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Anthropic is adding a new feature to its Claude AI assistant that will give users more control over how the chatbot responds to different writing tasks. The new custom styles are available to all Claude AI users, enabling anyone to train it to match their own


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Buying a new keyboard probably won’t make you happy. But this one is orange. | Photo by Nathan Edwards / The Verge

The Omnitype Bauer Lite, one of my favorite keyboards of the year, is down to just $95 ($25 off) this week as part of Omnitype’s ongoing Black Friday sale. I paid full price for mine earlier this year, and it was a steal. It feels great to type on, it has a



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Threads just announced that it has experienced significant growth throughout November, to the tune of 35 million signups. A platform spokesperson told Engadget that the social media app has received more than a million signups every single day for the past three months. To that end, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri announced 15 million signups for November in the middle of the month. Meta CEO Mark



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Dating apps are increasingly turning to matchmaking.
  • Would you trust your friends to curate your dating-app matches?
  • Several new "matchmaking" dating apps have launched in the past year, addressing dating-app fatigue.
  • Startups like Sitch and Cheers are using AI and social connections to match users.

Matching and matches are everyday phrases in the online dating app


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There are a bunch of Black Friday deals on PlayStation products, but here's one that was perhaps a little unexpected. The PS5 Access controller has dropped to $59, which is a record low price. It's slightly over a third off the list price of $90.

Sony created this controller to make the PlayStation 5 more accessible to a wider group of players. It released the Access controller last December.



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I followed four stuffing recipes from famous chefs and compared the results.
  • To find the best stuffing recipe, I turned to Ina Garten, Paula Deen, Ree Drummond, Sunny Anderson.
  • Anderson's recipe was my favorite because of its mostly savory flavor and easy preparation. 
  • Both Deen and Drummond's stuffing required the extra step of baking homemade cornbread.

For many Thanksgiving menus


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Customers exit from a Best Buy store During Black Friday sales on November 25, 2022 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
  • Best Buy is bracing for Trump's proposed tariffs on imports from China and Mexico.
  • "There's very little in the consumer-electronics space that is not imported," CEO Corie Barry said.
  • Barry said consumers typically bear some of any added costs in the form of higher prices.

Best Buy is bracing for the impact of Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on imports from China and Mexico


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You’d think Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and its wide-reaching Supercharger network, would already know about the workings of the federal National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program that has dedicated $7.5 billion to building a national charging network. However, he needed Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to chime in on X



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Volkswagen and other automakers battling with sliding sales this year.
  • Car companies are scrambling to adjust to a rapidly changing EV market.
  • Restructuring efforts include massive job cuts in some cases.
  • Cost-cutting measures come as automotive execs double down on expensive EV commitments.

A protracted transition to electric vehicles is taking its toll on global car


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If it didn't already look like Drake had lost the feud of the year, it certainly does now.

In a legal filing Monday, an LLC owned by Drake called Frozen Moments alleged that Universal Music Group and Spotify worked together to make "Not Like Us" — a viral diss track Kendrick Lamar released about Drake earlier


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