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Luis Tiant, Red Sox pitching legend, dies at 83

Red Sox pitching legend Luis Tiant, a member of the team's Hall of Fame, has died at the age of 83.

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Baxter Holmes

'Set up for failure': What lies ahead for Bronny James and the Lakers

In interviews with nearly two dozen league insiders, a two-part consensus emerged: Bronny James is not only not ready for the NBA but was drafted by the one team that presents the most challenging dynamic for him to succeed.

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Kate O'Flaherty

What Google's U-Turn on Third-Party Cookies Means for Chrome Privacy

Earlier this year, Google ditched its plans to abolish support for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. While privacy advocates called foul, the implications for users is not so clear cut.

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Jack Milko

Keegan Bradley rules out Phil Mickelson but does not exclude other LIV Golf stars from Ryder Cup

Keegan Bradley speaks at the Ryder Cup Year to Go Media Event at The Times Center in New York. | Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images

Keegan Bradley fielded questions about his Ryder Cup captaincy Tuesday in New York, as some of them revolved around LIV Golf.

NEW YORK — For the second consecutive Ryder Cup, the question of LIV Golf and the role the Saudi-backed circuit will play in the qualification process lurks in the background.

Who will play from LIV Golf? You have to figure that...

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David Pierce

AI is fixing — and ruining — our photos

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What is a photo? No, like really. What is a photo? What is a photo? What is a photo? What is a photo? When you tap the shutter button on your phone, and it grabs nearly a dozen frames out of a cache that was capturing data well before you pressed anything, then stitches together the “best” bits of each one before allowing you to edit everything about all of them, is any of that process you taking a photo? And in a world where AI is good enough to...

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Emma Roth

Roblox accused of lying to investors about user numbers by Hindenburg Research

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Roblox is facing accusations that it lied to investors about the number of people who use the platform. In a report published on Tuesday, the investment firm Hindenburg Research claims Roblox is “consistently overstating the amount of people on its platform by 25 percent to 42 percent or more.”

Roblox, which went public in 2021, reported having 79.5 million daily active users in its most recent earnings report. However, Hindenburg claims Roblox “intentionally...

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Lauren Feiner

TikTok hit by over a dozen state lawsuits for allegedly harming teens

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Attorneys general from 14 states and districts sued TikTok for allegedly harming kids’ mental health and misleading the public about how safe its platform is.

The bipartisan group of AGs, led by New York’s Letitia James and California’s Rob Bonta, each filed lawsuits alleging violations of their own state’s law. “Our investigation has revealed that TikTok cultivates social media addiction to boost corporate profits,” Bonta said in a...

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Quentyn Kennemer

AirPods Pro 2 are lower than ever at $169 for Prime Day

The second-gen AirPods Pro offer the most complete package in Apple’s earbuds lineup, and they’re only improving with time. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge

Amazon’s second Prime Day of the year is bringing serious savings across the board, but some deals truly stand out. Take the AirPods Pro 2, for example — the pair that comes with a USB-C charging case has plummeted all the way to $168.99 (about $81 off) for Prime members, matching the all-time low.

Notably, that price...

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Sheena Vasani

The best October Prime Day deals you can get for less than $50

Amazon’s throwing in a free smart color bulb with many of its smart speakers, including the new Echo Spot. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Once again, Amazon is holding a second Prime Day under the guise of Prime Big Deal Days, which runs through tomorrow, October 9th. While the naming convention might be terrible, the sale isn’t. In fact, many of our favorite gadgets and goods are receiving notable discounts right now, which we’ve highlighted in our larger...

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$7.6 billion Georgia plant just produced its first Hyundai electric SUV

The first vehicles being produced at the Georgia site are 2025 models of Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 electric SUVs.

Hyundai has begun producing electric SUVs in Georgia less than two years after breaking ground on its sprawling, $7.6 billion manufacturing plant west of Savannah.

Hyundai’s factory in Georgia held an “employee-focused celebration” Thursday as its first EV for commercial sale rolled off the assembly line, Bianca Johnson, spokesperson for Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America,...

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U.S. judge approves FTX bankruptcy plan to repay billions

The plan is built on a series of settlements with FTX customers and creditors, U.S. government agencies, and liquidators appointed to wind down FTX’s operations outside the U.S.

