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Has December slipped by and left you with little time to finish your holiday shopping? I’m not here to judge you for waiting until the last minute (we’ve all been there, after all). Instead, I’ll do you one better by helping you find a variety of gift ideas that should still arrive in time to be wrapped and tucked under the tree

The finest residents of New Yohrk Citaaaaaay are bowing out. Vulture reports that as What We Do in the Shadows prepares to begin production on its sixth season next month, it is doing so knowing that it will be the last.

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• Russia's invasion of Ukraine has radically altered the country's criminal underworld, a new report found.
• Russian drug traffickers have been forced to find new routes into and out of the country.
• The war has also led to a spike in synthetic amphetamines and opioids in Russia, per the report.

The fallout of Russia's war in Ukraine has revived

Microsoft’s AI chatbot Copilot will now be able to churn out AI songs on demand — thanks to a new plug-in with Suno. The Cambridge-based AI music startup offers a tool on Discord that can compose an original song — complete with lyrics — based on a text prompt. Now, Copilot users will be able to access Suno using the Microsoft chatbot.

In order to start making

Stability AI, the maker of the text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, is now offering a subscription service that standardizes and changes how customers can use its models for commercial purposes.

The company said the membership “redefines” how it grants commercial rights to users, aiming to strike a balance between

• Semi-private air carrier JSX has announced its intent to buy more than 300 hybrid-electric planes.
• The aircraft are set to come from three different manufacturers and have at least 500-mile ranges.
• JSX's

• NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is revealing new traits about Uranus.
• It's the most detailed image yet of the distant planet taken by the powerful telescope.
• The image shows the tilted planet's thin rings in "exquisite" detail.

NASA's Ja

The Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Galaxy Z Fold 5 will join the entire S23 series, the Galaxy Tab S9 series, and the Galaxy Book 2 Pro series in Samsung’s self-repair program this month. A partnership with iFixit, the repair program initially only supported S20, S21, and Tab S7

• Over a year after a fiery mishap, Blue Origin launched its New Shepard rocket.
• The 23-year-old company has struggled behind competitors like SpaceX.
• "Blue Origin needs to be much faster," CEO Jeff Bezos said in a recent podcast interview.

Blue Origin

China’s Shenlong robotic spaceplane, on its third mission, has added a new layer of intrigue to its space activities by deploying six unidentified objects into Earth’s orbit.

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