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Andrew Watman

Cuzen Electric Matcha Maker Review: Great Tea but a Lazy Design

This kitchen gadget provides a way to brew incredibly fresh matcha, but it's really just a glorified tea leaf grinder.

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Brenda Stolyar

Kindle Colorsoft Review: A Color E-Reader and Not Much Else

The first color Kindle is a nice upgrade, but Amazon missed out on a few opportunities to make the Colorsoft even more special.

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Jake Lahut

Donald Trump's Ground Game in Michigan Is Mostly Glitchy Apps and Vibes

"It’s what happens when you let a bunch of grifters take over,” a Trumpworld source said. Still, the polls remain even.

The Verge

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Alexa, where’s my Star Trek Computer?

Image: Mojo Wang for The Verge

When Alexa launched 10 years ago, Amazon envisioned a new computer platform that could do anything for you. A decade later, the company is still trying to build it.

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The Verge

Andrew J. Hawkins

Avride rolls out its next-gen sidewalk delivery robots

Avride, the robotics company that spun out of Russian search giant Yandex, has a new sidewalk delivery robot to show off.

The company currently has plans to operate a fleet of six-wheeled delivery robots in Austin, Texas, delivering Uber Eats orders to customers, as well as South Korea. Now Avride’s next generation model is shedding a couple of wheels — and showing big gains in efficiency.

The new robot only has four wheels, which Avride says is more energy efficient than its...

BuzzFeed - Latest

Channing Tatum Shared A Post About Him And Zoë Kravitz Co-Staring In A New Movie Hours Before Their Split Was Reported

Channing and Zoë’s split comes two months after fans couldn't get enough of their adorable relationship on the press tour for Blink Twice.

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Fast Company

Joe Berkowitz

Nobody saw Tony Hinchcliffe upending the election. Maybe they should have

The Austin-based comedian resides right in the vortex of influencers Donald Trump has been leaning on to court young men. One of them was bound to cross the line sooner or later.

Usually, when a comedian bombs at Madison Square Garden, it doesn’t make the front page of The New York Times. It certainly doesn’t shake up the state of play in a dead-heat presidential election right at the finish line. But then again, nothing else about this election has been usual.

Fast Company

Kathleen Davis

How do I know if I should turn down a promotion?

You might feel obligated to take a promotion, but it’s OK to not want to climb the ladder.

Welcome to Pressing Questions, Fast Company’s work-life advice column. Every week, deputy editor Kathleen Davis, host of The New Way We Work podcast, will answer the biggest and most pressing workplace questions.

Fast Company

Sadiya Kherani

The MoMA store’s new collab with Luna Luna brings Keith Haring to your home

The carnival is history, but its works live on.

A 1987 amusement park in Hamburg, Germany, had all the usual rides and games, like a carousel and Ferris wheel. But it’s the provenance of those attractions that gave the park, called Luna Luna, its notoriety. They were created by the biggest artists of that period, like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Fast Company

Grace Snelling

The ‘gay Halloween’ costumes taking over X are a hyper-online ode to queer subculture

A social media trend highlights the queer subculture of designing and wearing ultra-niche Halloween costumes.

Art Donaldson’s signature serve from the 2024 film Challengers. “The Unknown” from the AI-generated Willy Wonka experience. Smoking French children paying tribute to Serge Gainsbourg in 1988. While the preceding couple of sentences might seem like word salad, they’re actually three examples of ultra-niche Halloween costumes that have recently gone viral.

Fast Company

Harry McCracken

The most promising new email app I’ve seen in years

Notion Mail is just a rough draft, but it could be a tool kit that lets you build exactly the email experience you want, for the first time ever.

Hello! Starting this week, this newsletter is changing—only a little, I promise. Each week will bring you a few shorter items rather than the single longish one you’ve usually received in the past. The result will be more variety and, I hope, more opportunities to hear from you with feedback, takes, and tips for future newsletters.

SBNation.com

David Fucillo

Your daily NFL trivia game, Wednesday edition

Think you can figure out what NFL player we’re talking about? You’ll get five clues to figure him out.

We’re back for another day of the SB Nation in-5 daily trivia game, and we’re returning to our system of a new article each day for the game.

We tried using a single article for the game, updated with the latest game each day, but it was creating a bit of an unwieldy experience in the comments. So, we’ll have the current day’s game plus the previous three days in each...

SBNation.com

Jack Milko

Walt ‘Clyde’ Frazier calls ‘Bulls**t’ on idea that 2024 Knicks starting 5 is best ever

Walt “Clyde” Frazier looks on ahead of a 2016 NBA game between the Knicks and Clippers. | Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images

Perhaps nobody knows more about the Knicks than Clyde Frazier, who gave an honest assessment about the team’s current starting five.

New York basketball fans have been waiting a long time to see their beloved Knicks conquer the NBA and win another Larry O’Brien trophy.

It’s been almost 52 years, to be exact. Since then, outside of two...

Mashable

Grab a decent discount on the new Apple Watch 10

SAVE $30: As of Oct. 30, the Apple Watch 10 is on sale for $399 at Amazon. That's a saving of 7% on list price.

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Mashable

Save almost $400 on this versatile robot vacuum and mop combo

SAVE OVER $300 As of Oct. 30, this robot vacuum and mop combo is on sale at Amazon for $135.95. That's a saving of 74% on list price.

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Mashable

Upgrade your movie night setup in time for cozy season with this discounted Amazon Fire TV

SAVE $30: As of Oct. 30, the Amazon Fire TV 40-Inch 2-Series is on sale at Amazon for $169.99, saving you 15% on the list price.

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Christopher Null

Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 Review: Too Buggy

This AI-infused 2-in-1 laptop has great performance and astounding battery life, but it’s buggy and sports a terrible keyboard.

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Benj Edwards, Ars Technica

OpenAI’s Transcription Tool Hallucinates. Hospitals Are Using It Anyway

In health care settings, it’s important to be precise. That’s why the widespread use of OpenAI’s Whisper transcription tool among medical workers has experts alarmed.

The Verge

Andrew Liszewski

Nothing is making a glow-in-the-dark phone

Only 1,000 units of the Phone (2a) and Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition will be produced. | Image: Nothing

Nothing has announced a new version of its Phone 2A Plus featuring a customized glow-in-the-dark design and packaging created in part by some of the company’s “most talented followers.” The Phone 2A Plus Community Edition is the result of a contest held by the company encouraging its community to “build a smartphone of their own imagination.”

The Phone 2A Plus...

BuzzFeed - Latest

If You’re In Your Budget Era, You’ll Love How Cheap These 46 Products Are

Plot twist: you can pay less than $5 for one of the best perfume rollerballs on the internet.

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