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Samantha Bradfield

Jurickson Profar’s turnaround has been key for the Padres

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Jurickson Profar was one of the worst players in the majors in 2023 but has rebounded in 2024 to lead San Diego back to the postseason.

San Diego Padres outfielder Jurickson Profar had an abysmal 2023 season. And that might be a generous description.

Profar signed a one-year, $7.75 million contact with the Colorado Rockies on March 21 - just nine days before Opening Day on March 30. However, he didn’t even join the team until their fourth game...

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Mark Schofield Joseph Acosta Ricky O'Donnell

3 NFL upset picks for Week 4

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Here’s three upsets we’re predicting for Week 4 of the NFL season.

Last week we decided here at SB Nation to roll out some weekly “upset specials.”

Well, we at least got one right.

Jared Mueller — perhaps with a bit of a “reverse jinx” — picked the New York Giants over the Cleveland Browns, a pick that turned out to be the one we got right in Week 3.

Can we do better in Week 4?

Time will tell, but here are our three upset picks for Week...

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Mark Schofield

Tyler Epp exclusive: SB Nation talks with the President of the F1 Miami Grand Prix

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Diving into what it takes to host an F1 race, the 2024 season, and what the Miami Grand Prix has planned for 2025

Imagine, if you will, hosting a multi-day event that attracted hundreds of thousands of sports fans from across the world, and included attendees from Ed Sheeran to, yes, a former President of the United States of America who is seeking that office yet again.

You have just described the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix, and you have just...

Wired Top Stories

Rhett Allain

Solar Sails and Comet Tails: How Sunlight Pushes Stuff Around

It seems crazy, but light actually exerts a physical force on objects. It could power a new generation of spacecraft for deep-space missions.

Wired Top Stories

Brenda Stolyar

How to Customize Your Home Screen With iOS 18

You can finally change the color and size of app icons, rearrange them anywhere on the screen, and more.

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David Schoenfield

Unsettled playoff races? Will the White Sox ever lose again?! What to watch in MLB's final weekend

From a potential Monday doubleheader with wild-card implications to tight stat battles, here's your guide to the last few days of baseball before October.

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Noa Dalzell

Teresa Weatherspoon’s firing from Chicago Sky is WNBA’s latest stunning dismissal

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Weatherspoon’s dismissal comes two days after Los Angeles Sparks coach Curt Miller was similarly fired.

The Chicago Sky fired head coach Teresa Weatherspoon after one season, the Chicago Sun-Times reported on Thursday night, marking the second dismissal of a seemingly well-respected head coach in the WNBA this week. Los Angeles Spark head coach Curt Miller —one of the most veteran coaches in the league — was similarly let go on Tuesday after...

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Mark Schofield Joseph Acosta

Alabama-Georgia: What’s at stake and how to watch

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Alabama vs. Georgia is the biggest game of college football’s regular season. Here’s what you need to know.

Week 5 of the 2024 College Football Season has a number of Top-25 matchups on the slate. Things get rolling early in the day when No. 20 Oklahoma State takes on No. 23 Kansas State, and other games include No. 15 Louisville visiting No. 13 Notre Dame, and No. 19 Illinois visiting No. 9 Penn State.

But the biggest of them all is Saturday night,...

The Verge

David Pierce

Meta’s new smart glasses look like the future

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You can’t buy Meta’s most impressive new product, the smart glasses codenamed Orion. You might be able to buy something sort of like them a few years from now, but most of us will never get to so much as wear them. That doesn’t necessarily make them less impressive, though, or less important. Orion is a statement of purpose from Meta: that AR glasses really are the future and that we’re eventually going to get there.

On this episode of The...

Fast Company

Michael Grothaus

Super Micro Computer update: Wild week for SMCI as stock split date approaches amid reported DOJ probe

The AI server company has been attracting negative headlines recently. Its shares are due to split 10 to 1 next week. Here’s what to know.

Super Micro Computer, better known as Supermicro, is going through one of the most contentious periods in its 30-plus year history this week thanks to two major events. The first is news that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is reportedly investigating the AI server company’s accounting practices. The second is an upcoming stock split.

