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Taylor Swift in New York City.
Taylor Swift in New York City on October 26, 2023.
  • Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged, as they announced via Instagram on Tuesday.
  • Swift wore a Ralph Lauren dress for the proposal. It retails for $398 and is made from silk.
  • Kelce also wore the American designer in the form of a knit polo top.

Taylor Swift is living up to her Miss Americana nickname in the most romantic way.

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A view of Niihau from Waimea, Kauai.

Walking through the dusty town of Waimea on the west side of the Hawaiian Island of Kauai, you might notice an older man in a green hard hat, eating a block of American cheese at a table outside of a Subway.

His boots are caked in red clay from the mountains, where he's spent most of the day working. If you strike up a conversation with him, he




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Artificial Societies founders
  • Artificial Societies has secured $5.35 million, including a $3.35 million round led by Point72 Ventures.
  • The startup creates AI personas for product testing and brand propositions.
  • We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck it used to secure the fresh funding.

London-based Artificial Societies, which was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch, has




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"The Avengers" featured the MCU's first big crossover battle.
  • A Scale AI product exec likened AI firms to content studios, not software companies.
  • AI firms invest heavily in short-lived projects, similar to Hollywood studios, he said.
  • Scale AI builds AI solutions using models from OpenAI and other frontier labs.

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Alicia Silverstone.
Alicia Silverstone.
  • Alicia Silverstone says she went vegan for the animals, but ended up reaping benefits for her health.
  • "And I didn't know that that was going to happen. That was the miracle," she said.
  • She previously said she was "certain" her diet kept her youthful without Botox or fillers.

When Alicia Silverstone went vegan, health wasn't exactly her goal.

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Box CEO Aaron Levie tells Business Insider AI agents suffer from "context rot." The fix is breaking work into specialized sub-agents.
  • AI agents can buckle under memory overload — Box CEO Aaron Levie calls it "context rot."
  • "The model will just get very confused and potentially focus on the wrong part of the information," Levie told Business Insider.
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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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An image of a full moon.

The moon is slowly becoming brighter and brighter, and after days of nothing to see, NASA tells us we'll be able to spot some interesting features on the moon's surface tonight.

The lunar cycle takes about 29.5 days, according to NASA, and these different phases happen as the Sun lights up different parts of the moon whilst it orbits Earth. 

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TL;DR: Unblock porn sites like xHamster with a VPN. The best service for unblocking porn sites is ExpressVPN.


Your access to porn sites like xHamster is not guaranteed in many locations around the world. There are obvious and legitimate reasons for online restrictions, but there is also something to be said for retaining your right to online freedom. When the time is right, you should be able to


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TL;DR: Find a wide range of free AI courses on Udemy. Take free lessons on ChatGPT, Copilot, DeepSeek, and more.


AI is probably going to take over the world. We don't know exactly when, but we feel pretty confident that it's coming.

So what are we supposed to do until that time comes? We could sit around and wait, or we could take the opportunity to learn something about our new boss. Fortunately


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The beard has its place. That goes for three-day stubble, goatees, chin straps, mutton chops, lumberjack beards, the lot. But sometimes it has to go. Whether it's for work, a formal event, or freshening up your style. Maybe it's just itching you like crazy.

Either way, you could do with a new electric shaver. It's good to have one in case you feel that urge to shave off the fuzz, and there's never


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