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The generative AI bubble may or may not be about to burst, but the technology could still be a game changer for organizations around the world. And, according to recent data, nonprofit organizations are still trying to hop onto the AI wave.SEE ALSO:Lawsuits allege ChatGPT use led to suicide, psychosis
A majority of nonprofits are interested in AI Compared to other tech-forward spaces, the nonprofit industry has been much more hesitant to dive into AI and its pitch of humanless efficien

We're still a few weeks out from Black Friday 2025, but the big box stores don't wait for Thanksgiving to host Black Friday anymore, and the deals are already rolling in. This year, Target launched its holiday savings on Nov. 6, with early deals on holiday decor and toys. And if you're looking for doorbusters and massive discounts, Target has also marked down plenty of TVs, kitchen appliances, and noise-cancelling headphones.So, while Black Friday doesn't technically take place until Friday, Nov

WATCH MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL FOR $5: Sling TV offers no-strings day passes for various channels, including ESPN, getting you 24-hour access to stream ESPN-exclusive MNF. You can also bump the pass up to a full weekend for $9.99 or a full week for $14.99.Opens in a new windowCredit: SlingSling TV temporary streaming passesStarting at $4.99/dayLearn MoreThe ongoing drama between Disney and YouTube TV is interrupting the second week of Monday Night Football in a row. As a birds fan, this was hitting

When the NBA betting scandal broke last month and numerous players and a coach were arrested, it put a spotlight on the ever-present culture of sports wagering. One NBA player, Chicago Bulls center Nikola Vucevic, singled out a specific type of bet as a symptom of a broader, arguably negative shift — the parlay. This wager, a multi-leg bet that pays out only when a gambler correctly predicts a series of outcomes, is supposed to be a fun way for sports fans to use their intricate

Over the weekend, the conservative media outlet The Blaze and journalist Steve Baker accused a former Capitol police officer of being the prime suspect in the unsolved Jan. 6 pipe bomb incident. The report instantly sent shockwaves through right-wing media, leading to a frenzy of conspiracy theories and calls for the individual's immediate arrest. The Blaze also accused the person of being part of a vast government conspiracy. In hyping up his report on X, Baker wrote, "This might just be t

The best early Black Friday Walmart deals at a glanceBest TV dealTCL 75-inch QM6K Mini LED QLED TV$698(Save $301.98)Get DealBest laptop dealLenovo IdeaPad 5i 2-in-1 14 (Intel Core Ultra 5 Ai, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD)$399(Save $500.99)Get DealBest toy dealLego Star Wars: The Clone Wars and The Mandalorian Gift Set$45(Save $17.97)Get DealBest home dealDreame GoVac self-emptying robot vacuum and mop$248(Save $101.99)Get Deal
Just about every big retailer drops early Black Friday deals in some capacity,

On Nov. 4, Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral election, with campaign promises like a rent freeze and fast and free buses. He gave hope to New Yorkers across the city — as well as inadvertently giving hope to daters.Mamdani met his wife, animator and illustrator Rama Duwaji, on Hinge in 2021, and they married in February. (Hinge doesn't typically comment on public figures' personal relationships, the app told Mashable.) In the days since Mamdani's win, some have taken to social m

We're only a few months away from The Pitt's Season 2 premiere in January 2026, so there's no better time than now to watch (or rewatch) the Emmy-winning drama. SEE ALSO:'The Pitt' review: Noah Wyle medical drama is part 'ER,' part '24,' and all compelling
The series takes viewers inside one 15-hour-long shift in a Pittsburgh emergency department, where an ensemble of healthcare workers, led by Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch (Noah Wyle), work hard to provide care for their patients. Their day p

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture also allows developers to extend that support to thousands more. Through a feature called zero-shot in-context learning, users can provide a few paired examples of audio and text in a new language at inference time, enabling the model to transcribe additional utterances in that language w

This summer, TV audiences went wild for The Summer I Turned Pretty. The third and final season of the popular teen drama had everyone asking, "Are you Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah?" But once Belly (Lola Tung) made her final decision between the two Fisher brothers (Christopher Briney and Gavin Casalegno), the main question on every fan's minds switched to "What in the world do we watch now?" (Besides the upcoming movie, of course.)SEE ALSO:Why Conrad from 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' is the inte

If you've ever had to rent a car, you're probably familiar with some of the big car rental companies out there: Hertz, Enterprise, Budget, and…Tesla?Tesla is now getting into the car rental business, according to a new report from EV news outlet Electrek.The company is renting out vehicles in at least two locations in Southern California, one in San Diego and one in Costa Mesa. However, Tesla is reportedly planning to expand its rent-a-car service to even more locations across the country

Chronosphere, a New York-based observability startup valued at $1.6 billion, announced Monday it will launch AI-Guided Troubleshooting capabilities designed to help engineers diagnose and fix production software failures — a problem that has intensified as artificial intelligence tools accelerate code creation while making systems harder to debug.The new features combine AI-driven analysis with what Chronosphere calls a Temporal Knowledge Graph, a continuously updated map of an organizatio

UPDATE Monday, 2:51 p.m. ET: Slack's problems on Monday appear to be resolving. User-reported issues on Downdetector had fallen precipitously from their earlier peak.Slack's status page indicates that it has identified and begun fixing the issue. "Our work on this issue is still ongoing, and our health metrics continue to indicate improvement," reads its most recent update. Thousands of people reported errors connecting to Slack around 1 p.m. ET on Monday, Nov. 10. Slack is a popular message pla

