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13 Celebs Who Shot Down The Idea Of Appearing On "Real Housewives" For Fascinating Reasons

Here's why Kris Jenner will only appear on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills as a friend and not a cast member.

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The Verge

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Alexa may get smarter with more APIs rather than more AI

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Following ongoing reports that Amazon’s generative AI makeover of Alexa is not going well, it appears Amazon may take a more practical approach to making its smart assistant more useful. According to Business Insider, Amazon is partnering with several companies to make Alexa better at doing things you might want a digital assistant to do: including calling an Uber, tackling Ticketmaster for events, booking dinner through OpenTable, and...

The Verge

Jay Peters

Sony’s new PlayStation Portal update lets you stream PS5 games from the cloud

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Sony is bringing a big new feature to the PlayStation Portal: cloud streaming. When it first launched, the device was only able to stream games from your PS5 over Wi-Fi. But as part of a new system update that’s rolling out starting later today, you’ll be able to stream select PS5 games from the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog to your PlayStation Portal.

Sony is launching the feature in beta, and you’ll need to be a PlayStation Plus...

The Verge

Umar Shakir

This website unearths YouTube’s lost and forgotten iPhone clips

People loved uploading videos from their iPhone Camera Roll directly to YouTube. | Image: The Verge

The “IMG_0001” website features a frame with an old TV static effect and a floating retro Panasonic remote that you can click to start watching random YouTube videos from over a decade ago that were recorded and uploaded from devices such as 2010’s iPhone 4.

Riley Walz, a tech worker who helped stage a fake steakhouse restaurant in Manhattan last year, built the site. He credits...

ESPN.com

Greg Wyshynski

2 years after record season, B's fire Montgomery

The Boston Bruins, off to an 8-9-3 start and currently outside of a playoff seed in the clogged Eastern Conference, fired coach Jim Montgomery, the team announced Tuesday, while elevating associate coach Joe Sacco to interim head coach.

Wired Top Stories

Megan Farokhmanesh

Pokémon Cards Are Back—No Binders Needed

Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket reinvents the gacha game for a Pikachu-loving audience. It’s attracted millions of players—and more than a little controversy.

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Jon Stewart Spotted One Obvious Thing Republicans Do To "Get Sh*t Done" That Democrats Don't

The Daily Show host urged Democrats to act more like Republicans if they want to get anything done.

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Emma Roth

Microsoft is the mystery AI company licensing HarperCollins books, says Bloomberg

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Just one day after 404 Media revealed that HarperCollins struck a three-year AI training deal with an unnamed company, Bloomberg now says Microsoft will use the publisher’s content to train a not-yet-announced AI model.

HarperCollins said in a statement to 404 Media that its deal will include “select nonfiction backlist titles” and that authors will have to opt into the training program.

One author, Daniel Kibblesmith, posted screenshots a few days ago...

SBNation.com

Rohan Chakravarthi

Meet Asa Newell: Georgia basketball’s best freshman star since Anthony Edwards

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Newell is Georgia’s third-highest recruit of all time behind now NBA players Anthony Edwards and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.

When it comes to the Georgia Bulldogs, almost everyone’s minds instantly travel to the 8-2 football team vying for a spot in the College Football Playoff with quite a number of NFL hopefuls on the roster.

That has been the case in each of the last four seasons, as the Bulldogs basketball team has been inconsistent, hovering around .500...

Mashable

How 'Interior Chinatown' made the invisibility of Asian Americans visible

Taika Waititi joins the cast of 'Interior Chinatown' to bring to light what it's like to be a marginalized group, like Asian Americans, in America and in Hollywood.

Mashable

'Wicked' review: Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo aspire for movie musical magic

Wicked is easily one of the most anticipated films of 2024, as it's bringing to the big screen a three-time Tony Award–winning musical that defined a generation of theater kids, with a Hollywood-scale spectacle of song, dance, and star power. As the Wicked Witch's origin story told from a place of empathy, it's a movie meant to make us believe in magic again. But even with a cast that boasts two-time Academy Award nominee Cynthia Erivo, pop star Ariana Grande, Bridgerton dreamboat...

Mashable

How to use Apple Pay on Amazon for Black Friday shopping in 2024

It's no secret that Amazon is one of the go-to retailers for Black Friday savings. This year, the mega retailer's Black Friday shopping event kicks off on Nov. 21 and runs through Dec. 2 — and as in previous years, deals started pouring in on Apple products, smartwatches, TVs, and much more days (weeks, even) prior.

Avid shoppers keeping their eyes on exclusive Black Friday deals can enjoy a breezy shopping experience while they benefit from major deals this season, thanks to Amazon's...

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31 Toys And Games To Buy Before The Holiday Rush Really Sets In

Shop now and fa-la-la-la-la until Christmas morning.

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Emma Roth

Netflix says the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight was ‘the most-streamed sporting event ever’

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Despite widespread issues with video quality and buffering, Netflix’s live-streamed Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul boxing match brought in an average of 108 million viewers, based on TVision data in the US and first-party data in global markets. With 65 million concurrent streams, Netflix says the fight was the “most-streamed global sporting event ever.”

Of those simultaneous streams, 38 million were from households in the US, and the...

The Verge

Ash Parrish

Jack Black yearns for the mines in new Minecraft movie trailer

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A Minecraft Movie has a new trailer giving us a taste at the kind of story moviegoers can expect. The trailer predominately features Jack Black as Steve, the silent protagonist players embody in Minecraft. In the trailer, Black’s Steve is way more chatty, giving us his backstory as a child who quite literally yearns for the mines. As an adult, Steve finds a special blue cube that transports him to the Minecraft world where, “anything you can imagine is...

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Danny Hakim

Unexpected Turns in Trump Election Cases Raise Questions About Their Durability

Canceled oral arguments in one case and a judge’s recusal in another have added to questions about the future of four state cases against Donald J. Trump and his allies.

Fast Company

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Perplexity adds AI-assisted shopping features

Perplexity will give users product cards showing relevant items in response to questions related to shopping.

Artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity on Monday launched a shopping hub to attract users, in a bid to beef up its platform as it attempts to take on Alphabet-owned Google’s dominance in the search engine space.

Fast Company

Swapna Krishna

Starship launch livestream: SpaceX to test its latest rocket today as Musk, Trump expected to watch from sidelines

The sixth test flight of Musk’s megarocket is set to lift off from the Starbase facility in Texas this evening.

The sixth test launch of SpaceX’s megarocket Starship is now scheduled for Tuesday, November 19, with a 30-minute launch window opening at 4:00 p.m. CT/5:00 p.m. ET. The rocket is set to lift off from the company’s Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas. The broadcast will start roughly a half hour before launch, and you can follow along live on SpaceX’s website and X...

Fast Company

Eve Upton-Clark

‘It’s rammed with tourists’: How Angus Steakhouse became part of a viral Reddit prank

The steakhouse chain has been the subject of a raft of fake reviews by people looking to shuttle tourists away from their favorite restaurants.

The restaurant chain Angus Steakhouse, recently described by one food critic as “unpatriotic in its crapness’, is climbing the ranks of London’s best restaurants thanks to an elaborate Reddit ruse.  

Fast Company

Kristin Toussaint

Toms of Maine is being made with bacteria-filled water, says FDA

Tom’s of Maine ignored ‘approximately 400 complaints’ related to the color, taste, and odor of its toothpaste, per the FDA.

Tom’s of Maine has always been known for using natural ingredients to make its products—like toothpaste, deodorant, and mouthwash—ingredients, which the company says are “good for you and the planet.” But it turns out that some of its toothpaste has been made with bacteria-contaminated water.

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