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Tech Made Simple

Ring in the New Year with Pokemon GO!

Pokemon Go is capping off 2021 with a New Year's event. The festivities kick off on Dec. 31 and include costumed Pokemon, new avatar items and various other in-game bonuses. As they put it in their official pokemongolive.com site: Happy 2020 from Slowpoke! Wait, no—it’s about to be 2022! Why is Slowpoke still wearing those glasses? At least Slowking got the memo! That’s right—our New Year’s celebration event is right […]

todayDecember 27, 2021

Fashion

Vetements names CEO Guram Gvasalia its Creative Director

WWD reports that Vetements forgot to mention something when it unveiled its fall 2022 collection late last month: It can be credited to Guram Gvasalia, who has now officially been named creative director of the Zurich-based fashion house. Cofounder of the brand, Gvasalia has been the chief executive officer since its inception, having forged strong relationships with a wide swath of the world’s top specialty retailers and department stores. Gvasalia […]

todayDecember 27, 2021

Food & Drink

Don’t Toss It til you’ve Tried It: This Holiday, Give a Fruitcake some Love!

December is National Fruitcake Month, and the 27th is National Fruitcake Day, so it's high time you gave this often boozy, but always fruity, dense-as-heck bread a whirl! What is that heavy-as-an-anvil holiday treat taking up table space at many holiday functions, church bazaars, and office parties you ask? It is the same dessert that has a 1:1 density ratio when compared to mahogany, according to Harpers Index. And it is […]

todayDecember 27, 2021

Home Improvement

Luxurious, Textured Textiles will be Big in 2022

2022 is almost here—and that means it's time to start planning ahead when it comes to what will be trending in the new year. To balance the neutral and warm tones in rooms, the trend of adding textiles will help to a more elegant feel. "Bring on the textured fabrics!" exclaims interior designer Julia Longchamps. Maybe it's a reaction to a year and a half spent getting cozy at home, or a […]

todayDecember 27, 2021

Health & Wellness

To block Omicron, you need a Mask that means Business

NPR reports that with the especially virulent Omicron COVID-19 variant racing across the U.S., once again health authorities are urging people to mask up indoors. Yes, you've heard it all before. But given how contagious omicron is, experts say, it's seriously time to upgrade to an N95 or similar high-filtration respirator when you're in public indoor spaces. "Cloth masks are not going to cut it with omicron," says Linsey Marr, […]

todayDecember 27, 2021

Food & Drink

National Candy Cane Day is December 26th!

National Candy Cane Day on December 26th gives candy lovers a day to celebrate these classic red and white striped candies pretty much found everywhere you look during the holidays. In 1844, a recipe for a straight peppermint candy stick, which was white with colored stripes, was published. However, some stories tell of all-white candy sticks in much earlier times. Folklore tells of the origin of the candy cane, yet […]

todayDecember 24, 2021

Health & Wellness

Biden Administration to send 500 Million Free At-Home COVID Tests Directly to Americans and Ramps up COVID-19 Winter Strategy

Fighting the omicron variant surging through the country, President Joe Biden announced the government will provide 500 million free rapid home-testing kits, increase support for hospitals under strain and redouble vaccination and boosting efforts. At the White House on Tuesday, Biden detailed major changes to his COVID-19 winter plan, his hand forced by the fast-spreading variant, whose properties are not yet fully understood by scientists. Yet his message was clear […]

todayDecember 23, 2021

Home Improvement

In 2022 look for DIY Creations as Interior Accents

Our homes are not only the spaces in which we live, but they also speak about who we are and what we love. As we head into 2022, we’ve forgone polished for functional, defined for entangled, and homemade for store-bought. The message? Homes that are real rather than resembling an untouched magazine. So, one of the bigger design trends expected for 2022 is what the craft store, Michaels calls, ‘Mindful Making.’ “At Michaels, […]

todayDecember 23, 2021

Tech Made Simple

Looks like CES 2022 might be imploding as T-Mobile, Amazon, and others bow out over COVID-19 concerns

In a case of pandemic deja vu, another gigantic tech tradeshow that looks like it may be falling apart as the COVID-19 pandemic goes on, and on, and on. T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert, one of the Consumer Electronics Show’s featured speakers, has publicly announced that his company won’t be attending the world’s largest electronics show next month. And according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Amazon has also decided not to attend the show […]

todayDecember 23, 2021

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