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• I worked as a tour guide in Paris and have taken hundreds of tourists around the city.
• However, I often saw travelers repeat the same mistakes over and over again.
• In my opinion, staying in a hotel near the Eiffel Tower isn't worth the money.

After years of living in Paris for school, I worked as a

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• Alexandra Blodgett has been to 35 national parks in the US.
• She prefers parks with stunning views and epic hikes but also loves leaf-peeping in the fall.
• She thinks North Cascades National Park in Washington is an underrated fall foliage site.

We're slowly inching closer to

Apple’s new USB-C-equipped Magic Mouse somehow still has the charging port on the bottom. While Apple could have used the launch as an opportunity to move the charging port from the underside of the device — where the port has remained for nearly a decade, despite other updates to the mouse and being mocked for the decision — the port

A UK man who used AI to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has been sentenced to 18 years in prison, according to The Guardian. Hugh Nelson, 27, created the images by using photographs of real children, which were then manipulated by AI. Nelson was convicted of 16 child sexual abuse offenses back in August, after a lengthy police investigation. This was the first prosecution of its kind in

• Israel over the weekend launched strikes on Iran.
• Observers feared that Israel would hit Iranian energy infrastructure.
• Instead, it hit those sites' defenses — making it easier to launch more strikes later.

Israel's recent

Last week, Apple promised a week of new Mac announcements in the near future. Well, the future is now, and Apple has unveiled a new Mac device and released Apple Intelligence.

Let's not waste any time. Here are all of the announcements Apple made this week.

• Volkswagen plans to close factories in Germany for the first time, a top union official said.
• The German carmaker is under intense pressure to cut costs amid sliding sales in China.
• VW has struggled to compete with Chinese EV giants such as BYD that are now expanding into Europe.

Volkswagen is planning to