Thursday 2/9/23
Celebrate:
Chocolate Day
Giving Hearts Day
National Cut the Cord Day
National Develop Alternative Vices Day
National Toothache Day
Pizza Pie Day
Read in the Bathtub Day
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It's never a good time to lose your credit or debit card, but now is an extra-not-good time due to a global shortage of microchips like the little gold one in your card. Instead of getting a new one in 7-10 business days, you could be waiting up to two months.
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Parent company Alphabet announced its answer to the virally popular ChatGPT. The program, called Bard, will be made public "in the coming weeks," CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a Monday blog post, and "soon" Google's search engine will start incorporating AI features so users can ask more complex questions.
Not to be outdone, Microsoft announced Tuesday that ChatGPT — in which it invested $10 billion last month — will become part of its Bing search engine and Edge web browser. The new Bing will be able to recommend travel itineraries, allow you to ask follow-up questions to refine your search, and summarize information from multiple sites to answer your questions.
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Would you be on board with a reboot of The Nanny? Well something special could be in the works for the show's 30th anniversary this November.
In an interview with Yahoo, Fran Drescher, who played the title character, said that talks are ongoing with Sony to make something happen, but nothing has been set in stone. Previously Drescher had hoped to tap Bronx rapper Cardi B. to join a reboot project, where she would play the role of Fran's daughter, but noted that the two were currently unable to work on the project
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Another I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel is said to be in the works, and some of the original cast members will be reprising their roles. Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr make their way back to the slasher franchise with the latest installment to be directed by Jim Gillespie.
The announcement follows on the heels of other slasher relaunches like Scream, which is slated to release its sixth movie next month and has even been adapted into a series.
Excellent, Can finally use that Yellow (wait...it was yellow right? Maybe not.) Raincoat in the attic again for Halloween costume.
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A 9-year-old in Pennsylvania has graduated high school with a perfect 4.0 GPA. He hopes to become an astrophysicist, which sounds very doable for him.
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Folks on Reddit have been arguing about what to call the two ends on a loaf of bread. It turns out there are more ways to describe it than you'd think.
Here are the two most common answers: Some people say it's obviously the "HEEL" . . . and other people have always just called it the "END PIECE."
Those aren't the only names for it though . . .
A few more that people mentioned include "the end bread", "the end slice", "the butt", and "the crust" or "crust end."
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Red states and blue states have only been that way since 2000. Before that, the Republicans were generally blue and the Democrats were red.
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