.The Mido Ocean Star Decompression Worldtimer costs $5 less than the Farer, at $1,490, and brings its own eye-catching dial to the table, as well as a 200-meter water resistance rating…

Amazon’s documentary “Melania” stumbles in its second weekend

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🚀 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Media & Entertainment,Amazon,melania,melania trump ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: After a better-than-expected opening weekend in theaters, the box office for Amazon's "Melania" fell 67%, to an estimated $2.37 million, in its second weekend. The documentary about the first Melania Trump has grossed $13.5 million so far (almost all of it in the U.S.), meaning it's highly unlikely that the film — which Amazon spent $40 million to acquire and $35 million to market — will break even in theaters. Before the release of “Melania,” a former Amazon executive questioned how the…

Best Vacuum Cleaner (2026): Cordless Vacuums, Robotic Vacuums, Dysons

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Buying Guides,Gear / Products / Home,Clean Machine ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Compare our favorite vacuum cleanersHonorable mentionsBissell PowerClean FurFinder for $210: This was our previous top pick for cordless vacuums, and it's still a great, affordable vacuum. But if you're looking for a cheap option, the regular Bissell PowerClean ($200) is a little cheaper because it doesn't come with the FurFinder upholstery attachment, while the Dyson and Ryobi vacuums have more suction power for pet hair.Black & Decker Dustbuster Flex for $95: This is another great portable…

Crypto.com places $70 million bet on AI.com domain ahead of Super Bowl

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💥 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,crypto.com,Kris Marszalek,super bowl 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Just in time to create a new Super Bowl ad, Crypto.com founder Chris Marszalek made the most expensive domain purchase in history, buying AI.com for $70 million, according to the Financial Times. The deal, paid entirely in cryptocurrency to an unknown seller, breaks previous records. (Supposedly, broker Larry Fisher, who facilitated the sale, is celebrating his good fortune.) Marszalek plans to debut the site during Sunday's big game, offering consumers a personal AI agent for messaging, using apps and trading stocks. “If you…

Well, I’m a little less angry about the “Magnificent Ambersons” AI project.

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Media & Entertainment,edward saatchi,fable 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When a startup announced its plans last fall to recreate lost footage from Orson Welles' classic film "The Magnificent Ambersons" using generative AI, I was skeptical. What's more, I was confused as to why anyone would spend time and money on something that seemed guaranteed to piss off cinephiles while offering negligible commercial value. This week an in-depth profile by The New Yorker's Michael Shulman provides more details about the project. If nothing else, it helps explain why startup Fable and its…