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• OpenAI broke new ground when it enabled shopping on ChatGPT last year.
• Walmart's head of AI said a new partnership with Google Gemini goes further.
• Here's what makes agentic shopping on Gemini different from ChatGPT or traditional e-commerce.

The AI

• I crave going home to the Bay Area, but long visits remind me why Spain feels right.
• The Bay Area feels car-bound, expensive, rushed, and harder to adjust to.
• Each visit brings reverse culture shock — and clarity about where I belong.

I've lived in Spain for over a decade. I'm always excited to go "home" to visit family and

• Gwyneth Paltrow said she "really struggled" when her kids flew the nest.
• The "Marty Supreme" actor described it as similar to a divorce and "a big recoking."
• Paltrow has two children, Apple Martin, 21, and Moses Martin, 19.

Becoming an empty nester hit Gwyneth Paltrow, 53, hard.

"I was really

• Social media is more important than ever for US retail sites during the peak shopping season.
• Clicks from social media and affiliates, such as influencers, drove a quarter of holiday revenue for retailers.
• The share of revenue sparked by social media marketing

Sid Meier's Civilization VII is headed to the Apple Arcade on February 5th, allowing you to play the strategy game across your iPhone, iPad, or Mac through the company's $6.99 / month subscription. The game has the same premise as the original PC title, where you're tasked with expanding your empire as historic leaders from across the globe.

But the Apple Arcade version offers touch

For a number of very obvious reasons, we don’t want to roll back the clock to early 2020. No thank you. But if there was a feel-good lockdown story, it was the perfectly timed arrival of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which allowed friends who could no longer meet up IRL to do so virtually on their carefully pruned islands.

The game will almost certainly never be as popular as it was back then

The holiday season may be behind us, but that doesn't mean you can't still find good deals on some of our favorite tech. Take the Apple Mac mini M4, which is on sale for $100 off. The 17 percent discount gives you 16GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD for $499, which is only about $20 more than its Black Friday sale price. Its beefier models are also on sale: opting for 512GB of SSD will cost you $689

Parents can now manually set a time limit on their kids' YouTube Shorts feed, ranging from fifteen minutes to two hours (with an option for zero minutes coming soon). The update, announced on Wednesday, takes the Shorts time limit feature YouTube introduced in October and adapts it for under-18 accounts. Kids and teens can't change or disable the time limit setting on their end.

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