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Upgrade your older car with a touchscreen display for $90

TL;DR: Through May 31, get a 6.8-inch foldable touchscreen car display with Apple CarPlay & Android Auto Support for just $89.97 (reg. $159).

Those of us with slightly older cars missed the boat on those cool integrated dash displays. While it can be tempting to trade in your current vehicle for a new model to get that convenient tech, this 6.8-inch foldable touchscreen car display is a less expensive option. On sale for Memorial Day, you can pick it up for just $89.97 through May 31.

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This ChatGPT WordPress plugin is just $50

TL;DR: Through May 31, get a lifetime license to the ChatGPT WordPress Plugin for $49.97 (reg. $299) in honor of Memorial Day.

While the prevalence of AI may be a controversial topic, many people are able to use AI tools like ChatGPT to help them streamline their workdays. This leaves them with more time to tend to other tasks, be with their friends and families, pursue other interests, or take much-needed time off to recharge. 

The ChatGPT WordPress Plugin is one such productivity tool, and...

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Save $220 on a Geminos stacked dual-screen monitor

TL;DR: Through May 31, get a Geminos stacked dual-screen 24-inch monitor for just $579.99 (reg. $799).

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Get lifetime access to PDF Converter Pro for just $25

TL;DR: Through May 31, take advantage of Memorial Day savings and get a lifetime license for PDF Converter Pro for just $24.97 (reg. $99).

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Are Bored Apes still a thing in 2024?

Last month in April, news went out that Yuga Labs, creators of the at-once mega-popular Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT, was undergoing restructuring. What followed was a round of layoffs as CEO Greg Solano — who uses the nickname Gargamel — bluntly stated that the company had "lost its way."

That statement came just weeks after Bored and Hungry, a burger place that let customers order food with their cryptocurrency, shuttered its Long Beach location just two years after opening. Branded around...

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Thomas S. Mullaney

How China’s 1980s PC industry hacked dot-matrix printers

As the country entered the era of personal computing, most printers could only output western characters. Reprogramming them required uncommon ingenuity.

Excerpted from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age, by Thomas S. Mullaney. Published by The MIT Press. Copyright © 2024 MIT. All rights reserved.

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Stephanie Vozza

How to ask questions that get people to open up

The quickest way to learn new info is to tap into the ideas of those around you, but most people don’t ask enough questions, says this expert.

What you don’t know can hinder your potential and growth. Unfortunately, it creates a paradox, because you don’t know what you don’t know. The quickest way to learn new information is to tap into the ideas and insights of the people around you, but people often don’t ask enough questions, says Jeff Wetzler, author of Ask: Tap into the...

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Slurp Up A Huuuge Plate Of Food And I'll Guess Your Zodiac Sign

I hope you've worked up an appetite!

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Former Participants On Home Makeover Shows Are Revealing What Their Houses Looked Like After The Cameras Left, And It's Shocking

"In reality, it was literally things stuck together with staples and tape."

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"It Comes Back With A Vengeance": People In Their 40s And 50s Are Sharing Little Things That Become More And More Important As You Get Older

"We collectively think of this as taking place in a singular moment, not realizing it’s actually a process that often starts in our 40s."

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“I Wish I Could Go Back In Time And Buy This Thing Like Two Years Ago” – 35 Products Under $25 You’ll Wish You'd Found Sooner

Seriously I need answers for why it took so long for us to figure out a way to prevent the duvet from balling up inside the cover. ????

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Aarian Marshall

How Many Charging Stations Would We Need to Totally Replace Gas Stations?

The United States could fully transition to electric vehicles in about 20 years. When that happens, we’re going to need a lot of chargers.

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Emily Mullin

WTF Is With the Pink Pineapples at the Grocery Store?!

Using DNA from tangerines and tobacco, food scientists have made a familiar fruit tastier—and more Instagrammable—than ever. We looked into pink pineapples so you don’t have to.

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This is why the Northern Lights look better through your phone camera

Computational photography and AI allow these devices to capture stunning images that can surpass what we see with the naked eye.

Smartphone cameras have significantly improved in recent years. Computational photography and AI allow these devices to capture stunning images that can surpass what we see with the naked eye. Photos of the northern lights, or aurora borealis, provide one particularly striking example.

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Hunter Schwarz

This colorful new font doesn’t use a single letter

Poly Mono is like Wingdings, if Wingdings was colorful, geometric, and obsessed with Karel Martens.

When is a font no longer a font?

Poly Mono, a new font made of shapes instead of letters, blurs that line. Like Wingdings, the dingbat font made of primitive emoji-like characters, Poly Mono isn’t actually designed for spelling anything out. Instead, the font’s characters are geometric squares, circles, lines, and other shapes that can be arranged into designs. The characters are...

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Would you go to piglet yoga? The unexpected benefits of yoga with animals

A growing trend of yoga with animals adds mental and physical benefits to the ancient practice.

Three little piggies went to a yoga class.

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Next Big Idea Club

A Nobel Prize winner explains progressive capitalism and freedom

Joseph Stiglitz believes a 21st-century economy and society require a rich set of institutions, from profit-making firms to cooperatives, unions, an engaged civil society, not-for-profit institutions, and public institutions, components of what he calls progressive capitalism.

Joseph Stiglitz is a professor of economics, public policy, and business at Columbia University. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001. Formerly, he was the senior vice president and chief...

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This is the key to ending the negative-thinking pandemic

Frank Bruni shares five key insights from his new book, ‘The Age of Grievance,’ about how we can break the cycle of negativity.

Frank Bruni has been a prominent journalist for more than three decades, including more than 25 years at the New York Times, in roles as diverse as op-ed columnist, White House correspondent, Rome bureau chief, and chief restaurant critic. He is the author of four New York Times Best Sellers. In July 2021, he became a full professor at Duke University,...

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Joseph Liu

5 questions to ask yourself in order to be happier at work

To be happier at work, you need to affirm that you want something more for out of your career and then set clear standards and intentions.

Do you feel stuck in a job that no longer brings you joy? When was the last time you truly looked forward to going to work on Monday morning? Maybe you know deep down you’re long overdue for a change, but are unsure where to start. 

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Deadly Landslide in Papua New Guinea, and Israeli Strike Kills Dozens in Rafah Camp

Plus, the box office battle of “Garfield” and “Furiosa.”

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