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Primer on FedEx's Distribution Network (2024)

*Updated July 1, 2025 FedEx was founded in 1971 as an express delivery service. An early motto captures its basic promise: “When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.” The Federal Aviation Act of 1977, which was intensely advocated for by FedEx founding president Fred Smith, allowed FedEx to bring larger aircraft into its fleet. Larger aircraft in turn allowed FedEx to concentrate most of its sorting operations in one hub, Memphis, where the company built its superhub in 1979. T

Do EA buyout talks hint at bigger industry troubles?

In Brief Why is Electronic Arts, one of the biggest names in the video game business, reportedly in talks to go private? Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier notes that video game companies are moving towards consolidation and that the deal could reflect EA executives’ broader concerns over the future of the industry. Following a period of rapid growth in the 2010s and during the pandemic, Schreier said gamers in recent years have “tended to stick with old favorites rather than purchasing new titles.”

Ligue 1 Soccer: Livestream PSG vs. Auxerre From Anywhere

Luis Enrique's Paris Saint-Germain will be determined to get back to winning ways on Saturday as it hosts Ligue 1 newcomer Auxerre at the Parc des Princes. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch this game live wherever you are in the world and how to use a VPN if they're not available where you are. Monday's rescheduled Le Classique derby match against Marseille saw PSG relinquish its perfect start to the season. It slipped to a 1-0 defeat at the Stade Vélodro

Factor Protein Plus Meals Review (2025): Filling, Not Fattening

I have gone utterly rogue with this pork loin. Factor, HelloFresh's prepared meal delivery service, does not offer instructions for heating up its meals with an air fryer. But I've gone a little off-script while testing Factor's high-protein meal options, after my previous experience reheating Factor's never-frozen, packaged delivery meals using the microwave. The air fryer works better. Wings? Garlic chicken? Truffle filet mignon? Everything goes into the Ninja Crispi, which has become by far

The luxurious HUAWEI Watch Ultimate 2 pairs premium hardware with an adventurous edge

HUAWEI Watch Ultimate 2 The HUAWEI Watch Ultimate 2 is a luxury smartwatch with standout build quality, reliable GPS, and ambitious dive tools. It’s big, heavy, and leans more toward a fitness tracking than a fully-fledged smartwatch, but for adventurers who want bold design and niche features, it’s a premium statement piece. Smartwatches often walk a fine line between fashion and function. The HUAWEI Watch Ultimate 2 skips subtlety and heads straight for luxury. With high-end materials, extrem

Raleigh One e-bike review: redemption tour

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Two good things have come from the 2023 bankruptcy of VanMoof. The first is the all-new VanMoof S6 e-bike that recently launched under new ownership. The second is a new commuter e-bike developed for Raleigh by VanMoof’s departed founders, Ties and

Newly Released Epstein Files Suggest Elon Musk Was Invited to Notorious Island

House Democrats released a small but notable sample of documents obtained from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on Friday. And one line really sticks out. The line appears to be from a 2014 schedule for the late sex trafficker, dated Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014: “Reminder: Elon Musk to island Dec. 6 (is this still happening?)” It’s unclear which “island” the line may be referring to, but the obvious suggestion is that it could be a private island in the Caribbean owned by Epstein himself. The island i

Why do we remember some life moments but not others?

Why Do We Remember Some Life Moments—but Not Others? Boston University neuroscientist Robert Reinhart (center) studied memory mechanisms with Wen Wen (left), a postdoctoral research associate, and Chenyang (Leo) Lin (GRS’30). Memory Why Do We Remember Some Life Moments—but Not Others? BU study finds memories of mundane incidents can be strengthened when they get attached to a memory of an emotionally charged event Some memories are easy to recall—lush with detail, fresh as the moment itself. O

Why do we remember some life moments - but not others?