Fast Company

Associated Press

This rare weather event might explain Hurricane Helene’s unusual reach

The hurricane’s unusual reach as far north and inland as forecasters expect is raising questions about the Fujiwhara Effect.

Treacherous Hurricane Helene is expected to make landfall Thursday evening on Florida’s northwestern coast and then continue on to torment parts of Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee with heavy rain, flash floods and gusty winds.

While Helene will likely weaken as it moves inland, its “fast forward speed will allow strong, damaging winds, especially in gusts,...

Fast Company

Eve Upton-Clark

People are using ChatGPT as a therapist. Mental health experts have some concerns

Spilling your deepest, darkest thoughts to unregulated technology carries some major risk.

“So no one else uses chatgpt as an unpaid therapist?” TikTok user Ash Donner asks in a video. While her friends seem shocked by her confession, she’s not alone. A growing number of people are turning to ChatGPT to ask for help navigating friendships, romantic relationships, or for general advice on how to live a better life.

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Older People Are Sharing The Tough Life Lessons They've Learned The Hard Way

By the time you're 40 and over, life has become nothing but a relentless teacher.

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Angela Watercutter, Gabriel Leão

The Stan Accounts That Keep Posting Through Brazil’s Ban on X

When the country’s Supreme Court suspended X in Brazil, stan Twitter in the region seemed to grind to a halt. Others found ways to persevere.

Wired Top Stories

Steven Levy

No, Sam Altman, AI Won’t Solve All of Humanity's Problems

The OpenAI CEO’s recent mini-manifesto argues (again) that AI will make the future impossibly bright. He could use a refresher course on the basics of human behavior.

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David Fucillo

Your daily NFL trivia game, Friday edition

Think you can figure out what NFL player we’re talking about? You’ll get five clues to figure him out.

We’re back for another day of the SB Nation in-5 daily trivia game, and we’re returning to our system of a new article each day for the game.

We tried using a single article for the game, updated with the latest game each day, but it was creating a bit of an unwieldy experience in the comments. So, we’ll have the current day’s game plus the previous three days in each...

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Kenneth Arthur

Jayden Daniels is already playing like one of the NFL’s best quarterbacks

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Jayden Daniels has arrived. Will the road through the NFC playoffs lead to the nation’s capital?

The theme for the Week 3 edition of QB of the Week, highlighting the quarterback who had the best week in the NFL, could be “You never know...”

Will Andy Dalton lead the Panthers to the playoffs? You never know. Does Malik Willis give the Packers a better chance to win than Jordan Love? You never know. Was Sam Darnold actually an upgrade over Kirk...

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Doug.Farrar

Bills OC Joe Brady has proven to be one of the NFL’s best play callers

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Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay ... and Joe Brady?

When we talk about the NFL’s greatest offensive minds, the same names usually come up. San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan is often (and justifiably) at the top of the list, and then Shanahan acolytes like Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay and Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel.

This season, what Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell has done for Sam Darnold should elevate...

The Verge

Jess Weatherbed

LG and Razer made an ultra-responsive Bluetooth controller for cloud gaming

The new ULL-supported controller (seen right) was tested against an unspecified standard Bluetooth gamepad (left). | Image: LG

LG has teamed up with Razer and MediaTek to develop a new Bluetooth gaming controller that could greatly reduce the input lag for cloud-based gaming. According to LG, it’s the first controller to utilize Ultra-Low Latency (ULL) Bluetooth technology — an in-development standard that aims to make wireless controllers as responsive as their wired...

Mashable

No, it's not an iPhone 17 render, it's the new Xiaomi 14T Pro

Xiaomi's new top phone is here, and it looks familiar.

With the Xiaomi 14T Pro, it appears that the design heads at Xiaomi simply said: Well, let's imagine the next year's iPhone, and then design our phone to look like that.

The result, unsurprisingly, looks pretty great, even if it's not the most original. Xiaomi sent me a 14T Pro review unit in the Titan Gray color, and I was surprised at how much I liked it. It has flat, aluminum edges, interspersed with antenna lines, and on the back,...

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