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There's not much of a reason to wait until Black Friday to buy a robot vacuum — not when Amazon treats its October Prime Day sale like Black Friday when it comes to vacuum deals.

In fact, compared to the Prime Day that just happened in July, I'm already seeing many of the same deals live before Prime Big Deal Days even starts next week. Those include a handful of the 2025 Roombas that impressed me

• I made Ina Garten's outrageous brownies, the most popular dessert from her Barefoot Contessa store.
• Garten said the brownies were such a hit that she would sell "like a thousand" every week.
• The brownies were really easy to make, and they were deliciously rich and decadent.

As

Lisa Hufcut-Dupler has always had a knack for spotting dachshunds in the wild.

In fact, the 58-year-old Upper East Sider is so good at it that she created the Instagram account @DachshundsOfNYC a decade ago to document the doxies she'd run into throughout the city.

When the self-appointed "professional stalker of urban weens" first started posting, a dachshund sighting felt

• On a trip to Vienna, I stayed in an Airstream trailer for the first time.
• I found the 22-foot-long trailer on Airbnb and paid $300 for a two-night stay.
• The trailer had a bathtub, toilet, vanity, and bed, but I thought it was too cramped and noisy.

I'm pretty

• Charlie Javice was sentenced to 7 years in prison for tricking JPMorgan into paying $175M for her startup.
• Javice was convicted of fraud in

• US Army and Marine Corps vehicle fleets aren't sufficiently ready for war, a watchdog study finds.
• The GAO report highlights a dramatic decline in vehicle readiness due to maintenance and spare parts problems.
• Costs for vehicle repairs have soared, but services are

• In the early 20th century, deadly conditions on the job killed thousands of US workers each year.
• Railways and mines were dangerous, but so were factories and mills.
• Photos from the era show just how dangerous these workplaces were.

In the early 20th century, it was more dangerous

Reporter Marisa Kabas, founder of The Handbasket, posted on Bluesky today that more than 1.7 million subscribers canceled their paid Disney streaming plans between September 17 and September 23. The total allegedly includes subscriptions to Disney+, Hulu and ESPN. That falloff reportedly marked a 436 percent increase over the usual churn rate for the service. We’ve reached out to Disney+ for

After recently promising new safety measures for teens, OpenAI introduced new parental controls for ChatGPT. The settings allow parents to monitor their teen's account, as well as restrict certain types of use, like voice chat, memory, and image generation.

The changes debuted a month after two bereaved parents sued OpenAI for the wrongful death of their son, Adam Raine, earlier this year. The