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Mac RumorsDec 24, 2025
Apple Plans to Expand iPhone Driver's Licenses to These 7 U.S. States
In select U.S. states, residents can add their driver's license or state ID to the Apple Wallet app on the iPhone and Apple Watch, and then use it to display proof of identity or age at select airports and businesses, and in select apps.


GizmodoDec 24, 2025
20 Years on, ‘The Christmas Invasion' Is Still the Best ‘Doctor Who' Christmas Special
As one of the most beloved traditions of contemporary 'Doctor Who' turns 20, we look back on why the special that started it all is still the gold standard.

EngadgetDec 24, 2025
The best live TV streaming services to cut cable in 2026
Price hikes, media consolidation and contract disputes that turn channels dark have made live TV streaming services feel a lot more like cable. But, for most people it's still a better deal to cut the cord. For sports fans and news junkies, there's still no better option than one of the best live TV streaming services. We tried all the major players and currently recommend YouTube TV for most people. But we also spelled out just what you get from other providers (along with what we think about them) so you can decide for yourself.

Editor's note: YouTube TV will start offering genre-specific plans in early 2026. We don't have word on the pricing or specifics yet, but will update this guide when we do. Fans looking to watch Christmas football games will need access to Netflix as well as Prime Video. We've detailed the schedule in the NFL streaming section below.

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EngadgetDec 24, 2025
Steam and Valve's online games are partially down
Starting at around 1PM ET on December 24, Steam experienced an outage that impacted users ability to access the game store and play games online. Valve didn't acknowledge the outage publicly, but SteamDB's unofficial Steam Status page reported that the Steam Store, Steam Community, and Steam Web APIs were all offline.

DownDetector received over 6,000 outage reports around 1:15PM ET, and Steam is also inaccessible from Valve's mobile apps. The outage appears to be affecting APIs for Valve's online games, like Team Fortress 2, Dota 2 and Counterstrike 2, as well.

By around 4PM ET, Steam itself had begun to rebound, and as of 6PM ET, the platform had largely recovered, with the main PC, mobile and Mac clients broadly fully functional, but ocassionally erroring out. There are still parts of the service that are extremely sluggish and, according to SteamDB, many of Valve's online games are down or only partially functional.

Steam's last major outage was in October, when the store and online services were unavailable for an hour. Earlier in September, the launch of Hollow Knight: Silksong temporarily took down Steam, the Xbox Store and Nintendo's eShop due to how many people tried to download the game at the same time.

Update, December 24, 6PM ET: This story has been updated to note which Valve offerings are currently functional and when they recovered.

This article originally appeared on Enga

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