The Dallas booboys

Pols around the country have been flocking to be seen at World Cup matches — who among the office-holding class doesn’t want to be seen at the world’s biggest street party and sports tournament? But one place where the optics haven’t worked well has been Dallas — which is the host city (sort of) for…

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Julian Shapiro-Barnum enters his late-night era

For years, Julian Shapiro-Barnum has built a career around helping others let their guard down. Whether he’s interviewing impossibly wise preschoolers on Recess Therapy or convincing celebrities to embrace the unexpected on Celebrity Substitute, his greatest talent has always been creating the kind of space where people stop performing and start playing. Now, with his…

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Apple Vision Pro is failing. Heres why that matters.

The new year has barely begun, and already we have a strong contender for our annual dead tech list, 2026 edition — the Apple Vision Pro. Not that the iPhone maker’s Augmented Reality (AR) headset has passed on yet, exactly. The Apple Vision Pro (starting at $3,499) has been, to paraphrase Monty Python, just resting…

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