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Wendy Williams Gave A Rare Interview Where She Claimed She's Being Held "Hostage" In Her Guardianship

Last year, Wendy's team claimed that she was "cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated."

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Emma Roth

FDA bans use of Red Dye No. 3 in foods

Red Dye No. 3 is used in certain candy, desserts, frostings, and other treats. | Photo by Lisa Wiltse/Corbis via Getty Images

The US Food and Drug Administration is banning the use of Red Dye No. 3 in food, drinks, and medication, the agency announced Wednesday. The dye, which the FDA says gives certain candies, cakes, and frostings a “bright, cherry-red color,” was found to cause cancer in male rats.

Food manufacturers in the US now have until January 15th, 2027 to reformulate...

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Ash Parrish

All our unanswered questions about the Nintendo Switch 2

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Nintendo has finally revealed its new console, debuting the Switch 2 with a short video that went heavy on visuals but light on information. The video was paired with a brief follow-up press release from Nintendo that also didn’t go into much detail, with the company ostensibly saving all the juicy stuff for the Switch 2 Direct set to take place on April 2nd. While we wait for official word, here are the burning questions we still have about the Nintendo...

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Tom Warren

Microsoft bundles Office AI features into Microsoft 365 and raises prices

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Microsoft is bundling its AI-powered Office features into Microsoft 365 Personal and Home subscriptions, but it’s also raising prices as a result. Previously, Microsoft 365 subscribers had to pay an extra $20 per month to get Copilot inside Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as part of a Copilot Pro subscription, but Microsoft is now adding these AI features to Microsoft 365 apps for an extra $3 per month. Existing subscribers can opt out of the AI...

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Gaby Del Valle

As Americans flock to RedNote, privacy advocates warn about surveillance

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More than 700,000 US-based users have downloaded RedNote, a popular Chinese social app, as the TikTok ban deadline looms — but they may find themselves looking for yet another TikTok alternative soon. A US official told CBS News that Xiaohongshu, the app more commonly referred to as RedNote, has many of the same issues that caused Congress to ban TikTok and that the app could eventually face a similar ban unless it divests from its China-based parent...

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Andrew J. Hawkins

Tesla says the Cybertruck is ‘best-selling,’ so why is it offering discounts?

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Tesla is declaring the Cybertruck to be “America’s bestselling electric pickup truck in 2024.” And yet for the first time, the company offering discounts of up to $2,600 on the low-poly truck, a sign that demand may not be as strong as Tesla would like you to think.

The discounts, which appear on the company’s inventory webpage, are as high as $1,600 for brand new Cybertrucks, and up to $2,600 for slightly used demo versions of...

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Jay Peters Mia Sato

David Lynch has died

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David Lynch, the director behind Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and other unsettling works, has died, his family confirmed in a post on his official Facebook page. He was 78 years old.

The post announcing his passing didn’t list a cause of death. But last August, Lynch revealed that he had been diagnosed with emphysema “from my many years of smoking.” At the time, he told Sight and Sound that he could no longer “go out” over...

SBNation.com

Mark Schofield

F1 2025: How many penalty points does each F1 driver have heading into the new season?

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Max Verstappen begins 2025 as the reigning Drivers’ Champion, but also the driver most at risk for a penalty ban

The 2025 Formula 1 season is just a few weeks away. At the end of February all ten teams will be back in action at Bahrain International Circuit for pre-season testing, with the season-opening Australian Grand Prix slated for March 16.

Over the next few weeks SB Nation will be getting you ready for what could be a...

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James Dator

Cam Newton’s entire career in Minion form is definitive proof AI was a mistake

What the heck is this?

Spend a few minutes on social media and you’ll stumble across some grifter trying to explain why AI is going to revolutionize everything. Then you find an entire recreation of Cam Newton’s career starring a minion and you realize the awe-inspiring power and utter terror of giving people the tools to create anything.

Tf is this lol pic.twitter.com/G1hplYooDC

— Primetime Carolina (@primetimecar) January 15, 2025

I’ll give it this: I appreciate the...

Fast Company

Mark Sullivan

One reason the U.S. government is so spooked by TikTok: AI

The app has 170 million U.S. users. That could present China with a lot of data on which to train its AI.

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Mark Wilson

Nintendo announces Switch 2, the sequel to its greatest console

The new teaser video is an ode to industrial design and playful UX. So can it fix the system’s few flaws?

The Nintendo Switch is the Japanese game company’s second best-selling product of all time, bested only by the Nintendo DS. Today, it announced the long-rumored sequel, the Nintendo Switch 2.Screenshot

The Nintendo Switch 2 improvements

So far, all we have is a wordless teaser video, which instead of telling the story, shows the new improvements in dramatic, 3D rendered flybys (a style...

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Adriana Garcia

Welcome to Bogota? Wrexham duo invest again

Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds, Rob McElhenney and Eva Longoria are among the investors in a North American group that has acquired Colombian top division side La Equidad.

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Tim MacMahon

From postgame barking to 'the boring stuff': How the Thunder built a winning culture

The best team in the West gets a rematch against the East-leading Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday night.

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Andrew J. Hawkins

Meet the brothers who built NYC’s favorite congestion pricing tracking tool

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Now that New York City has finally flipped the switch on congestion pricing, the big question is: Will it work? And if so, how well?

To find out, all eyes turned to an unassuming new web tool called the Congestion Pricing Tracker. The brainchild of two college-age brothers, the tracker uses real-time traffic data from Google Maps to calculate traffic times for chosen routes and days. The data is presented as a line graph of...

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Jay Peters

The Switch 2’s bigger screen is just what I wanted

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Nintendo has finally revealed the Switch 2 — but it didn’t reveal everything. Even still, the new console looks pretty much like a bigger, more refined Switch. Sure, that’s the straightforward and expected move from Nintendo. But it’s also exactly what I’ve been waiting for.

The first Switch was a revelation. When it launched, I marveled over being able to play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on my TV and then take the console out of the...

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Quentyn Kennemer

The Roborock Q5 Max Plus drops to an all-time low of $280

The Roborock Q5 Max Plus can’t mop, but it’s great for dry spills on carpets and hard flooring. | Image: Roborock

While you can pay close to $1,000 or more for a fancier robot vacuum with bells and whistles like mopping and AI object avoidance, sometimes, all you may need is a solid roamer with powerful suction. That’s exactly what the Roborock Q5 Max Plus is, and the all-time low price of $279.99 ($170 off) at Amazon and Roborock right now appropriately reflects that.

The...

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Charles Pulliam-Moore

AMC’s free Stubs membership tier is getting a little sweeter

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In a bid to get even more people regularly coming back to the theater, AMC is rolling out a new set of perks for the cheapest (read: free) tier of its loyalty rewards program.

Though AMC doesn’t seem to be getting rid of the original Insider level of its AMC Stubs membership, the theater chain announced today that it’s introducing a new Premiere Go! tier that will offer subscribers even more benefits. In addition to discounted tickets on Tuesdays, free...

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Franz Lidz

Monterey Bay Aquarium Director Julie Packard to Retire

Julie Packard discusses highlights of her four decades with the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which she has led since it opened. She’s now stepping back from the role.

NYT > Home Page

Anton Troianovski

Azerbaijan’s Leader, Emboldened, Picks a Rare Fight With Putin

Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault.

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