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Lacey Chabert, who starred in 2004's "Mean Girls," plays Kathy in "Hot Frosty."
  • "Hot Frosty" features cameos from Lindsay Lohan and Jennifer Coolidge, and a nod to "Mean Girls."
  • That's because it's part of Netflix's Christmas Cinematic Universe.
  • Here's what to know about the universe and where "Hot Frosty" fits in.

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Sony is cutting the price of the “slim” PS5 digital edition by $70, making it more affordable for the holiday season. Typically, that PS5 model costs $449.99, but it will start at $379.99 through December 24th, according to a new ad.

This holiday deal brings the slim PS5 digital edition just under the original $399.99 price of the launch version of the PS5



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Waymo has announced expanded availability of its driverless rideshare service throughout Los Angeles. That’s right. Waymo One is now available to all customers anywhere in LA county, which is 80 square miles. The company has dropped the waitlist for area residents. Now LA residents will get to experience sitting in endless traffic with a series of cameras and navigational algos leading the way



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Hyundai, a company that has been just as guilty in the past of spreading the touchscreen scourge in cars as any other, has been course-correcting lately, putting more buttons and knobs into its cars. The reason isn’t surprising: people hate touchscreens, at least for certain essential controls like



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SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is seeking fresh AI investment opportunities.
  • SoftBank reported a $7.7 billion quarterly profit on Tuesday after a loss last year.
  • Gains in its tech bets come as it prepares to invest further in AI and eyes future IPOs.
  • SoftBank Vision Fund's CFO told BI that "macro tailwinds" helped its public portfolio.

SoftBank's bets on AI and timely public



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"Apple Music: 100 Best Albums" is available to preorder. The publisher says it's making only 1,500 copies.
  • Apple Music released a $450 coffee-table book of its top 100 albums.
  • The book, limited to 1,500 copies, includes album analyses and facts.
  • Apple partnered with Assouline, known for luxury books, to publish the collection.

Apple has turned its top-100-albums list into a coffee-table book



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If you’ve been looking to replace your Android phone’s camera app with one that doesn’t overprocess photos to alter lighting and detail in sometimes extreme ways, now there’s an option. Zerocam is a barebones app that promises to “shoot in RAW and process your photos to remove all artificial effects, delivering soft, pleasant-to-eye



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The Galaxy S25 is expected to launch pretty soon, but when can we expect an announcement?



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It's pretty weird to live in a world in which there are sales on the price of not being bombarded with advertisements but, alas, here we are.

On Tuesday, Meta announced that it is reducing the price of a monthly subscription for its ad-free tier in the EU by 40 percent, from €9.99 to €5.99 on the web and from €12.99 to €7.99 on iOS and Android. Each additional Facebook or Instagram account will be