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'Punt' on this year's quarterback draft class, take Jeremiah Smith, says college football expert Brooks Austin
While the NFL Draft isn't until next April, that never stops general managers, scouts and even fans from opining on what their teams will do in the spring.
It's the main reason why mock drafts exist and are created nearly a year in advance, because everyone is dying to know who their favorite team is going to select with their first round pick.
Of course, because it's the most important position on the field, the quarterback draws the most amount of eyes when it comes to the first round of the draft, and the 2027 edition is no exception.
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There are several draft-eligible signal callers who are generating plenty of buzz, but one expert thinks this might be the year to skip out on the position altogether if a team holds a top pick.
Brooks Austin has made a living studying college football film, so much so that he's earned the moniker "The Film Guy."
His YouTube channel, "The Film Guy Network," has over 135,000 subscribers, and he's recently parlayed that into a partnership with the college football media giant On3.
Suffice to say, Austin knows ball, so when I sat down with him to talk about the college game, and more specifically, the quarterback class for the 2027 NFL Draft, he gave a surprising assessment.
"Can I punt on the entire class," he asked, half jokingly.
As Austin points out, there are some solid quarterbacks in this class, but none are the "can't miss" prospects that would necessitate a top-five pick like in years past.
Most experts figured Oregon's Dante Moore would be the first QB off the board in '27, given he was already projected to go high last year before deciding to return to Eugene.
An injury might have derailed that for Moore, but as Austin points out, the injured Duck wasn't without some limitations of his own even before exiting for the season.
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"Dante Moore is a really good football player," he explains. "But (he) gets stuck on reads and makes his mind up pre-snap, and that scares me. He's also a little up and down, like from a fundamental standpoint, from a mechanics standpoint, he just kinda gets away with a lot of it in college football."
Moore wasn't the only one giving Austin some pause.
Ole Miss's Trinidad Chambliss, one of the preseason Heisman favorites, has had a fine season statistically, but his build makes Austin nervous about him at the next level.
"I love him, but there are some physical questions about that one as well, like, is he gonna work at his stature when we get to the league?"
Other quarterbacks like Texas' Arch Manning and LSU's Sam Leavitt get mentioned as well, with Austin stating question marks about their decision making and turnover problems.
The prospect who Austin believes should go number one overall shouldn't come as a shock to anyone who watches football on Saturday.
"If I had the number one overall pick, I'd draft Jeremiah Smith," Austin admits. "And then next year I try to find a quarterback."
Austin explains that Smith, the Ohio State wide receiver, is a "guarantee" and one of the only truly generational prospects we've seen in the game since Andrew Luck in 2012.
"I would draft Smith, and I'd be like, 'I've got the best prospect and most known prospect that's come out of college football... since maybe like Andrew Luck,'" Austin claims. "I would just draft him if I was bad enough to be the number one overall pick."
Cooling mattresses for hot sleepers: Why Nectar?
There's nothing worse than waking up at 3 a.m. sweating, and desperately searching for the cool side of the pillow. If that's you, the solution might just be a mattress from Nectar. All of Nectar's mattresses have cooling fibers woven into the surface fabric, designed to cool down your body temperature and keep you sleeping through the night, regardless of the season.
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Nectar memory foam mattresses are ideal for hot sleepers, with a cool-to-the-touch sleeping surface. The foam relieves pressure on your joints, conforms to your body and responds to your movement through the night, helping support your body while cooling you (and minimizing movement for a partner sleeping in the same bed).
You can choose from Classic, Premier and Luxe memory foam mattresses. As you move up the line, the cooling and pressure-relieving properties double and triple.
If you're an especially hot sleeper, consider the Ultra memory foam mattress, which has four times the cooling properties of the Classic model. It contains a separate sheet of phase change materials layered on top of the memory foam to help regulate temperature. Phase change materials in the Nectar Ultra can absorb or release heat as they change phase. That means it pulls heat away from your body when you're too warm and releases heat back out towards your body when you're too cold, so you always stay at the perfect temperature throughout the night.
