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The stretchy fabric satchel for your iPhone, designed by luxury brand Issey Miyake, does make a fashion statement.
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The tug-of-war on font type isn't aesthetic. It's political.
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Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for Dec. 11.
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Deepseek reportedly received banned chips, and is allegedly using them to train a new model.
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Here are hints and the answer for today's Wordle for Dec. 11, No. 1,636.
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 Apple today unveiled its fifth retail store in India, at the DLF Mall in Noida. The store opens to customers this Thursday, December 11, at 1 p.m. local time.
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Need a gift that'll wow the tech lover on your holiday shopping list? A smart-home gadget could be the perfect present to make their holidays brighter, and we've picked out our favorites.
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Dec. 11, No. 444.
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 The next-generation low-cost iPad will use Apple's A19 chip, according to a report from Macworld. Macworld claims to have seen an "internal Apple code document" with information about the 2026 ?iPad? lineup.
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 YouTube TV will be updated with more than 10 genre-specific television packages in 2026, YouTube announced today. The upcoming YouTube TV Plans will be more affordable than the current version of YouTube TV, which is priced at $82.99 per month.
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Big retail names such as CB2, Anthropologie and Victoria's Secret are among the worst offenders.
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Cheaper, genre-specific streaming plans will drop in early 2026.
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Visitors entering the US may also need to disclose their previous email addresses and details about their families, under a new federal proposal.
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 Apple today shared a list of the most downloaded U.S. App Store apps and games in 2025, highlighting the top free and paid iPhone and iPad titles.
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"Prompted Playlists" are currently only available in New Zealand.
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True Classic Tees is running holiday "flash deals" with some of the best prices we've seen in months.
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"Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department's official correspondence," Rubio's memo said.
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OpenAI's chatbot just added new integrations with Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat.
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You can change your screen brightness or turn on Do Not Disturb without doing complex finger gymnastics.
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Learn how to prepare the popular beverage at home from a real expert.
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 Apple Music and Apple TV are experiencing an outage that could be causing issues for some users, according to Apple's System Status page.
Game Center has also been added to the list of services affected by an outage.
As of 4:57 p.m Eastern Time, Apple says the outages have been fixed.
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NEW RESOURCES The Standard (Kenya): Government unveils a new era of community driven tourism innovation. "As part of this transformative agenda, the Cabinet Secretary noted that the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) […]
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After looking through hundreds of Amazon gifts, we've found the top ones your friends loved ones will actually use this holiday season. Headphones, record players, fun games and more.
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The US Department of State is unwinding a 2023 decision to use san-serif Calibri font on all official communications and switching to Times New Roman instead, The New York Times reports. In a memo obtained by NYT titled "Return to Tradition: Times New Roman 14-Point Font Required for All Department Paper," Secretary of State Marco Rubio frames the change as a way to return professionalism to the State Department.
"Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department's official correspondence," Rubio said in the memo. That's because the font is "informal" and clashes with the State Department's letterhead, according to Rubio, while serif fonts lik
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About a fifth of US teens say they're on TikTok almost constantly, according to a Pew Research survey.
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Retailers, including Aldi, Target and Walmart, have pulled bags of potentially dangerous cheese from its shelves.
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With a good virtual private network (VPN), you can stream TV shows and events from all over the world, protect your information from hackers and thwart those online trackers that watch you sleep and show you weird personalized ads. Although we strongly recommend using a VPN, you shouldn't jump on just any deal — a bit of comparison shopping goes a long way in this market. The pricing you see on VPN websites is often not an accurate portrayal of what you'll actually pay.
Even so, there are some great bargains on the table. Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be over, but lots of the best VPNs — including our top pick, Proton VPN — have end-of-year deals live that can save you anywhere from 67 to 88 percent on annual subscriptions. Most of these discounts only apply if you sign up for a year or more, but as long as you're sure you like the service, committing actually makes sense. You pay more at the start, but if you divide the cost by the months of service, it's significantly cheaper over time.
Most of the deals below follow that pattern, so make sure you're comfortable with a service before you take the plunge. Read on for the best VPN deals live this week.
Best VPN deals
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Unveiled back in September, Amazon's new E Ink tablet-style Scribe e-readers with a front light are now available.
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If you're looking for quality deals under $50, I'll text you the best offers so you don't miss any of them, no subscription required.
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NEW RESOURCES National Library of Wales: Explore Your Archive: Newly Catalogued Archives. "As well as the expertise of our staff, who have been exploring a variety of new cataloguing methodologies, we greatly […]
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I tested nearly every setting my fridge has to offer to find out which number on the dial hits the sweet spot.
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Wi-Fi jammers sound like a scary way to bypass home security, but it's more complicated than that. Here's how to avoid worrying.
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Check every merry flick off your list.
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YouTube TV, which launched in 2017 as a $35-per-month all-in-one service, will soon introduce YouTube TV Plans. Although the announcement is light on details, we know the initiative will let you sign up for genre-specific packages, such as sports and news. In other words, it's the final step in the legacy-cable-ification of the service.
