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Disney+ will add vertical videos to its service in the US sometime this year, in hopes that they can entice viewers to engage with its app every day. The company has made the announcement at its Tech + Data Showcase event at CES 2026. Disney first dabbled in vertical content with Verts, which launched for the ESPN app in August 2025, giving it the insight it needed on how its users respond to the



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The author is grateful for the gift her grandfather gave her when she turned 21.
  • For my 21st birthday, my grandfather gave me 21,000 South African rand (about $1,500 USD).
  • However, the gift came with the condition that I see a financial advisor and invest it.
  • I'm grateful both for the gift and for what it taught me.

One month before my 21st birthday, my grandfather told me he


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Sophie Turner has been training to play Lara Croft since last February, and there was only one way she wanted to showcase her strength on The Tonight Show: by dominating an unsuspecting Jimmy Fallon in a classic thumb war.

"My thumb strength is really, really...it's good," says Turner in the clip above. "I thought we could have a thumb wrestle."

The Game of Thrones star proceeds to ask Fallon if he



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MBB refers to the top three strategy consulting firms, McKinsey, Bain, and BCG.
  • McKinsey has thousands of AI agents working alongside its human employees.
  • Global Managing Partner Bob Sternfels identified three skills that AI models can't do.
  • He also said AI adoption is changing how companies look for talent.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping McKinsey's workforce


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On a frosty, bitterly cold morning, I needed a little background music to motivate myself. On Spotify, I pressed play on The Gap Band's "Early In The Morning," a funk bop from 1982 currently having a resurgence on TikTok.

After Charlie Wilson's dulcet tones got me in the mood to do a bit of work, Spotify's Smart Shuffle feature carried on the old school funk and soulful R&B vibes. The audio




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Palmer Luckey, founder of Erebor Bank and Anduril Industries.
  • Anduril founder Palmer Luckey has voiced support for the Trump administration's new regulations on the defense industry.
  • An executive order signed on Wednesday targeted defense contractors for underperforming.
  • "It's good to scare people sometimes," Luckey said in an interview with Bloomberg.

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Donaldson has said he spent hours Skyping with peers, learning how to make it big on YouTube.
  • The venture capitalist Bill Gurley said embracing peers, not having sharp elbows, is key to success.
  • MrBeast, the world's most followed YouTuber, exemplifies this lesson, Gurley said.
  • Donaldson has described spending hours on calls with peers, learning how to go viral.

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As a social drinker, alternating boozy beverages with N/As helped me have fun while cutting back on alcohol.
  • I wanted to drink less in 2025 than I did the previous year.
  • I kept track of my drinking and followed the 1-2-3 rule.
  • Dry January and alternating alcohol with mocktails helped me stick to my goals.

This time last year, I was in for a rude awakening. Despite fancying myself a


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Box CEO Aaron Levie says that as AI makes expert knowledge universal, companies will win or lose based on how well they manage and deploy context.
  • Box CEO Aaron Levie says AI will commoditize expertise, forcing companies to compete on context.
  • As AI agents spread, Levie says proprietary data and institutional knowledge will define winners.
  • Tech leaders say "context

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Jimmy Kimmel has previously covered the phenomenon of Donald Trump appearing to fall asleep in meetings, but there was apparently a key explanation he's been missing.

"Teddy Dose-velt told the Wall Street Journal that, you know the many videos of him nodding off during meetings? He says he's not sleeping, he's blinking," explains Kimmel. "That's right, he has the rare ability to hold a blink for minutes at a time. And to showcase that ability, we've put together this video montage of some of the many times he most definitely wasn't falling asleep on live TV."

The evidence appears to speak for itself.