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Leave it to Nick Castellanos to make home run headlines again. The Philadelphia Phillies outfielder, of course, has become notorious for hitting long homers during some inopportune times. It all started when he went deep during an apology from Thom Brennaman about using a homophobic slur on the air. Since then, he’s gone deep on…
Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin argued that he could pay a price for criticizing Jeff Bezos, the owner of the D.C. news outlet. Rogin recently accused “Real Time” host Bill Maher of having played into President Trump’s hands by meeting with him the previous week. “I think you’ve fallen into the trap, and I think…
Hermès handbags, Birkenstocks, Tide Pods, Lululemon activewear, and mountains of luxury furniture â what if I told you you could cut out the middleman and buy it straight from the source for a fraction of the cost? So goes a genre of viral videos cropping up on social media that claim to show Chinese manufacturers…
Anthropic is getting ready to introduce a new “voice mode” feature that could rival OpenAI’s similar option within ChatGPT, according to Bloomberg. The AI voice assistant will reportedly live within its Claude AI chatbot and could start rolling out “as soon as this month.” According to Bloomberg, Anthropic plans to roll out three English-language voices…
About a year before the Federal Trade Commission first opened its antitrust investigation into Metaâs acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, CEO Mark Zuckerberg internally suggested âthe extreme step of spinning Instagram out as a separate company.â In a 2018 email to his executives, Zuckerberg wrote that, ââ”while most companies resist break-ups, the corporate history is…
Police responded to a shooting Tuesday afternoon at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas, Texas. A 17-year-old was shot in the leg, according to reporting by FOX 4 Dallas. The shooting happened at about 1:25 p.m., according to a statement from the Dallas Independent School District (ISD). “Safety protocols have been implemented, and we are asking…
A full roster of jurors and alternates has been selected in the second murder trial of Karen Read, a former financial adviser accused of killing her Boston cop boyfriend John O’Keefe in a drunken hit-and-run after an argument during a blizzard in January 2022. All 12 jurors and six alternates were empaneled Tuesday, clearing the…
Google, for the first time, inked an agreement to purchase geothermal energy for its facilities in Asia. The deal also marks the first geothermal power purchase agreement for Taiwan, according to the company. Google is working toward climate goals of cutting the company’s planet-heating emissions in half and matching its electricity use with carbon-free energy…
If you want a mental escape from today’s constant bombardment of alarming news, one method is to lose yourself in a good book — and an excellent way to do that is to read that good book on one of Amazon’s Fire tablets. Amazon has put many of the latest Fire HD tablets on sale…
Google announced Tuesday that it’s going to redirect country code top-level domain names (ccTLD) for Google Search to google.com over the coming months to “streamline people’s experience on Search,” according to a blog post. The change means that if, for example, you used google.ng (for Nigeria) or google.com.br (for Brazil), you’ll see google.com in your…