"People just don't want supermovies starring straight, white men:(. No other factors at all, no siree. That's how this works."
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OpenAI built a reputation for making bold research bets before others. After a recent brain drain, it needs to attract a new generation of researchers to keep this going.
Don’t tell Elon.
Virginia Tech’s trip to Stanford was the first ACC game to head to Stanford Stadium and the legendary Cardinal marching band wanted to do something big for the occasion. Big, ugly, and uninsurable.
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— Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) October 6, 2024The show, which was as much about comedy as a marching band, had an entire section titled “The Band Buys a Cybertruck,” which saw some of the...
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The Valkyries are laying a team-building road map for WNBA expansion
The concept, and term, of team-building has become something of a tenet in basketball. Though it suggests construction, which takes time, the phenomena of team-building has turned more immediate. The urgency and meta-gamification of competitive seasons — poring over roster construction, rotations, match-up deficiencies — in order to win now versus playing the long...
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Here are the 15 EPSON Tour graduates who can now call themselves LPGA members as they won their cards for the 2025 season.
Sunday was a big day for the official LPGA qualifying tour, the Epson Tour.
There were 15 LPGA cards up for grabs at the Epson Tour Championship. These ladies teed it up at Indian Wells Golf Resort in Indian Wells, California, for the first time. It was a 72-hole stroke play event with a $287,500 purse.
This year also marked...
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Manning gave a small glimpse of the future during a recent two-week stretch where he took over for Quinn Ewers.
When it comes to hype, there wasn’t a more touted prospect in college football than Texas quarterback Arch Manning, the No. 1 recruit in the Class of 2023 and the apparent “heir” to the Manning family legacy.
Arch, the son of Cooper Manning and the nephew of likely Hall of Famers Peyton Manning and Eli Manning, has always been at the...
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Caitlin Clark will take her superstardom to the course, as she will team up with one of the greatest players of all time, Annika Sorenstam.
Two of the biggest stars in women’s sports are teaming it up on the course.
Caitlin Clark, the WNBA superstar who has taken the world by storm, announced Monday that she will compete in the Wednesday Pro-Am ahead of The ANNIKA driven by...
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Geico says it still offers insurance for Tesla’s Cybertruck after some customers reported being dropped by their insurance company for the expensive and unconventional electric truck.
Several owners have reported difficulties in procuring coverage for their Cybertrucks, fueling speculation that the insurance industry was refusing to write policies for the truck. The speculation reached a fever pitch this weekend when Torque News reported...
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If you’ve noticed more engagement bait appearing across your Threads feed, you’re not alone. Meta is aware of the issue and looking at how to address it, according to Instagram boss Adam Mosseri. “We’ve seen an increase in engagement-bait on Threads and we’re working to get it under control,” Mosseri said on Threads in response to comments flagging the issue.
Engagement bait on Threads typically covers posts with banal questions or invites for...
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will deliver a keynote at CES 2025 in January. The keynote will take place on January 6th at 6:30PM PT / 9:30PM ET, just a day before the Consumer Electronics Show opens its doors in Las Vegas. It comes amid rumors of next-gen Nvidia GPUs appearing early next year.
A source familiar with Nvidia’s plans told The Verge last month that we might hear more about the RTX 50-series at the Consumer Electronics Show in early 2025. Nvidia is an official...
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To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of Alien: Isolation, the developers at Creative Assembly have announced they’re working on a sequel.
“We have heard your distress calls loud and clear,” wrote Al Hope, creative director at Creative Assembly. “I’m delighted to confirm, on behalf of the team, that a sequel to Alien: Isolation is in early development.”
Alien: Isolation released in 2014 to rave reviews, marking it as one of the best...
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Opens in a new window Credit: Amazon ...TikTok parent company ByteDance is amassing huge volumes of web data way faster than the other major web crawlers
ByteDance may be planning to release its own LLM, and is aggressively using its web crawler, "Bytespider," to scrape up data to train its models, Fortune reported.
Bytespider showed up on the scene in April, and since then, its rate of consumption puts web scrapers from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic to shame.
SEE ALSO: Texas adds to TikTok's...The Last Week Tonight host turned the Ohio senator’s words against him.
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The Southeastern Conference has fined Vanderbilt and Arkansas after their fans stormed the field following upset wins on Saturday.
Week 6 brought chaos. Two of the top five programs lost to unranked teams, and we added five new schools to our list.
The sequel starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga has proven to be both a critical disappointment and a box office one.
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The 49ers will be without their kicker for multiple weeks. We break down the fantasy football waiver wire options for Week 6.
The San Francisco 49ers will be without kicker Jake Moody for several weeks, due to a high ankle sprain. Moody injury his ankle in Week 5 against the Arizona Cardinals and head coach Kyle Shanahan announced the news on Monday morning, per Niners Nation.
The 49ers will be trying out multiple kickers to replace Moody...
The Apple Pencil Pro is a much easier recommendation at $99. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge
Spending another $129 to get the Apple Pencil Pro after upgrading to the latest iPad Pro and iPad Air devices is a hard pill to swallow. That pill is a little bit smaller now, thankfully. It’s currently discounted to $99 ($30 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Target, the latter available with a free Target Circle membership. That’s a new all-time low price.
The USB-C Apple Pencil (regularly...
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Rabbit’s large action model is here, sort of — but everyone else is coming fast.
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