Meet America's newest mega-landlords: Google, Facebook, and Elon Musk

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For rent signs featuring logos for Google, Meta, and Tesla pop up in front of a row of gray two-story houses.
After years of running up against housing shortages, companies like Google, Meta, and Disney are taking matters into their own hands.

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This chart shows a key reason why millennial parents are miserable

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Parents are drowning in their kids' toys.

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Author Loses Book Deal After Blaming Star Wars Fans for Bizarre Review-Bombing Scheme [Update]

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Update: Late Monday evening, Corrain confirmed that she’d been review bombing POC authors, attributing it to past struggles with mental health.

The full list of major US companies slashing staff this year, from Hasbro to Amazon

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Hasbro is cutting around 20% of its workforce, its CEO announced. The company is facing continued slow sales even into the toy-heavy holiday season, he said.

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Jeff Bezos probably isn't actually a bad neighbor

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Jeff Bezos didn't participate in his neighborhood trash cleanup day.

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Walmart is going after Amazon in a new way — and borrowing a strategy from Target

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A Walmart employee picks online orders in the beauty aisle. Walmart appears to be committed to gaining digital ground on Amazon.

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Updates From Deadpool 3, Doctor Who, and More

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James Wan wants to return to horror again after Aquaman 2. Jennifer Love Hewitt would be down for more I Know What You Did Last Summer. Plus, what’s coming on Rick & Morty’s season finale, and the last episode of Archer. To me, my spoilers!

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Freewrite Alpha Review: Can This Minimalistic E-Typewriter Cure My Writer’s Block?

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The curse of all writing is not necessarily a distraction, but the anxiety stemming from creating something you know is awful. Writing is undoubtedly a painful, twisted joy until you read your work and wonder if you ever had a bare ounce of creativity.

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Humanoid robots are doing some lifting in Amazon's warehouses. But is the human form the ideal shape for the task?

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Side-by-side image of a humanoid robot lifting a box and a robot with a crane-like arm and wheels.
Agility Robotics' Digit, left, a bipedal humanoid robot, and Boston Dynamics' Stretch, right, are both capable of lifting boxes in warehouses.

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Silk's Show Still Exists, Writers Room to Spin Back Up Next Month

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All the way back in 2020, it was reported that Sony and Marvel were teaming up to create a TV show for Silk, one of the more recent heroes to spin from Spider-Man’s (Peter Parker’s) supporting cast.

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