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Teachers Are Sharing The "Sickest Burn" A Student Ever Gave Them (And These Are Hilariously Brutal)

"A fourth grader told me she wanted to find me a husband, and when I asked her why she said, 'Because then he can buy you a whole new wardrobe.'"

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BuzzFeed - Latest

39 Products You’re Gonna Be Mad You’re Just Now Discovering

You may find yourself screaming at the heavens wondering where this cleansing oil has been your whole life.

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ESPN.com

Katie Barnes

Clarendon, openly nonbinary WNBA pioneer, retires

Sparks guard Layshia Clarendon, a leader in the WNBA's social justice initiatives, the league's first openly transgender and nonbinary player and a 2017 All-Star, announced their retirement Friday.

Mashable

Waymo’s driverless cars are coming to these cities next

Waymo, the driverless car company run by Google parent company Alphabet, already operates autonomous vehicles in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix, and will soon be available in Atlanta and Austin. 

The Georgia and Texas Waymo experiences, set to launch early next year, will be a bit different than what California and Arizona riders encounter. Thanks to a partnership between former enemies Waymo and Uber, riders in Atlanta and Austin will be required to use the Uber app to hail a...

BuzzFeed - Latest

Listen, It's About Time We Get Real And Admit That There Were Some Good School Lunches

Tell me why pizza is better when it's shaped like a floormat.

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NYT > Home Page

Raja Abdulrahim and Aric Toler

Israeli Soldiers Throw Three Seemingly Lifeless Palestinians Off a Roof

Several videos have emerged of the gruesome scene, but it remains unclear if the three were alive or dead at the time.

The Verge

Gaby Del Valle

Cards Against Humanity is suing SpaceX for trespassing on its ‘pristine’ property

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Cards Against Humanity sued SpaceX for allegedly trespassing on and damaging its property in Texas. The company behind the card game is asking for $15 million in damages, according to its complaint against SpaceX, filed in Texas state court on Thursday, but has also said it will “accept Twitter.com in compensation.”

SpaceX has been using the “pristine vacant property” in Cameron County, Texas, without...

The Verge

Andrew Liszewski

OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet

Image: OceanGate

A former OceanGate contractor, Antonella Wilby, testified before a U.S. Coast Guard panel on Friday that the company’s Titan submarine, which imploded last year during a dive to the Titanic’s wreckage, relied on an incredibly convoluted navigation system.

As Wilby described it during the US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation hearing, the Titan’s GPS-like ultra-short baseline (USBL) acoustic positioning system generated data on a sub’s velocity, depth,...

Fast Company

Sam Becker

This music registry could protect artists from having their work stolen by AI

Nonprofit SoundExchange announced the project in a conversation with Grammy-winning producer Timbaland at the Fast Company Innovation Festival.

SoundExchange is taking steps to protect musicians in the AI age.

Fast Company

Eve Upton-Clark

How Minion Jesus was resurrected on TikTok

Evangelist Taylan Michael Seaman is behind the little yellow creature’s comeback.

Remember those Minion memes floating around the internet a few months ago. The one’s made to resemble Jesus Christ on a cross or rising from the dead, co-opted by Christian influencers to preach about Jesus Christ’s crucifixion? Well, now we know who’s behind them.

Fast Company

Eve Upton-Clark

The latest and strangest TikTok trend: eating dirt to reduce wrinkles

As it turns out, the practice of eating dirt actually has a name and dates back some 2,500 years.

Want to improve your gut health, reduce wrinkles, and even cure acne? Eat dirt. At least, according to the latest health trend making the rounds on TikTok. 

BuzzFeed - Latest

"I Want Another One" — 18 Sweaters To Check Out If You're Excited To Exchange Them For Copious Amounts Of Sweat

Let's all manifest sweater weather coming ASAP so we can stop dreading walking out the door just to pour sweat immediately.

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ESPN.com

ESPN Staff

GameDay Kickoff: Stacked QB rooms, big conference matchups and more

Our college experts give insight on players, sound and storylines ahead of Week 4.

Wired Top Stories

Benj Edwards, Ars Technica

Welcome to the Era of ‘Deep Doubt’

AI has scrambled our ability to tell what’s real and what’s synthetic. But there are tools and techniques to help stay grounded in truth.

Wired Top Stories

Mark Harris

The Titan Submersible Disaster Hearings Paint a Damning Picture

One week into the US Coast Guard’s OceanGate hearings, witnesses have shed new light on key aspects of the company’s troubles leading up to the fateful implosion.

Wired Top Stories

Caroline Haskins

Protesters Take to Apple Stores Worldwide on iPhone 16 Launch Day

Calling for Apple to break its silence on the ongoing war in Gaza and to rid so-called blood minerals from its supply chain, protesters stood outside over a dozen Apple Stores around the world Friday.

Mashable

Meta Connect 2024: What to expect, including Quest 3S and new AR smart glasses

Meta Connect 2024 is so close, you can almost taste it.

Launching during the week of Sept. 23, the social media giant is expected to rollout hardware and software goodies that will intrigue VR gamer enthusiasts, AI aficionados, and smart glasses devotees. But what, specifically, does Meta have up its sleeves?

We have a few guesses based on credible reports.

What to expect at Meta Connect 2024

Last year, the Meta Quest 3 was announced in early June, but it got its full reveal at Meta Connect...

Mashable

New macOS Sequoia update reportedly not playing nice with VPNs and cybersecurity tools like Crowdstrike

It's a big week for Apple. The new iPhone 16 line hits store shelves today alongside the new AirPods 4. Just a few days earlier, Apple released the new iOS 18 and macOS 15, also known as macOS Sequoia, too.

However, Mac users are reporting some issues as it pertains to the latter release and the cybersecurity tools that they use.

As noticed by TechCrunch, Mac users who upgraded to macOS Sequoia are experiencing issues with their cybersecurity software and its compatibility with Apple's new...

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