After Pope Leo XIV criticized the escalating war rhetoric around Iran, Sean Hannity responded, tho no one asked, by announcing he no longer considers himself Catholic, making clear that when forced to choose between the Vatican and Donald Trump, his allegiance isn't particularly complicated. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: This ChatGPT & Automation E-Degree is $14.97 (reg. $790) and includes 12 beginner-level courses with 25 hours of training on AI tools, automation, and workplace use cases.

There's now a whole category of workplace conversation where someone says, "We should probably use AI for that," and everyone else pretends they know exactly what that means. — Read the rest

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After Alex Jones declared bankruptcy to avoid paying the Sandy Hook parents defamed by his lies, InfoWars ended up on the block. When the auction was won by satirical news site The Onion, backed by many of the parents, a judge intervened to stop that happening. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Right now, BJ's is treating new members to a 1-year Club Card membership for only $15 (reg. $60). Just ensure you fill up your tank by April 30th to take advantage of the savings.

With gas prices rising, there has never been a better time than the present to save cash where you can. — Read the rest

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The ads on your phone aren't just selling you sneakers. They're a feed for anyone with a budget.

Tucson cops wanted to nail a suspected cigarette-store thief who had been hitting the same chain. So they pulled up the location pings of every phone near each robbery, noticed one device that kept showing up, and followed it home. — Read the rest

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When a basement tenant in Edina, Minnesota, suggested calling pest control for the "large spiders" in the house, her host — Marisa Simonetti, who is currently running for U.S. Senate — did not call pest control. She bought a tarantula.

The tenant, cramming for her bar exam, called 911 twice on June 21, 2024. — Read the rest

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Staff at the Allred Unit, a state prison outside Wichita Falls, Texas, flagged something odd: leather-bound Bibles arriving with pages that felt damp and heavy. The pages tested positive for synthetic cannabinoids.

Henna Havila Martinez, also from Wichita Falls, had been soaking the pages in drugs before mailing them to inmates. — Read the rest

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This rare instrument, called a daxophone, sounds eerily similar to a human voice when played. There's something haunting about it — great soundtrack to a horror movie, or for scaring away unwanted neighbors.

According to Good Music (@top.music.songs), the daxophone is an electric wooden instrument invented by Hans Reichel in the 1980s. — Read the rest

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This adorable dog uses buttons to communicate his needs to his human. Each button is programmed with a different word — "walk," "outside," that kind of thing — and the dog presses whichever one matches what he wants. The approach, popularized by speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger with her dog Stella, has spread to thousands of pet owners who want to know what's actually going on in their animal's head. — Read the rest

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These stairs don't look quite up to code, but they all look well loved. This photo collection features steps that have been indented and sculpted over time by the feet of people who walk them — slowly, imperceptibly, one footfall at a time, until the stone dips in the center like a hammock. — Read the rest

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Freestyle rapper, producer, and drummer Harry Mack is still going strong, and millions of viewers continue to be utterly amazed at his mind-blowing talent. If you don't already know him, he's the guy who solicits random words from audience members and creates some of the best spontaneous rap lyrics of all time. — Read the rest

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Jet fuel across Europe may be depleted within six weeks, the IEA is warning, according to the Associated Press. Around 75% of Europe's net oil imports come from the Middle East, and the war in Iran has squeezed supply through the Strait of Hormuz hard enough that smaller European airlines can't afford to fill their tanks. — Read the rest

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You've probably seen the Geoguessr trend of recent years, wherein geography-minded masochists challenge themselves to pinpoint world locations based on nothing but a single image.

It's as scary as it is impressive, and it's absolutely highlighted how uncultured I am given that I've crashed and burned essentially every time I've ever tried to get into it. — Read the rest

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It feels kind of weird for there to be only one big Ubisoft game on the horizon, doesn't it? They've got Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Ghost Recon, Watch Dogs and a million other franchises kicking about, and yet the biggest thing they have teed up this year is a remake of a game from 2013. — Read the rest

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Surprise, it's HowToBasic again! The anonymous Australian YouTuber has built a channel of over 17 million subscribers on a single premise: tutorials that start straight and end in absolute egg-smashing, sink-clogging chaos. Every so often, the best culinary tutorial maker on the planet — as long as you don't mind all the broken eggs and wanton destruction — steps outside of that niche to provide more general advice, and the world is a better place for it. — Read the rest

