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Just 44 Home Products With "Click To Reveal"-Worthy Results

Whether you have some weeds that need removing (without breaking a sweat) or a bathroom that's seen better days...here are the products that will make a *big* difference.

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I'd Be Extremely Impressed If You Got 7/7 On This Random Trivia Quiz

Let's see how much you remember from, well, everything.

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Make A Swig Soda And I'll Tell You Which Mormon Wife You Are

If you're not getting the 44oz at Swig, what are you even doing...

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47 Toys To Buy Now Before They Sell Out During The Holidays

The 2024 Lego Star Wars advent calendar is selling faster than the Millennium Falcon can do the Kessel Run.

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28 Travel Products To Help Even The Worst Over-Packers Take Only A Carry-On

Save money on luggage fees so you can buy more souvenirs.

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34 Pretty Little Treats To Buy Yourself That You'll Actually Use

You DESERVE a treat, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

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NYT > Home Page

Liam Stack, Christina Goldbaum and Julian E. Barnes

Israel Orders Residents of Baalbek in Eastern Lebanon to Evacuate

Israel’s military warned civilians to leave Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley via three routes. The city had largely been spared Israeli bombardment until this week.

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Christiaan Triebert, Riley Mellen and Alexander Cardia

Israel Demolished Hundreds of Buildings in Southern Lebanon, Videos and Satellite Images Show

At least 1,085 buildings have been destroyed or badly damaged since Israel’s invasion targeting the Hezbollah militia, including many in controlled demolitions, a New York Times analysis shows.

Mashable

New York, L.A. spar online over baseball, transit, and AI

The New York-Los Angeles rivalry may have existed before the Brooklyn Dodgers packed up and moved west in 1958, but that seismic shift certainly didn’t help. America’s two biggest cities are at it again, with baseball at the fore. The Big Apple and The City of Angels are currently going head-to-head in the World Series (with the Dodgers v. the Yankees, with game 5 tonight in New York; Dodgers lead 3-1), but they’ve also been duking it out for weeks online over stadiums, accessibility,...

Wired Top Stories

Paresh Dave, Will Knight

Meta's Next Llama AI Models Are Training on a GPU Cluster ‘Bigger Than Anything’ Else

The race for better generative AI is also a race for more computing power. On that score, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta appears to be winning.

The Verge

Alex Heath

Meta is pushing for the government to use its AI

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: The Verge | Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images

Meta is “working with the public sector to adopt Llama across the US government,” according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The comment, made during his opening remarks for Meta’s Q3 earnings call on Wednesday, raises a lot of important questions: Exactly which parts of the government will use Meta’s AI models? What will the AI be used for? Will there be any kind of military-specific applications of Llama? Is...

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Order Some Starbucks And I'll Accurately Guess Your Age

If you like your coffee suuuuuuuper sweet, you're definitely a teen!

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Peter Baker

Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Comment Complicates Harris Campaign, Worrying Insiders

President Biden did not attend Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech on Tuesday night, but his ill-timed flub in a video interview caused headaches for her campaign.

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Alexandra Berzon and Michael Wines

Monitors, Once Meant to Prevent Election Fraud, Now Seek to Prove It

Polling place monitors have long provided oversight to elections. But this year, many are there to provide documentation for Donald J. Trump’s claims of fraud.

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Carl Hulse

A Unified Republican Congress Would Give Trump Broad Power for His Agenda

A G.O.P. House and Senate could advance Trump-backed legislation and nominees, but thin margins and the filibuster could pose roadblocks and cause Republicans political trouble.

ESPN.com

Max Olson

Sources: Helmet comms on unsecure frequencies

Coach-to-player in-game communications during Power 4 college football games this season have been occurring on unencrypted frequencies, sources told ESPN.

Fast Company

Eve Upton-Clark

‘It just feels a bit much’: Boo baskets are the latest Halloween TikTok trend to spark backlash among parents

The trend began with a treat-filled basket left anonymously on a neighbor’s doorstep. It has already become something much, much bigger.

You’ve picked the perfect pumpkin, nailed your costume, and decked out your porch, but have you put together your “boo basket” yet?

The Verge

Brandon Widder

Apple’s latest iPad Air is on sale in all four colors for its lowest price to date

We wouldn’t recommend the latest Air for most people at full price, but the current discount makes it more appealing. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge

The new iPad Mini has arrived, bringing with it a faster A17 Pro chip, 8GB of RAM, support for the Apple Pencil Pro, and a taste of Apple Intelligence. However, unless you’re dead set on the tablet’s 8.3-inch form factor, the latest iPad Air is a better buy — especially since the 11-inch configuration is on sale at Amazon and...

The Verge

Umar Shakir

Google’s AI-powered weather app is rolling out to older Pixels

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Google’s Pixel 9 launched with a cool new standalone weather app that can summarize outdoor conditions using AI. As reported by 9to5Google, the company is rolling it out to older Pixels running Android 15 with all the latest updates installed, including one of ours here at The Verge.

The standalone Google Weather app will pull saved locations from the built-in weather service already present on Pixels to let you track weather in multiple locations, arrange weather...

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