Why Do We Remember Some Life Moments—but Not Others? Boston University neuroscientist Robert Reinhart (center) studied memory mechanisms with Wen Wen (left), a postdoctoral research associate, and Chenyang (Leo) Lin (GRS’30). Memory Why Do We Remember Some Life Moments—but Not Others? BU study finds memories of mundane incidents can be strengthened when they get attached to a memory of an emotionally charged event Some memories are easy to recall—lush with detail, fresh as the moment itself. O

Musk, Thiel, Bannon named in partially redacted Epstein documents released by Democrats

Charges against Jeffrey Epstein were announced on July 8, 2019 in New York City. Epstein will be charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon are among those who appeared in partially redacted files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that were released on Friday by Democrats in the House Oversight Committee. The committee ea

SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think

SimpleFold: Folding Proteins is Simpler than You Think Introduction We introduce SimpleFold, the first flow-matching based protein folding model that solely uses general purpose transformer layers. SimpleFold does not rely on expensive modules like triangle attention or pair representation biases, and is trained via a generative flow-matching objective. We scale SimpleFold to 3B parameters and train it on more than 8.6M distilled protein structures together with experimental PDB data. To the b

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Corsair Sabre V2 Pro Ultralight Gaming Mouse Review: Impossibly Light

For the past few years, competitive gaming mice have been on a weight loss journey. For a serious ultra-lightweight wireless gaming mouse today, the “acceptable” weight is around 60 grams—in part because the mouse still feels rigid and substantial in-hand. You can still slip your mouse into a backpack or drop it from a reasonable height without worrying about anything cracking or breaking. But what if someone made a mouse as light as possible, without worrying about structural rigidity or durab

ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps

The European Union wants to force tech companies to scan your private messages & images, even in your favorite encrypted apps. The 🇪🇺 European Union is advancing legislation that could fundamentally change how we communicate online. ChatControl would require all messaging platforms to automatically scan their users’ private messages and images. Yes, even encrypted ones like Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram. No, you can’t opt out. This isn’t just another privacy policy update you can ignore. If p

35 million Prime customers are due class action payment from Amazon - here's how much you can get

Charles-McClintock Wilson/iStock Editorial/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A recent FTC ruling means Amazon must pay $2.5 billion. Amazon allegedly tricked customers into full Prime subscriptions. Customers can receive up to $51. If you're an Amazon Prime subscriber, you might be able to take part in a new class action suit and claim your share of a $2.5 billion settlement. The FTC announced today that not on

‘Ghost of Yotei’ Is a Stronger, Self-Assured Sequel

There was a moment early on in Ghost of Yotei where I knew it’d won me over. As Atsu, I wasn’t hunting down the Yotei Six who killed my family and left me for dead back in my youth; I was taking on a simple bounty who’d managed to get the better of me. I was all set to watch him plunge his katana in my back and restart the swordfight. Instead, a wolf jumped in out of nowhere, biting him and granting me full health so I could get back up and resume the fight and get my bounty. I wouldn’t really

I Played Ghost of Yotei. It's a Stunning Follow-Up That Proves the Ghost's Legend Lives On

Ghost of Tsushima was the final hurrah for the PlayStation 4, released just four months before the PlayStation 5 arrived. Ghost of Yotei, its PS5-exclusive follow-up from developer Sucker Punch, expands on all the positives from the first game, addresses the few criticisms I had of Tsushima and lives up to all expectations. It's a bigger world with a grander story, while giving you so much more to do. Yotei takes place 300 years after the events of Tsushima in a different region of Japan, in Ez

Ghost of Yōtei is exactly the kind of game PlayStation needs

Things have been weird for PlayStation of late. After years spent cultivating an image akin to the HBO of video games through single-player franchises like The Last of Us, God of War, and Horizon Zero Dawn, the company shifted focus, jumping on the live-service bandwagon to mostly disastrous effect. Aside from a few standouts and a number of remasters, those beloved single-player games have slowed to a trickle: which is what makes Ghost of Yōtei so notable. Like its predecessor Ghost of Tsushima

TuneIn partners with FEMA to give drivers real-time emergency alerts

Audio streaming service TuneIn announced on Thursday a partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to deliver emergency alerts directly to drivers. TuneIn is now compatible with the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS), FEMA’s national system that delivers verified local alerts and critical emergency information to the public. Through this integration, drivers in affected geographic areas will receive real-time alerts from local, state, tribal, and federal agen

The Onion Made an Absolutely Unhinged Jeffrey Epstein Mockumentary

In a world where hallowed news organizations transform into conservative mouthpieces and ​milquetoast late-night jokes are grounds for suspension, satirical headlines from the Onion can feel closer to real life than parody. Now the site is taking on one of the most taboo subjects of all—disgraced sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein—in mockumentary form. Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is a 20-minute satire that’s half biopic, half true crime, and 100 percent dumb (complimentary). It laun

Billionaire VC Mike Moritz slams new H-1B visa fee as ‘brutish extortion scheme’

