Kicking Off Mexico Vacation With Stunning Bikini Photo. Bella Thorne poses kissing Benjamin Mascolo poolside. Benjamin Mascolo/Instagram. Bella, …

TED made the risky decision to maintain its high ticket cost, and Anderson says that about half of the initial attendees chose to stick it out. “People are effectively paying 10 grand for a virtual experience,” he says. “It’s kind of amazing, a combination of an act of generosity on people’s part, and a willingness …

SI Gambling insider Frankie Taddeo handicaps this weekend's Haskell Stakes from Monmouth Park, including the latest odds and best bets. Author: …

Many major websites and services were unreachable for a period Friday afternoon due to issues at Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS service. The outage seems to have started at about 2:15 Pacific time and lasted for about 25 minutes before connections began to be restored. Google DNS may also have been affected. Update: Cloudflare at 2:46 says …

Crypto analysts have recently suggested that Bitcoin options traders are flipping short-term bearish but data shows this is not the case. 427 Total views. social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit

With 2-in-1 laptops, versatility is the name of the game. Whether you want one for work or for play (or let’s be honest, both), having both the traditional laptop and tablet capabilities in one computer is a great option to have. With all that flexibility, you can use the same device to go from taking …

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is facing calls to resign after federal prosecutors settled a 10-year bribery case Friday with ComEd for $200 million. The court filings do not explicitly name Madigan, but describes his job and role as “Public Official A.”  The city and Chicago Public Schools announce a hybrid in-person and virtual instruction …

We continue to be stuck inside, and video games continue to sell well. It’s pretty much as simple as that, honestly. I mean, there’s more nuance than that, obviously, but that’s really the top line takeaway from NPD’s June gaming numbers. More specifically, last month saw $1.2 billion total spent on gaming, up 26% from …

Little River Casino Resort (LRCR) officially launched sports betting … Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill legalizing sports and online gambling at casinos …

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. During any other summer for the past few decades, nerddom has held this time of year as sacrosanct. Traditionally the time when Comic-Con International is held, one end-of-July weekend, is celebrated like …