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The Comedy Club at the End of the Metaverse

“This is my home”: At a VR comedy club in Horizon Worlds, users mourn Meta's plans for the platform.

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Save $100 On Our Favorite Soundbar and Subwoofer Combo

The JBL Bar 500MK2 boasts Dolby Atmos support and easy setup and streaming.

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A Deadline on Expanding Rental Assistance

Christine Quinn, president & CEO of Win, the largest provider of shelter and supportive services for homeless families in New York City, talks about the mayor's seeming turnabout on a campaign promise to expand the CityFHEPS rental assistance program and offers her take on City Hall's approach to addressing homelessness.

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Why It's Good to Jack Off Frequently, According to Science

Why It's Good to Jack Off Frequently, According to Science

Masturbation has long been a scientific “mystery,” but a massive cross-species study shows that increased ejaculation has fertility benefits.

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Text • Nena Farrell

Best Vacuum Deals for Amazon's Spring Sale: Dyson, Shark, Bissell (2026)

New gear for spring cleaning just got cheaper. Don't miss these discounted robot vacuums, stick vacuums, and hand vacs.

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Text • Billy Haisley

All Hail Danny Welbeck, The Lord Of The Premier League

All Hail Danny Welbeck, The Lord Of The Premier League
Spend enough time on the soccer side of social media and you're bound to come across one of those video-comp odes to the Barclaysman. As proud guy-rememberers ourselves, we of course do not begrudge the pleasant strolls down memory lane these highlight reels take you for, ba...

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Text • Kat Merck

Amazon’s Spring Sale Is Blooming With Smart Bird Feeders

These Amazon Spring Sale picks actually deserve a spot in your yard.

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This is cool: Bridgy Fed now supports long-form blog posts in AT Protocol via the standard.site lexicon. I guess I need to hurry up with my own implementation of this.

The Brian Lehrer Show
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Baseball & Life

On MLB's opening day, Ken Davidoff, sports journalist and former New York Post baseball columnist, and Harley Rotbart, MD, pediatrician, former Parents Magazine columnist and little league coach, talk about baseball's lessons for success in life beyond the game. Rotbart and Davidoff are co-authors of the new book 101 Lessons from the Dugout: What Baseball and Softball Can Teach Us About the Game of Life (Bloomsbury, 2026).

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Leaflet Pro: power tools for publishers

Lab Notes 025: launching v1 of Leaflet Pro, our paid plan for writers, with publication analytics and lots more planned!

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Text • Boutayna Chokrane

Ultrahuman Is Back: Can the Ring Pro Beat Oura in the U.S. Market?

Ultrahuman is officially back in the U.S. and looking to disrupt the status quo with its most advanced smart ring yet.

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Your Kubernetes isn’t ready for AI workloads, and drift is the reason

Illustration of a person sitting at a desk surrounded by multiple computer monitors displaying dashboards, charts, and web interfaces, representing platform engineering and infrastructure management workflows.

If you’re a platform engineering leader managing Kubernetes at scale, a new pressure has entered the room. The business wants

The post Your Kubernetes isn’t ready for AI workloads, and drift is the reason appeared first on The New Stack.

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A Tough Job Market For Young Grads

Lindsay Ellis, Wall Street Journal reporter, talks about the tough job market for new college graduates, and how much AI is responsible for it.

 

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How to Build an Agent-native Product | Mike Krieger

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Mike Krieger built one of the most consequential consumer apps of the last two decades as cofounder of Instagram. He is now at the frontier of determining what makes a breakout AI-native product as co-lead of Anthropic Labs. Dan Shipper talked with Krieger for Every’s AI &am...

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Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood

Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood

It turns out when you try to serve slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.

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The People Left Behind by the Metaverse

The People Left Behind by the Metaverse

"The way they have behaved here is profoundly harmful and I would deem it a type of psychological torture from corprotate neglect."

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Podcast: The Company Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into Podcasts

Podcast: The Company Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into Podcasts

A company is listening to Zoom meetings en masse and making AI podcasts; the multi-millionaire who wanted to become a cocaine kingpin; and RIP the metaverse.

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The Ex-CIA Agent Going Viral Asking for a Trump Pardon

John Kiriakou went to prison after exposing the CIA's torture program. Now he's going viral as he campaigns to get his name cleared and his pension restored.

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OpenAI Enters Its Focus Era by Killing Sora

As the ChatGPT-maker eyes an IPO, it's ditching Sora in favor of a unified AI assistant and enterprise coding tools.

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Text • Barry Petchesky

Netflix Is Loading Up The Clown Car For Opening Night

It's opening day, sort of. The Yankees and Giants will start the season in San Francisco, today's only game. It's a Netflix exclusive, which is an annoying development if you, like, me, want to watch this game, but don't have Netflix and will not buy Netflix. But Netflix mad...