In Brief The Trump administration last Friday announced a new $100,000 annual levy on H-1B visas, which allow 85,000 skilled foreign workers to enter the U.S. each year. The fee applies to companies hiring these workers, primarily in tech. Veteran venture capitalist Michael Moritz isn’t having it. In a new, scathing Financial Times op-ed, the former Sequoia Capital honcho compares the White House to Tony Soprano’s pork store, calling the move another “brutish extortion scheme.” Moritz argues

Apple researchers develop SimpleFold, a lightweight AI for protein folding prediction

Google DeepMind’s work with AlphaFold has been nothing short of a miracle, but it is computationally expensive. With that in mind, Apple researchers set off to develop an alternative method to use AI to predict the 3D structure of proteins, and it shows promise. Here are the details. If you’re not familiar with AlphaFold, this is Google DeepMind’s groundbreaking AI model that can predict the 3D structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence. This has been especially valuable in helping dev

Roundtables: The Future of Birth Control

Conversations around birth control usually focus on women, but Kevin Eisenfrats, one of the MIT Technology Review 2025 Innovators Under 35, is working to change that. His company, Contraline, is working toward testing new birth control options for men. Speakers: Kevin Eisenfrats, co-founder and CEO of Contraline, and Amy Nordrum, executive editor, MIT Technology Review

Bluesky down for some, with frozen feeds or error messages

Social media app Bluesky is down for some users. Some are reporting that their feed appears to be frozen with only older posts appearing, while others are seeing an error message … Based on reports at Downdetector, the problems first started around 5am ET and have been building since then. At the time of writing, the company’s status page shows that everything is fine, nothing to see here, but it’s not unusual for companies – including Apple – to take time to acknowledge issues. The Verge’s Do

Study Promoting Apple Cider Vinegar for Weight Loss Was Complete Bunk

Anyone who’s tried to lose weight knows there’s no shortage of products or fad foods out there that will supposedly speed up your slimming. One such advertised food, apple cider vinegar, will have less credibility behind it now, as a clinical trial claiming to show its weight loss success has just been yanked by the publisher. BMJ Group announced the retraction of the study this afternoon. Originally published last year, the small trial purportedly showed that people who drank apple cider vineg

Always Invite Anna

September 22, 2025 • 2 min read I was lucky enough to make a few friends my first semester of college. We ended up hanging out quite a bit during those early months. We’d all get excited for the weekends because Friday nights meant going out to party. Everyone except for Anna, that is. Anna was quiet, shy, and a definitely a goody-two-shoes. She was from Alabama and spoke with a pronounced southern drawl I’d rarely heard in Maryland. She was reserved but friendly once you got to know her. Ann

DHS Uses Nintendo’s Pokémon Music and Video in Latest Bizarre Tweet

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has spent recent months posting some of the most bizarre material that’s ever come from an official U.S. government account. And now we can add “Fascist Pokémon” to the list. The official DHS account published a one-minute video on X and Instagram on Monday that opens with footage of explosions at the doors of unseen victims. The Pokémon music starts, with the lyrics “I wanna be the very best…” as viewers see American stormtroopers in fatigues walking in

Smooth weighted round-robin balancing

For edge case weights like { 5, 1, 1 } we now produce { a, a, b, a, c, a, a } sequence instead of { c, b, a, a, a, a, a } produced previously. Algorithm is as follows: on each peer selection we increase current_weight of each eligible peer by its weight, select peer with greatest current_weight and reduce its current_weight by total number of weight points distributed among peers. In case of { 5, 1, 1 } weights this gives the following sequence of current_weight's: a b c 0 0 0 (initial state) 5

The First Teaser for ‘The Bride!’ Is Monstrously Intriguing

Step aside, Poor Things, and take Joker: Folie à Deux with you when you go: the first teaser trailer for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! is here. Anyone who was wondering whether the world has enough bandwidth for two Frankenstein movies in the span of a few months can breathe easy; The Bride! looks like it has an entirely different, far more chaotic energy than what Guillermo del Toro‘s got cooking. The Bride! has been touted as a musical, but there’s just a small hint of that in this teaser. I

Ligue 1 Soccer: Livestream Marseille vs. PSG From Anywhere

Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain belatedly lock horns on Monday in what looks set to be a crucial match in the French title race. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch this game live wherever you are in the world and how to use a VPN if they're not available where you are. Originally set to take place on Sunday evening as the weekend's big game, the match was controversially called off just six hours before kickoff due to storms and heavy rainfall. Ligue 1 r