Mayor Adams’s Effort to Limit Migrant Buses Faces Obstacles
VanEck Joins Bitcoin ETF Ad War With New Teaser Trailer
The return of US isolationism
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The United States is less than a year away from its next presidential election. Although former president Donald Trump faces numerous civil and criminal indictments, he will most likely be the Republican Party’s nominee for the third election in a row.…
Microsoft’s Copilot app is now available on iOS
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Just days after introducing a Copilot app on Android, Microsoft has rolled out an app for its AI chatbot on iOS and iPadOS.…
N.Y.C. Officials Reassure Revelers Ahead of New Year’s Eve Festivities
Gerry Holzman, Master Carver of a New York Merry-Go-Round, Dies at 90
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Russia Launched a Large and Complex Air Attack on Ukraine
JPMorgan CEO’s Bitcoin Bashing Is a ‘Do as I Say, Not as I Do’ Situation
How to Make Dull, Dingy Linoleum Floors Look New Again
In the more than 160 years that linoleum has been around, it has cycled in and out of fashion multiple times.…
Microsoft Copilot AI chatbot arrives on App Store for iPhone and iPad
China autonomous driving leads Apple, tests NVIDIA
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Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO and smart phone maker Xiaomi have ended the year with the announcement of new products challenging NVIDIA and Apple.…
Does This Body Butter at Sephora Really Attract Spiders?
In Maine, Questions Over Decision to Push Trump Off the Ballot
Celebrate New Year’s Eve With a Crunchwrap Supreme Baked Brie En Croûte
I’ve been looking for new ways to en croûte wheels of brie. Brie en croûte ("en croûte" translates to “in crust") is a staple New Year’s Eve party snack, promising decadence with softly oozing cheese.…
Jermaine Jackson Is Accused of Sexual Assault in Lawsuit
Israeli Military Releases New Details on Killing of 3 Hostages
How Japan is willingly ceding the future to China
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TOKYO — The next blow to the collective Japanese psyche will be falling behind Germany to become the fourth-biggest economy. Yet, 12 years on, Tokyo is still grappling with having watched China surpass it in gross domestic product terms.…
Russian celebrities fined and jailed over ‘almost naked’ nightclub party
Patriot missile exports don’t make Japan serious
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Japan recently announced that it will transfer some number – reportedly “dozens”– of license-built Patriot missiles to the United States. This is to bolster American missile stocks depleted by two years of supplying Ukraine in its defense against the Russian invasion.…
BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Names JP Morgan, Jane Street as Authorized Participants
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen accidentally cited fake court cases generated by AI
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Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for Donald Trump, admitted to citing fake, AI-generated court cases in a legal document that wound up in front of a federal judge, as reported earlier by The New York Times.…
How to Set Up Your Google Home App
Even without devices like the Google Mini or Google Nest Displays, the Google Home app can accomplish a lot when it comes to your smart home: it works like a dashboard for all your smart devices.…
Bloody New Year Has All the Cheesy ’80s Horror You Crave, and Then Some
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The title Bloody New Year feels overly obvious: surely, this is yet another holiday-focused slasher movie in which shrieking teens get picked off one by one.…
These scientists explored the good vibrations of the bundengan and didgeridoo
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Enlarge / The bundengan (left) began as a combined shelter/instrument for duck hunters but it is now often played onstage. (credit: Utrezz0707/CC BY-SA 4.0)
There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way.
BlackRock, Valkyrie Name Authorized Participants Including JPMorgan for Bitcoin ETF
Gypsy Rose Blanchard released early from prison
Blanchard’s conspiracy to kill her own mother was documented in multiple true-crime series
Gypsy Rose Blanchard, whose plot to kill her own mother spawned multiple true-crime series, has been released from prison in the US.…
How to Survive the ‘Minimester,’ an Intensive Study College Class
A "minimester" is a class that gives you a semester’s worth of credit after one or two weeks, usually over winter or spring break.…