Why do cats love boxes? Boxes give cats control, comfort, and prime ambush angles. Even when a box is too small, cats still love them. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. If you've ever purchased an expensive, bespoke toy for your feline friend, then watched them ignore said purchase in favor of the cardboard container it arrived in, you will know this universal truth: cats love boxes.

What it's like to be in the middle of a conspiracy theory (according to a conspiracy theory expert) It's something of a familiar cycle by now: Tragedy hits; rampant misinformation and conspiracy theories follow. It's often even more acute in the case of a natural disaster, when conspiracy theories about what "really" caused the calamity run right into culture-war-driven climate change denialism. Put together, these theories obscure real causes while elevating fake ones. I've studied these ideas extensively, having spent the last 10 years writing about conspiracy theories and disinformation as a journalist and researcher. I've covered everything from the rise of QAnon to whether Donald Trump faked his assassination attempt. I've written three books, testified to Congress, and even written a report for the January 6th Committee.

Is a Robot Vacuum Worth It? It's not for everyone, but sometimes my robot vacuum is my only friend. Every single day--weekend, weekday, rain or shine--whichever robot vacuum I'm currently testing starts running at 9 am. I heave a sigh of relief and continue with whatever else I was doing, content that at least f*cking chore in my house is getting done. When I first started testing robot vacuums eight years ago, it sometimes seemed like more trouble than it was worth. I cleaned up the floor .

Google Chrome now offers enhanced autofill for passports, driver's licenses and vehicle registration, joining existing options for passwords and payment details.

Meta's messaging app offers free access to the AI chatbot, but only until January 2026. There are plenty of places you can get access to ChatGPT: Not just in the official apps for the web and mobile devices, but also through Copilot from Microsoft, and in Apple's Siri assistant ... and inside the messaging app WhatsApp . WhatsApp, run by Facebook developer Meta, is available free of charge on the web, and on Android and iOS . It's used by billions of people worldwide, which helps to explain why OpenAI has made ChatGPT available here as well as everywhere else. Unfortunately, OpenAI will be pulling free access to its chatbot within WhatsApp on January 15, 2026.

Watch: Russia's AI robot falls seconds after being unveiled Footage shows the moment Russia's first anthropomorphic robot, AIdol, fell just seconds after its debut at a technology event in Moscow. The robot was being led on stage to the soundtrack from the film'Rocky', before it suddenly lost its balance and fell. Assistants could then be seen scrambling to cover it with a cloth - which ended up tangling in the process. Catherine Connolly has'never believed more' in the spirit of Ireland New Irish President Catherine Connolly says she has been given a powerful mandate to articulate a vision for a new republic. The online shopping giant opened its first physical shop in the world - in a Parisian department store.

Trump backflips on visas for foreign workers as he stuns Laura Ingraham with brutal take on America's workforce Trump bristles as Laura Ingraham awkwardly asks if '24 karat gold' adorning Oval Office is from Home Depot Bill de Blasio's secret lover REVEALED: Latina politician'thinks she's won the jackpot'... but friends spill wild details on scandalous tryst Cloud hangs over Don Jr's socialite girlfriend Bettina Anderson... as insiders reveal the MAGA titan she was originally chasing Trump'obesity ban' preventing overweight foreigners from entering the US revealed in bombshell leak Michelle Obama's greatest fear is being seen as her true self. Well, let's cut the bottomless victimhood and race-baiting... here it is: MAUREEN CALLAHAN Sydney Sweeney's movie flop sparks cruel remark about her body from plus-size model James Van Der Beek forced to auction off Dawson's Creek keepsakes amid'expensive' colon cancer treatments JFK's grandson Jack Schlossberg, 32, announces bid for congress as he responds to critics who call him'crazy' Trump pardons trail runner facing charges for'illegal' shortcut during run Colorado woman's body is found feet from her home seven years after she disappeared CHERYL HINES: The day I met Donald Trump in a private hotel suite... and broke out in hives Diddy seen in first prison mugshot... and once-groomed rapper has now gone completely gray Can YOU spot the fake faces? Can YOU spot the fake faces? Can you tell the difference between a real face and one generated by artificial intelligence ( AI)? According to a new study, the answer is probably'no'.

Recent memoirs by the Justices reveal how a new vision of restraint has led to radical outcomes. To understand how grudging Amy Coney Barrett's new book is when it comes to revealing personal details, consider that one of the family members the Supreme Court Justice most often refers to is a great-grandmother who died five years before she was born. On Barrett's desk at home, she recounts in " Listening to the Law," she keeps a photograph of her great-grandmother's one-story house, where, as a widow during the Great Depression, she raised some of her thirteen children and took in other needy relatives. "Looking at the photo reminds me of a woman who stretched herself beyond all reasonable capacity," Barrett explains. "I'm not sure that I'll be able to manage my life with the same grace that she had. But she motivates me to keep trying." For Barrett, the mother of seven children, that effort entails setting her alarm for 5 "Our kids get up at six thirty during the school year, so I start early if I want to accomplish anything on my own to-do list," she writes. This is what passes for disclosure from Barrett; she measures out the details of her life with coffee spoons, careful not to spill.

Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. Maybe I could be that person--if only I could get my colleagues to shut up and stop lying. One day a couple months ago, in the middle of lunch, I glanced at my phone and was puzzled to see my colleague Ash Roy calling. In and of itself it might not have seemed strange to get a call from Ash: He's the CTO and chief product officer of HurumoAI, a startup I cofounded last summer. We were in the middle of a big push to get our software product, an AI agent application, into beta. There was plenty to discuss. "Hey there," he said, when I picked up. He was calling, he said, because I'd requested a progress report on the app from Megan. "I've been good," I said, chewing my grilled cheese.

As licensing costs surge and cloud use becomes more strategic, AI agents are turning months of manual migration work for IT teams into weeks of machine-assisted automation. For years, many chief information officers (CIOs) looked at VMware-to-cloud migrations with a wary pragmatism. Manually mapping dependencies and rewriting legacy apps mid-flight was not an enticing, low-lift proposition for enterprise IT teams. But the calculus for such decisions has changed dramatically in a short period of time. Following recent VMware licensing changes, organizations are seeing greater uncertainty around the platform's future. At the same time, cloud-native innovation is accelerating.