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S.F. Power outage: restaurants and cafes open without electricity
Businesses opened their doors Sunday morning in San Francisco despite an ongoing power outage that left thousands of residents without electricity.
Wrestling starts to heat up, other high school top performers
Top performances of the week for high school sports in the Battle Creek-area, including boys/girls basketball, wrestling and swimming.
Editorial: America's looming health care crisis
Of all the falsehoods in President Trump’s prime-time speech, his dismissal of an imminent health insurance coverage disaster stood out.
New Braunfels bids farewell to these popular businesses in 2025
Restaurants, cafes and novelty shops all suffered losses this year.
Enhanced Games switch was 'no-brainer'
Swimmer Max McCusker says it was a "no-brainer" to compete in the inaugural Enhanced Games next year.
Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America. An interview with Dr. Joanna Dee Das.
Washington University professor Dr. Joanna Dee Das has done research at the intersection of live performance and history. Her latest book is titled "Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America." Dr. Das spoke with KSMU about her book earlier this month.
Owner of CT roofing business sentenced to 15 months in prison for tax evasion
He also was ordered to pay more than $1.1 million to the IRS and $578,259 to the Connecticut Medicaid program, officials said.
CIAC bans Connecticut sports writer from high school games and events for 'expression of violence'
The writer complained in the column about spending $56 for a copy of his birth certificate and a Real ID to attend a high school football game at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Milan vs Sassuolo – Predictions, Betting Tips & Match Preview
Sunday’s Serie A action kicks off at the San Siro as title-bidding Milan take on newly promoted Sassuolo. The home side’s pursuit of a landmark 20th Scudetto continued to go swimmingly earlier thi...
SM Entertainment accelerates US push with early debut plans for rookie acts
SM Entertainment is moving more aggressively into the US market, deploying its rookie groups earlier than ever as part of its evolving global strategy. For year
Get a 65-inch 4K QLED Samsung Smart TV for less than $500 at Walmart right now
Right now, you can score this 65-inch Samsung TV at Walmart for just $448 — that is $152 off.
Major San Marcos businesses that closed for good in 2025
From wings to vinyl, these spots said farewell.
Poll: Vote for Fort Collins-area Blue FCU Athlete of the Week (Dec. 15)
Vote for Blue FCU Athlete of the Week, with nominees from Liberty Common and Rocky Mountain basketball, Windsor/Rocky wrestling and Fossil swimming.
Access Health CT website crashes on key enrollment day
Access Health CT’s website crashed Monday with a 500 internal server error on the last day to enroll in coverage starting Jan. 1.
What does losing Harris Democratic Party endorsement mean for John Whitmire?
Harris County Democratic Party officials argue that today’s political climate will force them to be more outspoken in future races — even the nonpartisan ones.
Spurs great David Robinson sues business partner, alleges he committed fraud
Robinson, Admiral Capital Group and two other firms accuse Daniel Bassichis of diverting millions of dollars to his investment firm and another business.
Why Dan Crenshaw, a celebrity in Congress, is fighting for his job
Redistricting has made Dan Crenshaw's district more conservative and teed up competitive challengers in the March 2026 primary.
Police in Japan arrest a suspect in stabbing at an entertainment complex
Japanese police say they arrested a man in connection with the alleged stabbing of two people at an entertainment complex housing the female pop music group HKT48 in Fukuoka. Both had...
Behavioral health spending spikes to 40% of all children’s health expenditures
Expenditure nearly doubled in a decade; families paid $2.9 billion in out-of-pocket costs in 2022
2 stabbed at entertainment complex in southern Japan, police arrest a 30-year-old suspect
Japanese police say they arrested a man in connection with the alleged stabbing of two people at an entertainment complex housing the female pop music group HKT48 in the southern city of Fukuoka,...
Jasmine Crockett's Senate campaign makes first Houston stop
She stopped in at the same church she attended when she was a student at the University of Houston law school.
Green Bay area high school sports results for Saturday, Dec. 13
High school basketball, hockey, wrestling and swimming teams were in action.
John Whitmire will no longer receive Harris County Democrat's endorsements
Precinct chairs signed on to a resolution asking the party to deny Houston Mayor John Whitmire endorsements after he participated in a GOP fundraiser.