Funko, the company behind the ubiquitous collectibles that defined mid-2010s geek fandom, is facing serious financial trouble, according to its latest SEC filings.In documents filed on Nov. 6, Funko raised "substantial doubt" about its ability to continue operating over the next 12 months. The report, which covers the third quarter ending Sept. 30, reveals mounting debt that the company attributes to a “challenging retail environment” — fallout from U.S. tariffs on imports from

Apple is rumored to be removing the Dynamic Island cutout, replacing it with an under-display camera. In other words, Apple might be going with a clean, all-screen look for its display. Apple-focused tech site MacRumors reported on Monday that rumors suggest the 20th anniversary iPhone in 2027 could conceal the front-facing camera and have no visible cutouts on the screen. It's worth noting that these rumors come from anonymous leakers, so there remains reason to be skeptical. And it's a long ti

SAVE $37: A like-new Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (16GB) is on sale for $106.99, down from the list price of $143.99. That's a 26% discount that matches the lowest we've ever seen at Amazon.Opens in a new windowCredit: AmazonLike-new Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (16GB)$106.99 at Amazon $143.99 Save $37.00 Get DealBlack Friday is coming up, which means the holiday rush is truly about to begin. If you prefer to shop early and then ignore the chaos, maybe you also want some quiet reading time. If you'

Nintendo is typically very good at keeping things under wraps and preventing leaks, but that might be harder to do now that it's making billion-dollar Hollywood movies.The Super Mario Galaxy Movie releases in April 2026, but aside from a quick teaser trailer, we haven't seen much of it yet. It's not a surprise that the sequel to 2023's The Super Mario Bros. Movie would feature Yoshi, Mario's green dinosaur friend, as it was teased in a post-credits scene in the first movie. However, a box for a

Black Friday is coming up quickly and Amazon has joined the party with official dates. On Nov. 9, the mega-retailer dropped the big news: Amazon's Black Friday sale will begin on Thursday, Nov. 20 and run through Monday, Dec. 1 with plenty of deals on offer throughout.SEE ALSO:Best Buy's early Black Friday deals are live. As a shopping reporter, here's what I would buy now.
Black Friday is one of the biggest shopping events of the year. What used to be a single day on the Friday after Thanksgivi

Apple has removed top Chinese gay dating apps Blued and Finka from the country's App Store, WIRED has reported. Apple received a government order to remove the apps. "We follow the laws in the countries where we operate. Based on an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China, we have removed these two apps from the China storefront only," an Apple spokesperson told WIRED in an email. "Earlier this year, the developer of Finka elected to remove the app from storefronts outside of China, an

As cloud project tracking software monday.com’s engineering organization scaled past 500 developers, the team began to feel the strain of its own success. Product lines were multiplying, microservices proliferating, and code was flowing faster than human reviewers could keep up. The company needed a way to review thousands of pull requests each month without drowning developers in tedium — or letting quality slip.That’s when Guy Regev, VP of R&D and head of the Growth and m

SAVE OVER $60: As of Nov. 10, the Apple MacBook Pro (M5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) is on sale for $1,538 at Amazon. That's a saving of over $60 on list price.Opens in a new windowCredit: AppleApple MacBook Pro (M5, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD)$1,538 at Amazon $1,599 Save $61 Get DealWe're all on the lookout for Apple deals are we approach the busiest shopping season of the year. We're already seen some signs of things to come, but the big wave of deals hasn't come just yet. We're not overwhelmed at this

SAVE 34%: As of Nov. 10, Apple AirPods 4 are on sale for $84.99 at Amazon. That's 34% off the $129 list price and a new all-time low for this model. Apple AirPods 4$84.99 at Amazon $129 Save $44.01 Get Deal at Amazon Get Deal at Walmart Get Deal at Best Buy
I am that person with AirPods always on their last leg. One bud is always quieter than the other, or I've dropped the case one too many times. I've been waiting for a good deal to replace my old pair, and this is the first big price drop

Acer is upgrading one of its premium convertible Chromebooks with more AI prowess. Announced Wednesday at IFA 2025 in Berlin, the latest Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 (CP514-5HN) packs a new MediaTek Kompanio Ultra chip that has a neural processing unit (NPU) with up to 50 TOPS (or trillions of operations per second), enabling a pair of exclusive software features.The Spin 514 is the only Chromebook Plus with an NPU besides the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14, which has the same processor. Like its co

Baseten, the AI infrastructure company recently valued at $2.15 billion, is making its most significant product pivot yet: a full-scale push into model training that could reshape how enterprises wean themselves off dependence on OpenAI and other closed-source AI providers.The San Francisco-based company announced Thursday the general availability of Baseten Training, an infrastructure platform designed to help companies fine-tune open-source AI models without the operational headaches of managi

Presented by CelonisAfter a year of boardroom declarations about “AI transformation,” this was the week where enterprise leaders came together to talk about what actually works. Speaking from the stage at Celosphere in Munich, Celonis co-founder and co-CEO Alexander Rinke set the tone early in his keynote:“Only 11 % of companies are seeing measurable benefits from AI projects today,” he said. “That’s not an adoption problem. That’s a context problem.&rdq