The Week (US)

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Rehabs, after Google searches for “liquor store near me” hit an all-time high on election night. Searches for “anxiety” and “move to Canada” also skyrockete­d.

‘Baby shark,’ after a video for the pre-school megahit that parents love to hate surpassed Luis Fonsi’s ‘Despacito’ to become the most viewed video in YouTube history, with a mind-numbing 7.038 billion views.

Humans, after Walmart decided to “lay off” hundreds of 6-foottall robots it had been using to scan inventory in 500 of its stores. The company decided flesh-and-blood workers did this more efficientl­y and intelligen­tly, and was concerned that customers were unsettled by coming upon robots in the housewares aisle.

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