FTX received court approval of its bankruptcy plan on Monday, which will allow it to fully repay customers using up to $16.5 billion in assets recovered since the once-leading crypto exchange collapsed.

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A Tennessee nurse and his dog died trying to save a stranded man during Helene’s floods

Boone McCrary was one of at least 230 people killed by Hurricane Helene’s raging waters and falling trees across six states.

As the Hurricane Helene-driven waters rose around the Nolichucky River in Tennessee, Boone McCrary, his girlfriend and his chocolate lab headed out on his fishing boat to search for a man who was stranded by floodwaters that had leveled his home. But the thick debris in the water jammed the boat’s motor, and without power, it slammed into a bridge support and...

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Kristin Toussaint

‘This is just horrific:’ Meteorologists get emotional describing Hurricane Milton’s intensity

Experts are blunt about how catastrophic the hurricane will likely be when it hits Florida—and how global warming has fueled the storm.

In a broadcast on NBC 6 South Florida, meteorologist John Morales became emotional while discussing Hurricane Milton, which is expected to hit Florida’s west coast on Wednesday. The storm briefly reached Category 5 status, before its wind speeds reduced it to a Category 4 storm Tuesday morning. 

“It has dropped 50 millibars in 10 hours,” Morales...

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James Dator

Robert Saleh fired by Jets after disastrous London trip

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The Jets name their interim in the hopes of turning their season around.

The New York Jets have fired head coach Robert Saleh, making him the first coach to lose his job during the 2024 NFL season. The move comes just four days after Saleh told reporters in the UK to “jump on the [Jets] bandwagon,” because it was going to get full.

The #Jets fired Robert Saleh, per sources. pic.twitter.com/Iefg3Ul0ca

— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) October 8, 2024

Sadly...

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9 potential New York Jets head coaches for 2025 after Robert Saleh’s firing

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With Robert Saleh out in New York, who should be the next head coach of the Jets?

The New York Jets have made the first shocking move of the 2024 NFL season.

After a disappointing loss to the Minnesota Vikings in London dropped the Jets to 2-3 on the young season, New York parted ways with head coach Robert Saleh. Defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich now takes over on an interim basis, and while he will have a shot over the...

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Charles Pulliam-Moore

Severance season 1 is coming home on Blu-ray

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While new episodes of Severance won’t stream on Apple TV Plus until January, you will be able to own a physical copy of the show’s first season in just a few weeks.

Unlike Mark Scout (Adam Scott) and his fellow Lumon employees who can never entirely go home, Severance’s first season will be making its way to more living rooms after its upcoming Blu-ray release on December 17th. As 9to5 Mac notes, the show is only being released as a Blu-ray at 1080p resolution and...

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Wes Davis

Kaspersky no longer on Google Play Store anywhere following US ban

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Citing US restrictions, Google removed Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus software from the Play Store and terminated its developer account in the days leading up to the September 29th deadline of the restrictions, according to a Kaspersky blog post yesterday.

The decision was “based on overinterpretation of the U.S. restrictions,” Kaspersky writes, insisting that the restrictions “don’t prohibit the sales and distribution of Kaspersky’s...

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Justine Calma

Scientists who built ‘foundation’ for AI awarded Nobel Prize

Geoffrey Hinton, called the “Godfather of AI,” during day Collision 2023 at Enercare Centre in Toronto, Canada. | Photo By Ramsey Cardy / Sportsfile for Collision via Getty Images

Two scientists credited with laying the “foundation of today’s powerful machine learning,” University of Toronto professor emeritus Geoffrey Hinton and Princeton University professor John Hopfield, were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics today.

Their discoveries and inventions laid the groundwork...

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Sheena Vasani

The Kindle Paperwhite Kids is down to just $115 for October Prime Day

The Kindle Paperwhite Kids is an e-reader fit for the whole family, complete with optional parental controls. | Image: Amazon

As expected, Amazon is offering some great discounts on its own devices as part of its October Prime Day event — including e-readers like the note-taking Kindle Scribe, which is down to $254.99 ($85 off) at Amazon. However, the Kindle deal that really stands out is on the Kindle Paperwhite Kids. Normally $169.99, right now, it’s down to just $114.99 ($55...

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