If you’re feeling guilty for thinking about returning that unironically ugly sweater your least favorite aunt gave you this holiday season, maybe don’t. ‘Tis the season of giving — and returning, after all. The National Retail Federation reports that returns will total $890 billion for all of 2024. Returns happen year-round, but are most prevalent during the holiday season, the organization …
Whether you play it on loop or whether it drives you crazy, there’s no question Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You,” song has become a permanent fixture of the Christmas song canon. But the holiday song canon is big, and a number of other pop artists have made their own Yuletide jingles since 1994 including John …
This 2018 astronaut photo shows off an unusually triangular “Christmas tree” lake in Iraq that appears to be dressed up for the holidays with a mix of both natural, artificial and illusory decorations. Lake Dukan is a human-made reservoir that was fully formed in 1959 after the completion of the Dukan Dam — a huge hydroelectric dam near the city …
Falling for scams has never been easier. In 2022, Canadians lost more than $58 million to spear phishing scams, which are a form of scam that target individuals with specific names, events or pieces of information, according to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre — in other words, highly personalized cyberattacks that can come via text message, email or by phone. In 2023 alone, Canadians lost a staggering $567 million …
It’s Christmas on P.E.I., a time to reflect, gather with family and friends, and hopefully eat lots of delicious food after the gifts are unwrapped. Dec. 25 is a statutory holiday on Prince Edward Island, meaning many businesses and services will be closed or on reduced hours for both Christmas Day and Boxing Day, Dec. 26. It’s best to call …
“I think of JuMBOs as a cross between stars and brown dwarfs – they would have been like stars had it not been for the radiation from the more massive stars, which has sculpted them to be more like brown dwarfs.” Scientists have received an unexpected Christmas gift this year: a potential solution to the mystery of JuMBOs, strange celestial …
Don’t be duped by a scam made with artificial intelligence tools this holiday season. The FBI issued a public service announcement earlier this month, warning criminals are exploiting AI to run bigger frauds in more believable ways. While AI tools can be helpful in our personal and professional lives, they can also be used against us, said Shaila Rana, a professor at Purdue …
OpenAI just dropped its O3 model as the grand finale to close out 2024. There’s lots of raw numbers being thrown around without any context, so I just wanted to put some of them into perspective for you: (1) O3 is a superhuman coder. There’s an online competition called CodeForces. For perspective: The average Google engineer scores around 940. O3 …
The celebration of both Jewish and Christian festivities is popularly known as Chrismukkah. In 2024, Hanukkah begins at sundown on Christmas day, which happens fairly infrequently. Chrismukkah has its roots in the 19th century — when German Jews, some of whom were becoming increasingly assimilated into mainstream German Christian culture — adopted Christmas traditions in a secular way. The celebration …
Drone video shows paddling Santas descending on Greek city seafront
