Trump Picks Sean Duffy, Fox Business Host, for Transportation Secretary

President-elect Donald J. Trump nominated the former representative from Wisconsin to oversee a sprawling agency that includes aviation, rail and transit.

I Wish I Was Like These 17 Items That Still Function Perfectly And Look Great After Years And Year And Years

Sorry, but the laundry basket is blowing my mind. I want to know how a laundry basket can hold up for that long!

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Archive of our Own is down again, and fans are freaking out

Archive of Our Own (AO3) is down again, leaving countless fan fiction fans bereft of their much-needed escapism for the second time in two days. They are handling it as well as can be expected.

Reports that popular fan fiction platform AO3 was suffering an outage previously poured in on Sunday evening, as thousands of readers suddenly found themselves cut off from their favourite slow burn enemies to lovers coffee shop AUs. Crowdsourced outage tracker Down Detector (which has the same parent...

Google now lets you manage all of your old Nest Cams from the Home app

Google now lets you manage Nest Cam IQ indoor and outdoor cameras — which were both released in 2017 — through a public preview in the Google Home app, meaning that you can now technically manage all Nest cams from as early as 2015 from the Home app instead of the Nest app.

Google has been slowly making it possible to bring Nest cams into Home over the past year and change. When you transfer your Nest Cam IQ cameras over to Home, you’ll be able to “review video history in...

In The World Of MomTok, You're Either 100% A Sinner Or 100% A Saint — Here's Which One You Are

I don't know if #MomTok will survive this...

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From Forced Medical Procedures To Crash Diets: 11 Ways Old Hollywood Was HELL For Women

Justice for Judy Garland...

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"I'm Obsessed": 34 Things From Amazon's "Most Wished For" Section If You Want To Treat Yourself

There's only a bit over a month left in 2024, so you definitely deserve a little treat (some of these would also make great gifts *hint hint, wink wink*).

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64 Things You’ll Want To Include In Your Own Letter To Santa This Year

Alright, Santa, here we go.

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The sky is literally falling in Cowboys stadium as metal sheet plummets from roof

This is one heck of a bad omen.

If you’re the kind of person who believes in art imitating life, or bad omens — well, AT&T Stadium has you covered.

A large piece of what appears to be sheet metal fell from the top of AT&T Stadium’s roof.

Thankfully, it didn’t hit anyone. #DallasCowboys pic.twitter.com/Cxw8uqbRHV

The Cowboys opened the roof of their stadium for the first time in over two years, and that immediately caused a...

Tesla’s first 500kW V4 Superchargers are coming next year

New V4 cabinet and Supercharger stalls. | Image: Tesla

Tesla will launch fully realized V4 Supercharger stations that support up to 500kW charging for EVs and 1.2MW for Tesla’s commercial Semi trucks next year. Sites with new V4 cabinets are going into permitting now. When they open next year, they’ll connect the charging stalls EVs plug into with upgraded electronics that support faster charging on Cybertruck and other manufacturers’ EVs.

Tesla started rolling out the V4...

Pirates' Skenes, Yanks' Gil named Rookies of Year

Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes was named the National League's Rookie of the Year on Monday, beating out a loaded field that included Jackson Merrill and Jackson Chourio, and New York Yankees starter Luis Gil won the the award in the American League.

33 Must-Have Products For “Indoor Gremlin Winter”

Just some blankets, mugs, snacks, and entertainment to keep your lair as comfy-cozy during the -ber months as gremlin-ly possible.

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Online news influencers are predominantly men and more likely conservative, study finds

Americans increasingly get their news from online influencers, and a new study found those creators are predominantly men and more likely to be conservative.

Pew released a detailed study on Monday that examined news influencers in America. Among the key takeaways was that 21 percent of U.S. adults — and 37 percent of those under the age of 30 — said they regularly got their news from social media influencers. Overall, the study found that news influencers were majority men and more...

Perplexity now lets you buy stuff directly in the AI search engine

Perplexity searches are now shoppable with a Perplexity Pro subscription.

Today, the AI-driven search engine unveiled "Buy with Pro," a shopping assistant within Perplexity searches that gives you a one-click shopping experience. If you're researching products, or some kind of shopping-related query, Perplexity includes products in its responses that can be bought on the page — as long as your payment info is saved in the app.

Search results include relevant product info to inform your...

Razzlekhan, crypto’s most embarrassing rapper, is going to prison

Screenshot: Razzlekhan

A federal judge has sentenced Heather Morgan to 18 months in prison for her role in helping husband Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein launder stolen Bitcoin, CoinDesk reports. Lichtenstein has admitted to hacking the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016 and stealing 120,000 Bitcoin, worth $71 million at the time (and almost $11 billion as of this writing).

Before she was arrested, Morgan was a Forbes and Inc. blogger. When the Department of Justice announced her...

Amazon and SpaceX attack US labor watchdog in court

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Amazon and SpaceX are seeking to hamstring the National Labor Relations Board, asking a court to declare its processes for upholding labor law unconstitutional. But judges on a three-person panel appeared skeptical when the companies presented their arguments Monday.

In two separate cases before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the two companies argued that the NLRB is unlawfully forcing them to participate in administrative law...

US lawyers will reportedly try to force Google to sell Chrome and unbundle Android

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The Department of Justice is planning to ask for Google’s antitrust trial judge to force the company to sell off its Chrome browser after the judge ruled the company has maintained an illegal search monopoly, reports Bloomberg.

Chrome is the world’s most widely used browser, and the government’s lawyers have argued that its use in cross-promoting Google’s products is one of the things limiting available channels and incentives for...

Dozens of states ask Congress to un-doom the Kids Online Safety Act

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A group of state attorneys general are pushing Congress to pass the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which has stalled in the House of Representatives thanks to concerns over online censorship. An open letter published today is signed by 32 attorneys general, including those of 31 states and the District of Columbia. It urges leaders of both parties in the House and Senate to vote on the bill before the current congressional session ends early next...

"These Lookalike Competitions Are Just Beauty Pageants For Men": People Are Seriously OBSESSED With The Celebrity Lookalike Contests

Timothée Chalamet, Harry Styles, Dev Patel, Paul Mescal...who is next?

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Ravens 'haven't lost any confidence' in Tucker

On Monday, following Baltimore's 18-16 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers the day before, Ravens coach John Harbaugh said there are no plans to bring in competition for veteran kicker Justin Tucker, who missed from 47 and 50 yards in the divisional defeat.