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A $59 clock that also comes with a pretty good speaker What time is it? I feel dumb wasting my breath to ask this question out loud to my all-knowing smart speakers, but its the question that I ask the most and Im not alone. Amazon says its one of…

Taking your hand off the throttle, loosening the reins whatever idiom you might prefer, the actual practice of letting the real world intrude into your work bubble is more difficult than it might appear. And to be sure, your professional day-to-day can become…

Zipline drone delivering medical cargo. Zipline photo. The Navy corpsman was overwhelmed. Dozens of Marines lay injured at the casualty collection point following a devastating artillery bombardmentand the corpsman didnt have nearly enough to blood…

In brief: The average influencer with around 10,000 followers can regularly command $200 per sponsored post. For celebrities with millions of followers, that figure can easily swell to $500,000 or more for a single endorsement. "Online influencer" wasnt on …

A new The Sims 4 expansion pack has popped up online ahead of a formal announcement. We've seen a number of The Sims 4 packs release lately, most recently the supernatural world of Realm of Magic, and rumour of a University expansion did bubble up a few week…

Have a friend who thinks their dog is a star?  Well, your friend is right. All dogs were born to be celebrities. (If they don't want to be one, don't make them, though.) And this holiday season, you can get in on the ground floor of the fabled dog influencer…

This Is Fine. is a weekly newsletter from VICE about the personal tactics people use to make the world feel less harrowing. In this edition, Katie Way learns to focusand make time for herselfby watching anime. Sign up here to receive an essay about a dealing-…

I spent my formative years frying my attention span with video games, audiobooks, and Tumblrs sweet, infinite scroll, so I have roughly the same ability to focus as the dog from UP. The fact that Im always consuming, favoring breadth over depth, is actually f…

Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) is headed into a couple of very tricky earnings reports to end financial year 2019. Twelve months ago, most analysts felt that Tesla would turn the corner and post an annual profit this year. To say that theyre falling short is a polite un…

We live in a culture that values coupledom and biological families over anything else. This is especially true for women, who are seen as more relationship-oriented than men. We hold romantic relationships up as the ultimate end goal, the prize, the be-all an…