Asus ROG Ally X Review: You’ve Got a Friend in Me

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Rog Ally X

The Ally X takes everything that was good about the original Ally, but now it plays better and runs for far longer. It’s also a very costly device.

Has social media made sightseeing deeply uncool?

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Illustration of two tourists with their backs to us, facing the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Rome's Coliseum, and The Leaning Tower of Pisa.

In April 2024, I visited sunny Barcelona for the first time and was swept away by Antoni Gaudí's surrealist architecture. I'm certain that for a brief moment, sunbathing under the stained glass of the Sagrada Familia, I forgot how to breathe. Later that evening, as I swiped through my iPhone gallery, hearting the photos that were Instagram Story-worthy, something adjacent to shame took over.

As I

This is what food on a new $675-per-day ultra-luxury cruise ship is like, from endless caviar to a sushi buffet

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Silversea's new Silver Ray cruise ship has eight restaurants, five of which are complimentary.

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  • Silversea invited me on a complimentary five-night cruise on its new 728-guest ship, Silver Ray.
  • Food on the ultra-luxury ship includes a complimentary sushi lunch and a $180 tasting menu.
  • Silver Ray's cheapest 2024 itinerary is an eight-day sailing for $5,400 per person.

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I cooked burgers in 4 different appliances, and even my grill-master husband preferred the air fryer

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I make burgers for my family about once a week.

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We really love burgers in my house — and by we, I mostly mean my teenage son

5 beauty trends I'd never follow after working as a hair and makeup artist for over 6 years

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Makeup artists see it all, from bad trends to timeless looks.

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  • I worked as a hair and makeup artist for over six years, so I've seen my fair share of trends.
  • I'm not a fan of the wet-hair look or slicking my hair back into a tight little bun. 
  • Underpainting your face and making yourself look like a glazed doughnut aren't for me.

Beauty trends cycle through so quickly

'House of the Dragon' Season 2, episode 6: Has Alys Rivers already cast a spell on another character?

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As House of the Dragon Season 2, episode 6 made clear, Harrenhal healer/witch Alys Rivers (Gayle Ranking) is not a character you want to cross.

She's already been exerting her power over Daemon (Matt Smith) with some impressive mind games, shortly before lending him her help by (probably) killing off Lord Tully — but did episode 6 reveal another character she may already have exerted her influence

Everybody seems to love Zuck right now

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Mark Zuckerberg said it's "ironic" that OpenAI builds closed-source AI models.

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  • Mark Zuckerberg won praise from CEOs for open-sourcing Meta's AI model, Llama 3.1.
  • Zuckerberg's popularity seems to be on the rise as tech leaders applaud his open-source approach.
  • Shopify's CEO called the model an "incredible gift," and even Elon Musk said he "does deserve credit."

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