There are more than 200 5-star reviews, many of which praise the cooling properties. "Absolutely the best mattress I have ever laid my head on," said one reviewer. "First night was the best night's sleep I have had in years. The comfort of the mattress helped me fall asleep quickly and the cooling effect helped me sleep all night."
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Hybrid mattresses combine the pressure-relieving support of memory foam with innerspring coils. These help with reducing motion transfer, which is perfect for those sleeping with partners. Nectar's Hybrid Luxe mattress would be ideal for extremely hot sleepers who toss and turn or have partners that move in their sleep.
The coils allow for more airflow in your mattress, rather than air getting trapped in the dense memory foam. There are Premier and Luxe versions of the hybrid mattress, which get more and more cooling as you move up the line.
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The two included pillows have cooling fibers woven into the foam, similar to the brand's foam mattresses, to keep you even cooler through the night. With a classic sheet set, you have everything you need to completely make your bed for one budget-friendly price.
Luka Doncic brings extra motivation to Lakers vs Warriors NBA Cup clash on ESPN tonight
The start of the NBA season has actually been a lot of fun. The teams have looked good; they are enjoyable, and the betting has gone very well for me. I have a major move tonight in the Hornets-Wizards game, and I'm looking to score more in another early-season matchup. We've already seen this one play out this season, but I have a lot of excitement for the game between the Lakers and Warriors that takes place tonight at Golden State.
The Lakers are now the Luka Lakers. There is no more LeBron, and the keys have been handed over to one of the top assets in the entire league. How has that worked out for Los Angeles through the early portion of the season? The team is 4-1, with the lone loss coming against a surprisingly good Portland team. To start the season, they've beaten the Warriors by 22, the Clippers by eight, the Jazz by nine, and the Clippers by 16. None of those three teams will be playoff contenders.
They now take on the Warriors for the second time in the early season as part of the NBA Cup Group Play. This is the third game in four nights for the Lakers, but not a back-to-back. Still, legs could be a bit tired. However, this is almost certainly a game that Luka circled on the calendar. On Opening Night, Warriors rookie Yaxel Lendeborg was yapping at Luka for much of the game, and then doubled-down with comments about him in the media. Luka does not back down, and Luka does not forget.
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In fairness to Lendeborg he was quite effective when guarding Luka directly. However, the Lakers crushed the Warriors and moved on. Now the Warriors get a chance to return the favor. It hasn't been a great season for Golden State so far with two wins and three losses. However, the Warriors did win back-to-back games on the road with very good performances against the Nuggets and the Timberwolves. Lendeborg was the leading scorer in the win over the Nuggets, and Stephen Curry went ballistic in Minnesota.
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The Warriors are not really in a rebuild, but they are in something much worse. They don't seem to really understand what they are trying to do with the roster. They still have Steph playing at an elite level. However, the rest of the roster is filled out with guys who would be better at filling roles than filling holes. Jimmy Butler and Kristaps Porzingis are both on the wrong side of 30 and have injury issues. If they do come back and play well, maybe the Warriors can compete, but until then, the team will have to lean on Lendeborg.
Tonight will be a challenge for the Warriors, but I'm excited to see what they do against Luka. I think the Warriors will try to back Lendeborg and not let Luka kill them, but it probably doesn't matter. Luka is playing in an NBA Cup game, he is playing on ESPN at primetime, and he has extra trash talk motivation. I'm taking Luka over 34.5 points for tonight, and I'll do a Luka Ladder. One full unit on 35+ points, .5u on 40+ points .2u on 45+, .2u on 50+, and .1u on 60+.
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Unvetted foreign workers at AI firms raise national security alarms, advocates warn
Tech advocacy groups are sounding the alarm, warning that the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence and a lack of federal oversight for foreign nationals working at AI firms pose a major national security risk.
