17 Facts About "The Nightmare Before Christmas" That Make Me Want To Wear Pinstripes

Remind me not to go near Sally's garden...

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What Biden and Trump’s Nominees for Federal Judges Could Tell Us About the Election

Judges have vast influence over the biggest political questions. An analysis of President Biden and Donald J. Trump’s nominees found stark differences that could emerge again after November.

People Are Sharing Their "Harry Potter" Universe Crushes, And It's Absolutely Magical

The Harry Potter fans have spoken, and they LOVE Draco.

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Looks Really Cute On My Desk: 32 Things To Make Your WFH Space A Little More Fun

Giving your office the upgrade it deserves can make a big difference.

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"I'm 60 Years Old Now, But I Still Do This": People Are Sharing Things You Can Only Possibly Comprehend If You Grew Up Poor

"I grew up poor while my partner grew up upper-middle class. We have managed to carve out a pretty comfortable life, but I still have panic attacks about this."

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Bethany Joy Lenz Says "One Tree Hill" Creator Sought To "Humiliate" Her With Storylines

Lenz isn’t the first One Tree Hill actor to come forward with allegations of mistreatment at the hands of the show’s creator.

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If Gift-Giving Is Your Love Language, Check Out These 39 Cute Finds

Acts of service, words of affirmation, physical touch... All these pale in comparison to giving someone a custom pet stamp or Miffy humidifier.

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Character.AI and Google sued after chatbot-obsessed teen’s death

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A lawsuit has been filed against Character.AI, its founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and Google in the wake of a teenager’s death, alleging wrongful death, negligence, deceptive trade practices, and product liability. Filed by the teen’s mother, Megan Garcia, it claims the platform for custom AI chatbots was “unreasonably dangerous” and lacked safety guardrails while being marketed to children.

As...

Roblox is making changes for pre-teen users after reports that it failed to protect children

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Roblox is making some potentially major changes that will limit what pre-teens can access and give parents more control over what their kids do on the platform, according to an email sent by the company and shared with The Verge. The changes follow recent reports highlighting how Roblox has failed to protect children.

In July, for example, Bloomberg published a big report about predators on the platform. Turkey blocked access to Roblox in August, saying it was...

You’d Swear These 36 Sensible Wardrobe Upgrades Came From A High-End Boutique

These pieces scream "high fashion" on the outside but their price tags tell a whole different story.

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Golf on TV: PGA Tour ZOZO Championship in Japan, LPGA, DP World Tour in Asia

Xander Schauffele during the Wednesday Pro-Am at the ZOZO Championship. | Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images

If you are an American golf fan this week, get ready for some late nights and early mornings. Pro golf is on the other side of the world.

Three of the four largest pro golf circuits are in Asia this week, making it difficult for American fans to watch.

The PGA Tour is in Japan for the ZOZO Championship, which features a strong field headlined by Collin Morikawa and Xander...

This $50 case turns your phone into an e-reader minus the benefits of an e-reader

The Bookcase undoes years of smartphone makers working hard to reduce the size of screen bezels. | Image: Astropad

Astropad’s new Bookcase is a smartphone accessory designed to make reading on a smartphone feel more like reading on an e-reader. No, it doesn’t give your phone an easy-on-the-eyes screen, longer battery life, or any other features that have made devices like the Kindle popular. Instead, for $50 the Bookcase is really just designed to make a smartphone easier to hold...

Tesla has been testing a robotaxi service in the Bay Area for most of the year

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Tesla has been testing a robotaxi service in the Bay Area for the past few months, Elon Musk said during the company’s earnings call Wednesday.

The company’s employees have been able to summon an autonomously operated Tesla vehicle for trips using the company’s prototype ride-hailing app, Musk said. The vehicles arrive with safety drivers behind the wheel, ready to intervene in case anything goes wrong.

But Musk said the vehicles...

Guess who’s suing the FTC to stop click to cancel

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Three industry groups are suing to prevent the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from enforcing its new “Click to Cancel” rule that requires companies to make it easy to cancel subscriptions, according to Reuters. And yes, it’s exactly who you’d expect.

Click to cancel expands the Negative Option Rule to forbid businesses from making customers cancel services using a method that differs from how they signed up. So, if you sign up online,...

41 Products You’ll Feel Like You’re The First To Discover

Be the first person you know to get your hands on a pillow for your laptop, a pair of fondue mugs, a smudge-correcting nail polish, and so much more.

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Franco Colapinto and Williams looking forward to ‘unique challenge’ of F1 Mexico City Grand Prix

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Alexander Albon will try and bounce back after a ‘tough weekend’ in Austin at the Mexico City Grand Prix

Formula 1 heads to Mexico this week for the Mexico City Grand Prix, a race that poses one of the most unique characteristics of the entire F1 season. With the track in Mexico City situated at over 7,000 feet above sea level the altitude — and thinner air — has implications for the cars and the drivers. The thinner...

Wyndham Clark offers blunt assessment on LIV Golf stars returning to PGA Tour

Wyndham Clark during the third round of the 2024 Tour Championship. | Photo by Ben Jared/PGA Tour via Getty Images

On a recent episode of the ‘No Laying Up’ podcast, Wyndham Clark delved into what the PGA Tour should do to welcome back LIV golfers.

Wyndham Clark, the 2023 U.S. Open champion, is never afraid to express his opinion.

Whether it be his exuberant self-confidence—he once proclaimed himself a better player than Rory McIlroy—or his declaration that the greens at...

The Celtics apocalypse is underway, and the Knicks showed no one else has a chance

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The Celtics’ ring night was a day of reckoning for the NBA

The apocalypse is now for the Eastern Conference.

Now ascendant, the Boston Celtics have begun their coercive crackdown on contenders and pretenders alike. The New York Knicks, perhaps the only team in the East with the talent to do something about this, were embarrassed by Boston on opening night. Is there any hope?

In their active offseason, acquiring both Mikal Bridges and...

'Venom: The Last Dance' review: Half a great, stupid movie

Tom Hardy is a one-man comedy duo who deserves better than Venom: The Last Dance. The English actor has played a variety of tough guys, from gangsters (Legend) and supervillains (The Dark Knight Rises) to the ultimate road warrior (Mad Max: Fury Road). But he might be at his very best as the oft-frustrated journalist Eddie Brock and his alien symbiote Venom, who is basically intrusive thoughts in the form of a goo demon. And for three movies (more if you count post-cred cameos), Hardy has...

'Laid' trailer: Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet investigate a literal body count

Peacock's new comedy, about a woman whose previous sexual partners are mysteriously dying, premieres Dec. 19.