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Wednesday December 10, 2025. 06:43 PM
In Catalonia, Christmas involves a hollowed-out log with a painted face, stick legs, and a little red hat. Children feed it nuts and dried fruit for weeks, keep it warm under a blanket, and then on Christmas Eve, they beat it with sticks while singing songs commanding it to...
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McDonald’s thought it had a clever twist for the holidays. Instead, it served up festive slop. McDonald’s Netherlands has removed its new Christmas commercial following criticism across social media. The 45-second spot, made entirely with generative AI, went live on Dec. ...
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Attempting to convince Pennsylvanians that his crashing economy is an era of unprecedented wealth and an underappreciated resurgence of billionaire prosperity, Donald Trump told his adherents to make do with less. Explaining that the Chinese have it better off than Americans ...
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I tried hard to get into House of the Dragon. I watched every episode, but it bored the hell out of me. There was gore and political intrigue, sure. But I feel it lacked the personality, humor, and even warmth that Game of Thrones offered. — Read the rest The post A Knight...
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The Trump Administration has been ordered to remove the last of its illegal deployment of the National Guard from Los Angeles. Governor Gavin Newsom is doing a little dance while the Orange Menace has a week to appeal. A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on...
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The Pentagon has selected Google’s Gemini AI platform to deliver productivity and automation tools to its 3 million civilian and military employees.  Dubbed GenAI.mil, the new platform was initially greeted with suspicion by Pentagon employees when it appeared on their...
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Sanrio announced plans to turn its Harmonyland theme park in Oita, Japan into a full resort. The project will cost 10 billion yen (about $66 million) and take roughly a decade to complete. SoraNews24 reports the renovation concept is 'an amusement park in the sky.' — Read...
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Sometimes, as I'm sure many Americans can attest, it's really hard to feel good about your country. I promise you that Canadians have the same problem. Often. Canada's federal government is looking to harden the country's criminal code around laws that protect folks from...
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In 1980, Isaac Asimov went on The David Letterman Show and predicted that computers would get smaller and simpler. He was right. Open Culture highlights the interview, where 60-year-old Asimov 'proves himself a natural comedian' while 33-year-old Letterman 'can barely keep...
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Reading between the lines of recent Counterpoint data, it looks likely that six of the top 10 smartphones sold worldwide next summer will be iPhones. That’s because by mid-summer, the company is expected to introduce its first ever folding iPhone — along with an...
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The Trump administration wants all foreign tourists using the visa waiver program to provide five years of social media history before entering the country. Sky News reports that a notice published Tuesday in the Federal Register makes social media disclosure 'mandatory' for ...
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South Carolina's measles outbreak has passed 100 cases. The state's Department of Public Health reported 27 new cases on Tuesday, bringing the total to 111. The numbers break down like this: 75 cases are children ages 5-17. Twenty are under age 5. — Read the rest The post...
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Elon Musk killed the Twitter brand in 2023. Now, a startup called Operation Bluebird is asking the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to let them have it. Ars Technica reports that Operation Bluebird filed a petition on December 2 arguing that X Corp has 'eradicated' the...
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Ezaki Glico is recalling about six million units of Pocky and other chocolate products in Japan. The reason: the cacao beans were stored in a warehouse undergoing renovation, and they picked up the smell of spices that were temporarily kept there. — Read the rest The post...
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Linux containers have made it reasonably easy to develop, distribute, and deploy server applications along with all the distribution dependencies that they need. For example, anyone can deploy and run a Debian-based PostgreSQL container on a Fedora Linux host. Distrobox is a ...
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TL;DR: Instantly share photos from your phone to this cloud frame for just $99.97 (Reg. $169.99). Right now, you can get the Sungale HD Cloud Digital Frame for 41% off until Jan. 11, 2026. What if there was an easier way to switch the photos in your photo frame? — Read the...
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The grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 sex trafficking case are getting unsealed. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman reversed his earlier decision to keep them secret, citing the Epstein Files Transparency Act that Trump signed last month. The Associated...
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Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this world! And be the first on your block to get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic! JOIN THE INNER HIVE! — Read the rest The post Tom the Dancing Bug:...
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The consulting world has witnessed a shift that could reshape how every major corporation approaches artificial intelligence. Accenture and Anthropic have unveiled their massive multi-year alliance, including the launch of the new Accenture Anthropic Business Group. The...
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Remember when Mark Zuckerberg was all about giving away Meta’s AI secrets? Those days appear to be over. While Meta has spent the last year hyping up its “Llama” family of AI models, the company is quietly pivoting to a new project codenamed “Avocado.” However, reports...
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