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• The Amtrak NextGen Acela is the fastest train in the US.
• I booked a business-class ticket from New York City to Washington, DC, for $180.
• Then, I traveled from Washington, DC, to NYC in first class for $450.

I spent six hours and $630 on the fastest train in America.

The Amtrak Acela is the express

I’ve said this many times: the products we see on the market are rarely visionary leaps. Most of the time, they are mirrors. They reflect people’s habits, shortcuts, fears, and small daily behaviours. Design follows behaviour. Always has. Think about it. You probably know at least one person who already uses ChatGPT for health-related questions. Not occasionally. Regularly. As a second opinion. As

SAVE OVER $20: As of Jan. 8, the Lego Disney and Pixar ‘Up’ House (43217) has been discounted to $37.99 at Amazon. This is $22 off its list price of $59.99.

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Samsung is pulling Arlo’s smart security platform deeper into SmartThings, aiming to turn the app into a true all-in-one home security hub.

'Starfleet Academy' follows on in the style of 'Discovery,' for better and occasionally worse—but builds something interesting of its own out of inheriting the legacy of 'Star Trek.'

Here's all the tech that most impressed us at the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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

SAVE OVER $40: As of Jan. 8, the AirPods Pro 3 are on sale at Amazon for $199.99. This is $49.01 off their list price of $249.

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• 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

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

• 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