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Thanksgiving can be daunting. Meal kit boxes from Sunbasket and Blue Apron offer the satisfaction of making a home-cooked feast with a lot less stress.

Pick up a new Meta headset, Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, and pocket a $50 gift card in the process.

Gemini 3 is skilled at reasoning, generating video, and writing code. Amid talk of an AI bubble, Google notes the new model could help increase search revenue too.

Whether for bird-watching or baseball-spotting, we break down prices and specs to find the best pair for you.

Microsoft still sees AI agents as the future of work, and the enterprise software giant wants companies to be able to manage those agents just like human employees.

Some of the best sales of the year are happening right now—rest up before the holiday rush with a new bed.

By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more.

Automatic cocktail machines are silly, but also kind of fun. Here’s how to choose between the Bartesian and Barsys cocktail machines.

Proton Mail is an appealing alternative to Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail. It also comes with advanced privacy and productivity features, including a way to manage newsletter overload.

Much of the US economy rests on AI’s future. On this episode of The Big Interview podcast, Odd Lots cohost Joe Weisenthal breaks down why AI’s impact on finance goes beyond billion-dollar investments.

For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.

Pluribus, The Morning Show, and Slow Horses are among the best shows on Apple TV this month.