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The FCC Is Forcing Internet Providers to Publish 'Nutrition Labels' Breaking Down Prices
Internet service providers will soon have to publish “nutrition labels” that prominently display the actual costs of their services, breaking down hidden fees, data caps, speed promises, and information about when discounts expire, the Federal Communications Commission announced Thursday. The labels will make it far…
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Reebok's DC Shoes Kick off the Fight Between Good and Evil
DC Universe and Reebok have partnered up to create a limited series of shoes based on some iconic supers—Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are all represented, as well as some truly villainous baddies—Lex Luthor, the Joker, and Harley Quinn. The shoes are genuinely very cute, and we’ve got a ton of images for you to…
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Forget the Metaverse, Zuck Says WhatsApp Could Be the Real Money Machine
Mark Zuckerberg wants his staff to know he hasn’t forgotten how to make money.
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Latest MoMA Exhibit Is an AI-Generated Swirling Hallucination of Other Museum Art
As it often happens with AI-generated art, there’s confusion surrounding whether attribution should be handed to the person who generated the AI’s prompt, the AI itself, the AI’s creators, or the artwork the machine learning model “borrowed” from. In the case of the Museum of Modern Art’s latest exhibition on display…
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Just 42% of Religious Americans Pray for the Environment
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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special May Include a Major MCU Reveal
Monster High will return. Get a glimpse of what’s coming on the finales of Chucky and Stargirl, and what’s next on Kung Fu and The Winchesters. Plus, more details about the return of Rick and Morty. To me, my spoilers!

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The 140 Funniest Tweets of All Time
Twitter employees left the company in droves Thursday, choosing to take a severance rather than stick around for whatever Elon Musk has in store. And that mass exodus left many Twitter users to assume the site will eventually just stop working. In that apocalyptic spirit, Twitter users were remembering all the things…
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Missing Employees, a Billion-Dollar Loan, and Emoji Payments: The 9 Most Batshit Revelations From FTX's Bankruptcy Filing
Once upon a time, the cryptocurrency exchange FTX was a jewel of the web3 world. Now, in the span of a week, its reputation has transformed from shooting star to sinking ship. After admitting to mismanaging large amounts of customer money, the exchange’s founder and CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried (also known by his initials…
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Watch This Horror Short in the Darkest Room Possible
In Bangladesh, two sisters hurry home one afternoon. At first, nothing seems unusual as they bicker in typical sibling fashion (“Come quick, or you’re dead!”) and go about their routine. But as writer-director Nuhash Humayun’s horror short Moshari continues, it becomes clear that something is wrong in their world. …
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Hollywood Is Trying to Remake Escape From New York Again
You are not experiencing post-apocalyptic déjà vu. Hollywood is, yet again, attempting to remake John Carpenter’s landmark 1981 film, Escape From New York. This time, from the filmmaking team behind Ready or Not and Scream, Radio Silence.
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Make Way for the Baby as Grogu and Mando Take Over Disneyland's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
It was only a matter of time before more current Star Wars universe characters found their way to Galaxy’s Edge at Disney Parks. Starting this week, The Mandalorian heroes Din Djarin and Grogu will be appearing in Batuu’s Black Spire Outpost at Disneyland.
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Yale, Harvard, and Berkeley Law Schools Ditch U.S. News and World Report's 'Profoundly Flawed' Rankings
A trio of the nation’s premier law schools are bucking a longstanding ranking trend and opting out of the U.S. New and World Report’s top colleges list. Dean’s from the schools expressed exhaustion with the list’s incentive structures and said the company’s ranking methodology is mostly to blame.
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SpaceX Awarded $1.15 Billion Contract to Build NASA's Second Lunar Lander
NASA recently added a new Moon landing to its Artemis plans and it needs a specialized human landing system to carry it out. To virtually no one’s surprise, NASA chose SpaceX to develop this second lunar lander.

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Have We Forgotten Why Wookiees Ponder Their Orbs on Life Day?
What was once a Star Wars joke is a fully armed and operational merchandising event. Today is Life Day, which means that from its theme parks to its stores, Disney will find a way to sell you as many Wookiee-affiliated pieces of merchandise as possible: especially those pale blue orbs. But what were they even for?…
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Meta Employees Were Reportedly Fired for Selling Account Information to Hackers
Meta reportedly fired more than a dozen security guards and other workers in the last year after internal investigations revealed they had been selling users’ information and login details to hackers. Some of those who received disciplinary actions were contractors who acquired information from users that were locked…
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A Satellite That Launched Aboard SLS Is Already in Trouble
The launch of NASA’s Artemis 1 mission sent the Orion capsule on a journey to the Moon, in addition to 10 cubesats included as secondary payloads. The Space Launch System’s upper stage successfully deployed the tiny satellites yesterday, but one of them appears to be malfunctioning.

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U.S. Indicts Two Russians for Allegedly Profiting Off Copyrighted Books Through Z-Library
The age of Z-Library is over, at least as we know it. Two people allegedly behind the online ebook repository are facing federal indictment, and as much as it might spell the end for one of the web’s longest-running ebook archives, it really doesn’t do much to cut down on either supply or demand for published…
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Rick and Morty's Back! 10 Things to Remember About Season 6 So Far
Rick and Morty’s sixth season premiered in early September, but it’s been on hiatus since October 9. Thankfully, the much-loved series returns on November 20 to finish out the season, once again reminding us how lucky we are to live in a time where the gaps between new Rick and Morty installments are much shorter than…
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Dems Debut Bill Updating Tech Accessibility Requirements for Streaming, AI, and Video Conferencing
In the wake of the midterm elections, Democratic leaders in the House and Senate have introduced a bill crafted to ensure emerging technologies keep pace with the needs of people with disabilities. The effort is receiving widespread praise from groups such as the Blinded Veterans Association and Communications Service…
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Google Maps' AR Live View Feature Will Now Point Out Shops, Coffee, and ATMs
To accompany a new holiday season that’s bound to have more in-person shopping than we’ve been used to as of late, Google is pushing out an update to its Maps app that lets you use AR to explore which stores and amenities happen to be in your line of sight. Its part of the Live View feature, which previously mostly …
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