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You remember Phasmophobia, right? The co-op ghost hunting game all your friends were really into right before they moved onto Lethal Company, the next designated co-op obsession? I was just as surprised as you likely are right now to hear it's still going strong: apparently stronger than ever, given that it just announced a collaboration with iconic horror game Alan Wake, which is the half of this crossover that I'm entering from. — Read the rest

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From Software's Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is one of the most difficult mainstream games in recent history, demanding the twitchy reflexes of their previous Dark Souls games but turned up to 11 (thousand). I have personally bounced off of it twice. — Read the rest

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Any game that promises to be the full James Bond experience, like IO Interactive's upcoming 007: First Light, has a few obvious boxes to check. They've already got the bombastic villain, and while the jury is still out on the gunbarrel shot, another essential component has been revealed: the absolutely bangin' title song. — Read the rest

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Last week, The Atlantic published a bombshell story about Kashyap "Ka$h" Patel's dismal tenure as FBI Director, writing that insiders there say he is sometimes missing, always paranoid and often drunk. Today Patel sued the magazine, claiming libel and $250m in damages. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business plus a full training bundle for $114 — pay once, keep it, and finally learn how to use it (MSRP $409.99).

There are two types of people in this world: people who actually own and know Excel, and others who say, "Yeah, I'll take a look at that spreadsheet," and then only add pretty formatting with their 365 subscription … and have no clue how to do anything that's valuable. — Read the rest

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NASA's high-resolution image galleries show the successful Artemis II mission to the moon, in which four astronauts slingshotted around Earth's satellite and returned home in preparation for the first moon landing in more than 50 years.

The pics include the launch, the moon, and the crew: NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Hammock Koch, and the CSA's Jeremy Hansen. — Read the rest

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Bedfordshire, famed for its stately homes and wildlife parks, for the delicious Bedfordshire Clanger pastry, the Shuttleworth Collection of vintage automobiles and aircraft, and as the home of author John Bunyan, is the worst county in England.

"We finally won something!" — Read the rest

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TL;DR: With a compact design, the Microsoft Surface SE delivers 16 Hours of smooth performance for school, work, and more with a Microsoft Surface SE Laptop (2022) for just $179.99 (Reg. $329).

Need the power of a laptop in a device you can carry in a trendy tote bag or whip out in a trendy cafe. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: This CISSP Training Bundle provides 21 hours of comprehensive content that covers areas like security and risk management, asset security, security engineering, security operations, and more. Grab your lifetime access now for just $19.99 (reg. $424).

Switching careers or even career progression is hard enough these days, let alone finding the time to boost your skills. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: With this Mail Backup X Individual Edition lifetime license, you can protect your emails against hacks, crashes, and accidents for just $49.99 (reg. $179).

When emails represent the most critical aspect of your day-to-day communications, you're going to need a little bit more than blind trust in your email provider. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Save money on this refurbished Apple iPad (2019) for just $129.99 (Reg. $559).

iPad kids are onto something. These portable tablet devices are not just user-friendly (making them satisfying to use for kids and adults alike), but actually make both work and play more exciting and efficient. — Read the rest

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In 1956, Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in a single sitting that begins in 2061, with two drunk engineers asking a room-sized computer whether the universe has to end. The computer can't answer. Neither can the next one, a few centuries later, or the one after that, or the planet-sized intelligence humans consult once they've spread across the galaxy. — Read the rest

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No crumbs. No perfume. No bedsharing. Those are some of the house rules for Skynest, the triple-tier bunk bed that Air New Zealand is about to install in the economy cabin of its new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners, according to AP News. — Read the rest

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Grandchildren of mice fed artificial sweeteners showed altered glucose tolerance and shifts in gut microbiome composition — even though those grandchildren never consumed the sweeteners themselves. The finding, reported by StudyFinds, suggests that zero-calorie sweeteners can leave a biological footprint that echoes across at least two generations. — Read the rest

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Someone walked out of a laboratory in Belém, Brazil, with 709 vials of dangerous viruses — including samples of Eastern equine encephalitis and oropouche, both of which can cause severe or fatal illness in humans. BSL-3, or biosafety level 3, is reserved for pathogens that can cause serious or lethal disease through inhalation — one tier below the labs that handle Ebola. — Read the rest

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