Territory has emerged as the central stumbling block to a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia. The initial U.S.-led proposal calls for Kyiv to surrender the “Fortress Belt,” the fortified strip of ...

Store loyalty programs used to be simple: You’d get a punch card at a local sub shop, buy eight sandwiches and get your ninth for free. It felt like a transparent “thank you” for your business. But ...

I cooked jasmine rice in an Instant Pot, on the stovetop, in the microwave, and in the oven. Rice I made with a stove and a pressure cooker turned out great, but it got gummy in the microwave. The ...

A quick, purification-free method was developed by researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo, to capture the detailed 3D structures of flexible sugar molecules. By growing crystals of galectin-10 ...

It was only a matter of time before ChatGPT introduced shopping capabilities to its Pandora's box of useful tricks. It's all thanks to an innovative OpenAI protocol called the Agentic Commerce ...

Ultra-uniform nanogratings of sub-50-nm periods and near-10-nm groove widths on HOPG can be stably and efficiently fabricated by high-NA focused femtosecond laser irradiation under water immersion.

Old-fashioned oats are a whole-grain food used mostly for breakfast and baking. These oats include the nutrient-rich germ and the bran, which is very high in fiber. Old-fashioned oats have a ...

ChatGPT users will now be able to make purchases in chat. Instant Checkout works with single-item purchases. It is available to US ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Free users. One of ChatGPT's biggest selling ...

Let’s talk about mods in video games. They were something that was almost done out of necessity back in the earliest days of gaming, and then, became a whole community, as gamers wanted to see what ...

In case you're unfamiliar with the Final Fantasy 14 community, recently, a mod named Mare Synchronos—which had many thousands of users at its peak—was sent a cease & desist order. The mod in question ...