Americans star on an Iraqi basketball team. Its owners include forces that attacked US troops

BAGHDAD — A pro basketball team in Iraq is owned by a paramilitary group, and some of its forces recently attacked U.S. troops. But this hostility toward Uncle Sam has its limits: The team is banking on a high-scoring American to help lead them to a championship. Like many former U.S. college basketball players facing … Read more

Texas is refusing to register kei trucks, and owners are fighting back

A few years ago, some New England states became infamous in the car community when they began canceling existing registrations of legally imported and titled vintage Japanese cars, as well as preventing registration of additional examples. But they’re not the only states that are starting to put up roadblocks to registering vehicles, particularly “kei” size … Read more

Parler’s New Owners Swear This Time Will Be Different

Rhodes said the new version of Parler will include a native video player and messaging service, in a bid to differentiate the company from its former iterations and competing platforms like Truth Social and X. One key distinction it makes from X, Rhodes says, is a ban on pornography, according to Rhodes and Parler’s community … Read more

Michael Edwards: Liverpool owners meet former sporting director over potential Anfield return | Football News

Michael Edwards met Liverpool’s owners in Boston last weekend as FSG continue talks to try to bring their former sporting director back to Anfield. Edwards left Liverpool in 2022 and was replaced by Julian Ward, who was then succeeded by Jorg Schmadtke at the start of the season. However, Schmadtke left his role last month, … Read more

Ex-Liverpool sporting director Michael Edwards in talks with owners over possible return – Paper Talk | Football News

The top stories and transfer rumours from Friday’s newspapers… THE TIMES Michael Edwards has held face-to-face talks with Liverpool’s owners as they attempt to persuade him to return to the club and help oversee the post-Jurgen Klopp era. Leicester City are at risk of being charged by the Premier League this month for breaching financial … Read more

Ford offers EV owners free Tesla Supercharger adapters until July

Starting today, people who own electric vehicles from Ford can reserve an adapter that will enable them to charge at Tesla’s vastly superior Supercharger network. The company is the first to distribute adapters to customers, after announcing last year its plans to adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) connector for its EVs. Other automakers … Read more

Some Hydrogen Car Owners Are Still Waiting For the Future to Arrive

“We have a giant, beautiful, red paperweight in our driveway,” Snell says. Snell is just one of many California hydrogen fuel-cell car owners facing difficulties as a confluence of unfortunate events—tech limitations, rising station operating costs, policy changes, even the Russian invasion of Ukraine—have hiked hydrogen fuel prices and taken hydrogen fueling stations offline. Just … Read more

Wyze security camera owners once again report seeing strangers’ feeds

Nope, it’s not privacy worry-induced déjà vu. Wyze camera users have once again reported seeing into another user’s home via their home-monitoring devices, in a second display of what could be a potentially serious security flaw. “We have now identified a security issue where some users were able to see thumbnails of cameras that were … Read more

Google offers non-Pixel owners a way to avoid waiting on hold with latest test

Google is testing a new “Talk to a Live Representative” feature that allows the company’s software to call a business on your behalf, navigate through its phone tree, wait on hold, and then notify you when there’s a real human being available for you to speak to. The test, which is available now as a … Read more