Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's 18-year-old daughter Vivienne has filed a petition to legally drop "Pitt" from her last name

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  bill_jackson

  Her new driver's license is just going to say Vivienne, comma, ask my mom.

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Silicon Valley workers are using the term "grindslop" to mock posts that glorify extreme work culture, like one founder's essay titled "Remember to not smile"

15 of Broadway's 41 major theaters are currently sitting dark, and producers are betting that horror shows like Paranormal Activity can lure audiences back

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  azurecobra84

  Broadway's Paranormal Activity is 90 minutes of an empty stage. Standing ovation for the ghost who slammed a door in Act II.

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A common arthritis drug is showing dramatic hair regrowth results in people suffering from severe alopecia areata, the condition that causes patchy hair loss

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  amanda1975

  So we accidentally cured baldness while trying to fix knees, which is the most American research pipeline possible.

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A new Pew survey finds that more than half of Americans think schools should teach Spanish, as 45 million people now speak it at home

T-Mobile says its cybersecurity team literally cut a cable last year to kick Chinese government hackers out of its network

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  mysticpirate265

  So the engineers call tech support, and support goes: 'Have you tried unplugging it... and never plugging it back in?'

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Researchers tracked the sleep habits of 3 young AI founders for 4 days, and some were only getting 5 to 6 hours a night.

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  brianrichardson7

  Meanwhile I'm getting 11 hours because AI is doing my job for me.

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CD sales jumped 59% in the first half of 2026, bringing in $171 million as younger shoppers embrace retro tech

Hackers reportedly stole over 150 million driver's licenses and passports from a major ID verification company used at bars, rental agencies, and dispensaries

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  vortex22

  The moment they said 'please upload a selfie holding your license,' every one of us had that gut feeling, 'I know this will get hacked', but we uploaded it anyway.

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YouTube is now letting eligible U.S. creators tag Amazon products directly in their videos and earn commissions on every purchase

For the first time without any obvious crisis driving it, more women are working than men, and experts are warning the trend might be permanent

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  megatiger967

  Equality arrived and the first thing it did was make men take a nap.

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Amazon's internal forecasts show its own delivery network could handle nearly 90% of US packages by 2029.

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  ewalker

  The last UPS truck will roll into a warehouse and come out with a Prime sticker on it.

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A US Open umpire had to pause Naomi Osaka's match to scold influencers in a luxury suite who were filming content with a ring light

A new study finds that young people in Tennessee, Indiana, and Utah are getting married at much higher rates than those in big coastal cities like New York and Los Angeles

McDonald's put together a 515 page file on one of its regular customers, and you can request your own data from the company too

Hollywood publicists are increasingly arranging staged street interviews for their clients as the number of daytime talk shows has fallen to its lowest point since the 1990s

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  funkymoon576

  What they really need to stage is an intervention where a publicist gently explains that nobody wants to hear an actor's thoughts on foreign policy.

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Researchers have figured out how to use microbes to turn plastic bottles into an edible cookie-like snack that could feed people in disaster zones or on deep-space missions

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  ruby_74

  We went from hiding the microplastic in the cookie to hiding the cookie in the plastic.

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A study of nearly 480,000 people found that climbing stairs every day is linked to a 39% lower risk of dying from heart disease.

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  laurenrussell37

  My apartment building's broken elevator has been trying to save my life this whole time.

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Lawyers for the Tate brothers admitted in court that their flashy wealth, including a $50 million yacht and luxury supercars, was all rented props and paid promotions

Scientists are asking whether an advanced civilization could have existed on Earth millions of years ago and left no trace behind

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  leowright6

  Those lights in the sky are them driving past the old neighborhood, shaking their heads at what we did to the place.

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A 3 year old bomb sniffing dog named Bolt just beat out 84 other TSA dogs to win the agency's 2026 Cutest Canine title.

More than half of Americans canceled at least one streaming or app subscription in the past six months as everyday costs keep climbing

Toilet paper prices in the US are expected to surge as Canada threatens tariffs of 25 to 50 percent on American paper products.

At least 8 Los Angeles restaurants have closed this summer, including Crustacean, a 30-year-old Beverly Hills celebrity hotspot

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  justin1997

  This explains why every celebrity on the red carpet looks like a pool noodle wearing Chanel.

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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a chewing gum made from lablab beans that may help prevent a common form of mouth and throat cancer

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  kim_walker

  My dentist is going to be furious that gum is suddenly the good guy.

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