Mass weddings and political power: Why Unification Church keeps resurfacing in Korean politics
Long known for its stadium-scale mass weddings that drew global attention — and for its followers’ widely used nickname, “Moonies” — the Unification Church has
Officials warn Californians of 'junk' health care plans supported by White House
It is very likely that ACA tax credits will expire by January.
Campus Radicals: Their childhoods disrupted by politics, courageous girls are fighting back
High school swimmers challenge transgender athletics policies as campus radicals expose extremism in K-12 schools and universities nationwide this week.
Private equity-backed group says it's pumping $10M into Bay Area sports complex
"It's a facility that needs some love and affection."
California braces for disaster as Congress fails to come to a deal on health care plans
Insurance premiums for nearly 2 million Californians are almost certain to spike in a matter of weeks as a fractured Congress allows federal subsidies for some customers to expire.
By the Numbers: Winter sports fall into swing and history on ice
This week in By the Numbers, track & field and swim & dive set new program records and hockey had a historic weekend.
Plan for new business jet hangars could boost revenue at underused Sikorsky Airport
The city's airport commission approved negotiations with Sky Harbour to build and manage business plane sites at the Stratford-based facility.
No one is safe from the world’s next superbugs. Is this new science the solution?
Old antibiotics are losing effectiveness — and new ones aren’t being discovered fast enough. Our best hope to save lives may be AI.
UT may merge school, programs in bid to create 'center of excellence'
The new UT school would live in the College of Natural Sciences and combine the Computer Science, Statistics and Data Sciences and Information fields of study.
UC Berkeley suspends pro-Palestinian lecturer over political advocacy in classroom
A Berkeley lecturer known for his Gaza hunger strike has been suspended for political advocacy in the classroom — a move Muslim rights advocates say sends a chilling message.
New studies show that AI can influence voters more than campaign ads
AI chatbots can significantly influence voters' political opinions, two studies find.
Pebble's founder introduces a $75 AI smart ring for recording brief notes with a press of a button
After rebooting the Pebble smartwatch, founder Eric Migicovsky is expanding his company's device lineup with a new smart wearable: an AI-powered smart ring known as Index 01. Named for the finger where the ring is meant to be worn, the new $75 ring is not meant to be a competitor to the always-on, always-listening AI devices, like the AI pendant Friend, but instead offers a way to record quick notes and reminders with a press of a button on the ring's side. AI only comes into play via the open source, speech-to-text, and AI models that run locally on your smartphone, via the open source Pebble mobile app. That is, if the Ring's button is not being pressed, it's not recording. (And this is a press-and-hold gesture, too, which means you can't start the ring's recording and then let go to surreptitiously record a conversation.) You can wear the stainless steel ring while in the shower, washing hands, doing dishes, or in the rain, but you would have to take it off for other water-related activities, like swimming. At launch, it's water-resistant to 1 meter. The ring is also not a fitness tracker or sleep monitor. It doesn't record details about your heart rate or health. And it's not there to be your AI friend. "I'm not trying to build some AI assistant thing," Migicovsky told TechCrunch in an interview. "I build things that solve one main problem, and they solve it really well," he explains. "I think of as external memory for my brain...that's what this is. It's always with you." Plus, the ring has been designed to be highly reliable and privacy-preserving, he says, as all your thoughts are stored on your phone, not in the cloud. There is no subscription. Migicovsky has been wearing the ring for three months now and says he cannot imagine going back to a world where he doesn't always have a memory device with him. "The problem is that, during the day, I get ideas or I remember something, and if I don't write it down that second, I forget it," he says. The ring solves this problem, he adds, without becoming another device you need to charge. "The battery lasts for years," Migicovsky claims. Technically, the ring is said to support roughly 12 to 14 hours of recording. On average, the founder says he uses it 10-20 times per day to record 3-6 second thoughts. At that rate, he'll get about two years of usage. When the ring's battery dies, you can ship it back to the company for recycling. When using Index, you can record up to five minutes of audio, which can be saved to the ring and synced to your phone later. This makes sense for recording briefer, personal thoughts and notes, even when you don't have your phone handy, but it wouldn't work for recording a longer chat, like a presentation, meeting, or in-person interview of some kind. The ring also supports 99+ languages and has a bit of on-device memory, in case you're not in Bluetooth