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The online booking platform aims to streamline scheduling for everything from virtual appointments to workshops.

Factor meal kits offer a free $200 Withings body-scanning scale after a three-week subscription. I was afraid, then maybe a little motivated?

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Government staffing cuts and instability, including this year’s prolonged shutdown, could be hindering US digital defense and creating vulnerabilities.

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The United States’ plan for dealing with Putin’s Russia and Xi’s China remains ill-defined among a shifting global order. That must change.

The reborn Commodore 64 is an astonishing remake—but daunting if you weren’t there the first time around.

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US support for nuclear energy is soaring. Meanwhile, coal plants are on their way out and electricity-sucking data centers are meeting huge pushback. Welcome to the next front in the energy battle.

Amid historically low birth rates and economic pressures from its aging population, China will eliminate a decades-old tax exemption on contraceptives.

A fun diversion for retro gaming on the Nintendo Switch 2—if you can stand to look at it.

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Privacy may be dead, but civilians are turning conventional wisdom on its head by surveilling the cops as much as the cops surveil them.

Google's AI is now even smarter, and more versatile.

From Donald Trump to DOGE to Chinese hackers, this year the internet's chaos caused outsized real-world harm.

Today’s global coral bleaching events are the worst kind of climate warning.

Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t.

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Questions around the reliability of the US greenback are dulling the luster of what was the world’s currency of trade. New, global alternatives are emerging.

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