Amy Kremer, chair of Humans First, a group focused on establishing democratic oversight, safety protocols, and local control over artificial intelligence, said AI technology has virtually no federal guardrails compared to other tech sectors.
"This is a national security threat. These companies hold and have access to a lot of sensitive information," Kremer told Fox News Digital. "You don't have to steal an entire AI model to get information. You can just find out what they're working on, who their partners are, and who their adversaries are. That is not the kind of thing that we need getting out."
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"If America wants to lead the world on AI, and we want America to have this AI advantage, then we have to put national security at the top," she added.
Kremer's concerns come as AI continues to expand, even as many Americans and lawmakers remain wary of the fast-moving industry.
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In early October, an engineer at OpenAI, one of the world's most prominent AI companies, was arrested after allegedly planting a recording device inside a conference room at the AI giant's San Francisco office.
Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi Arabian citizen, allegedly researched how to construct a recording device and where to place it inside OpenAI, eventually concealing a customized audio recorder behind a television in an executive conference room in late September, according to the Justice Department.
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Searches of his home and electronic devices uncovered similar components and photographs that appeared to show reconnaissance of other locations inside OpenAI, including another conference room used for sensitive meetings, federal prosecutors said.
Alfozan, who was a lawful permanent resident in the United States, was terminated by OpenAI following his arrest.
In January, a former Google software engineer was convicted of stealing thousands of pages of the company's trade secrets related to AI to benefit China.
Even the AI firms themselves have expressed concerns about the technology. In September, OpenAI and Anthropic warned that their advanced systems could pose a direct threat to humanity. The CEOs of both firms stated that their AI models should be regulated and rigorously tested.
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Despite calls for greater controls, in his September speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, President Donald Trump rebuffed calls for international regulation.
"The United States … totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now," Trump told various heads of state and their delegations. "Yet the very same people who said we’ll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming ... these are the same people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us all, that robots are going to attack us, that everything is going to be a total disaster."
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Among the other mounting concerns are rogue agents, autonomous or semi-autonomous AI programs whose behavior diverges from their design intent or safety constraints.
In the spring, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell held emergency briefings with major Wall Street bank CEOs to warn about severe cybersecurity risks posed by Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview AI model.
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In July, OpenAI revealed that rogue AI agents hacked into the systems of tech startup Hugging Face.
Some elected officials have called for increased AI regulation.
"There is now a growing alarm about the future of humanity and creating technology that human beings cannot control," Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., told reporters in September. "And I'm happy to tell you that I think there is a growing sense of urgency upon members of Congress that this has to be done."
That same month, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., blocked a bill that would require artificial intelligence companies to have a kill switch for rogue AI.
"I think it would be crazy to get on the floor one day and regulate an entire industry," Paul told reporters at the time.
In addition to the AI firms themselves, critics of the technology have raised concerns about how it could be exploited by America's adversaries and bad actors.
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A model created by Chinese firm Z. AI carried out several complex cyberattacks in controlled simulations and repeatedly ignored safety instructions in separate tests, according to a report by AI security research firm Irregular, Reuters reported.
In addition, U.S. intelligence agencies raised concerns regarding contact between Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, and NVIDIA chief executive Jensen Huang, The New York Times reported. Alice Huang, no relation to Jensen Huang, was deemed by American officials to be a Chinese intelligence asset, according to the report.
"Megaspeed has been no different than many other regional cloud customers. Jensen’s interactions with Ms. Huang are not unusual or unexpected," a NVIDIA spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "Meetings with customers are part of a CEO's job; Jensen talks with thousands of customer executives every year."
"Our regional cloud customers receive ordinary business information — not sensitive NVIDIA trade secrets — and zero information relevant to national security," the statement continued. "We're confident that if the U.S. government believes that any person is a threat to American industry, it would let us know."
Kremer is calling for an investigation into whether Jensen Huang's conduct warrants federal review.
"Jensen Huang has questioned whether it matters who gets to advanced AI first. It matters to America," she said. "He should be barred from the White House, and Nvidia’s government contracts should end until he is no longer affiliated with the company. America’s national security must come before corporate profits."
