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Firefighters attempt to put out the Waymo car. | Image: FriscoLive415

A person jumped on the hood of a Waymo driverless taxi and smashed its windshield in San Francisco’s Chinatown last night around 9PM PT, generating applause before a crowd formed around the car and covered it in spray paint, breaking its windows, and ultimately set it on fire. The fire department arrived



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Israeli soldiers in what the military described as a Hamas command tunnel running partly under UNRWA headquarters.
  • The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it discovered a Hamas complex under a UN agency HQ in Gaza.
  • The IDF claimed its soldiers found "electrical infrastructure" in a tunnel under the building.
  • Reporters from outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, visited the tunnel.

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As the 2024 U.S. election nears, social media platforms are trying to avoid repeating their past mistakes: egregious missteps that helped spread misinformation and disinformation and fueled political ire and divide.

As a result of years of scrutiny over how these platforms handle political disinformation and and extremism, many have created a whole host of rules and regulations regarding political



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  • A stingray in a North Carolina aquarium became pregnant without a male in the tank.
  • Scientists believe that a male shark could be the father.
  • Another explanation could be parthenogenesis, in which a female produces asexually.

Staff at an aquarium in North Carolina were left confused after a stingray became pregnant despite there not being a male in her tank.

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When you’ve been in the music game as long as Usher has, you make a lot of friends. For 30 years, the R&B star has collected collaborators like Pokémon cards, and on Feb. 11, as he headlines the Super Bowl Halftime Show, it'll be time for him to shuffle the deck.

Here are the music icons we think are most likely to make an appearance during the 13-minute performance.

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After closing out a two-and-a-half-year residency in Vegas, most people would take a long, well-deserved break. But Usher is just getting started. The singer wrapped up his Sin City gig in December and is gearing up to release his ninth album (his first in eight years) on Feb. 11, the same day he headlines the Super Bowl Halftime Show for the first time.

When it comes to pop prophesying, our track



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The big question on everybody's minds as we head towards Super Bowl LVIII is whether or not Taylor Swift will be in attendance. The second biggest question is how the heck to watch the game if you don't pay for cable.

Yes, the official NFL team of Swiftie nation is playing in its fourth Super Bowl in five years, as the Kansas City Chiefs seek to defend last year's title against the San Francisco



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Not only was Season 1 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians a massive hit on streaming, where it racked up 110 million hours viewed, it was also a major event online.

Every week, viewers flocked to social media to share their reactions, fan theories, and fan edits. My own social media timelines were regularly alight with Percy and Annabeth — or "Percabeth" — shippers losing their minds at every



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Brilliant Labs cofounder and CEO Bobak Tavangar wearing Frame, which pays homage to historical icons like Gandhi
  • Brilliant Labs just launched a pair of glasses powered by a multimodal AI assistant.
  • They look like normal glasses but can translate speech, search the web, and generate images.
  • The glasses are also open source. The design files, code, and



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Hybrid smartwatches combine the best of traditional timepieces with helpful smart features. These are some of our favorites!



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Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips.
  • Dean Phillips defended Biden after the president responded to Robert Hur's special counsel report.
  • "He is a decent man," the Democratic presidential candidate recently said of Biden on Fox News.
  • But Phillips continued to argue that Biden needed to step aside for a next-generation leader.

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