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13 Times Celebrities Threw Their Money Away In Frustrating Ways — Like, Just Give It To Charity At This Point

Lady Gaga reportedly paid about $50,000 for a ghost detector. Apparently, she's afraid of evil spirits and has her hotel rooms scanned for paranormal activity.

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32 Pre-Fall Prime Day Deals On Products With Over 10,000 5-Star Ratings

Reviewers have already vetted these products, so you know you're getting a good deal on an all-star product.

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Kate Knibbs

This Startup Wants YouTube Creators to Get Paid for AI Training Data

While big platforms like Reddit have signed deals with the AI giants, YouTube leaves licensing in the hands of individual creators. The “License to Scrape” program aims to give those streaming stars proper leverage.

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Italy probe eyes mafia link to Inter, Milan ultras

Italian police arrested 19 people accused of criminal ties with the powerful 'Ndrangheta mafia group in a move that decimated the fan clubs backing Serie A teams Inter Milan and AC Milan.

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Rich Cimini

Saleh backtracks on Rodgers' cadence being issue

Robert Saleh, under fire after a sloppy, penalty-filled loss to the Broncos on Sunday, said the Jets' coaching staff spoke "at length" Monday morning about ways in which they can eliminate the alarming number of pre-snap flags.

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Heather Dinich

Sources: Big Ten, SEC eye schedule partnership

SEC and Big Ten athletic directors will meet next week to discuss a possible partnership in football scheduling and preferences for automatic bids, sources told ESPN.

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'Larger than life' Dikembe Mutombo dies of brain cancer

Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo, the "larger than life" center who played 18 NBA seasons, has died of brain cancer at the age of 58, the league announced Monday.

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Ricky O'Donnell

Derrick Henry touched incredible speeds on his big Ravens touchdown run

Derrick Henry is too big and too old to be running this fast, but he’s still not slowing down.

Derrick Henry is the best running back of his generation, and he’s still going strong nearly a decade after he won the Heisman Trophy at Alabama. Henry changed teams over the offseason for the first time in his pro career, going from the Tennessee Titans to the perennial AFC contender Baltimore Ravens, and he put his game-breaking talent on display once again in a marquee matchup on...

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Umar Shakir

Tesla starts pushing Full Self-Driving access for some Cybertrucks

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Some Tesla Cybertruck owners are starting to get Full Self-Driving (FSD) access on their vehicles. The company’s polarizing electric pickup truck has lacked the driver-assistance software feature since its launch in November 2023. Now, members of the Cybertruck Owners Club (as reported by Electrek) are reporting that the update has been installed on their vehicles.

Tesla had promised that FSD would come to the Cybertruck in September, after the...

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Nilay Patel

NBCU’s streaming chief isn’t worried about you canceling cable

Matt Strauss, head of Peacock and global streaming, has plans to keep you watching.

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Jay Peters

Verizon’s mobile services are down across the country

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Verizon is experiencing a huge outage affecting its mobile services across the country.

“During the incident we received reports from Clermont, Naples, Ocala, St. Petersburg, Decatur, Carmel, Cloverdale, Indianapolis, Caldwell, Ottawa, Shawnee, Lexington, Louisville, Wentzville, Elizabeth, Dallas, Houston, McGaheysville, Keyser, Chillicothe and 53 other cities,” according to a website tracking the outage.

There are also more than 90,000 user...

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Adam Rasgon and Aaron Boxerman

Saudi Arabia Pledges to Send Financial Aid to Palestine

An expected cash infusion for the Palestinian Authority would signal renewed Saudi backing for Palestinian statehood and help mend ties between Riyadh and the body that administers the West Bank.

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Julian E. Barnes

U.S. Officials Believe Israel Will Not Conduct Full Invasion of Lebanon

After a weekend of intense talks, the American officials said they believed that Israel was planning only smaller, targeted incursions in southern Lebanon.

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Stuck NASA astronauts will now have a ride home on a SpaceX capsule

NASA switched Wilmore and Williams to SpaceX following concerns over the safety of their Boeing Starliner capsule.

The two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station since June welcomed their new ride home with Sunday’s arrival of a SpaceX capsule.

SpaceX launched the rescue mission on Saturday with a downsized crew of two astronauts and two empty seats reserved for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who will return next year. The Dragon capsule docked in darkness as the two craft...

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Shalene Gupta

What is ‘slow travel’? Why leisurely vacations with a focus on cultural immersion will be all the rage in 2025

A new trends report from Hilton reveals how a growing number of travelers want to skip busy itineraries and tourist hotspots and take relaxing trips instead.

As the joke goes, sometimes you need a vacation to recover from your vacation. Traditionally, vacations conjure up images of packed itineraries, rushing from one landmark to the next, only to return home completely exhausted.

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TikTok owner ByteDance may use a domestic source to develop a new AI model

ByteDance has diversified to domestic suppliers of chips since the U.S. started restricting its exports.

TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance plans to develop an AI model trained primarily with chips from compatriot Huawei Technologies, said three people familiar with the matter, as U.S. curbs turn the social media giant homeward in search of chips.

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Reuters

JPMorgan’s CEO succession looms, putting the ‘Jamie premium’ to the test

Dimon has run JPMorgan for 18 years and is one of the most influential figures in corporate America.

Questions hang over who will succeed JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and when, but analysts and investors say one thing is almost certain: the bank’s stock will slump when the powerful bank chief eventually departs.

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Customize A House To Unveil Your Inner Mythical Being

Are you a majestic dragon, a mystical unicorn, or something even more magical...

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