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With recent Falcon 9 milestones, SpaceX vindicates its “dumb” approach to reuse

With recent Falcon 9 milestones, SpaceX vindicates its “dumb” approach to reuse

As SpaceX’s Starship vehicle gathered all of the attention this week, the company’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket continued to hit some impressive milestones. Both occurred during relatively anonymous launches of the company’s Starlink satellites but are nonetheless notable because they underscore the value of first-stage reuse, which SpaceX has pioneered over the last decade. The first milestone occurred on Wednesday …

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Travis Kelce Slammed For Acting ‘Dumb’ Next To Taylor Swift After Calling Her ‘Hot’ For Using ‘Big Words’

Travis Kelce Slammed For Acting ‘Dumb’ Next To Taylor Swift After Calling Her ‘Hot’ For Using ‘Big Words’

Taylor Swift recently made her debut podcast appearance on her boyfriend Travis Kelce‘s “New Heights” show, where she announced her 12th studio album. On the podcast, the NFL star was seemingly all over his girlfriend as he sat next to her, praising the “Bad Blood” hitmaker for using “big” words and being the “best songwriter in the world.” However, fans …

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How The Creators of ‘The Naked Gun’ Crafted a Dumb Joke That’s Actually Funny – The New York Times

How The Creators of ‘The Naked Gun’ Crafted a Dumb Joke That’s Actually Funny  The New York Times The laughs land in ‘The Naked Gun’ reboot, but fall flat in ‘Freakier Friday’  NPR Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson’s loved ones aren’t spilling on their relationship, but they are supportive  CNN ‘Naked Gun’ Writers Weigh In on Most Talked-About Jokes: R-Word, O.J. and That …

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Fever’s Sophie Cunningham calls Caitlin Clark haters ‘dumb as f–k’

Fever’s Sophie Cunningham calls Caitlin Clark haters ‘dumb as f–k’

Sophie Cunningham is already firing shots on her new podcast. Cunningham, speaking Wednesday on “Show Me Something,” didn’t mince words when discussing many fans’ discrediting of her Indiana Fever co-star Caitlin Clark. “It pisses me off when people are like, ‘[Clark’s] not the face of the league,’” Cunningham said with a baffled look on her face. “When people try to …

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The Naked Gun Review: Gloriously Dumb

The Naked Gun Review: Gloriously Dumb

The Naked Gun opens in theaters Friday, August 1. The Naked Gun is stupid. I say this with all my heart and in every sense of the word: The 2025 update of the classic police-movie spoofs starring Leslie Nielsen is idiotic, asinine, and downright preposterous. And its parade of slapstick, sight gags, and deadpan wordplay had me grinning ear to …

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Smart home, dumb problems: The enshittification of Google Home is real

Smart home, dumb problems: The enshittification of Google Home is real

Editor’s take: Technology is supposed to make our lives easier – at least, that is what Big Tech tells us. However, there is a growing disconnect between what we are promised and what we are actually sold. This issue goes beyond Google Home. From smart speakers to smartphone keyboards, tech giants seem to be getting worse at the basics. If …

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Your Wemo smart devices are about to get dumb as Belkin pulls the plug

Your Wemo smart devices are about to get dumb as Belkin pulls the plug

Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images If you have any Wemo smart devices in your home, you should start planning an upgrade — because you only have about six months left to use them. In an email to users today, Wemo announced that it was ending support for nearly all of its smart devices sold over the last 10 years on Jan. 31, …

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