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• Lindal Cedar Homes sells house kits inspired by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
• The kits are based on Wright's famous homes but are updated for the modern homeowner.
• The company told The Wall Street Journal they have sold 10 kits so far.

Frank Lloyd Wright revolutionized America's home design industry almost a century

A group of TikTok creators have joined the legal fight to keep the app from being banned in the United States. Eight creators have sued the US government in an effort to block a law requiring TikTok's parent company ByteDance to sell the service. 

The lawsuit claims that the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” is unconstitutional because it violates the First

For the first time in a long while, America’s drug overdose crisis has not gotten worse. New preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that total overdose deaths took a slight dip in 2023, including deaths tied to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Deaths tied to certain other…

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Google is opening up its Home platform to third-party developers through new APIs. As such, any app will eventually be able to tap into the more than 600 million devices that are connected to Home, even if they're not necessarily smart home-oriented apps. Google suggests, for instance, that a food delivery app might be able to switch on the outdoor lights before the courier shows up with dinner.

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Xbox is expanding its accessibility footprint with the Proteus Controller, a modular gamepad created by nascent peripheral company Byowave as part of the Designed for Xbox program. The Proteus Controller is a group of palm-sized cubes that can be connected to each other in a wide variety of configurations, with interchangeable faceplates that include standard controller buttons, analog sticks and

• Sergey Brin said at Google I/O that Project Astra is "the perfect hardware" for smart glasses.
• Google's cofounder said the tech giant was a decade too early with Google Glass, which famously flopped.
• Google revealed Project Astra on Tuesday, an AI agent that was also working on prototype glasses.

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Assassin's Creed Shadows will be available globally on November 15. The latest iteration of the historical murder sim will be playable on a bunch of devices, including PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC via the Ubisoft Store and the Epic Games Store. It’ll also be available for Apple silicon Mac computers right at launch, which is something of a rarity, and on cloud gaming platforms like Amazon Luna and

And so, X-Men ‘97's largely successful first season has come to an end. What does it have to say about the state of mutantdom in the face of the overwhelming threat our heroes have thrown down against these past three episodes in Bastion? Honestly, not all that much. But it does have a lot to say about Charles Xavier,…

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• Mark Zuckerberg had a 40th birthday party, which looked like a great time.
• But I noticed he had a slight outfit change in his photos. I was determined to find out why.
• Yes, I am aware there are better things I could do with my life.

The Instagram photos from Mark Zuckerberg's 40

This week, King Charles unveiled a new portrait of himself by the acclaimed painter Jonathan Yeo at Buckingham Palace.

Reactions to the very red, very raw-looking piece have been mixed. Many on social media note that the portrait is both intriguing and unflattering. Here's what people are saying about the art online.

• The Pentagon deployed two Navy warships to help safeguard a US-built pier to bring aid into Gaza.
• The safety of US forces positioned off the Gaza coast remains a concern amid the Israel-Hamas war.
• Route closures and screenings by Israeli officials hindered aid delivery to Gaza via land