Image: Facebook/Luis Manzano, Marco Gumabao, Ejay Falcon Several celebrities who ran for office in the 2025 midterm elections woke up to their losses, among them national and local hopefuls. Among those who lost in the elections were Luis Manzano, Marco Gumabao and Ejay Falcon who all led a full-blown campaign in their respective localities. Article continues after this advertisement Manzano, who ran for the Batangas vice governor post, lost to incumbent Governor Dodo Mandanas. The TV host’s mother, screen veteran Vilma Santos-Recto, however, won the gubernatorial post, alongside his brother, Ryan Recto, who won the congressional seat. Gumabao sought the…
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A robot, not a human pharmacist, may be filling your prescription at Walgreens. And there’s about to be a lot more of them. Walgreens told CNBC on Sunday that it wants to have more of its pharmacies send prescriptions to one of its 11 micro-fulfillment centers, or hubs that use robotic technology to fill patient prescriptions. The goal is to have the facilities handle prescriptions for 5,000 pharmacies before the year ends, up from 4,800 stores in February and 4,300 stores in October 2023. As of February, the centers took care of 40% of prescriptions for supported pharmacies, amounting to…
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Ultraprocessed foods dominate grocery store shelves today in the form of frozen dinners, packaged snacks, and fast-food items. While they offer convenience, they are engineered to hijack your appetite and flood your system with harmful compounds. These products, stripped of real nutrition and loaded with additives, trans fats, and artificial ingredients, are slowly clogging your arteries and setting you up for a heart attack or stroke. According to a recent study, nearly 38% of all cardiovascular disease deaths in Canada are directly linked to ultraprocessed food consumption. That means over 17,400 Canadian lives are lost each year because of food…
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The transfer portal in women’s college basketball has closed and most of the best players left in the portal — with one big exception being USC’s Kayleigh Heckel — have chosen their new destinations. As rosters have changed, so have expectations for the best teams heading into next season. There were some squads who were big winners in the portal — like Ole Miss, TCU, Maryland and LSU — that have dramatically increased their ceilings for next year. Meanwhile, big questions remain about teams who lost a lot of talent, like Notre Dame. With rosters being reshuffled, it’s time for…
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Like most folks, I fell into my browser choice more out of habit than actual decision. I used Edge when I was a Windows PC user, then Chrome when I switched to laptops and Android phones. It was comfortable and familiar. I thought it was the best browser available and never questioned it—until I noticed some issues recently.
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May is Observability Month—the perfect time to learn about Splunk and Observability. Find out more in our latest episode of “What’s new with Cisco U.?” (Scroll to the end of the blog to watch now!) As part of the Cisco Infrastructure Operations team, we provide the interactive labs that users run on Cisco U. and use in instructor-led courses through Cisco and Cisco Learning Partners. We currently run two data centers that contain the delivery systems for all those labs, and we deliver thousands of labs daily. We aim to deliver a reliable and efficient lab environment to every student.…
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Remote desktop software has been my go-to tool for years, whether I’m figuring out why my parents’ printer mysteriously stopped working or logging into my home PC from halfway around the world because I forgot an important file (again).
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Image source: Unsplash We’re taught to set boundaries with money. Create a budget. Stick to it. Don’t let emotional decisions derail your financial plan. But what happens when a loved one is in trouble, financial, emotional, or otherwise, and they turn to you? Helping might stretch your budget to its limit. Not helping might leave deeper scars than a drained savings account ever could. Dodging a family member in need may seem like a rational choice at the moment, especially when finances are tight. But the long-term consequences—emotional, relational, and even financial—can quietly compound. The truth is that budgeting doesn’t…
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Hasan Piker (C) attend the Creator Clash 2 Boxing Charity Gala at Floridan Palace Hotel on April 16, 2023 in Tampa, Florida. FILE PHOTO/Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON — A high-profile left-wing influencer and political commentator said Monday he was detained for hours by US border officials and interrogated about his political views. US citizen Hasan Piker — who has millions of followers on YouTube, Twitch and X, and been outspoken in his criticism of Israel — says he was held at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport for over two hours on Sunday. Article continues after this advertisement He spoke out as the…
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Some chefs have switched from plastic cutting boards to wooden alternatives. One study of plastic cutting boards found that they shed as many as dozens of grams of microplastics per person per year. MyImages_Micha/Getty Images/iStockphoto hide caption toggle caption MyImages_Micha/Getty Images/iStockphoto It’s a plastic world out there. About 460 million metric tons of the material are made each year, according to the United Nations, and some scientists are growing increasingly worried that microplastics that find their way into our bodies could be harming our health. One way they get in? Food. And not only through food itself — though they…