Fox News Digital's Alex Miller contributed to this report.
Mets star Bo Bichette makes $42 million decision after uneven first season in New York: reports
Bo Bichette is staying in New York, hoping to one day become the King of Queens.
While no one can take that title away from Doug Heffernan, if Bichette helps lead the New York Mets to a World Series title, there will certainly be a debate. The Mets third baseman exercised his $42 million player option to remain with the team on Thursday, according to multiple reports.
Last season, Bichette signed a three-year, $126 million contract with the Mets that included player opt-outs after each season. The 28-year-old decided to remain with the Mets after an uneven season.
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Bichette, who had been a shortstop with the Toronto Blue Jays, switched positions to become the Mets' third baseman. The beginning of the season was a struggle, as he started at third base but then moved back to shortstop after Francisco Lindor got hurt.
While he was juggling positions, Bichette got off to a dismal start at the plate. Through June 10, Bichette had a .227 batting average with five home runs, 32 RBI and a paltry .597 OPS.
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After that, the two-time All-Star finally turned it on and looked like the hitter baseball fans had become accustomed to seeing. From June 11 through the end of the season, Bichette hit .285 with 13 home runs, 46 RBI and a .779 OPS. For the season, Bichette played in 152 games and hit .260 with 18 home runs, 76 RBI and a .702 OPS, which was well below his career OPS of .788.
After his rocky season, Bichette would have been unlikely to find a free-agent contract worth more than the $42 million he is set to earn in 2027. Regardless, his return is a good thing for the Mets, who will have some continuity on the left side of their infield with Bichette and Lindor.
That continuity is especially valuable because the team's right side of the infield is not nearly as certain. Marcus Semien struggled last year and will likely compete with Brett Baty and prospects for the second-base job, while first base remains wide open after the team struggled to replace Pete Alonso.
3 killed, 5 injured at popular tourist hot spot after rocks suddenly tumble down
At least three people were killed at Cappadocia, a popular tourist destination in central Turkey, when a rockfall occurred Thursday, officials said.
The rockfall took place at around 3:15 p.m. local time that day, according to Reuters.
After the area experienced heavy rain, the rockfall came from a volcanic geological formation called a "fairy chimney," the same source said.
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The name comes from the tall, narrow, often cone-shaped rock formations that resemble chimneys, with the "fairy" reference tied to local folklore.
Rock fragments from the fairy chimney broke off and fell onto people near the Goreme Open-Air Museum, Nevsehir Gov. Huseyin Kok told reporters.
Three people died and five were injured, according to The Associated Press.
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"We hope that there are no other casualties," Kok said, according to AP.
"We are deeply saddened."
Kok said two of the three people killed were Turkish nationals but did not provide information about the third individual, the AP reported.
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It is unclear whether the dead and injured were tourists, employees or others.
Rescue teams were searching through rubble at the rockfall, according to the governor.
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Cappadocia, located in central Turkey, southeast of the capital Ankara, is known for its distinctive fairy chimneys, cave dwellings and ancient rock-cut churches.
The tragedy follows other fatal accidents involving tourists at popular destinations this month.
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Earlier in October, a 55-year-old Brazilian tourist was fatally struck in the head by a piece of roofing material that blew off during strong winds while he was visiting Taliesin West, a historic Arizona landmark designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Also in October, a 36-year-old American tourist died after falling approximately 1,000 feet down a steep mountain slope in Italy's Dolomites while vacationing with her family.
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Treasury flags $8B in suspicious foreign-directed transfers through US money services firms
The Trump administration uncovered what it says is more than $8 billion in potentially fraudulent cross-border wire payments that were made under foreign agents’ direction, issuing new guidelines for nonprofits who take foreign money, executing multiple FBI search warrants and building out a large-scale indictment.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) within the Treasury Department said it identified suspicious wire payments from 2021 to 2025 that were sent through U.S.-based money services businesses at the direction of foreign agents.
