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• The IRS' much-anticipated free tax filing software is now online.
• Direct File is in a pilot phase and available for "simple" tax returns for 2023.
• For now, the tool is limited to taxpayers who lived in one of 12 states last year.

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Looking to buy a new MacBook Air or iPad Pro? It's best to wait just a few more weeks if you can.

According to a new MacRumors report, recently updated internal Apple support documents hint that unannounced products will soon be released. The documents are meant help employees with answering customer service inquiries about these soon-to-be-announced products. (Apple typically updates its internal

Do you like Willy Wonka?

Turns out, that doesn't matter if you attended a Willy Wonka-themed event in Glasgow. It was so bad, so horrifying, so deeply troubling, that parents actually called the cops.

The event was billed as this over-the-top immersive experience thrown by the House of Illuminati (lol), but all of the images that showed what folks could expect were made with AI, and all of the

It’s easy to default to iPads and Samsung Galaxy Tabs when shopping for a new tablet, but believe it or not, there are other devices worth your consideration. Take the Google Pixel Tablet, for instance, which is on sale at Amazon and Best Buy in the

Samsung’s upcoming microSD card will offer a dramatic speed boost. The company’s 256GB SD Express microSD — Samsung’s first SD Express card — can read data at up to 800 MB/s, significantly faster than the microSDs you can buy today. However, we don’t yet know how much it will cost, and the card won’t be available until later this year.

The 256GB SD Express microSD will have (theoretical)

• Wendy's is walking back suggestions it will start surge-pricing burgers and fries.
• On an earnings call, the company's CEO said it would begin experimenting with "features like dynamic pricing."
• Wendy's later said its dynamic pricing wouldn't raise prices and would only offer discounts. 

Wendy's on

• The US residential market added $2.4 trillion in value last year, listings site Redfin said. 
• Rates haven't budged far from multi-year highs and sellers are on the sidelines. 
• Persistent work-from-home dynamics continue to push up values in many suburbs. 

The housing

• Google had to pull parts of its fancy Gemini AI model after it spat out inaccurate images and text.
• One theory is that Googlers are too woke and infected what could be a useful AI tool.
• There's another more extreme and interesting theory, though.

Google's latest AI product launch went so badly, there's now a conspiracy theory floating around that the

• Declining boomer ownership will free up 9.2 million homes by 2035, a Freddie Mac report found.
• The 32 million homes owned by boomers will drop to 23 million by 2035, when the oldest members of the group are pushing 90.
• Homeownership rates "gradually starting to decline as households age beyond age 75

Last year brought us lots of fantastic animated films and while Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem was the outlier in terms ofOscar nominations, it might be the first to get a sequel.

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Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel shared a new proposal Wednesday that would make it harder for domestic abuse survivors to be stalked through their cars’ location tracking systems.

The notice of proposed rulemaking would kick off a process for the FCC to consider how it can use existing