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Justin Long's F-150 Lightning kept the lights on at his vet clinic after Hurricane Helene destruction.
  • Electric pickup trucks have become unlikely saviors in extreme weather events.
  • Ford F-150 Lightning owners in Florida and South Carolina used their trucks as mobile generators.
  • Ford saw a major spike in Pro Power Onboard usage following Hurricane Helene.

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Meta is rolling out some of the previously announced features to its AI-powered Ray-Ban smart glasses for users in the US and Canada. CTO Andrew Bosworth posted on Threads that today's update to the glasses includes more natural language recognition, meaning the stilted commands of "Hey Meta, look and tell me" should be gone. Users will be able to engage the AI assistant without the "look and"



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Zelda’s first time out as a playable character in the lands of Hyrule launched less than a week ago, but you can already get her new game with a modest discount. The physical cartridge version of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is on sale at Woot for $51.99 ($8 off) through October 4th (or until it sells out, which happened



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A Merkava main battle tank deployed in the Upper Galilee region of northern Israel on September 28, 2024.
Israel's military has a long and checkered past in Lebanon.
  • Israel launched a ground incursion that risks repeating its past mistakes in Lebanon.
  • Israel's 15-year occupation across Lebanon's border ended as a quagmire akin to the US's Vietnam.
  • Israel recently achieved stunning victories against Hezbollah but its new operation is risky.

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Teddy Sheehan, not pictured, landed an apprenticeship as a plumber by thinking outside the box.T
  • Gen Z'er Teddy Sheehan always wanted to become a plumber by trade.
  • When he was 15, he and his dad devised an ingenious plan to attract the attention of a potential boss.
  • They made breakfast snacks to hand out with his résumé outside plumbers' merchants. The plan worked.

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Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore on "Gilmore Girls."
  • "Gilmore Girls" ran for seven seasons between 2000 and 2007, and it still has a dedicated fan base.
  • But even people who loved the show might not remember that Rory is afraid of horses.
  • She also did one sport, had a childhood crush on a prince, and wasn't born in Stars Hollow. 

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Physical books are heavy and given everything else a youngster has to carry around in their backpack, who needs to deal with those as well? An ereader can help to lighten the load and there's a good deal on a kid-friendly option at the minute. Just ahead of the October edition of Prime Day, Amazon has dropped the price of the Kindle Paperwhite Kids by $55, bringing it down to $115. That's close to



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Palworld developer Pocketpair may be facing a lawsuit from Nintendo, but that’s not stopping it from pursuing a mobile version of the game. On Wednesday, Krafton — the publisher behind PUBG: Battlegroundsannounced that it acquired the license for Palworld and will optimize it for mobile gaming, as reported earlier by Polygon.

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Dutch Bros is one of my favorite coffee chains, so I taste-tested all the fan-favorite drinks.
  • Dutch Bros Coffee has eight drinks on its Dutch Faves menu, and I tried them all.
  • The Caramelizer and the Kicker were both very sweet and didn't wow me.
  • Although the chain's pumpkin drink was a close contender, the Annihilator won.

Dutch Bros Coffee started as a pushcart in 1992 and has