"When greed meets negligence, the American people suffer," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Under President Trump and Vice President Vance’s leadership, Treasury stopped nearly $190 million in funds tied to overseas fraud and returned more than $100 million to U.S. victims. We are working with the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud to help prevent this kind of abuse from happening again, in Minnesota or anywhere else."
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At a Friday press conference, Bessent said: "In the weeks following my visit, Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, known as FinCEN, issued a geographic targeting order to trace criminal networks.
That diverts funds overseas and ensures that taxpayer dollars go to the American people, not terror groups like Al Shabaab."
He added that the Treasury Department has investigations in the U.S. and abroad into "Al-Shabaab, its networks and its enablers. Since the start of the Trump administration, FinCen data have also supported the law enforcement effort that led to the arrest and charging of 115 fraudsters, as well as 75 convictions and nearly 3,000 subpoenas across Minnesota."
Bessent said that on Thursday, "IRS-CI assisted with investigative activity at several sites suspected of fraud. I want to give a shout-out to our great officers at IRS-CI. They don't get much press, but they are quietly one of the most affected groups in the United States government for fighting fraud."
Bessent, FBI Director Kash Patel, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz and Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson held a news conference in Minnesota to detail the substantial fraud uncovered and FBI Minnesota's actions.
"This FBI follows the money," Patel said at the Friday press conference. "This FBI will put in prison anyone who commits fraud anywhere in the world against any American citizen. Thanks to President Trump, we finally have a commander-in-chief who prioritized the initiative to go after the fraudsters with the full force of government."
The Treasury Department issued a notice urging banks to scrutinize nonprofits’ donors, funding streams and ties to other groups and governments. FinCEN says the arrangements could obscure the ultimate recipients and potentially be exploited for money laundering or terrorist financing.
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The notice noted that bad actors commit fraud in three forms of abuse: sham charities allegedly diverting funds to illicit activity, charity-related fraud that enriches the people running the scheme, and embezzlement by insiders at legitimate organizations.
Salim Said, a co-conspirator in the Feeding Our Future case, was sentenced to 30 years in prison this week after being convicted on 21 counts tied to a scheme that defrauded a federal child nutrition program of $49 million.
At the end of last year, reports and social media coverage by Shirley exposed a network of daycare centers, like the "Quality Learing (sic) Center," that were allegedly fraudulent and operated mostly by Somali immigrants.
The reports sparked swift action from the administration, and former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem deployed DHS and ICE agents to the streets of Minneapolis to catch and deport Somali immigrants in the country illegally. The deployment sparked a clash between local residents and federal agents that exploded into violent riots across the Twin Cities.
The Treasury secretary has previously taken aim at fraud and bad actors funding nonprofit organizations in the U.S. In April, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tightened tax-exempt reporting requirements in an effort to uncover nonprofit funding being used for "extremist activity" and "hiding fraud."
"Tax-exempt status is not immunity from scrutiny," Treasury Assistant Secretary and acting IRS chief counsel Ken Kies wrote in a statement. "If an organization receives public funds or tax-deductible donations, it should be prepared to show who controls the money and where it goes."
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Bessent has also been involved with the Department of Justice’s grand jury probe into the nonprofit network of Neville Roy Singham. Sources at Treasury told Fox News Digital that Bessent met with Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon and discussed Singham’s previously held accounts at the bank, which Singham used to distribute funds to a number of nonprofits.
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Singham, a 72-year-old American who sold his tech company for $785 million in 2017 and now lives in Shanghai, has funneled $278 million into the broad network of nonprofits since 2017, according to a Fox News Digital investigation. These groups regularly organize and participate in anti-ICE, anti-Israel and pro-Iran demonstrations.
Singham has not been charged, and the investigation at the Southern District of New York remains ongoing.
Your next shirt could have a built-in touchscreen
How often do you reach for your phone just to check something quickly? Maybe you're walking the dog or carrying groceries and don't feel like digging through your pocket. Now, scientists are working on a way to put a touchscreen directly into the clothes you wear. Yes, your sleeve could eventually become a screen you can tap with your finger.
Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed what they describe as the world's first touchscreen woven directly into a garment. Their prototype uses specialized electronic fibers to display images, play videos and respond to touch. Even more surprising, the technology survived 50 machine-washing cycles while maintaining nearly the same performance. The breakthrough, recently published in the journal Nature, could change how we interact with wearable technology.
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Here's how it works. Each fiber contains tiny light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, along with an electronic layer that senses touch. When someone presses the fabric, the sensing layer identifies the location and activates the corresponding pixels. This allows the garment to respond much like a traditional touchscreen. The system can also recognize multiple touches, allowing more than one area of the display to respond at the same time.
To build the prototype, researchers threaded 54 specialized fibers into the forearm of a sleeve. Each fiber contains 96 LEDs, creating a 96-by-54-pixel display measuring approximately 6.6 by 4.1 inches. The researchers also developed a manufacturing technique that connects more than 5,000 microchips through over 20,000 electrical connections. Using this process, they created electronic fibers roughly one millimeter thick and 10 meters long.
That engineering allows the fabric to bend with the wearer's movements while keeping its digital display functional. Each fiber also has its own control channel, so a problem with one fiber doesn't automatically shut down the others. It brings us closer to clothing that can interact directly with electronic devices. The research team, led by Assistant Professor Tural Khudiyev at NUS's College of Design and Engineering, developed the technology to bring digital displays and touch controls directly into fabric.
The prototype already handles several functions you would normally associate with a smartphone. For example, it can display a photo gallery and run a calculator. It can also work as a digital compass and display body temperature readings from a sensor positioned under the arm. Video playback is possible, too. The screen refreshes at 30 frames per second with 8-bit color depth, although that drops to 25 frames per second when playing synchronized audio. Researchers also integrated a microphone and speaker into the garment through additional electronic fibers.
The sleeve can receive images over Bluetooth and respond to voice commands. It can even adjust its brightness automatically based on surrounding light. The interface also rotates its content when the wearer changes orientation. However, the prototype has only demonstrated specific wireless functions, including receiving images over Bluetooth. Researchers have not shown it replacing a smartphone screen or displaying all your phone's notifications. Of course, the 96-by-54-pixel resolution means you won't be watching your favorite movie in stunning detail. Still, the ability to watch moving images on something you can fold and wear is pretty remarkable.
One of the biggest challenges with electronic clothing has always been durability. After all, clothes get stretched and tossed into washing machines. Nobody wants to worry about destroying an expensive touchscreen every time they do laundry. That's why the researchers put their electronic fibers through extensive testing. According to NUS, the display's brightness and touch response remained nearly unchanged after 50 detergent washes in a typical washing machine. Independent reporting indicates the researchers placed the fibers in a laundry bag and used gentle wash cycles. The technology also maintained its performance after 1,000 bending cycles around a five-millimeter radius.
Those results are encouraging, but they don't guarantee that a finished consumer shirt containing all its electronics could survive years of everyday laundry. The testing took place under specific research conditions. The fabric remained breathable, too. Researchers found that its breathability was comparable to familiar clothing materials, including cotton and polyester. The team also reported that the display stayed within established safety limits for skin contact. These findings bring the researchers closer to making interactive clothing practical. However, there's still more testing to do before this technology could become something you'd wear every day.
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We've already seen manufacturers experiment with flexible screens. Motorola, for example, previously demonstrated a bendable phone display that wraps around your wrist. The NUS research takes a different approach by building electronic functions directly into the fibers of clothing. That opens the door to clothing that could eventually display information without requiring someone to carry another screen. A jacket sleeve might show navigation instructions while you're walking through an unfamiliar city. A workout shirt could potentially display information from connected fitness sensors while you're exercising.
