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Nintendo sidestepped sharing the spotlight with all the other gaming companies at Summer Game Fest last week, promising its own Direct later in June. And that happened yesterday, teasing a lot of new games with Nintendo favorites. Mario games, yes. Zelda games, yes, and even a new Metroid game, confirmed. (More on that below the fold).

The funny thing is the new Zelda game is all about… Zelda. You



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Melissa Noble (middle) and her friends while having a picnic in Bhutan.
  • My friends and I traveled together through Southeast Asia in our 20s.
  • We just took another trip together, this time to Bhutan, nearly two decades later. 
  • Though much has changed, our friendships are still strong. 

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Dell's return-to-office policy has faced internal resistance.
  • Dell introduced a new hybrid work policy to get workers back to the office in February. 
  • Nearly half the company's full-time US staff have chosen to stay remote, data seen by BI shows.
  • 11 Dell employees explained why they've given up the chance of promotion to keep working from home.

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Earlier this year, a team of scientists garnered a wave of media attention with their provocative report: They claimed to have found two cases of a rare but fatal prion disease in hunters that could have plausibly been caused by them eating contaminated deer meat—a frightening reminder of the mad cow crisis over 30…

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Silversea's new Silver Ray cruise ship has a $17,000-per-person suite with amenities like a library, walk-in closets, and private hot tubs.
  • Silversea Cruises' new Silver Ray embarked on its maiden voyage in mid-June.
  • The ship's most luxurious 1,324-square-foot Otium Suites have amenities like a private hot tub and library.
  • The cabin starts at $17,000 per person in 2024

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Reddit is having a moment.
  • Reddit's traffic is up 39% year over year this month, according to Similarweb.
  • That's a huge increase for a platform that's been around for almost 20 years.
  • Reddit's big boost is likely from Google traffic. Huh!

Have you seen more Reddit results in your Google searches lately? Or maybe you're one of the savvy people who is adding "reddit" to the end of your



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Marcia Naomi Berger is the author of "The Bipolar Therapist: A Journey from Madness to Love and Meaning."
  • Marcia Naomi Berger is a psychotherapist in San Rafael, California.
  • This is an adapted excerpt from her memoir, "The Bipolar Therapist: A Journey from Madness to Love and Meaning."
  • In the book, she discusses shame, stigma, and her experience with inpatient treatment. 

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The Titan submersible.
  • OceanGate's Titan submersible imploded a year ago, killing all five on board.
  • The investigation into the implosion is dragging on and will miss the 12-month deadline.
  • There's currently no projected completion date for the investigation, the US Coast Guard told BI.

On June 18, 2023, OceanGate's Titan submersible imploded while heading to the wreckage of the Titanic. All



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A fake video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky calling on his soldiers to lay down their weapons spread across Meta platforms last year.
  • Generative AI chatbots are guilty of spreading dangerous disinformation, a new report found.
  • NewsGuard audited 10 AI chatbots and found they spread Russian propaganda one-third of the time.
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Some tourists have been getting too close to wildlife in national parks.
  • Tourists have been flocking to US national parks in droves in recent years. 
  • The growing interest comes as some Americans are moving away from cities to be close to nature. 
  • But as more visitors crowd into national parks, some behave badly and disrespect the environment.

Getting out in nature has never been so


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I love EDM and have briefly tried my hand at DJing before to, let’s say, mixed results. So when I found out that I could make music with a pair of balls instead of a turntable or digital mixer, I thought, who knows—maybe this will be the start of my career as a juggling DJ.

Here’s how the Odd Ball works. It connects to…

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There’s nothing wrong with spending a bit of cash on fancy vibrators and complex sex-tech to boost our sex lives, but there’s one object that can really up the ante in the bedroom and there’s probably one already in your house, involving no money and little effort. 

By now, you might have seen Bridgerton Season 3, Part 2... and (spoiler alert) a certain steamy scene which begins in front of a