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McIlroy had a crazy first round at the BMW PGA Championship as he had to get creative and worth through a broken club to contend.
Rory McIlroy signed for a 5-under 67 Thursday at the BMW PGA Championship, but it was not easy.
The Northern Irishman was 4-under through six holes. From there, things went up and down for him, including a left-handed putt and his equipment failing on the par-5 12th.
On the 12th hole, McIlroy’s second shot saw his club...
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Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart are no-brainer picks for First Team, but things get tricky for All-WNBA Second Team.
There are some no-brainer picks when it comes to the All-WNBA team, an honor bestowed upon the league’s ten best players and voted on by members of the media. A’ja Wilson, who is having the best season of her career, is one. Napheesa Collier is another. Caitlin Clark, the rookie phenom, has put herself into the conversation...
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Thursday’s media day at the Singapore Grand Prix was dominated by talk regarding McLaren’s rear wing
McLaren’s stunning rise to the top of the Formula 1 Constructors’ Championship remains the talk of the paddock ahead of the Singapore Grand Prix. After beginning the 2023 season at the back of the field and “simply fighting for points,” as Lando Norris told me ahead of last season’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the team...
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PlayStation has deftly come up with a way to get more people on board with the PS5 Pro. The company has announced a special 30th anniversary collection for the suite of PS5 consoles and accessories that is unfortunately sick as hell.
“To celebrate this 30th anniversary milestone, we had to create something that honored the history and joy that PlayStation has brought us all,” said PlayStation platform business CEO Hideaki Nishino. All the consoles and accessories are...
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We still don’t know much about the seventh season of Black Mirror, but at least the show’s return will have a stacked cast. Netflix announced a big list of actors who will appear in the next installment of the anthology when it premieres in 2025, and it includes Doctor Who alum Peter Capaldi, Barbie star Issa Rae, Sunny’s Rashida Jones, and the always delightful Paul Giamatti.
Here’s the full list:
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A few months ago, I was driving my 2023 Volkswagen ID.4 when, seemingly out of nowhere, my driver-side door made several unusual clicking noises and then popped open.
“That’s not good,” I thought, as I quickly shut the door while also attempting to keep my hands on the wheel. And apparently, I wasn’t the only one experiencing this problem. Hundreds of other VW owners were also struggling to keep their doors closed while driving. ...
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will officially launch on November 19th, 2024. | Image: Microsoft
Preorders are now open for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 through the Microsoft Store. The next installment of the franchise will launch on Xbox and PC on November 19th with updates that include new aircraft like hot air balloons and a more realistic looking simulated Earth. But the most welcome upgrade could be a much smaller installation size.
The current version of Microsoft Flight...
Chrome users will need to either unlock their Android screen or use the Password Manager PIN feature to use passkeys on new devices. | Illustration: The Verge
Google is improving passkey support in Chrome by making it easier to use the passwordless sign-in credentials across different devices. The search giant is introducing a Google Password Manager PIN that allows users to securely save and synchronize passkeys for use across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android devices. These...
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Top policy executives from Meta, Microsoft, and Google testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday about what they’re doing to protect US voters from foreign election threats in 2024. But the elephant in the room was the pressure campaign social media companies have faced from the right to take a more hands-off approach when it comes to labeling or demoting misinformation.
With 48 days until...
Sir Steve McQueen's "Blitz" sends audiences into one of the most terrifying and defining periods of modern British history. Watch the trailer.
Glacier’s AI-powered robots automate recycling, cutting emissions, and addressing labor shortages for a more sustainable future.
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Xbox Game Pass Ultimate 1-month membership ...The Biden campaign didn’t respond to the stolen content.
Iranian hackers sought to interest President Joe Biden’s campaign in information stolen from rival Donald Trump’s campaign, sending unsolicited emails to people associated with the then-Democratic candidate in an effort to interfere in the 2024 election, the FBI and other federal agencies said Wednesday.
There’s no indication that any of the recipients responded, officials said, and several media organizations who have said...
The American icon filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday.
Tupperware Brands filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, after years of struggling with poor demand for its food storage containers and rising financial losses.
It comes weeks after reports claimed that Kylie and Timothée Chalamet — who have been linked romantically since April 2023 — are getting “very serious.”
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Lions coach Dan Campbell is selling his suburban Detroit home to get more privacy.
Research on the visual patterns that foreshadow migraines may reveal clues on how painful headaches arise from the brain even though it has no pain receptors.
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NFL kickers are rewriting the record books for distance and accuracy in 2024.
When the NFL moved back the extra point from the 2-yard line to the 15 in 2015, the reasoning was basically that the kicks were too boring. NFL kickers made 99.3% of their extra points in 2014, the season before the rule change, and the league thought that pushing it back would both make the kicks more difficult and incentivize teams into going for two.
It worked, for the most...
Caitlin Clark was getting buckets on the soccer field, too.
Caitlin Clark is the definition of a generational athlete. Clark was one of the very best players in women’s college basketball from the moment she stepped on the floor for Iowa, leading the country in scoring as a true freshman in 2020-2021, and leading the nation in both scoring and assists as a sophomore. Clark’s breathtaking ability eventually earned her a huge national following as she led the Hawkeyes to...
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Today on Decoder, we’re talking about the big Google antitrust trial that’s currently taking place in a federal courthouse. No, not the one you’re thinking of — it’s the second Google antitrust case in just as many months. The company lost a landmark case in August in which a court ruled that it had an illegal monopoly in search.
This time around, the Department of Justice is claiming Google has another illegal monopoly in the...