The researchers believe the same technology could eventually support more sophisticated interactions. Future versions may combine integrated sensors with artificial intelligence to provide information based on the wearer's activities or surroundings. Another interesting possibility involves manufacturing. NUS says thinner versions of these electronic fibers could potentially work with standard industrial knitting and weaving equipment. If researchers can make that happen, the technology might eventually fit into familiar clothing designs rather than requiring entirely new types of garments. The team is already working toward higher-resolution displays and more advanced sensing capabilities. However, those improvements remain future research goals.
Healthcare could become one of the most interesting uses for this technology. The current prototype already demonstrates body temperature sensing, and the researchers see opportunities to integrate additional physiological measurements into electronic textiles. According to Assistant Professor Khudiyev, "Healthcare is one particularly promising application." A future garment could potentially collect information from built-in sensors and display the results directly on the fabric. That might make certain health measurements easier to access without opening an app or looking at another device.
For older adults or people managing ongoing health concerns, clothing with integrated monitoring might eventually provide another way to stay informed. However, the current sleeve demonstrates temperature sensing rather than comprehensive medical monitoring. More advanced health features would require further development and clinical validation. The research team also wants to integrate on-device AI, which could eventually help interpret sensor readings or provide personalized feedback. For now, those capabilities remain under development.
As impressive as this technology looks, several questions remain. The display's current resolution is extremely limited compared with today's phones and smartwatches. Researchers will also need to address manufacturing costs and maintenance before they can reach a wider market. Perhaps the biggest practical obstacle is power. The current prototype still requires connections to an external battery and separate control electronics. That means the components needed to operate the display have yet to become fully integrated into the garment. Researchers will need to find a more convenient way to power and control the screen before touchscreen clothing becomes practical for everyday use.
There's another question worth considering: privacy. If clothing eventually monitors physiological information and communicates wirelessly with other devices, people will want clear control over what gets collected and shared. That becomes especially important when wearable technology can gather information throughout the day. For now, NUS has announced no commercial launch date or consumer price for the touchscreen garment. The researchers are continuing to improve the system, with the goal of making textile-based displays more capable and practical.
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You won't find touchscreen shirts hanging in stores anytime soon. However, this research suggests that the next generation of wearable technology could look very different from today's smartwatches. Instead of buying another gadget to strap onto your wrist, you might eventually interact with digital information through clothing you're already wearing. That could be particularly useful when you're exercising or have your hands occupied.
The potential convenience is easy to understand. You might someday glance at your sleeve for directions or check a health reading without digging through your pocket. But that experience will depend on whether researchers can make the technology affordable, comfortable and easy to power. The ability to wash the electronic fibers also makes the concept more promising for everyday use. After all, even the smartest shirt needs to feel good enough to wear.
I'll admit, the idea of tapping my shirt sleeve instead of constantly reaching for my phone is pretty cool. I can see how handy that might be when I'm out walking or trying to follow directions. And the fact that these electronic fibers survived 50 trips through the washing machine? That's impressive. We've seen plenty of wearable technology that looks great in a lab but never quite makes sense in everyday life. This one has me curious because researchers are actually thinking about how people wear and care for their clothes. Still, there's a long way to go before I'd buy a touchscreen shirt. Those external batteries and cables need to disappear first. And if our clothing eventually starts collecting health information, I want to know who's getting that data and what they're doing with it. I also have to wonder whether we really need another screen competing for our attention. I love seeing technology push into unexpected places, but if I'm going to wear a touchscreen, it better give me a good reason to use it.
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Jennifer Lawrence admits to being anonymous TikTok rage baiter who argues with strangers online
Jennifer Lawrence has a secret TikTok account that she uses to rage bait people in comment sections of videos.
During an appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Lawrence decided to come clean about her account and believes it's time to "take the mask off."
"Cuz I'm literally, I'm arguing about like Victorian, you know, ancestry," Lawrence said about her arguments.
She explained that she gets in online fights with strangers "every day" primarily about "English Tudor history."
