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• "Stranger Things" is Netflix's most-watched show. The final season broke viewership records.
• In the series finale, the showrunners made a conspicuous effort to reward their big audience.
• They prioritized fan service over smart, high-stakes storytelling.

"Stranger Things" began as a scrappy suburban mystery. It took its

Ugreen makes plenty of things, but you’re probably familiar with the name in the context of its NAS systems (should that be NASes? Who knows). Naturally, the company has turned up to CES 2026 with the former, but it’s also branching out into home security. It’s announcing SynCare, an AI infused all-in-one surveillance platform which, it rather boldly claims, will become an “attentive, integrated

For years, the tech industry equated success with scale. Bigger stages, larger crowds, more logos, more panels, more noise. Five thousand people became ten thousand. Ten thousand became the goal. Somewhere along the way, that stopped making sense. Founders and executives didn’t announce a boycott. They simply stopped showing up. What we see today is not a rejection of events, but a correction in

• Elon Musk's wealth has already increased $24 billion in 2026, per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
• The world's richest person added an unrivalled $187 billion to his personal fortune in 2025.
• Like other tech bosses, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has seen his wealth soar during the AI boom.

Warren Buffett's late business partner, Charlie Munger, once

Stephen Colbert is back with his first monologue of 2026, and like most of the other late night hosts, his focus is on Donald Trump's U.S. attack on Venezuela and the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro.

"Do you know what this means? Those Epstein files must be crazy," the host says, pretending to flick through some papers before slipping into a Trump impression. "Bomb something! Bomb anything!"

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I’m seeing a ton of smart bird feeders again this year at CES — and I’m inexplicably drawn to them. Perhaps because the idea of birds nibbling on seeds and flying away represents a natural purity and freedom that doesn’t exist within the halls of CES. Birdbuddy was one of the first smart bird feeder brands, with a wildly successful Kickstarter back in 2020. And this year, they’ve added birdsong to

• Kaci Jane Hansen is a 27-year-old whose flight from Puerto Rico was canceled following the news in Venezuela.
• She spent over 10 hours on the phone with Delta reps trying to rebook her flight.
• By the time she flies, she will have spent at least $3,000 on unbudgeted expenses.

This as

Meta is pausing release of its Ray-Ban Display smart glasses to the UK, France, Italy and Canada due to "unprecedented demand and limited inventory," the company said on Monday at CES 2026. There's no new date for the expansion that was originally set for early 2026. "We'll continue to focus on fulfilling orders in the US while we re-evaluate our approach to international availability," Meta wrote

The Babel fish real-time translator is becoming a reality.

Sorry, '2001: A Space Odyssey' fans, but the cosmic menace in the Gerard Butler disaster series has a more ordinary inspiration.

If you're just getting back into the swing of things in 2026 and need a news recap, Jimmy Kimmel has got you covered.

In the 13-minute monologue above the host recaps everything Donald Trump has done over the holiday period, from the U.S. president's hundreds of posts on Truth Social and awkward phone calls with children about Santa to the U.S.' surprise attack on Venezuela.

"If you were wondering