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Cranes are used at a construction site across from high-rise buildings in Dubai, on February 18, 2023.
Luxury properties are in high demand in Dubai.
  • Dubai is a haven for rich expats seeking business opportunities and low tax.
  • Its real estate market is struggling to keep up with demand for luxury housing.
  • Property prices keep rising as Dubai scrambles to build thousands more villas to meet demand.

Dubai is hot with the rich. The emirate has become an economic hub for


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Keira Knightley at the "Black Doves" premiere in London.
  • Keira Knightley recalled how she was told that she "wanted to be stalked" early in her career.
  • Knightley became famous after starring in "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Love Actually" in 2003.
  • Now, she's opening up about how toxic Hollywood was for women in the early 2000s.

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Google DeepMind has just revealed Genie 2, a world-modelling AI capable of creating 3D worlds and sustaining those environments for significantly longer. Genie 2 isn’t a game engine. It’s a diffusion model that generates images as the player (either a human being or another AI agent) moves through the world the software is simulating. All it needs to start is a single image prompt either generated


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A grandmother holds her grandchild.
 The author thinks her mother (not pictured) expects her to have grandchildren, but she has other plans.
  • After a decade of going back and forth, I now know that I'm not going to have kids.
  • I'm happy with my decision, but worry that I'll be letting my mother down.
  • I'm not ready to break the news to my mom, and the secret is hurting our relationship.

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Festivitas macOS

You've adorned your house with festive lights, but your Mac's desktop is still the same as it ever was? Time to change that.

Let's face it: You probably spend a good portion of the day looking at your desktop. So why not add some holiday cheer to it? Enter Festivitas, an app by developer Simon Støvring (via MacRumors), which lets you add a string of twinkling lights to your macOS desktop.



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It's been six months since Google started adding AI-generated text to the top of many Google Search queries by default, and this experiment — that's what a disclaimer at the bottom of each AI Overview says it is — hasn't entirely been a rip-roaring success, Google acknowledged to Mashable.

While "AI overviews on balance and at large are very compelling sets of things that are helpful to the users,"


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Uber launched a robotaxi service with its partner WeRide in Abu Dhabi, its first international effort to make a wide number of autonomous vehicles from different operators available on its platform.

Customers who use Uber to book a ride will be presented with the option to hail an autonomous vehicle from WeRide. Fares will be upfront and equal to UberX and Uber


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A man sits at a table covered in hot sauce in a dark room.

Ben Stiller's Hot Ones strategy appears to be laugh through the pain.

In the First We Feast video above, the Severance director and Nutcrackers star takes on increasingly spicy wings while answering questions on everything from his long movie career to pilots that didn't get picked up.

He makes it valiantly to the end, but not without almost being derailed by Da Bomb.



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A workman uses a sledgehammer to knock down an interior wall.
  • I joined the Nextdoor social network service in 2021.
  • It allows you to ask for help finding a missing pet or restaurant recommendations.
  • I got a giant cabinet removed by a carpenter and my ice maker fixed by an appliance repairer for free.

Let's just say that my husband and I didn't share the same taste as the


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