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Emma Roth

Audible tries book recommendations based on your streaming history

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Audible is testing a new section that provides audiobook recommendations based on your Prime Video viewing history. The test is rolling out to half of all users with both Audible and Amazon Prime, and there’s no way to opt out for now.

If you have both services, you might see a new carousel on the mobile and web app titled “Based on what you watched recently on Prime Video.” It will contain audiobooks relevant to what you’ve watched on...

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The Supreme Court bolsters age verification rules for porn sites

The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the states in a case questioning the constitutionality of age verification requirements for adult entertainment sites.

On April 30, the court justices dismissed an emergency appeal that sought to block age verification mandates outlined in Texas House Bill 1181. The bill outlines fines and liability for site owners that allow minors to visit their pages, including a $10,000 minimum and $250,000 maximum fine per violation by a minor. The appeal was filed...

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ChatGPT now saves chat history even if you've opted out of sharing training data

ChatGPT now saves your chat history, even if you've opted out of sharing your data to train the model.

On Tuesday, OpenAI posted on X, saying the update was available for ChatGPT Free and ChatGPT Plus users. If you had opted in to sharing your chat history with OpenAI, you can toggle this setting off, and your chat history will remain saved in the sidebar. On the flip side, if your sharing setting was toggled off, ChatGPT will save your conversations going forward. The update is available on...

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Buy two Kindle Scribes and save over $250

SAVE UP TO $258.40: Buy two Kindle Scribe devices and get $40 off on top of already discounted prices. Get two Kindle Scribes (16GB) for $449.82, or $230.16 off the normal price of $679.98. Or, get two Kindle Scribes (32GB) for $521.58; that's $258.40 off the normal price of $779.98. Those are discounts of 33%.

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Tons of gaming monitors are on sale at Amazon right now

Score up to 30% off gaming monitors from brands like Sceptre and ASUS at Amazon.

Our top picks: Best 24-inch gaming monitor deal Sceptre 24-inch curved gaming monitor (C248B-FWT168) $109.97 at Amazon ...

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Live Nation is dropping $25 all-in tickets to over 5,000 shows for Concert Week

TL;DR: Live Nation will release $25 all-in tickets to over 5,000 summer shows in the U.S. and Canada as part of its annual Concert Week promotion. Tickets will be available at LiveNation.com/ConcertWeek from May 8 to 14.

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Save up to $70 on air purifiers at Amazon and breathe easy

Breathe a little easier with deals on air purifiers that can remove pet dander, allergens, and other irritants from your living space. Here are some of our top picks as of May 1:

Best Air Purifier Deals Best air purifier deal Coway Airmega 1512HH Air Purifier ...

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Amazon deal of the day: The new Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite just got its first big discount

Amazon deals of the day at a glance: OUR TOP PICK Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite (WiFi, 64GB) $249.99 at Amazon (save $80) ...

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All-American Davis staying at UNC for fifth year

Writing "I'm back" on Instagram, RJ Davis said he is returning to North Carolina for the 2024-25 season after being named an All-American and Wooden Award finalist last season.

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Adam Teicher

'Grateful' Kelce wasn't going to hold out for deal

Travis Kelce said on his "New Heights" podcast that he wasn't going to hold out for a raise so he's "grateful" to the Chiefs for wanting to sign him to a new deal.

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Jaina Grey

Coconu Wave Massager Review: A Vibrator With Arousing Asymmetry

Coconu’s vibrator is approachable, affordable, and surprisingly intuitive.

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James Dator

The Hurricanes beef with the Islanders is off the charts now

This escalated quickly.

The Carolina Hurricanes are no strangers to beef, but what transpired during the opening round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs against the New York Islanders pushed it into the stratosphere.

This isn’t a case of the team itself beefing with their opponent, but rather the Canes social media team engaged in an all-out war with Islanders fans on Twitter. This happened after some truly disgusting individuals had their feelings hurt so badly they thought it was...

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Emilia David

Anthropic finally releases a Claude mobile app

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Anthropic, which makes the Claude 3 family of AI models, is launching an iOS app and adding a second paid tier for groups to share access to the models.

The Claude mobile app can act as a chatbot, and users can also upload photos straight to the app for “image analysis.” Previously, Claude was only available through Anthropic’s Claude.ai website and third-party model libraries like Amazon Bedrock, Hugging Face, or Microsoft Azure.

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Wes Davis

LastPass goes independent over a year after serious breaches

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It’s been over a year and a half since LastPass suffered back-to-back high-profile hacks, and the company now says it has separated from its parent company, GoTo.

GoTo announced that it would spin LastPass off as its own company back in December 2021, six years after buying the company. Now, the password vault company will operate under a shareholder holding company called LMI Parent.

LastPass’ most recent troubles began in late 2022, when it admitted that...

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Justine Calma

Costa Rica restored its forests and switched to renewable energy — what can the world learn from it?

Land in Indigenous territory in Costa Rica that Cabécar leaders have reclaimed and are working to reforest. | Justine Calma / The Verge

The Verge takes you to Costa Rica to explore how it restored its forests and manages to get nearly 100 percent of its electricity from renewable energy.

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'The Idea of You's Anne Hathaway quotes a Lana Del Ray song to inspire viewers to follow their hearts

Anne Hathaway is joined by Nicholas Galitzine, Michael Showalter, Robinne Lee and Cathy Schulman to discuss the stigmas in our society when it comes to older women dating younger men.

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'Turtles All the Way Down's John Green and Hannah Marks on how the film tries to accurately portray Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and anxiety

Director Hannah Marks and author John Green discuss how they approached conveying what it is like living with OCD and anxiety in 'Turtles All the Way Down'.

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Will a DEA reclassification of marijuana put the banking industry at ease? Cannabis companies hope so.

The lack of banking services often puts cannabis businesses in harms way as it forces them to operate only in cash.


The Biden administration’s move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous but still controlled drug was hailed as a monumental step in reshaping national policy. But it might do little to ease a longstanding problem in the cannabis industry—a lack of loans, checking accounts and banking services that other businesses take for granted.

“As far as financial institutions,...

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