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AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile are teaming up to try and eliminate all service deadzones in America. They still operate as independent cell companies, but all 3 are working together and using each others infrastructure to try and make everyone's cell service better.

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New York City has been rated the #1 city in the world.

Sadly, Hawaii's iconic Hōlei Sea Arch has fallen into the ocean. It lasted for an estimated 550 years.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has urged people not to worship AI like it's a god: "I am very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models, and think it is a real safety issue."

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By the end of 2027, US citizens will be able to apply for their passport online, even if it's their first one. You'll no longer have to show up in-person to get a passport.

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Donald Trump doxxed Senator Tom Cotton because he opposed the Sunshine Protection Act, a law that'd make daylight savings time permanent. He posted Cotton's personal cell phone number and demanded people call him so he votes for the bill.

Elon Musk is on track to become the world's only trillionaire again, with the stock value of both Tesla and SpaceX going up rapidly. His current net worth is $981 billion, only a couple billion dollars away.

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A Singaporean man is facing up to 10 years in prison for posting an AI-generated image of a crocodile. The image caused widespread panic, with authorities closing off an entire reservoir for 2 days to look for a crocodile that never existed.

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Swapping to diet soda for weight loss is just as effective as drinking only water according to a recent University of Liverpool study. They found no significant downsides for using diet soda to lose weight.

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A data center developer in Pennsylvania offered to pay every household in the town $10,000 if they allowed them to build an AI data center there. However, locals didn't fold, and many of the 4,500 eligible households said no to the money.

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Scientists have discovered that melting permafrost has freed heat-trapping gasses like methane and carbon dioxide that were sealed beneath arctic ice for millennia. This is beginning to have a domino effect that will even further speed up global warming.

A man has gone viral for his gratitude after a coworker helped him get his own room. Via: r/HamsterTop1332

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Amazon is starting to equip delivery drivers with smart glasses that track everything they do and take pictures of their deliveries. There's currently no way to opt out as a customer, meaning you can't prevent Amazon from collecting data during deliveries to your home.

In 2021, a dog named Canyon was rescued from the streets and was so malnourished he required months of rehabilitation. Now, Canyon is a highly-trained search and rescue dog who just won the 2026 ASPCA Dog of the Year award. images via Texas A&M Task Force 1

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Trump tariffs have driven up tomato prices so much that many restaurants can no longer afford to give away free chips and salsa. This could mean the end of free chips and salsa as we know it.

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Scientists have discovered dogs are a lot smarter than we thought they were. Their brains can pick up consonant sounds and separate them from other noise, making them better at hearing and following human commands than any other animal species.

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Bill Gates has revealed his plan to prevent AI from causing an economic collapse: Taxing robots. He believes governments should tax companies for AI "workers" like they would human workers and give the tax money to people who can't find jobs.

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India's former head of Tinder Taru Kapoor has created Rivet, a dating app where you don't pick your own matches. Instead, other users pick your best matches for you, essentially turning dating into a game where other people try to find the partners you'd want to date.

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Japan just introduced new laws that will make it much harder for foreigners to live there. Foreigners must now make more than the average income in Japan, understand Japanese well, and pay an entry fee that was just raised by 20 times in order to gain residency.

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YouTube is making massive algorithmic changes to cut down on clips and re-uploaded content in Shorts. People who just re-upload clips of other people's content will get shoved out of the algorithm in favor of original videos.

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California will give incarcerated firefighters a path to entry-level fire department jobs after their release. Nearly half of the state's emergency wildfire hours are handled by prisoners.

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56-year-old dad Juan is staying one year in a grocery store for a shot at a $1,000,000 prize from MrBeast.

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On the eve of the GTA 6 release, NBA team Miami Heat will play as "Vice City" in a collab with Rockstar. The nationally broadcast game will feature a special court and a never previously worn kit.

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French students have forced hundreds of schools to close in a protest demanding more teachers and better conditions in schools.

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There's a 20-foot shark statue at the bottom of Switzerland’s Lake Neuchâtel since 2002 and nobody knows who put it there or why. Via: r/Molech996

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Chris Pratt thanks Kevin Feige for casting him as Starlord when he was "kind of fat" and had given up auditioning for the MCU. "I was funny, sure, but I was kind of fat. Nobody was thinking, 'now there's an action star who can carry a big-budget sci-fi film franchise.'"

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The US has sent a third aircraft carrier and 2,000 marines to the Middle East as Trump warns of new Iran strikes.

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India's government has approved a $19.4 billion plan to improve renewable energy capacity nationwide. They want to put money toward creating more clean energy that can reduce reliance on fossil fuels and help cut down pollution.

Canada PM Mark Carney has signed the Global Oceans Treaty to help protect the world's oceans. Almost none of Earth's international waters are protected, but this signing could change that and make Canada a global leader in environmental protection.

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The Pentagon has launched an Office of Religious Affairs, with Secretary Pete Hegseth claiming religion needs to be a bigger part of the US military. "God is good. Evil is not. And America's military must understand the difference."

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China's birth rates have fallen so much that abandoned schools are now being turned into nursing homes.

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As of today, NYC is the first city in America to ban predatory subscription practices. Any subscription service is now legally required to make cancelling a subscription just as easy as signing up for it.

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