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Robot vacuums that can both mop and sweep your floors have improved significantly in recent years. While they are still not as effective as good ol’ manual labor, if you run them regularly, they will help keep your floors cleaner with much less effort on your part.

The difference is that newer “combo” robot vacuum-and-mop models are designed to actually scrub your floors. The first robot


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The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it received more than 1 million reports of AI-related child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in 2025. The "vast majority" of that content was reported by Amazon, which found the material in its training data, according to an investigation by Bloomberg. In addition, Amazon said only that it obtained the inappropriate content from external



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The start of the new year is a great time to get your finances in order, and a good budgeting app can help with that. Instead of laboring over a spreadsheet, you can try one of our favorite budgeting apps for less than usual. Monarch Money is running a sale that gives new users 50 percent off one year of the service, bringing the final cost down to just $50. Just use the code NEWYEAR2026 at



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Don Lemon speaks onstage during Telling the Truth in an Age of Misinformation at the 2025 Blackweek Conference on October 07, 2025 in New York City. | Getty Images
Don Lemon speaks onstage during Telling the Truth in an Age of Misinformation at the 2025 Blackweek Conference on October 07, 2025 in New York City. | Getty Images

Don Lemon, a former CNN anchor turned independent journalist, was arrested on Thursday night by federal agents in Los Angeles, who alleged that he had violated federal law while covering an anti-ICE protest in Minnesota.

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NASA’s Artemis II Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft on a launch pad at Kennedy Space Center.
If the February 2nd wet dress rehearsal is successful, the Artemis II mission could launch as early as February 8th. | Photo by Jim Ross / NASA
If the February 2nd wet dress rehearsal is successful, the Artemis II mission could launch as early as February 8th. | Photo by Jim Ross / NASA

As a result of cold weather and windy conditions moving through Florida, NASA is now targeting Monday, February 2nd for a wet dress rehearsal of the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. Depending on how Monday's rehearsal goes, NASA will



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Is Tesla still a car company? It's a question we've been asking ourselves more frequently over the past year, especially as the company's car business shrinks and Elon Musk continues to push the message that Tesla should be seen more as an AI and robotics leader and less so as a mere seller of four-wheeled conveyance.

Last night during Telsa's quarterly earnings call, the question of


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Unboxing Mirumi is like traveling back in time. It's late 2025 when it arrives on my doorstep in a box