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A Cleaner Saved for 9 Years to Buy a Plot of Land — Then Her House Went Up From 7 Tonnes of Trash: From the Street, Nobody Can Tell It's Plastic

August 20, 2026 2:19 pm

A Cleaner Saved for 9 Years to Buy a Plot of Land — Then Her House Went Up From 7 Tonnes of Trash: From the Street, Nobody Can Tell It's Plastic

The best house story on the internet right now is eight years old, about a single mom in Costa Rica, and involves the world's largest LEGO set.

Waiting for the iPhone 18 in September? Bad News — It's Not Coming Until Spring 2027: Apple Is Only Selling Its 3 Priciest Phones This Fall

Tatiana Santos

August 20, 2026 1:55 pm

Waiting for the iPhone 18 in September? Bad News — It's Not Coming Until Spring 2027: Apple Is Only Selling Its 3 Priciest Phones This Fall

For the first time ever, September won't have a "normal" iPhone. It'll have a Pro, a Pro Max, and a folding one that costs about as much as a used Honda.

Would You Look Up Your Neighbour's Salary If It Took 5 Seconds? A Quarter of Norwegians Did — and the Happiness Gap Between Rich and Poor Grew 29%

Tatiana Santos

August 20, 2026 1:02 pm

Would You Look Up Your Neighbour's Salary If It Took 5 Seconds? A Quarter of Norwegians Did — and the Happiness Gap Between Rich and Poor Grew 29%

Norway gave its citizens the one thing every group chat has ever wanted: the numbers. Then it learned why you shouldn't.

Harry and Meghan Spent 6 Years Explaining Why They Left Britain — Now They're Moving Back This Month

Tatiana Santos

August 20, 2026 12:52 pm

Harry and Meghan Spent 6 Years Explaining Why They Left Britain — Now They're Moving Back This Month

Six years, one Oprah special, one Netflix docuseries, one memoir, and several lawsuits later: the Sussexes are coming home. Quietly. Allegedly.

Iran Gets 53 Paid Days Off, Even Russia 42 — the US Gets 10: Only One Country in the World Has It Worse, and It's Not Who You'd Guess

Tatiana Santos

August 20, 2026 12:16 pm

Iran Gets 53 Paid Days Off, Even Russia 42 — the US Gets 10: Only One Country in the World Has It Worse, and It's Not Who You'd Guess

A new global ranking of paid leave is out, and America finished 184th out of 185. We are, officially, the Supergirl of vacation.

A 10-Year-Old Beat Inventors From 30 Countries in Silicon Valley — and the Jury Insists It Wasn't a 'Nice Try' Prize: His AI Nose Sniffs Out Fentanyl

Tatiana Santos

August 20, 2026 12:02 pm

A 10-Year-Old Beat Inventors From 30 Countries in Silicon Valley — and the Jury Insists It Wasn't a 'Nice Try' Prize: His AI Nose Sniffs Out Fentanyl

While you were deciding whether to answer a Slack message, a fourth-grader from Taiwan built a machine that smells crime.

Mark Zuckerberg Just Bought a 200-Year-Old Irish Castle Worth €30m — But There's a Catch

Tatiana Santos

August 20, 2026 12:01 pm

Mark Zuckerberg Just Bought a 200-Year-Old Irish Castle Worth €30m — But There's a Catch

The catch is that he's not going to live in it. The other catch is that it takes four and a half minutes to walk from the kitchen to dinner.

I Dug a $10 Watch Out of a Drawer and Now Five Minutes Last Five Minutes Again

Tatiana Santos

August 20, 2026 11:39 am

I Dug a $10 Watch Out of a Drawer and Now Five Minutes Last Five Minutes Again

Psychologists explain why "let me just check the time" is the most expensive question of your day. Spoiler: it's not the clock. It's you. It's always you.