range of your device, where the recording is ultimately saved and transcribed. (The raw audio is retained, too, in case the speech-to-text is garbled due to loud background noise). If you own a Pebble smartwatch or one from another brand, your recorded thought can even appear on the watch's screen so you can verify it's correct. The ring works with Pebble's mobile app, which offers notes and reminders, but can optionally integrate with your phone's calendaring system, too, or other apps, like Notion. And the ring's software is open source, which makes it hackable by the community, the founder points out. Because of its open nature, the ring's button is already programmable. In addition to the press-and-hold gesture, you can program the ring to do other things with a single or double press, like play or pause your music or control the shutter on your phone's camera. You could use it to send a message through the universal chat app Beeper, which Migicovsky also created, or you could add your own voice actions via MCP. A new approach to hardware Migicovsky acknowledges that hardware can be difficult to get right -- as the previous exit of Pebble to Fitbit showed. (Fitbit, too, was later acquired by Google in 2021). "I didn't earn any money during Pebble -- we exited, but it was not a great exit," Migicovsky admits. This year, however, he decided to reboot the Pebble project after Google open sourced the PebbleOS, which opened up the door to new hardware. With his new company, Core Devices, Migicovsky plans to do things differently. Still, the founder doesn't regret his previous choices, he clarifies. "I wouldn't have gone back and changed anything. I loved what we built. I loved what we did. I love the company that we built, but it's not the only way to build a company," he told TechCrunch. " And, speaking as an ex-YC partner, there are -- there's a time and a place for building a venture-backed startup. Some companies are phenomenal when they raise money and build a big team, and I tried that...I think what I'm doing now is trying an alternative path, which is start from profitability," he says. The new company is a small team of five, self-funded, and focused on sustainability. So far, Core Devices has shipped the Pebble 2 Duo smartwatch with a black-and-white display. Its first run sold out, and the company is now preparing to ship the upgraded version, the Pebble Time 2. The newer device, which has seen 25,000 pre-orders, is a stainless steel watch with a larger, color e-ink screen. As for the Index 01, the ring's pre-order offer ends in March 2026. After that, the price increases to $99. It currently comes in silver, polished gold, and matte black and works with iOS and Android devices. Customers can select from eight ring sizes and three colors.
S.F. business tax revenue could jump 11% with tech boom — but city deficit may still hit $1 billion
S.F.'s business tax revenue is projected to jump in the next fiscal year, but the city’s budget deficit could still top $1B due to cuts by the Trump administration, according to Mayor Lurie’s...
Parents protest Sutter’s retreat on gender-affirming care for transgender teens
Parents marched Monday at Sutter Health’s Emeryville headquarters demanding clarity after hearing from their doctors that care for trans minors may be cut.
Jasmine Crockett jumps into the Democratic primary for US Senate
The two-term congresswoman from Dallas will face off against state Rep. James Talarico in a primary battle to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn.
First-Ever College Sports Collective Bargaining Agreement Released By Athletes.org
The four-year proposal includes a revenue-sharing template agreement and “school-specific revenue-sharing percentage based on pro rata revenue per sport."
3.0 magnitude earthquake shakes East Bay
A 3.0 magnitude earthquake struck near San Ramon, according to data from the U.S. Geological Survey.
Barry Bonds will never make the Hall of Fame. Here’s why I’m now OK with that
OPINION: After former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds came up short again on a Hall of Fame ballot, here’s how one of his former voters reconciled himself to how this won’t ever change.
We ate at Texas' No. 1 most beloved nearly 100-year-old cafe
Here's why it was ranked as the most beloved business.
Two restaurateurs team to open eatery on New Milford’s Main Street, offering ‘sophisticated comfort’
“There’s no other spot like this in New Milford," co-owner Tyrone "Ty" Taylor said of Zaza's on Main.
Older adults are slowly abandoning this hobby — but the health payoff is huge
What’s largely considered a solitary activity can improve communication skills and strengthen empathy and compassion, say experts in mental health and geriatric care.
Korean entertainment reels from year-end scandals involving Cho Jin-woong, Park Na-rae and Jo Se-ho
South Korea’s entertainment industry is ending the year in turmoil as a rapid succession of revelations and allegations engulfs some of its biggest stars. Actor
Body parts of baby found in freezer at Tokyo adult entertainment business
A severed head, arms and legs of a baby were found in a freezer at an adult entertainment business in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, police said.
