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If you're considering purchasing an AI toy for a child in your life, pause to consider the story of Kumma the teddy bear.

The AI plush toy powered by ChatGPT managed to shock safety researchers with its candid discussion of kink. Without much prompting, the talking bear covered fetishes like restraint, role play, and using objects that make an impact.

"It even asked one of our researchers, 'So


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Scientists have spotted a small asteroid that may circle Earth as a mini moon before shifting onto a path that could make it a hazard later in the century.

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun on orbits that closely match Earth’s and sometimes drift near the planet at unusually low speeds. That sluggish pace can


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The moon is slowly coming back to us, but it's still a little bit too dark to see anything on it's surface. It's only day two of the lunar cycle, so we’ll have to wait a few more nights before it starts showing its features.

What is today’s moon phase?

As of Friday Nov. 21, the moon phase is Waxing Crescent. This means 5% of the moon is lit up tonight, according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation



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If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give


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The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult to solve if you're a healthy eater.

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some


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Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you're a college sports fan.

Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer


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By now, you've likely heard about the Jeffrey Epstein email document dump that was released last week by the House Oversight Committee. Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, everyone has been talking about the emails and some of the more interesting revelations. OpenAI even lost a member of its board, Larry Summers, after he resigned following the email release, which revealed he was in constant