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"I Will Never Forget The Father’s 'Solution'": Teachers Are Recalling The Wildest Thing They Witness A Parent Do During A Parent-Teacher Meeting

"I had no idea how to respond or the ability to get admin to help me end this because conferences were in our classrooms."

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36 Products So Good, Pretty Much Nothing Else Can Compete

This is basically just a list of top-tier products. Get ready to add all of these to your cart.

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Amanda Hoover

Airbnb's Olympics Push Could Help it Win Over Paris

Paris officials have placed tough new restrictions on Airbnb rentals in recent years. The company is using the Olympics to try and win over locals and broaden its footprint in the iconic city.

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Adrian Wojnarowski

Sources: Jeff Van Gundy to be Clips' top assistant

Jeff Van Gundy will be lead assistant for Ty Lue's Clippers coaching staff, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski on Tuesday.

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52 Ways To Give Your Home A *Very* Thorough Clean (It Deserves It)

:: bookmarks for cleaning when I'm done procrastinating ::

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How To Say 'I Love You' To Your Cat In Their Language

And it doesn't even involve treats.

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Lily Allen Just Got Seriously Real About Her And David Harbour’s Sex Life, And Said He “Quite Often Asks For Things” In The Bedroom That She Won’t Do

Lily also shared the inspiring reason why she decided to reveal that she’d had intercourse with female sex workers during a “very, very promiscuous and experimental” phase of her life.

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Tracy Mumford, Hamed Aleaziz, Paul Sonne, Davis Land and Jessica Metzger

U.S. Protections for Undocumented Spouses, and Putin’s North Korea Visit

Plus, trouble in the avocado supply.

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David Gilbert

ISIS Created Fake CNN and Al Jazeera Broadcasts

One video focused on giving ISIS credit for a terror attack that Russian disinformation blamed on Ukraine. “It was essentially fake news to debunk fake news,” says an expert.

Mashable

Why being funny is AI's toughest test

"Hey everyone! Great to be here. You know, life is a lot like a toaster. Sometimes you're popping out of bed ready to take on the day, and other times you feel like you're stuck on the darkest setting, just waiting for something to change." 

That's the opener ChatGPT offered when I asked it to come up with "an original comedy routine:" An observation so far from joke territory, with a landing so baffling and clunky, not even a Chapelle or a Seinfeld could raise a laugh with it. Imagine...

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5 most fun AI products in 2024 so far

AI is taking the tech world by storm, but AI itself is more than just a chatbot. AI features are being built into all different kinds of tech, from the devices like your phone that you use every day, to the apps that you’ve been using for years, to new websites that will supercharge your productivity.

Over the past few years, we’ve seen a host of new devices and products that put AI front and center. Some of them, of course, are pretty lame – but others are smart, and just downright...

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AI chatbots are being used for companionship. What to know before you try it

Companions chatbots created by generative artificial intelligence offer consumers an opportunity they've never had before.

With a few clicks, and often a credit card payment, you can build a custom AI companion exactly to your liking.

Want a boyfriend of Latino heritage with brown eyes, a muscular build, and short hair, who happens to enjoy hiking and is, of all things, a gynecologist? Candy.ai gives you that option, and countless more.

In general, AI companion platforms, including Replika,...

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Why AI assistants are having such a moment

Gone are the days of stumbling over your words to prompt Siri or Alexa to do your bidding: AI is making them quicker, smarter, and more like a prescient little human sitting in your pocket than ever before. 

Advertised as having "life-bettering" reasoning, intelligence, and conversational skills, the assistant applicant pool has only grown in the last year: Would you like a digital employee that can summarize your work notes or help you study? One with a background in nutrition and GLP-1s...

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4 AI travel concierge services that'll help plan your next vacation

Thanks to the explosion in popularity of generative artificial intelligence, a whole range of products have sprung up dedicated to solving problems you didn't know you had with the help of algorithms and chatbots, and one of those is the "problem" of planning a vacation.

AI travel concierge services are a fresh industry that exists in the same vein as AI apartment-hunting and fitness planner tools. Normal tasks that we could perform ourselves — or are usually outsourced to human...

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The best TikTok food trends of 2024 (so far)

TikTok and food go hand-in-hand.

The platform is home to a diverse range of food-related content, from creators sharing recipes and reviewing food to those indulging in mukbangs and everything in between. Naturally, this has led to the emergence of various food trends.

SEE ALSO: The best memes of 2024 (so far)

Interestingly, 2024 has seen a shift away from stunt food, a type of content that often featured bizarre, not-necessarily-tasty...

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5 best Apple rumors of 2024 (so far) — you'll be crossing your fingers for these

Apple is one of the most hush-hush tech giants, doing whatever it takes to ensure that its plans and blueprints don't leave Cupertino. However, it seems like there are cracks in its secrecy armor.

Whether it's coming from Bloomberg Apple leaker Mark Gurman or Ming-Chi Kuo, two respected bean spillers, there are always leaks that flow from the iPhone maker, feeding the thirstiest Apple enthusiasts among us. However, some leaks are more fascinating than others. Let's start with the iPhone 16.

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NASA mission spots Chinese spacecraft on far side of the moon

NASA's moon-orbiting spacecraft can spot trails left by astronaut boots on the lunar surface.

Now, it's captured a view of China's most recent moon landing.

The China National Space Administration landed its robotic Chang'e-6 mission in the expansive South Pole-Aitken Basin in early June. A week later, on June 7, the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed over and captured footage of the uncrewed lander, along with eroded terrain created by thrusters fired into the chalky ground. It's the...

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