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How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and others

December 30, 2025
OpenAI offers app integrations in ChatGPT to allow you to connect your accounts directly to ChatGPT and ask the assistant to do things for you. For instance, with a Spotify integration, you can tell it to create personalized playlists that will show up right in your Spotify app. To get started, make sure you’re logged into ChatGPT. Then type the name of the app you want to use at the start…
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I ignored every rule of photographic composition that I teach. The world did not end!

December 30, 2025
Confession time. I ignore just about every compositional rule I regularly teach. No rule of thirds. No golden spiral. No carefully balanced foreground interest. But I took the picture anyway. The world did not end. No alarms sounded. The image did not collapse in on itself like a badly cooked soufflé. Composition is often taught as if it were a set of traffic laws rather than a loose collection…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

E-quipment highlight: Zamboni 552AC electric ice surfacer

December 30, 2025
In the world of professional hockey, the only thing that might be more iconic than the legendary Stanley Cup might be the Zamboni – the mighty ice-smoothing machines that keep the rink fast, flawless, and game-ready. And, thanks to battery power, today’s Zambonis can do the job more quietly, cleanly, and efficiently than ever. We’ve written about how, despite the fact that affordable…
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China stages military drills around Taiwan to warn ‘external forces’

December 30, 2025
China’s military on Monday dispatched air, navy and missile units to conduct joint live-fire drills around the island of Taiwan, which Beijing called a “stern warning” against separatist and “external interference” forces. Taiwan said it was placing its forces on alert and called the Chinese government “the biggest destroyer of peace.” Taiwan’s aviation authority said more than…
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