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Jeff Borzello and Paul Biancardi

UConn adds No. 2 center Reibe to 2025 class

Eric Reibe, the second-best center in the senior class, announced his commitment to UConn on Wednesday, giving Dan Hurley and the Huskies their second top-25 recruit in 2025.

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Clark named All-WNBA; Collier, Wilson unanimous

Fever guard Caitlin Clark on Wednesday became the league's first rookie since Candace Parker in 2008 to be named to the All-WNBA first team.

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Max Olson

The midseason Heisman: 11 players for college football's most coveted award

Fourteen ESPN college football writers voted on their top five for the Heisman trophy.

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CFB Player Rank: The top 25 players at midseason

These 25 players have defined the first seven weeks of the season.

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Joseph Acosta

Kyler Gordon is the Bears’ secret weapon on defense

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Chicago’s defense is incredible, and Kyler Gordon is a big part of that.

While the Chicago Bears’ offense gets all the attention, it’s their defense that has started the season as one of the best units in the NFL. They’re top five in defensive EPA per play allowed and fourth in defensive EPA per dropback allowed, and they still remain a solid run defending unit. One of their core players is nickelback Kyler Gordon, who is a ball of chaos in...

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Jay Peters

Amazon discontinues the last Kindle with physical buttons

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Amazon has discontinued the Kindle Oasis, which was the only Kindle still available with physical page-turn buttons. The company announced a new Kindle lineup earlier today, but Amazon confirmed to The Verge that it’s moving on from the Oasis.

“Once current inventory of Kindle Oasis sells out online and in stores, we will not restock the device,” Amazon’s Devon Corvasce says in a statement. “Today, all of our devices are...

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Emma Roth

Apple’s new feature lets brands put their stamp on emails and calls to your iPhone

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Soon, Apple will let businesses customize how they appear in emails and phone calls on the iPhone. Apple announced on Wednesday how companies using its Business Connect tool can add their brand name and logo in ways that will pop up in iPhone apps used for email, phone calls, and payments.

Apple first introduced Business Connect last year as a way for businesses to claim listings across Maps, Messages, Wallet, Siri, and its other apps.

Each registered business can...

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"It Degrades Me": Cynthia Erivo Reacted To A "Wicked" Poster Edit

"This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen."

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Saints' Shaheed to have surgery; Olave out, too

The Saints will be without wide receivers Rashid Shaheed and Chris Olave for Thursday night's game against the Broncos and former coach Sean Payton.

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Adam Teicher

Amid trades, Mahomes content with Chiefs' WRs

Patrick Mahomes said the Chiefs have enough talent at wide receiver to get where they want to go this season.

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NCAA closes loophole on Ducks' 12-man penalty

The NCAA is closing the loophole used by Oregon to shave time off the game clock at the end of Saturday's win over Ohio State, when the Ducks intentionally used 12 players on defense.

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Allison Johnson

Prada helped make a spacesuit

High fashion for zero gravity. | Image: Axiom

Space travel, it must be said, does not seem glamorous. You have to pee your pants and eat reconstituted roast beef for dinner. But future space flights might get a little fancier when the next moon-bound astronauts put on Axiom Space’s new spacesuit, designed in partnership with Prada. The Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU for short) can withstand the punishing conditions of the lunar South Pole — with a touch of...

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Lauren Feiner

Discord says piracy subpoena would violate users’ First Amendment rights

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Discord is fighting to keep its users anonymous in a court battle over piracy on the platform, claiming it would violate users’ First Amendment rights to hand over too much of their information.

Nexon, which publishes games including MapleStory, alleges that Discord has refused to comply with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) subpoena issued by a federal court in Texas that ordered the platform to disclose user information connected to suspected intellectual...

Mashable

FCC investigating why broadband data caps are still a thing. What you can do to help.

Are you one of the many American consumers who have to ration your internet usage due to your service provider's broadband data caps? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has heard from consumers just like you and are now going to investigate these data caps.

On Wednesday, the FCC announced that it was opening a formal inquiry into the "impacts of internet services usage limits and fees." The inquiry will look into broadband data caps and how they affect consumers and competing...

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Amazon deal of the day: The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 is still hovering near its record-low price from Prime Day

Check out the best Amazon deals of the day as of Oct. 16: OUR TOP PICK Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 (40mm, Bluetooth) $169.99 at Amazon (save $130) ...

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Treat yourself! The new Samsung Freestyle 2 laser projector is $200 off.

GET $200 off: As of Oct. 16, the Samsung Freestyle (2nd gen) projector is $599.99 at Best Buy, down from its usual $799.99 price. That's 25% off for total savings of $200.

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X deemed not important enough to face EU antitrust regulations

X is not a gatekeeper platform and therefore not beholden to the Digital Markets Act strict list of regulations.

But the reason why X isn't one of the seven Big Tech companies that are required to comply with certain fair business practices might sting Elon Musk's ego a bit.

This announcement came from the European Commission in a press release on Wednesday morning. X doesn't qualify as a gatekeeper because the assessment from the Digital Markets Advisory Committee, "revealed that X is not...

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Get this Dyson Supersonic dupe for under $130 at Walmart

SAVE 13%: The Shark HyperAir hair dyer with IQ styling concentrator attachment is just $129 at Walmart, marked down from the normal price of $149. That's a savings of $20.

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Android 15 new features: See the full list.

Android 15 is here. Let's talk about it.

The latest build of Google's mobile operating system is finally upon us as of this week, and that means you're probably wondering what exactly it does. The good news is that Google put up a blog post more or less detailing exactly that.

Here are all of the major new features in Android 15, which is now available on devices like the new Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro XL.

SEE ALSO: Google could face Chrome and Android split as DOJ...

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