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Despite all the hubbub about dating app fatigue, new apps still pop up to compete with the household names. In order to duke it out with the likes of Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge, these startups must try something new — even if it's technically not. 

One example is the dating app Cerca, which is about to turn a year old. Taking its name from the Spanish word for "near," Cerca aims to connect mutual


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Peter Wozny at Doha's international airport on February 28
  • Peter Wozny's flight from Doha, Qatar, to Warsaw, Poland, turned around midair as war broke out on Saturday.
  • He's now stuck in Doha, seeing and hearing explosions from his hotel room.
  • He says the uncertainty feels like the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Peter


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Ryanair Group CEO Michael O'Leary.
  • The US and Israel's strikes on Iran are changing the face of air travel.
  • Flight bookings in Europe are surging while those to the Middle East are collapsing, Ryanair's CEO said.
  • He doesn't expect the conflict to last into the summer because Trump "has a short attention span."

The CEO of Europe's biggest airline has said that more


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Oliver the puppy

I've been asking ChatGPT for advice about our new puppy: crate or no crate, potty-training tips, etc. The answers prepared me well before he arrived.

Not once did I click a link or visit a pet-care website. ChatGPT didn't share sources


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TikTok doesn't encrypt your direct messages like other platforms including Instagram, Messenger, and X, which offer the privacy option.

According to a report by the BBC, TikTok will not add end-to-end encryption to DMs. It's not an update, but users might not know this about their messages. The company told the news outlet it believes encryption puts users at risk, as it stops law enforcement and




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The U.S. may have launched "major combat operations" in Iran, but Trump is being surprisingly candid about the things that might go wrong.

"He was asked about what the war's 'worst case scenario' might be, and his answer was not the best," says Stephen Colbert in the Late Show clip above, playing footage of Trump telling reporters the worst case would be "we do this, then someone takes over who's