I had to start cooking dinner for my son when my wife went back to school. It helped me become a better dad.

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  • My wife is the cook in our family; I was forced to take on the role when she went back to school.
  • I got really good at making a few meals, like tacos.
  • My son and I bonded in a way we weren't able to before Guy Night.

One day, almost two years after our first son was born, my wife announced plans to take night classes to complete

Who's afraid of Stephanie Jones?

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In the world of celebrity PR, the cutthroat publicist has become something of a trope. There was Tom Cruise's guardian, Pat Kingsley, who boycotted publications that wronged her. The 1970s power publicist Bobby Zarem's own secretary accused him of throwing telephones and typewriters at her. And the fashion publicist Kelly Cutrone famously told underlings, "If you have to cry

Is Mercury Retrograde real? Let's break it down.

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Mercury Retrograde has long permeated our culture in an attempt to explain phenomena like communication issues or travel woes. Here is what is actually happening when Mercury is "in retrograde."

Dragon Age: The Veilguard comes out on October 31

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard will be released on October 31. The BioWare action RPG is the first installment in the franchise since 2014’s Dragon Age: Inquisition. That’s right. We’ve been waiting ten long years for this game and now it’s almost here. Check out the release date trailer below.

This is the fourth major game in the franchise and there’s a lot of hype around it, despite the (relatively)

The new Google AI Overview layout is a small win for publishers

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Google's AI Overviews got off to a rocky start, but it hasn't deterred the tech giant from charging ahead with foisting AI-generated summaries upon your search results, like it or not.

On Thursday Google announced new updates to AI Overviews, some of which might make publishers a little happier. As of today, Google is moving the relevant sites section of its AI Overviews to the righthand side of

The polls have shifted in Kamala Harris' favor

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  • Kamala Harris is surging ahead of Donald Trump in national and swing-state polls.
  • Harris' campaign has energized voters, reversing Biden's deficits in key states.
  • Polls find Harris gaining support from Black voters, white women with degrees, and independents.

A slew of new voter polls reveals one key trend: The race for the White House has

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X must pay $600K to employee who didn't click yes to work 'hardcore'

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A great philosopher once said, "You're not hardcore unless you live hardcore." Elon Musk is finding that out the hard way.

If you'll recall, back in Nov. 2022, Musk sent what we here at Mashable called "his weirdest email so far." The email, titled "A Fork in the Road," followed a string of odd choices from the billionaire after he bought and began running the platform then known as Twitter. In