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Как удобрять розы весной, чтобы они цвели обильно и долго? Мечта каждого любителя садоводства - иметь эксклюзивный сад, полный роз.

Достаточно один раз неправильно полить огурцы - и урожайность культуры резко упадёт. А плоды, которые всё же удастся собрать, вряд ли будут отличаться приятным вкусом. Для таких овощей будет характерна горечь.

Takeru Kobayashi (L) and Joey Chestnut (R) competed during the 92nd Annual Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest in 2007. | Photo by Bobby Bank / WireImage

Netflix has scheduled Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef on September 2nd as another one of its live events, along with Christmas Day NFL games, WWE Monday Night Raw, and the delayed Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight.

Now that’s a compact camera. | Image: MiNT

The analog film resurgence continues marching forward, as MiNT’s Rollei 35AF camera seems poised to release this year. The Hong Kong-based camera manufacturer first carved its niche making boutique instant film cameras that remixed classics like the Polaroid SX-70. Now, it’s launched a website with a waitlist for potential customers interested in this diminutive 35mm camera.

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OpenAI and Microsoft are teaming up with Oracle to get more compute capacity to run ChatGPT. As part of a partnership announced this week, the three companies are working together so that OpenAI can use the Microsoft Azure Al platform on Oracle’s infrastructure.

Video doorbells can make for great gifts — just be prepared to provide personal tech support. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

We’re closing in fast on June 16th, which means Father’s Day is right around the corner. If you haven’t already nabbed a gift for your pops or any other dads in your life, well, you’re starting to cut it close. But don’t fret; we’ve got some excellent last-minute gift ideas to consider.

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Somebody, call Tom Cruise — several Roku TV owners say that motion smoothing is suddenly enabled on their TVs with no way to turn it off.

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Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and Qualcomm are the household names in chips — but in 2025, the popular but lesser known MediaTek might make a play to join them. Reuters reports that the Taiwanese chip company is now preparing an AI PC chipset to launch in late 2025 specifically for Windows PCs. Currently, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite is the alleged MacBook Air-beating talk of the town, and MediaTek wants a piece of that action.

An Alamo Drafthouse theater. | Image: Sony and Alamo Drafthouse

Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the popular movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the two companies announced on Wednesday.

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On Thursday, Tesla shareholders will face a stark choice: approve Elon Musk’s enormous pay package, the largest ever awarded to a chief executive, or risk him picking up his ball and going home.