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Moving In Together Nearly Ends Most Relationships, New Survey Finds

Moving in with your partner can be an exciting next step in your relationship. However, for some couples, it can also mark the end of your connection. Here’s what you should know about navigating this major relationship and life change. Why Moving In Might End Your Relationship According to new research from home appliance brand SharkNinja , 3 in 5 Americans say moving in together nearly ended their relationship. But why, exactly, is this such a common problem? “Moving in might end a relationship if couples learn things about each other that are deal breakers that weren’t obvious when they lived separately,” says Mary McLaughlin , couples therapist and discernment counselor in Vienna, Virginia. “I once worked with a woman who didn’t like the way her partner sounded on work calls. It was a side of him she didn’t notice until they shared space. Once she heard it, she couldn’t unhear it, and it turned out to be a deal breaker for her.” Of course, w...

Daily Horoscope: July 14, 2026

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Not every fresh start announces itself. Some arrive as the feeling of space opening where pressure used to be—a turning over, a new page that doesn’t trumpet itself but simply appears. Today does both, stargazer. The New Moon in Cancer resets the emotional territory you’ve been carrying without realizing how much weight it’s accumulated. This is the moment to decide what the next cycle is about—not to process what happened, but to choose what’s next. Saturn’s long press on the Sun lifts today too. The Moon moves into Leo tonight with Jupiter waiting. It’s actually a lot of movement for a Tuesday. Let it take you somewhere new. Read your horoscope for the week , and see what the stars have in store for your sign today.  Aries: March 21 – April 19 The Uranus-Mars conjunction that’s been running since late June winds down in two days. That’s been the current you’ve been operating on all month—fast, electric, ...

A New AI-Music Tagging System Has Been Introduced, and It Actually Sounds Really Promising

AI-generated music is pretty common these days. So, for those who want to distinguish when AI songs pop up on their playlist, there’s a new system. The proposed new system is dubbed “GenAI”. It’s backed by a collective of arts groups, such as the RIAA, SAG-AFTRA, The Grammys, and the Human Artistry Campaign. If implemented, it will help streaming services designate tracks that are AI-related. The system will use visual icons stamped alongside AI-generated tracks. Using metadata to determine whether AI was used, the system will flag it for a variety of specific reasons. Some things that could be flagged are “Lead vocal performance generated by AI” or “Key instrumental performance generated by AI.” It will also flag “entirely prompt-generated AI music.” Additional groups behind ‘GenAI’ include the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM), WIN, IMPALA, and IFPI In a new report on the system, M...

Diary of a Hitman: Spring 2026

This column is from the spring 2026 issue of VICE magazine, THE NOT THE PHOTO ISSUE. Buy it now —or get 4 issues each year sent straight to your door, by subscribing . Read the previous instalment of Diary of a Hitman here . I don’t come into contact with real photos much these days. You don’t, do you? Not in the modern world. It’s all screens now, that’s what I’ve observed. It shouldn’t matter to me, and it doesn’t really. I know that things change and there’s nothing you can do to stop them. And I don’t wish for the world to return to any previous state, because I know this world now. Recently I bought a PlayStation from Argos, but I’ve yet to plug it in. I had heard there was a game where you were managing supervolcanoes, quelling them, evacuating islands underneath them, that sort of thing. But after I got the device home I realized that it didn’t have a disc drive, and likely would need to be connected to the internet. I don’t have it, I don’t even have a computer,...

Daily Horoscope: July 13, 2026

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There’s a particular feeling that comes with a day when multiple things arrive at once—not overwhelm, just convergence. The message you’ve been waiting on finally finds its shape. The disruption you’ve felt building all week finally completes itself. Today is that day, stargazer, and the sky is not apologizing for the density of it. Mercury and the Sun meet in exact conjunction, meaning the retrograde hands you its most direct signal of the month. Venus square Uranus peaks at the same time. Two exact aspects on the same day. Stay present. Both are here to tell you something. One is about knowing. The other is about what changes next. Read your horoscope for the week , and see what the stars have in store for your sign today.  Aries: March 21 – April 19 Fast-twitch is your whole approach: move first, adjust later, figure it out as you go. Which is why most of what you build gets renegotiated mid-sprint. Saturn sextiling Mars today changes the...

Cannibalism Is Bad for You, According to Researchers Who Actually Studied It

For anyone out there who was thinking about dabbling in some light cannibalism , I’ve got some bad news for you. Turns out, as reported by Reuters , researchers from Poland and the Czech Republic have concluded that cannibalism is bad for your health. Man, it’s like everything is bad for you nowadays. Led by Michal Misiak of the University of Wroclaw and Petr Turecek of Charles University in Prague, the study wasn’t trying to settle the question of whether eating people is morally wrong. We settled that one a long time ago, and there isn’t much gray area. We might let it slide if your soccer team’s plane crashes in the Andes, but we will not abide by nonemergency human consumption. Instead, the researchers took a novel approach, adopting an objective view of the human body as a source of meat and asking whether it’s even worth eating. Does it provide you with the nutrition you need? Researchers Confirm Cannibalism Is Bad for Your Health Calorica...

Weekly Horoscope: July 12-July 18

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The New Moon in Cancer on Tuesday is a reset that doesn’t announce itself — it just reorganizes what you thought you wanted and hands it back with better instructions. Something personal is asking to be started this week, stargazer, and Mars squaring Venus all week means the path to it won’t be smooth. Desire and drive keep bumping into each other. That’s not a reason to wait. Work around it anyway. By Saturday, Pluto trining Uranus hits exact, and something that’s been building slowly in the background finally has a name — a realization, a decision, a change in how you understand where you’ve been and why it went that way. The week opens with a clear chance to begin something meaningful and closes with a perspective that reframes the beginning entirely. Stay in it long enough to feel both ends. That’s where this week pays off. How will your sign fare this week? Aries: March 21 – April 19 There’s a gap between what you...