YouTube hasn't said anything about pricing. But it's probably safe to assume that narrowing your available content will reduce your bill. A year ago, the company raised its monthly cost to $83. That's 137 percent higher than the service's launch price nearly nine years ago.
We don't yet have the full list of available plans, but YouTube mentioned packages for sports, news and "family and entertainment content." As expected, it promised that you can mix and match them. The YouTube TV Sports Plan will include access to all major broadcast channels and several sports networks, like all ESPN networks, FS1, and NBC Sports Network. It sounds similar to offerings from Fubo and DirecTV.
YouTube TV plans will launch in early 2026. The current $83 all-in-one model
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Gift shopping often requires a budget. If you're looking for a gift that's impactful to your loved ones and friend but not to your wallet, check out these gifts under $150.
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 Spotify has announced music videos are rolling out now to Premium users in the U.S. and Canada, though the feature remains in beta.
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Because dark matter is completely invisible to light, science had to look for clever new methods to spot it.
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NVIDIA is now allowed to sell its second-best H200 processors to China, rather than just the sanction-approved H20 model that China had previously declined to buy, President Trump wrote on Truth Social. The United States will collect a 25 percent tariff on those sales, the Commerce Department confirmed yesterday.
Trump said that he informed China's President Xi Jinping of the decision and that he "responded positively." The Commerce Department is finalizing details and the administration will take the same approach with AMD, Intel and other US companies. He added that the administration would "protect National Security," so the latest Blackwell and upcoming Rubin chips are not part of the deal. The 25 percent tariff would be higher than the 15 percent the White House suggested in August.
Though the administration won't allow NVIDIA to send its latest high-end chips, it was reportedly concerned that the company would lose business to Huawei if it was completely shut out of China's market, according to Reuters. No details about the number of H200 chips or which companies would be eligible to buy them were released. "Offering H200 to approved commercial customers, vetted by the Department of Commerce, strikes a thoughtful balance that is great for America," NVIDIA said in a statement.
The decision is not without controversy, though. Several Democratic US senators
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 AI chatbots haven't come close to replacing teens' social media habits, but they are playing a significant role in their online habits. Nearly one-third of US teens report using AI chatbots daily or more, according to a new report from Pew Research.
The report is the first from Pew to specifically examine how often teens are using AI overall, and was published alongside its latest research on teens' social media use. It's based on an online survey of 1,458 US teens who were polled between September 25 to October 9, 2025. According to Pew, the survey was "weighted to be representative of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 who live with their parents by age, gender, race and ethnicity, household income, and other categories."
According to Pew, 48 percent of teens use AI chatbots "several times a week" or more often, with 12 percent reporting their use at "several times a day" and 4 percent saying they use the tools "almost constantly." That's far fewer than the 21 percent of teens who report almost constant use of TikTok and the 17 percent who say the same about YouTube. But those numbers are still significant considering how much newer these services are compared with mainstream social media apps.
The report also offers some insight into which AI companies' chatbots are most used among teens. OpenAI's ChatGPT came out ahead by far, with 59 percent of teens saying they had used the service, followed by Google's Gemini at 23 percent and Meta AI at 20 percent. Just 14 percent of teens said they had ever used Microsoft Copilot, and 9 percent and 3 percent reported using Character AI and Anthropic's Claude, respectively.
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NEW RESOURCES University of California San Francisco: UCSF Print News Preserved and Digitized Through California Revealed . "Thanks to generous support from California Revealed, a state-wide initiative to digitize, preserve, and provide […]
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Discover how Apple's passkeys revolutionize Mac security by replacing vulnerable passwords with biometric authentication and encryption for ultimate protection.
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The past 14 years have seen a sharp increase in mental illness, self-harm, and suicide among young people in the United States. Some have looked to an obvious culprit - technology - as a cause. As both policymakers and parents consider this debate, we outline some opposing views, critically evaluate their arguments and suggest some paths forward.
The post Social Media and Youth Mental Health — It's Nuanced appeared first on ConnectSafely.
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Microsoft is sitting on top of the world right now, thanks to its lead in AI. It's the most valuable company on the planet, with a valuation of more than $3.2 trillion. Its rise was rocket-fueled by its investor relationship with OpenAI, the company that makes the wildly popular generative AI (genAI) chatbot ChatGPT. OpenAI's GPT large language model is also the basis for Microsoft Copilot, the genAI tool that Microsoft is building into just about every one of its products, from GitHub to Windows to Microsoft 365 and beyond.
Microsoft's AI dominance appears insurmountable. But things can change quickly in tech. Google and Apple are in talks to embed Google's genAI tool Gemini into iPhones — a deal that, if it reaches fruition, could unseat Microsoft sooner than you think.
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The European Commission on Monday slammed Apple with a huge $1.95 billion fine for anti-competitive conduct in the music streaming market. In response to the decision, Apple fired back at the EU and Spotify, saying the move "just cements the dominant position of a successful European company that is the digital music market's runaway leader."
Apple will appeal.
The company also says it intends to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) within days.
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