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[ad_1] Who doesn’t want to live in a classic American sitcom? The house featured in “The Brady Bunch” hit the market in May 2023 for a cool $5.5 million — and it sold in September of the same year for $3.2 million.HGTV, which purchased the home for $3.5 million in 2018, had to settle for a figure that was $2.3 million less than its initial listing and about 9% less than what it originally paid for the home, The Wall Street Journal reported. Built in 1959, the two-story home in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles measures 5,140 square feet and…

[ad_1] Apple just unveiled its biggest software redesign in over a decade.The company held its annual WWDC 2025 developer conference on Monday, where it announced a slew of new features across its suite of products and services, including several standouts coming to the iPhone.The new iPhone software, iOS 26, will be pre-loaded on the iPhone 17 this fall, and you’ll be able to update your existing iPhone around then, too.We rounded up our favorite announcements, focusing on the new iOS 26 features we found to be the coolest or most useful.Let’s dive in.The new look: Liquid Glass You can customize…

[ad_1] Extra-large TVs get a lot of attention, but some spaces aren’t big enough to cram in a massive display. If you have a smaller living room or want an extra TV for a bedroom, a 50- or 48-inch model is a great option. My picks for the best 50-inch TVs all offer a reliable viewing experience, and they’re often a lot cheaper than their larger counterparts. If you want premium performance on a smaller screen, the LG C4 is my top recommendation. This OLED delivers perfect black levels in a compact form factor. But if you want a more affordable…

[ad_1] At this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 25), Apple announced a slew of updates to its operating systems, services, and software, including a new look it dubbed “Liquid Glass” and a rebranded naming convention. Apple was notably quiet on one highly anticipated product: a more personalized, AI-powered Siri, which it first introduced at last year’s conference.Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, only gave the Siri update a brief mention during the keynote address, saying, “As we’ve shared, we’re continuing our work to deliver the features that make Siri even more personal. This work needed more time to reach…

[ad_1] Moments Lab is part of a growing number of AI startups raising money to reshape Hollywood and related fields.Moments Lab provides tools that index video libraries and create new videos from raw footage.The company recently raised $24 million in Series B funding from Oxx, with participation from Orange Ventures, Kadmos, Supernova Invest, and Elaia Partners. It plans to use the funding to build on its existing tech and roll out an agentic AI tool. To date, it’s raised $37.4 million.Paris-based Moments Lab was founded by twin brothers Fred and Philippe Petitpont in 2016. Philippe was a product manager for…

[ad_1] Earlier this year, some of the world’s leading AI minds were chatting on X, as they do, about how to compare the capabilities of large language models.Andrej Karpathy, one of the cofounders of OpenAI, who left in 2024, floated the idea of games. AI researchers love games.”I quite like the idea of using games to evaluate LLMs against each other, instead of fixed evals,” Karpathy wrote. Everyone knows the usual benchmarks are a bore.Noam Brown, a research scientist at OpenAI, suggested the 75-year-old geopolitical strategy game, Diplomacy. “I would love to see all the leading bots play a game…

[ad_1] Citi CEO Jane Fraser is doubling down on work from home at a time when more companies — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — are demanding employees return to the office five days a week.Citigroup on Monday announced two weeks of fully remote work in August for its hybrid employees, the majority of whom are required to be in the office at least three days a week.In a memo to employees on Monday, Citi’s chief human resources officer, Sara Wechter, said the perk is a testament to the success of the bank’s hybrid approach. “Our hybrid work model helps us…

[ad_1] Investor Danny Moses, who made a killing betting against mortgage-backed debt before the 2008 crash, revealed he is bullish on the unloved energy sector. The Moses Ventures founder pointed out that energy stocks’ weighting in the S & P 500 benchmark is only 3% right now, compared to their historical average of 7%. “I don’t see that going much lower … oil is a little bit disconnected from the value of these energy stocks,” Moses said Monday on CNBC’s ” Power Lunch .” “These energy stocks, the last four to five years, have gone through transformational M & A.…

[ad_1] Investors looking for income in the current environment may want to turn to securitized products, according to Bryan Whalen, chief investment officer and portfolio manager at Los Angeles-based TCW. Right now investors are in “the waiting place” for the next few months as the direction of the economy gets sorted out, said Whalen. While the outcome is still uncertain, Whalen thinks the economy will likely weaken more than the market expects. Yet in many parts of the bond market, investors aren’t being compensated for credit risk, he said. Key inflation data comes out this week, with the May consumer…

[ad_1] Apple’s updates to visionOS 26, the operating system powering its mixed reality headset, build on last year’s Apple Vision Pro spatial computer that blends digital content with the physical world. At WWDC, Apple announced a range of updates for both consumer and enterprise customers, from new spatial widgets and content to more realistic Personas and more.  All widgets — including Calendar, shown here — are customizable, with a variety of options for frame width, color, and depthImage Credits:Apple Apple’s widgets offer personalized and useful information at a glance. With visionOS 26, they become spatial, integrating into your space. You…