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On October 7, a TikTok account named @fujitiva48 posed a provocative question alongside their latest video. “What are your thoughts on this new toy for little kids?” they asked over 2,000 viewers, who ...

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Neanderthals 400,000 years ago were striking flints to make fires, researchers have found. Neanderthals 400,000 years ago were striking flints to make fires, researchers have found. An artist’s ...

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A Longmont man was arrested and indicted for his role in “Greggy’s Cult,” a group of five men that solicited children on popular gaming platforms like Discord and Roblox, and lured them into making ...

GPT-5.1 sets the chatbot apart from the alternatives on the market. OpenAI / OpenAI GPT-5.1 is the latest update from OpenAI, set to upgrade ChatGPT in a pretty groundbreaking way. While ChatGPT has ...

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