ExpressVPN adds a Fastest Location button and launches a new native Mac app

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ExpressVPN, one of the best VPNs, is launching two brand-new features that sound confusingly like things it already does. Users on Android, Mac and iOS (but apparently not Windows, Linux or smart TVs) can now use Fastest Location to automatically pick the VPN server with the fastest download speed and lowest latency. Mac users are also getting an overhauled ExpressVPN app designed to work natively

Cyber Monday 2025: Live updates on deals still live from Amazon, Apple, Best Buy, Walmart, and more

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Selection of Cyber Monday products

Once upon a time, Americans lined up in droves outside Walmarts and Targets, still full from Thanksgiving dinner, so they could be first in the door at midnight. Thankfully, these frenzied Black Friday free-for-alls are a relic of a bygone era. Now, you can order all of the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals online — though not for much longer.

Cyber Monday is officially over. The Amazon

Luigi Mangioni claimed he was a homeless man named 'Mark' in surreal, newly revealed bodycam footage of his arrest

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Luigi Mangione, suspect in the Manhattan shooting murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was in court for an evidence suppression hearing on Tuesday.
Luigi Mangione, suspect in the shooting murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was in state court in Manhattan on Tuesday for an evidence suppression hearing.

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  • Luigi Mangione, charged with fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare's CEO, was in a NY court on Tuesday.
  • Prosecutors played a never-before-screened police bodycam video.
  • The video showed Mangioni's
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Instagram's Adam Mosseri is getting rid of a part of work that many employees dread

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Adam Mosseri announced Instagram would be rethinking standing meetings in his latest memo.

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  • Instagram chief Adam Mosseri announced the company would reduce recurring meetings in his latest memo.
  • The memo encourages biweekly one-on-ones and suggests that employees decline unnecessary meetings.
  • Many leaders are rethinking meeting culture to improve
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A Koch-funded group is tapping star marketers for a $250 million push to 'reignite the American spirit'

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Charles Koch founded Stand Together, a philanthropic community that's behind a new campaign to unite America.

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  • A Charles Koch-backed group is supporting an effort to "reignite the American spirit" around the US's 250th birthday.
  • The "Be the People" initiative has signed up top marketers and other notables, including Mark Cuban.
  • Organizers are pitching it as apolitical, as critics
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Grok would prefer a second Holocaust over harming Elon Musk

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Elon Musk's Grok continues to do humanity a solid by (accidentally) illustrating why AI needs meaningful guardrails. The xAI bot's latest demonstration is detailed in a pair of reports by Futurism. First, Grok applied twisted, Musk-worshipping logic to justify a second Holocaust. Then, it may have doxxed Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy.

Last month, xAI's edgelord chatbot was caught heaping

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Pixelity will playtest its Evangelion XR game later this month

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Neon Genesis Evangelion fans: Here's a chance to live the series, so to speak. Pixelity, developer of an upcoming XR game trilogy based on the classic anime, will hold on-site focus group tests this month.

The playtests will take place in Japan from December 19 to 21, and in California on December 19. Pixelity says it will use the same number of players at each venue. If you’re near either location