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At 27, Ohio hospital worker Marissa Coreno found an armpit lump and, after an ultrasound, mammogram and biopsy, learned she had Stage II breast cancer that had reached her lymph nodes. As physicians note rising diagnoses…
The article reflects on Sierra’s The Colonel’s Bequest, a parser-driven Laura Bow mystery set in a Southern mansion, lauding its NPC schedules, multiple endings, and gentler puzzles. It became a family touchstone, with m…
School halls across the country echo with kids yelling "6-7" for any excuse, a nonsense chant that signals in-group belonging and exasperates teachers. Linguists describe "semantic bleaching": the phrase, tied to Skrilla…
Sir David Attenborough, 99, broke Dick Van Dyke’s mark as the oldest Daytime Emmy winner, taking daytime personality, non-daily for hosting Netflix’s Secret Lives of Orangutans. Jonathan Jackson of General Hospital and S…
After 10 days with the $800 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, the reviewer is impressed yet hesitant. The chunky, 69-gram frames feel bulky, but the bright monocular screen curbs phone use and powers slick touches: reliable …
Facebook is rolling out a feature in the U.S. and Canada that lets Meta AI suggest edits and sharing ideas for unposted camera-roll photos. Opt-in prompts request “cloud processing,” uploading images so AI can propose co…
Scott Derrickson returns to helm Black Phone 2 after Joe Hill’s email — “The Grabber calls Finn from hell” — unlocked the sequel. Waiting until his young leads aged into high school, he set the story in 1982, four years …
Matt and Ross Duffer say Stranger Things' fifth season will close every major arc, even as they develop a spinoff that won’t continue existing characters or expand the show’s mythology. They’ll create it and stay hands-o…
OpenAI halted Sora from generating videos of Dr Martin Luther King Jr after his estate objected, acknowledging the tool had produced “disrespectful” deepfakes. The move comes amid a surge of clips of deceased and histori…
Forty-two years after Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Cyndi Lauper sits in a north Brooklyn studio with 26-year-old Gracie Abrams, trading stories and nodding to Rickie Lee Jones’ The Last Chance Texaco. They connect over w…
An alleged first Geekbench 6 result for the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro shows the M5 hitting a record single‑core score of 4,263 — the highest logged for any Mac or PC in the database — from a 10‑core CPU (4 performance, 6 e…
HBO’s Euphoria is heading into a third—and possibly final—season, set to premiere in 2026 after a time jump that moves the characters beyond high school. The eight-episode run adds 18 new actors alongside returning cast;…
Apple’s first foldable iPhone may slip to 2027, Mizuho Securities says, as design decisions such as the hinge take longer. The device is expected to have a 7.58-inch inner and 5.38-inch outer display, with panel output c…
More than 20 states sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday after the agency canceled “Solar For All,” a $7 billion program intended to expand rooftop and community solar for low-income households. The suit,…
An immense storm surge from Typhoon Halong’s remnants battered western Alaska’s coastal villages, floating houses and pushing water more than six feet above normal tides. In Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, 121 homes were destro…
South Park’s season 28 premiere spotlighted a new schoolyard fixation: kids murmuring 'six, seven'—a phrase even a fictionalized Peter Thiel repeats as part of a secret South Park Elementary cult. The meme began with rap…
Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company premiered Sunday with a splash, becoming HBO’s most-watched comedy series debut in over five years, drawing 1.4 million U.S. cross-platform viewers over its first three days. It also rank…
Ace Frehley, 74, is on life support after a brain bleed triggered by a fall in his home studio, TMZ reports. The KISS guitarist has been on a ventilator for days with little improvement, forcing cancellation of all remai…
Federal officials rejected the lone bid for more than 6 million tons of coal under Utah’s Manti-La Sal National Forest, the third Western public-lands coal sale to collapse this month. The Interior Department said the of…
Responding to backlash over “AI slop,” Pinterest is rolling out controls that let users limit generative AI imagery in categories like beauty, art, fashion and home décor. The tools, found under Settings > Refine your re…
Apple has refreshed the 14-inch MacBook Pro base model with an M5 chip and two notable storage upgrades. The company claims up to 2× faster SSD performance than the equivalent previous model, citing “the latest storage t…
A one-game swing tightened the race: Chris went 10-5 thanks to taking the Bears, trimming the gap to one; season tally 60-32-1 vs. 59-33-1. Against the spread: 51-42 vs. 47-46 after 7-8 and 8-7 weeks. This slate features…
Microsoft is rolling out upgraded Copilot Voice and Vision to Windows 11, enabling hands-free “Hey, Copilot” queries that respond to what’s on your screen. In demos, the AI surfaces Spotify settings, drafts bios from pho…
President Trump again dangled the Insurrection Act, even as courts swat down his use of other statutes to send federalized troops into Democratic-led cities. Appellate challenges from Los Angeles, Portland and Chicago ar…
Months after the January Palisades Fire leveled his Pacific Palisades home, Spencer Pratt has recast himself as an unrelenting watchdog, arguing the catastrophe was preventable and suing the Los Angeles Department of Wat…