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• Narcissists and manipulative people often use dark psychology tricks when dating new people.
• A therapist shared the most common ones, according to her clients' dating experiences.
• Love bombing, gaslighting, and isolation are among the dark psychology tricks used in dating.

Dating someone new can be scary. Beyond first-date jitters and worrying that they like you back

• I ordered an Italian beef sandwich from three Chicago staples: Buona, Portillo's, and Al's Beef.
• Buona's beef was a bit underwhelming, and Al's beef was a bit overpowering.
• Portillo's sandwich took the longest to order, but it was by far the best and worth the wait.

Samsung has launched a new demand response program for its SmartThings smart home platform. Flex Connect allows your SmartThings connected appliances to communicate with the grid and automatically reduce energy use when there’s a spike in demand, which could help avoid blackouts. While demand response programs have made for some scary headlines

• Tourists aboard a submersible saw the rare giant phantom jellyfish during a Viking cruise.
• Viking Octantis is a luxury ship that travels to Antarctica and often has researchers aboard.
• Viking published its first scientific paper in 2023 based

It’s always worth revisiting the classics, and there’s no shortage of retro consoles and emulators to enable that. The Atari 400 Mini is more niche than we’re used to, however, and that’s what makes it so intriguing. The 8-bit retro replica console has dropped to $102 ($18 off) at Amazon

Car dealerships hamstrung by outages following two cyberattacks against CDK Global in June might finally be able to use their systems again this week, as the company says it aims to get dealers back online by July 4th.

“We are continuing our phased approach to the restoration process and are rapidly bringing dealers live on the Dealer Management System

“It’s always an honor to get to witness anything or anyone transform into the Force,” young padawan Jecki Lon tells Osha in The Acolyte’s fourth episode, perhaps preparing us all for the carnage that was to come just a week later in its fifth, leaving a lot of people transforming into the Force. But even with this…

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Chinese company Space Pioneer accidentally launched the first stage of its Tianlong-3 rocket during a Sunday test of the vehicle that went terribly wrong. The rocket crashed and exploded near a city in Central China, but no injuries have been reported so far.

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• Russian forces reportedly used a deadly 3.3-ton glide bomb for the first time earlier this month.
• Video footage appeared to show the FAB-3000 M-54 destroying Ukrainian targets in Kharkiv.
• The new massive bomb's destructive capability and range make it a dangerous threat to

Midjourney, a popular AI-powered image generator, is creating images of Donald Trump and Joe Biden despite saying that it would block users from doing so ahead of the upcoming US presidential election.

When Engadget prompted the service to create an image of “the president of the United States,” Midjourney generated four images in various styles of former president Donald Trump.

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Amazon Prime Day is one of the biggest shopping events of the year outside of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with this year’s summer installment running from July 16th through the 17th. The two-day shopping affair will likely grant Prime members access to some of the best prices of the year on Amazon devices, as well as products

• The immunity decision will delay and diminish Jack Smith's two Trump prosecutions, experts predict.
• In the documents case, Trump can claim that "declassifying" them,  back in DC, was an official act.
• In the J6 case, he can seek immunity for allegations involving talking to another federal official.

It's been a pretty bad day for Special Counsel Jack Smith.

Both of his