Can You Stare at a Work of Art for 10 Minutes?

A year and a half ago, a team of Times journalists had a simple ask: Look — really look — at a work of art for 10 minutes. The response has blown them away.
YourTango

11 Habits Gen Z Thinks Are Polite But Older Generations Find Annoying

That’s why waiting for confirmation and reaching out before coming over is one of the things Gen Z thinks is polite, but older generations find annoying. They want to feel entitled to everyone’s space ...
The Washington Post

There’s a reason electricity prices have been rising. And it’s not data centers.

Over the past few months, Americans have looked aghast at their rising electricity bills — in New Jersey, for example, prices have risen 19 percent just in the last year — and found one clear ...
PC Magazine

Perplexity Review: The Best AI Search Engine, But Still No ChatGPT Killer

I’ve been writing about consumer technology and video games for more than a decade at a variety of publications, including Destructoid, GamesRadar+, Lifewire, PCGamesN, Trusted Reviews, and What Hi-Fi ...
Reuters

USDA memo says it will not use emergency funds for November food benefits

WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture will not use agency contingency funds to pay for food aid benefits set to lapse in November during the federal government shutdown, ...
New York Post

Inside Bill Skarsgård’s ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ — and how the Pennywise prequel series was born

“It: Welcome to Derry,” HBO’s chilling new prequel to Andy Muschietti’s blockbuster “It” films, premieres Sunday night, diving deep into the dark origins of Stephen King’s Pennywise. Set decades ...
ZDNet

Windows 11's Snipping Tool just got a Google Lens-like feature - here's how to use it

The Windows 11 Snipping Tool now has a visual search engine. You can learn more about the item you capture via a Bing search. You can also extract or translate text and even solve a math equation. The ...
The Baltimore Sun

Who is paying for Trump’s new $300 million ballroom at the White House?

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is defending President Donald Trump’s East Wing demolition by reminding everyone that Trump and other donors are funding the construction of a ...
Ars Technica

The Android-powered Boox Palma 2 Pro fits in your pocket, but it’s not a phone

Digital reading devices like the Kindle have existed for almost 20 years, and the standard eReader form factor has hardly changed at all. Amazon, Boox, and a few other companies have offered larger E ...
PC Magazine

ChatGPT's Atlas Browser Shows Potential, But It's No Chrome Killer…Yet

OpenAI's new ChatGPT Atlas browser brings ambitious AI-powered browsing and task automation—but in its current state, it's better as a curious sidekick than your everyday web companion. I've been ...
The Atlantic

Bridesmaid Inflation

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. There comes a time in every young woman’s life when she’s faced with a question that tests the limits of her love. Caught up in the euphoria of the moment, she ...