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9 December

Fisher-Price® Thomas & Friends Talking Cranky Delivery Train Set

This interactive train set is a great gift idea for young children, featuring fun songs and sounds to enhance your child’s storytelling play!

9 December

Scientists discover unknown prehistoric world — on Earth

In the profoundly remote Argentina desert, at over 12,000 feet high, and in a place where no roads go, scientists found an exotic world new to science. Among white salt plains atop the Puna de Atacama plateau, there’s a system of greenish lagoons harboring vast bacterial communities, called stromatolites, that …

9 December

Absolutely astonishing deep sea giant just filmed by scientists

Giant phantom jellys don’t sting their prey. They wrap around them — with 30-foot-long arms. Deep sea researchers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s sprawling research vessel Falkor (too) captured rare footage of a giant phantom jelly in Costa Rican waters. They used a remote-operating vehicle (ROV) to film the eerie …

9 December

These animals went extinct in 2023

Extinction isn’t a relic of humanity’s more barbaric past. It’s happening now. In 2023, scientists declared 21 species officially extinct, all in the U.S. Included on the shameful list are birds, mussels, fish, and a mammal. Destroyed habitat, pollution, climate change, exploitation, and invasive species are the culprits. Today’s rate …

9 December

Best gay dating apps for hookups, relationships, and everything in between

Most people have at least one horror story about online dating. It’s basically a rite of passage — one that single people love to hate. But the horror stories look a little different for members of the LGBTQ+ community. On top of the classic awkward Hinge date anecdotes, one-night-stand shoe …

9 December

The best December laptop deals, from a $600 gaming laptop to a sleek LG 17-incher

UPDATE: Dec. 9, 2023, 5:00 a.m. EST This story has been updated with the latest laptop deals, pricing, and availability. The best laptop deals of the week at a glance: Best laptop deal under $300 Dell Inspiron 15 3525 (AMD Ryzen 5, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) $279.99 at Dell.com (save …

9 December

That Google Gemini video was so amazing because of some slick editing

A demo video of Gemini, Google’s new AI model, isn’t as “mindblowing” as it appears. On Wednesday, Google released Gemini, a natively-built multimodal model that surpassed OpenAI’s GPT-4 in major intelligence benchmarks. A six-minute demo video showing off Gemini’s amazing abilities to track a ball in a cup trick, locate …

9 December

Inside ‘Game Changer,’ the internet’s favorite game show

Chaos reigns supreme in Game Changer, a game show where the game itself is a total mystery to the contestants — at least, until they start playing. Now streaming on Dropout, an independent comedy platform that celebrated its fifth anniversary in Sept. 2023, Game Changer throws its rotating panel of …

9 December

The curious new planets astronomers discovered in 2023

Scientists have made giant leaps in honing techniques for finding worlds outside of Earth’s solar system, detecting new ones on the order of hundreds every year. The number of confirmed exoplanets — planets orbiting stars other than the sun — has risen to 5,539, with 10,000 more candidates under review. …

9 December

Enjoy homemade sparkling water for just $120

TL;DR: As of December 9, get the AWA Carbonator, Bottle, and 2 CO2 Tanks Starter Bundle for just $119.99 — you’ll save 42%. Drinking your eight glasses of water every day can get boring. And while soda can be fun and bubbly, it’s not the healthiest choice on a regular …