Month: January 2026

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Series Announced I loved both Niels Arden Oplev’s and David Fincher’s adaptations
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Credit: René Ramos/Lifehacker/stokkete/Adobe Stock/davidf/iStock/jayk7/Moment/Getty Images Remember when hands-free shopping was going to be the next big thing? In 2017, the Echo Dot was the single best-selling item on Amazon during its Prime Day sale, outselling both the Nintendo Switch and Instant Pot. Amazon’s goal was partly to heavily discount the device in order to install
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Did you know that Jodie Foster speaks French? Much of the discussion surrounding her role in Rebecca Zlotowski’s new mystery thriller, A Private Life, suggests many will find it just as much of a surprise as the film’s twists and turns. The actress learned the language while at the Lycée Français de Los Angeles prep
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Last night (January 17), Bruce Springsteen made an unannounced appearance at New Jersey’s Light of Day WinterFest — a regular haunt, as far as his “surprise” performances go. While joining headliners Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers onstage at the non-profit’s event, Springsteen strongly denounced the ongoing ICE raids in Minnesota and dedicated his 1978 song
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Last year, when Utah lawmakers passed the nation’s first statewide ban on community water fluoridation, they included a provision making it easier for people to get fluoride supplements without having to visit a dental provider. This would make fluoride available through individual choice, rather than “mass public dosing,” as a Utah House of Representatives webpage
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Communication is an essential component of a successful relationship; yet if you can’t understand a person’s language, connection is almost impossible. This is something Netflix’s latest kdrama, Can This Love Be Translated? (I sarang tongyeok doenayo?) aims to explore. Taking the cast and the viewer to incredibly scenic parts of the world, visually, the immersion
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xaviersobased’s 2025 Riverside Tour is getting a sequel. The Riverside 2.0 Tour, featuring support from ksuuvi and 1c’s Backend, will hit American cities the New York rapper missed on his initial run. The tour kicks off in March before heading to Europe the following month. Riverside 2.0 marks xavier’s first international headlining trek. Check out
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News has come out that Lamar Odom was arrested Saturday morning in Las Vegas. The former pro basketball player and media personality is facing multiple charges since his arrest. The story also brought to mind a previous arrest concerning Odom a few years back, as well as a story shared in his 2019 memoir. Lamar
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IBM’s Quantum System Two on display at a data centre in Germany Quantum computing seems to pop up in the news pretty often these days. You’ve probably seen quantum chips gracing your feeds and their odd, steampunk-ish cooling systems in the pages of magazines and newspapers. Politicians and business leaders are peppering their announcements with
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