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Ilona Maher Read Your Thirst Tweets, And I Swear The Room Just Got A Little Steamier

"Hot people play rugby. Spread that around."

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Which "Charlie Brown" Character Is Your Thanksgiving Alter Ego?

Maybe you're optimistic like Charlie Brown, fun-loving like Peppermint Patty, thoughtful like Linus, or free-spirited like Snoopy.

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45 Tech And Gadget Gifts They’ll Start Using The Day They Open Them

You're just one spinning disco ball wax warmer away from making all their holiday dreams come true ?.

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39 Gifts You Should Probably Just Keep For Yourself

These would make great gifts, and I feel like you deserve something nice.

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Sheena Vasani

The best Black Friday deals on AirPods, MacBooks, and other Apple tech

Apple’s latest AirPods Pro are some of our favorite wireless earbuds — and they’re currently on sale for just $154. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge

Since the beginning of November, Amazon and other retailers have been releasing a steady drip of early Black Friday deals. However, now that we’re officially just a few days out from the main event, it feels like there are more deals than ever — and they’re getting better by the day.

Surprisingly, some of the best deals...

Fast Company

Associated Press

How heritage brands challenge consumer identity

Several iconic companies have announced significant rebrandings in recent weeks, upending a series of commercial and cultural landmarks.

When Katja Vogt considers a Jaguar, she pictures a British-made car purring confidently along the Italian coastline — a vision of familiarity that conveys “that dreaming, longing feeling we all love.”

She’s not sure what to think about Jaguar now after the 89-year-old company announced a radical rebranding this week that featured loud colors and...

Fast Company

Reuters

Farm groups urge Trump not to deport farmworkers. Here’s why

Nearly half of the nation’s approximately 2 million farmworkers lack legal status.

U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in the United States illegally.

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43 Products So Magical, They’ll Have You “Dancing Through Life”

????Nobody, in all of Oz, no wizard that there is or was????...has ever seen results so good.

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Ricky O'Donnell

Dan Hurley blasted officiating after UConn’s Memphis loss, but the refs got the last laugh

The UConn coach refused to take the blame for his technical foul in overtime that ended the Huskies’ winning streak.

Dan Hurley has made a habit out of chewing out the officials on the UConn Huskies way to back-to-back national championships in men’s college basketball. On Monday, the refs finally got the last laugh on Hurley, and it cost his team the game.

The Memphis Tigers beat UConn, 99-97, in overtime in the opening round of the Maui Invitational. Memphis led by 13 points...

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Lauren Feiner

Google and the DOJ make their final arguments in the ad tech monopoly case

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Google and the Department of Justice met one final time in an Alexandria, Virginia courtroom to debate the future of Google’s online ad tech juggernaut.

Over about three hours of closing arguments, attorneys for each side delivered their last arguments before US District Court judge Leonie Brinkema, who is expected to rule on it by the end of 2024. If she declares Google’s ad tech system a monopoly, the case will progress to a second...

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Mia Sato

Drake says UMG and Spotify used bots and payola to make ‘Not Like Us’ seem popular

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Musically speaking, I’d say Drake lost the tit-for-tat feud this year between himself and Kendrick Lamar, which culminated in Lamar’s hit song “Not Like Us.” But Drake (real name: Aubrey Graham) doesn’t seem to want to accept defeat that easily. In a petition filed in New York’s state Supreme Court on Monday, Drake is accusing Universal Music Group — the label that’s represented him for his entire career and also represents Lamar —...

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Umar Shakir

Zoom 2.0 relaunches as an AI-first company without video in its name

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Zoom is changing its name from Zoom Video Communications Inc. to just Zoom Communications Inc. In a post on the company blog, Zoom Communications CEO Eric Yuan writes that Zoom is now an “AI-first work platform for human connection” that delivers “modern, hybrid work solutions.” It’s a muddy, if vague, change compared to its 2020 rise when the classic Zoom Meetings product became synonymous with video conferencing and thrived as...

ESPN.com

UConn loses to Memphis in OT as rally falls short

Unranked Memphis withstands a late rally to take down No. 2 UConn 99-97 in overtime at the Maui Invitational.

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Eve Upton-Clark

A TikTok influencer was arrested for shoplifting in Florida after posting a video showing her Target haul

Marlena Velez was arrested after broadcasting her haul of allegedly stolen goods in a video to her social media followers.

Marlena Velez, 22, who goes by the TikTok handle @marlenavelezz, was arrested for shoplifting after broadcasting her haul of allegedly stolen Target goods in a video to her 350,000 followers. The influencer was charged with one count of petty theft in Florida.

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Associated Press

Thanksgiving travelers: Airport strike, bad weather, and more could cause delays

Another round of wintry weather could complicate travel leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday, according to forecasts across the U.S.

Airports and highways are expected to be jam-packed during Thanksgiving week, a holiday period likely to end with another record day for air travel in the United States.

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Emily Mullin

Neuralink Plans to Test Whether Its Brain Implant Can Control a Robotic Arm

Elon Musk’s brain implant company is launching a new study to test whether its wireless device can control a robotic arm.

Mashable

Microsoft Outlook outage: What happened?

A Microsoft outage on Monday has affected Outlook and Teams users. Microsoft is aware of the issue and working on a fix, but said it's "facing delays in our recovery efforts."

Reports of issues began around 8 a.m. ET and spiked around 12:30 p.m. ET, according to DownDetector (which shares a parent company with Mashable). Reported outages have since tapered off, suggesting the issue might be resolved soon.

The Microsoft 365 account on X said, "We’ve identified a recent change which we...

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Elizabeth Lopatto

I have some notes on Sam Altman’s note-taking advice

A gadget with no subscription fee and no terms of service.

Nilay’s main love language is trolling, and so he sent me this video of Sam Altman talking about note-taking, because he knew it would annoy me.

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Now I recognize there is a school of thought which will say something like “Whatever it is that will get you to successfully take notes is correct.” This is true if you are...

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Wes Davis

YouTube shares a final blog post from Susan Wojcicki on fighting lung cancer

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YouTube has shared a final blog post from Susan Wojcicki, the company’s former CEO and one of Google’s earliest employees, detailing her unexpected diagnosis and two-year battle with lung cancer. Wojcicki wrote the message in the last weeks of her life and had planned to publish it this fall, according to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan. Wojcicki died unexpectedly in August.

In the blog post, Wojcicki discusses life with the disease, along with her efforts...

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