Artificial intelligence is now going to pic out your dating profile pics. Finding “the one” just got a bit easier — or creepier — with Tinder’s radical “Camera Roll Scan” feature. The AI-powered innovation grants the app access to a user’s complete iPhone photo library to get the full picture of the singleton’s “vibe” for potential love … Read more
New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. It’s a tale as old as time… as soon as a hot new movie adaptation hits theaters, the book that inspired it surges in popularity — which can be a challenge if … Read more
A mom is going viral on social media after sharing how she was “chastised” for the outfit she wore to the baby story time at her local library. Hilary Filipowicz says she was excited when she chose her outfit for the story hour, where she often takes her three-year-old and one-year-old daughters. In her TikTok video recounting the event, she … Read more
Lost a library book? It doesn’t have to be a cat-tastrophe. At least not during the month of March in Worcester, Massachusetts. A library there will scratch certain fees off a book borrower’s record in exchange for a picture of the person’s cat — or any cat, for that matter. The goal is to encourage … Read more
A California woman is reminding her neighbors of fond memories associated with Blockbuster Video through a “Free Blockbuster” movie exchange. It’s a spin on a “Little Free Library” – a non-profit book-sharing initiative where people donate and borrow books. “Free Blockbuster” is the same idea, but the box is filled with films and is painted in Blockbuster’s classic … Read more
Talk about checking out. A woman in England recently returned a library book 45 years after she checked it out. The patron brought the book — “Tolkien’s World” by Randel Helms — back to the Blackpool Libraries‘ branch, after borrowing it in 1976. “Could this be our longest overdue book to be returned to the library,” the … Read more
They can close the book on this. An overdue book was recently returned to a suburban New York library nearly 90 years to the day it was checked out — and only incurred a surprisingly low $5 late fee. A copy of Joseph Conrad’s 1925 book “Youth and Two Other Stories” was returned to the … Read more
A vintage vinyl album has made its way back to its home library more than 40 years past its due date. The Toronto Public Library shared a tweet on April 6 showing the album cover and the original library card, with a due date of Oct. 5, 1982. The album made its way back to the Spadina … Read more
This owl wanted to get even wiser. A college library in Decatur, Georgia, had to close for a week after an owl made its home there, WSB-TV reported. The brazen creature flew in through the chimney of Agnes Scott College’s McCain Library and settled in its rafters. To safeguard both the students and the animals, … Read more
Danke! A British woman finally returned a German language textbook to a library in England — nearly 57 years after checking it out as a teenager. Lesley Harrison, 70, could have faced a $2,400 fine for holding on to “Ich Lerne Deutsch” for longer than three weeks, but the North Tyneside Council abolished late return … Read more
They finally closed the book on this case. A British library waived a $52,400 fee for a book that had been overdue — for 58 years. In 1964, then-17-year-old David Hickman checked out “The Law for Motorists” from the Dudley Library before a court visit over a minor traffic violation, the Express & Star reported. … Read more
Paging a statistician! Actor Kirk Cameron claims a record crowd showed up Thursday to hear him read his new Christian-themed children’s book at the Indianapolis Public Library. “This is a message to every library in the United States,” Cameron’s publisher, Brave Books, tweeted at the time. “In 137 years of the Indianapolis Public Library’s history, NEVER ONCE … Read more
In this episode: 00:46 A virtual chemical library uncovers potential antidepressants Certain psychedelic drugs are of interest to researchers due to their promising antidepressant effects. To help speed up the discovery of molecules with useful properties, researchers have built a virtual library of 75 million compounds related to these drugs. This approach yielded two molecules … Read more
Lizzo made history on Tuesday night after The Library of Congress let her borrow a 200-year-old crystal flute during her concert in Washington, DC. The singer, 34, was thrilled to be the first ever person to play the musical instrument, originally owend by James Madison, even exclaiming during her show: ‘B****, I just twerked and played James Madison’s flute from … Read more
Kanye West said in an Instagram story on Tuesday that is music catalog is “not for sale.” Billboard reported on Monday that his representatives were shopping his library to potential buyers. West said the situation is “just like Taylor Swift.” Loading Something is loading. Kanye West, who refers to himself as only Ye these days, … Read more