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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Complaints about unwanted telemarketing calls have dropped for the third straight year, the Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday. Reports of such calls have fallen by over 50 percent versus 2021, according to the FTC — a decline that could be thanks in no small part to stepped-up government efforts to fight irritating telemarketing and phone scams. There were about 33,000 fewer unwanted call complaints during the 2024 fiscal year versus the year prior, writes the FTC. The drop affected all sorts of unwanted calls, although the agency writes that reports about debt reduction calls had jumped “more than 85 percent from last year.” FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection Director Sam Levine said that while illegal calls are still “a... Continue reading…

Netflix had a very big night. | Photo: Al Bello / Getty Images for Netflix Netflix peaked at “65 million concurrent streams” during the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul last night, according to Most Valuable Promotions, the promoter for the fight. Those streams went out to 60 million households globally, the group said in a press release shared with The Verge via email. That’s more than twice the traffic Netflix could see for its Christmas Day NFL stream this year, if everyone who watched last year streamed it. That’s also just a massive number of people streaming a single live event at the same time. The crush of people trying to watch the match seemed to be more than Netflix’s servers could easily handle, as the social web was awash with complaints about the quality of the stream, which many... Continue reading…

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele labeled GOP senators "wusses" on Saturday for not publicly speaking out against President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general.

Health officials said Saturday they have confirmed the first U.S. case of a new form of mpox that was first seen in eastern Congo.

An oarfish, a rare creature considered a symbol of impending doom in Japanese folklore, washed up on a California beach last week.

Bill Maher, host of HBO's "Real Time," delved into President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks during Friday's broadcast, sharply criticizing several choices while acknowledging the voters' desire for disruption in Washington, Breitbart reported.