Fox News Entertainment Newsletter: Sydney Sweeney sizzles in white swimsuit, Halle Berry slams Gavin Newsom
The Fox News Entertainment Newsletter brings you the latest Hollywood headlines, celebrity interviews and stories from Los Angeles and beyond.
Sudden business closures leave gift card holders in the lurch
Swifty’s abruptly closes after $2.2M tax seizure; how to handle unused gift cards.
Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. and HBO Max streaming for $72 billion
The merger would bring two of the industry’s biggest players under one roof.
The indoor health hazard most Californians overlook
A new Stanford study adds evidence against a favorite appliance.
How healthy is Austin and Travis County? Assessment explains
Austin Public Health's Community Health Assessment looked at everything from disease and poverty rates to access to food and child care. It's the first step in implementing changes.
Gavin Newsom wants Democrats to be more ‘culturally normal.’ Huh?
OPINION: Gov. Gavin Newsom often brags about California’s diversity. But his latest remarks sound like a slap at the proudly non-normal state he’s led for seven years, Joe Garofoli writes.
California scientists discover 'pulse' in Earth's glaciers
Ice masses are alive with activity, images reveal.
Winter high school sports start this week
The winter high school sports season officially begins this week, with contests scheduled in basketball, wrestling and swimming. The winter season runs through late February to early March. Boys basketball For boys basketball, the Crook County Invitational will be held at Crook County High School and Crook County Middle School in Prineville Thursday through Saturday. […]
Woman slammed for ‘sad’ act in swimming pool leaving people disturbed
A swimmer taking a dip at the Bondi Icebergs pool in Sydney, Australia, has sparked a fiery debate after being filmed using her phone while submerged.
Sports books 2025: Gridiron battles, a racing phenom, historic swimmer, more
Sports titles that came out in 2025 tell the stories of moments on fields and courts across the world. From famous to lesser-known athletes, books crossed multiple sports and eras.
Trump pardons Henry Cuellar of bribery charges ahead of 2026 midterm
Cuellar and his wife, Imelda, were indicted in May 2024 on charges of bribery, money laundering, working on behalf of a foreign government and conspiracy.
Pleasanton Valley Greenhouses reaches 40 years in business
The family-owned Pleasanton Valley Greenhouses has been in business for 40 years. It continues to offer a variety of plants, products, services and events throughout the year.
‘Stranger Things’ finale to play at 16 Bay Area theaters. Here’s how to get tickets
Netflix’s two-hour capper to the nine-year, five-season hit science fiction series is set for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
S.F. Mayor Lurie takes another political gamble with latest Sunset supervisor pick
Alan Wong, who Lurie swore into office Monday as the Sunset’s new representative on the Board of Supervisors, has for years backed a variety of progressive politicians and policies.
After a recall and a resignation, SF mayor finally appoints new supervisor
Alan Wong, a former city college board member, was appointed Sunset supervisor.
Indigenous knowledge and science join forces to save the choro mussel in Chile
Huellelhue means “place for swimming” in Mapudungun. It’s also the name of one of the rivers that flow through the Lafken Mapu Lahual Multiple-Use Conservation Area, established in 2005 in southern Chile’s Los Lagos region. The name of this area is more than just a grouping of words, says Eduardo Vargas, president of the Nirehue […]
[Exclusive] JYP Entertainment plans India entry, poised to follow Hybe’s expansion, source says
JYP Entertainment, the K-pop agency behind major global acts such as Stray Kids and Twice, is preparing to enter the Indian market, according to an industry sou
NFL announces historic first for Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show
Charlie Puth, Brandi Carlile and Coco Jones are among the Super Bowl LX pregame performers that are set to hit the Levi’s Stadium field on Feb. 8.
'Zootopia 2' roars to record-setting global box office with $556M opening
"Zootopia 2" broke box office records with a massive Thanksgiving weekend opening. The Disney sequel earned $96 million in North America over the weekend and $156 million over the five-day...
Best Cyber Monday deals to jumpstart your 2026 health goals
Make health and wellness your priority for the year ahead with these Cyber Monday deals on everything you need to get in shape and feel like your best self.
Long-lost Rubens painting depicting crucifixion sells for $2.7M
A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens has sold for $2.7 million at an auction on Sunday. The painting depicting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ was recently found in a private...