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Hank Green's app Focus Friend is a bean knitting socks for room decor

I have always cared about beans. Hank Green is exploiting that love to encourage me to spend time off my phone.

Green, who is famous for always working on many projects at once, created Focus Friend a few days ago. It's already the number one free app on the App Store, usurping ChatGPT, and has been downloaded over 100,000 times on the Google Play Store. All you do is spend time off your phone


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Conversations with Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk's xAI, can be publicly searched on Google depending on which buttons were pressed, a new report from Forbes revealed.

Grok's "share" button — what you might use to email or text a chatbot conversation — creates a unique URL that is made available to search engines like Google, the report states. That effectively means the "share" button publishes



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September is just around the corner, and while that means the start of a new school year, it's also the peak of hurricane season, so it's no wonder that September is also National Preparedness Month. And just in time for a month focused on disaster preparedness comes Anker's newest portable power station. The Anker Solix C1000 Gen2 Portable Power Station is one of the fastest charging stations to


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After a series of leaks this spring, Microsoft's gaming division revealed an Xbox-branded version of the Asus ROG Ally handheld during a June showcase. Two of them, actually: the ROG Xbox Ally and the ROG Xbox Ally X. Both devices appear to take the basic concept of the original ROG Ally and adapt it for Xbox players by adding controller-like grips and a new user interface that retains all the