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Fujifilm’s Instax cameras have been around for a while. They offer instant photo printouts in cute frames, taking over where Polaroid left. Over the years, the company has experimented with pastel colorways, retro styles, hybrid digital and manual photography, and even collaborations with Pokèmon and Taylor Swift.

The new Instax mini 99, which was released this month, comes in black. It looks more



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When office workers stopped working in offices in 2020, trading their cubicles for living room couches during Covid-19 lockdowns, many began questioning those hours they had spent commuting to work. All those rushed mornings stuck in traffic could have been spent getting things done? Life was often lonely for those…

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A Japan Airlines Boeing 787 plane on March 11, 2024.
A Japan Airlines Boeing 787 plane.
  • A Japan Airlines flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled after the captain got drunk in a hotel.
  • A replacement pilot could not be found in time for the morning departure.
  • The airline told Japanese media that police were called due to the pilot's disorderly behavior.

A Japan Airlines flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled after a captain got drunk



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A study in the Vanderbilt mansion.
A study in the Vanderbilt mansion.
  • The Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park, New York, was built by Frederick Vanderbilt in the 1890s.
  • The 45,000-square-foot Gilded Age mansion is located on 153 acres of land in the Hudson Valley.
  • The National Park Service offers tours of the mansion to the public.

During the Gilded Age in the late 1800s, railroad tycoon Cornelius


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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been threatening to call a vote on ousting Speaker Mike Johnson if he approves more Ukraine aid.
  • Democrats have officially decided to protect Speaker Mike Johnson from MTG's ouster effort.
  • They said it was time to "turn the page on this chapter of Pro-Putin Republican obstruction."
  • Greene could still force the vote anyway in

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In 2017, just before Microsoft forged a partnership with a then relatively unknown startup called OpenAI, Bill Gates shared a memo with CEO Satya Nadella and a small group of the company's top executives. A new world order, Gates predicted, would soon be brought on by what he called "AI agents" — digital personal



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President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and their son Barron Trump walk across the South Lawn before leaving the White House in 2019. Barron's high school graduation is next month.
  • Donald Trump will get a break from his criminal trial to attend Barron's high school graduation.
  • Trump had asked the judge in his hush-money case for the day off.
  • On Tuesday, noting

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Bumble’s redesigned dating app has a new “Opening Move” feature that’s supposed to take the legwork out of starting conversations. Women on the app can now choose from a list of prewritten prompts — or come up with their own — that the app will send to all their matches.

Unlike dating apps like Tinder and Hinge, Bumble lets women take the first move when they



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Microsoft is officially holding its big Xbox summer showcase on June 9th, as The Verge reported earlier this month. The showcase will air on Sunday, June 9th, at 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM UK and will include a deep dive into the next installment of Call of Duty after the main show ends.

Microsoft is only teasing the Call of Duty Direct as “the next installment



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SCUF’s Envision Pro controller feels so good, so clicky, so responsive, it makes me hate it. I know it’s not the controller, it’s my dumb thumbs, and yet SCUF’s $180 device feels like a memento mori for all the years I spent trying and failing in online multiplayer. The Envision Pro is packing so many extra paddles…

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