Opal’s second camera is the Tadpole, a tiny webcam for laptops

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Venmo Groups aims to make it easier to split up and track expenses

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The latest on the government funding bill as shutdown looms

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s two-step plan to keep the government open beyond November 17 will continue to face major hurdles on the House floor, a critical moment for the new speaker who is facing his first major legislative test with just four days to avert a government shutdown. Johnson told his leadership team …

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Listening to Lady Bird Johnson, in Her Own Words

“The Lady Bird Diaries” depicts the former first lady as a mass of contradictions. Lady Bird Johnson embodied contradiction, cloaking her gravitas in Southern charm. Even her name made that clear. From infancy onward, Claudia Alta Taylor (born in 1912) was known to everyone as Lady Bird, a lighthearted, whimsical …

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Map Collectors Revel in the Skill and Artistry of Makers

Oculi Mundi, a new online collection, shares the artistry of early creators. Centuries before global positioning systems and computer-aided design software, cartographers were drawing maps to reflect what they considered to be reality on the ground, in the seas and in the skies. Many of these early efforts have disappeared, …

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I Sent My Doctor a Selfie. Intentionally.

Teledermatology companies are disrupting skin care, and a lot of consumers are OK with that. Four years ago, while skimming her Instagram feed, Fawzia Khan happened upon an ad for Dear Brightly, an online platform that sells prescription retinoids, a derivative of vitamin A that’s used topically to fight acne …

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Whose Apple Watts?

Unraveling the Mystery Behind Apple Watts In the realm of reality television, certain personalities capture the public’s imagination with their charisma and dramatic flair. One such figure is Apple Watts, a name that has been circulating in entertainment news and social media feeds. But who exactly is Apple Watts, and …

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Uber is testing a service that lets you hire drivers for chores

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YouTube is going to start cracking down on AI clones of musicians

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