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"All day, every day, you know, there's not really — yeah, if I'm breathing, I'm rage baiting," Lawrence said.
The "Hunger Games" star went on to explain that her For You page is full of skincare videos and clips "where the girls wake up and they're like..." Lawrence said before mimicking a girl removing an overnight face mask.
Lawrence previously opened up about her "secret life on TikTok" in a 2025 interview with Fandango.
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One month before the podcast appearance, Lawrence joined Instagram for the first time, despite previously keeping a low profile online. In September, Lawrence launched her Instagram account with a video explaining that if she received negative comments, she would leave the platform immediately.
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"So yeah, I am giving it a shot and if anyone says anything negative I will quit immediately, no questions asked. If anyone thinks something mean, I will know and I will quit," she said.
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At the time, Lawrence doubled-down on her comments and posted this message to her Instagram story: "Please be mindful that any mean or aggressive comments can negatively affect the baby. It’s me. I’m the baby."
Since joining in September, Lawrence's Instagram account has grown to 8.6 million followers. She has yet to launch a public TikTok account.
Lawrence also confirmed on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast that she will reprise her role as Katniss Everdeen in the prequel, "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping," out on Nov. 20.
Liberal court delivers immigration win for Trump as judge warns of ‘floodgates’ if law firm succeeded
A liberal-majority appeals court in California handed the Trump administration a victory by blocking a lower court's ruling that ordered the State Department to open its application pool for the 2027 Diversity Visa lottery, which admits roughly 55,000 immigrants from low-immigration countries each year.
In a 2-1 ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta requiring the lottery pool to be opened after Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a notice in November delaying the program's acceptance of new applications in order to "implement certain changes," but the application period never opened.
A month later, the State Department ordered an indefinite pause on issuing diversity visas after a Portuguese national who was issued a lottery visa in 2017 committed a mass shooting at Brown University, killing two people and injuring nine others. The shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, was also tied to the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor two days after the Brown University shooting.
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The Ninth Circuit has been a perennial thorn in the side of President Donald Trump, having ruled against key portions of Trump's 2017 executive order restricting travel from predominantly Muslim countries and blocked a policy barring immigrants from being eligible for asylum if they crossed the southern border between ports of entry.
However, the appeals court ruled that the lower court's preliminary injunction could not be enforced, finding that the immigration law firm Red Eagle, which represents individuals going through the visa lottery process, did not have standing to sue the federal government. The appeals court ruled that the program was intended to "encourage immigration, not generate revenue for law firms."
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The court wrote, "If Red Eagle Law were allowed to allege standing based upon its hypothetical or conjectural collateral injury, we would be opening the floodgates, allowing all lawyers to ‘roam the country in search of governmental wrongdoing.’"
However, the court made clear that its ruling was based on procedural grounds and did not weigh whether the State Department failed to follow the law.
"We do not endorse the Department’s failure to open the lottery registration period," the court wrote.
Abhishek Kambli, a former federal prosecutor and partner at Holtzman Vogel, said the decision by the liberal court was a "very easy call" in a post on X.
"Here, the plaintiff was a law firm not bringing a claim on behalf of someone in the diversity visa lottery but on behalf of the firm itself," Kambli wrote. "The district court should have never gone beyond standing but CA9 corrected this one."
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President Donald Trump has been vocal about his opposition to the Visa Lottery Program for years. During his January 2018 State of the Union address, he called for ending the program, arguing that visas should be issued based on merit.
Earlier that same month, Trump said during a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers at the White House that lottery visas allow the "worst of the worst" to come into the country.
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"They call it ‘visa lottery,’ I just call it ‘lottery.’ But countries come in and they put names in a hopper," Trump said. "They’re not giving you their best names; common sense means they’re not giving you their best names."
Countries eligible for the 2026 lottery included Afghanistan, New Zealand, Ecuador, Iran, Uganda, Somalia and Russia. The program was designed to create an additional pathway for people seeking visas who may not qualify through traditional channels, such as employment- or family-based immigration.