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36 Cool-Looking Products You May Never Use Because You'll Be Too Busy Admiring Them

Your eyes will give these things an A+++++.

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Ryan Clark

Sharks' Celebrini day-to-day after suffering injury

Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky could not guarantee that 2024 No. 1 pick Macklin Celebrini would be ready for the season opener after suffering a lower-body injury.

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Reuters

Supersub Jhon Duran scores as Villa stun Bayern

Aston Villa beat Bayern Munich 1-0 in the Champions League on Wednesday thanks to a brilliant late Jhon Duran goal as the hosts celebrated in style their first home game in Europe's elite club competition for 41 years.

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Chris Herring

Trade official, KAT pens goodbye to Wolves 'family'

Karl-Anthony Towns bid farewell to the Timberwolves organization in a social media post Wednesday, minutes after his trade to the Knicks became official.

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Michael Voepel

Dream fire Wright after another first-round sweep

The Dream have fired coach Tanisha Wright after losing in the opening round of the postseason the past two years.

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Savannah Leigh Richardson

PGA Tour players plan to donate through “Birdies for Augusta” after devastating hurricane damage

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To help raise money for Hurricane Helene victims, PGA Tour players announce “Birdies for Augusta” at Sanderson Farms Championship.

This week, at the PGA Tour’s Sanderson Farms Championship, defending champion Luke List announced that he and Henrik Norlander created a way to help their local Hurricane Helene victims.

They will participate in the “Birdies for Augusta” initiative to bring attention and raise money for the victims as they call...

The Verge

Andrew Liszewski

Nintendo is limiting how much merch you can buy from its new museum’s gift shop

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The Nintendo Museum opened today in the company’s hometown of Kyoto, and it is already limiting some gift shop items to one per person in an attempt to discourage visitors from flipping exclusive merch online.

The two-story museum highlights the company’s history dating back to 1889, when Nintendo started making hanafuda playing cards. It also features interactive exhibits letting visitors play Nintendo games in unusual ways, including using oversized NES...

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Chris Welch

All Elite Wrestling will start streaming on Max in January

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Welcome to the streaming era of the wrestling wars. WWE’s flagship weekly show, Raw, is ditching cable and headed for Netflix in January. And today, Warner Bros. Discovery and All Elite Wrestling announced a multiyear rights extension that will bring AEW content to Max starting in... you guessed it... January 2025. The news was first reported by Variety.

Tony Khan’s wrestling promotion will gain a significant presence on the popular streaming...

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Alan Feuer and Charlie Savage

Judge in Trump’s Jan. 6 Case Unseals New Evidence

Judge Tanya Chutkan made public portions of a filing by prosecutors setting out their argument for why the case should go forward despite the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity.

Mashable

Facebook cracks down on celebrity deepfake scams after $43 million in losses for Australians

Scams are getting more complex as artificial intelligence gets more advanced. That in mind, Meta launched a new Fraud Intelligence Reciprocal Exchange (FIRE) tool in Australia in an effort to cut down on the massive financial losses suffered by victims in the country.

Australia saw a rise in celebrity deepfakes pushing investment scams amid the ongoing crypto boom. Such scams used fake images of Aussie celebs like billionaire Gina Rinehart or TV personality Larry Emdur, the Guardian noted....

Mashable

OpenAI funding round values company at $157 billion

Leadership turmoil, rumblings about an AI bubble, and a failed CEO coup last year didn't stop OpenAI from raising $6.6 billion.

On Wednesday, OpenAI completed its latest funding round according to the New York Times, giving it a valuation of $157 billion. That makes it the largest VC round of all time, a distinction that was previously held by Elon Musk's xAI, which raised $6 billion earlier this year.

SEE ALSO: The AI bubble has burst. Here's how we know. ...

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Mark Sullivan

California spiked a landmark AI regulation. But that doesn’t mean the bill is going away

State Senator Scott Wiener hasn’t ruled out the possibility of introducing the bill again next session.

With the veto of California’s AI bill, the idea of regulating frontier models may be in jeopardy.

Fast Company

The Conversation

Sales professionals need mental health ‘helmets’

While construction workers wear helmets and safety gear, sales professionals need mental and emotional safeguards to mitigate the risks associated with their work.

Neuroticism is one of the Big Five personality traits, characterised by a tendency to experience negative emotions like anxiety, fear, and frustration. Individuals with high levels of neuroticism are often more sensitive to stress and more likely to react negatively to challenges.

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Jennifer Mattson

Bank of America outage: Customers report app and website down, panic over $0 balances

On Downdetector, customers reported difficulty accessing their bank accounts starting just before 1 p.m. ET today.

Bank of America customers reported difficulty accessing their bank accounts on Wednesday, with some saying they couldn’t log on, while others saw balances of $0 in their bank accounts.

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Marcel Louis-Jacques

Hill committed to Fins amid frustrating season

Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill wants to remain with the team, he reaffirmed Wednesday, despite a frustrating start to the season.

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Leah Feiger

VP Debate Night: Vance Sanitized Trumpism, Walz Called Himself a Knucklehead

The WIRED politics team unpacks the first and only vice presidential debate of the 2024 election.

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Megan Farokhmanesh

Players Are Turning the ‘Echoes’ in ‘The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom’ Into Cheat Codes

Behold, my new flying machine: this table attached to a bird.

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Savannah Leigh Richardson

Veteran PGA Tour player John Daly among Hurricane Helene victims after announcing home destruction

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Daly revealed his home was one of thousands destroyed by Hurricane Helene in the Clearwater, Fla., area.

Hurricane Helene rocked many towns and cities across the six states that it hit. Thousands of people have lost their homes due to the impacts of this Category 4 hurricane.

Among the victims is the legendary PGA Tour veteran and fan-favorite John Daly.

On Wednesday, he confirmed the news to the PGA Tour.

Daly tried to find the positive...

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Emma Roth

PUBG developer is making Palworld mobile amid Nintendo lawsuit

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Palworld developer Pocketpair may be facing a lawsuit from Nintendo, but that’s not stopping it from pursuing a mobile version of the game. On Wednesday, Krafton — the publisher behind PUBG: Battlegrounds — announced that it acquired the license for Palworld and will optimize it for mobile gaming, as reported earlier by Polygon.

According to a translated version of the post, Krafton says it aims to “faithfully reinterpret” Palworld’s “main fun elements...

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