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Following another back operation, Tiger Woods is not among the initial field at the Hero World Challenge in December.
As of right now, Tiger Woods will not play in the Hero World Challenge.
The Hero World Challenge, which Woods hosts every December in the Bahamas, is a made-for-TV event featuring a 20-man field. The 15-time major winner, when healthy, typically plays in this event annually. He indicated...
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The NFL concussion protocol can’t protect a player from their own bad decisions, and that’s a problem.
It’s impossible for most of us to understand the singular focus and peerless competitiveness of professional athletes. An undying willingness to put winning and personal goals above all else, even if that means self-sacrifice.
That said, it doesn’t take an NFL resume to recognize when a player is on a collision course with disaster, and...
Best Buy is having a busy week, and the events are all we needed to know about how hard Best Buy is planning to go this holiday season.
After announcing Black Friday plans a full 10 days before Halloween, Best Buy is hitting us with a string of three Drops on some pretty major products: The Samsung Galaxy Buds3 Pro on Oct. 23, the GoPro Hero10 on Oct. 24, and a 98-inch TCL QLED TV on Oct. 25.
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Best Free Erotica Romance Books Best erotica romance overall 'Kismet' by Gab Tuls ...SAVE UP TO 50%: Select decorations from the Home Depot's 2024 Halloween collection are half off online as of Oct. 22.
Quick links and online availability at the time of writing: 1,047 left 13-foot Giant-Sized Animated LED Jack Skellington ...After a wave of AI updates, Spotify finally launches a tool encouraging user creativity.
SEE ALSO: Spotify wants to make you an AI Playlist for every occasionThe streaming giant announced Tuesday a feature allowing users to create custom art for their playlists in the app. It allows users to create collages to accompany their user-generated playlists directly in the app. Users can layer images, text, and stickers to embody the vibe of their...
The Internet Archive can't catch a break.
Just a day after the Internet Archive posted the restoration of its Wayback Machine and other services on its blog, the site has gone dark again. As of this writing, a visit to the Archive’s homepage shows a message confirming that while Archive-It and its blog are back online, the rest of the Internet Archive’s services remain temporarily unavailable.
This is the page you'll be greeted with when...A television ad conveys a key part of Kamala Harris’s closing argument: that her rival is a right-wing authoritarian who will make life less affordable and threaten access to abortion.
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Microsoft and OpenAI announced they’re offering a select group of media outlets up to $10 million ($2.5 million in cash plus $2.5 million worth of “software and enterprise credits” from each) to try out AI tools in the newsroom.
This news comes while the two companies are still facing a slew of copyright lawsuits, including from The New York Times, The Intercept, Raw Story, AlterNet, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and Alden Global Capital, the hedge...
The 76ers announced that Joel Embiid and Paul George will both miss Wednesday's season opener and that Embiid would be out at least two more games.
USC star JuJu Watkins and UConn's Paige Bueckers headline the AP preseason All-America women's college basketball team that for the first time includes three sophomores.
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The Ravens quarterback seems poised to win his third NFL MVP with how he’s playing this season.
Lamar Jackson is playing some of the best football of his career right now.
At first blush that statement might seem outlandish. After all, we are talking about a quarterback coming off his second MVP season, which he won a year ago when he secured 49 out of 50 first-place votes. That fell one first-place vote shy of making Jackson one of the rare...
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Seven NBA players signed extensions for nearly $800 million. Let’s grade those deals from both sides.
There’s no day better than payday. On the brink of the 2024-25 season, the league’s annual deadline for rookie extensions came to pass with some absolutely ridiculous money thrown around to players casual basketball may not have ever heard of.
In total, seven players signed contracts for just short of a combined $800 million. It’s good to be...
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The WNBA players’ union delineated a number of priorities for the next CBA, including increased salaries, better retirement benefits, higher professional standards, and more.
Less than a day after the confetti fell at Barclay’s Center, the WNBA player’ union announced they’d be opting out of their collective bargaining agreement with the league — a decision that comes on the heels of a historic season that saw an unprecedented...
Xander Schauffele at the 2024 Presidents Cup. | Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images
Xander Schauffele had an outstanding 2024 season, but even he knows the Player of the Year award is not his.
Since 1990, when the PGA Tour established the Player of the Year Award—now known as the Jack Nicklaus Award—eight players have won multiple major championships in a given season.
Tiger Woods accomplished this feat on four occasions, winning multiple majors in 2000, 2002, 2005, and 2006....
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WhatsApp is getting a built-in contact manager that lets you save contacts within the app so you don’t lose them if you switch phones.
WhatsApp typically relies on the smartphone address book it runs on to hold and manage contacts. But that can be a problem for users who lose their device and fail to back up their phone’s contacts, people who share phones, or those who manage multiple accounts with separate contacts on one device.
To start, you’ll be able...
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The first cracks are starting to show in Netflix’s push into gaming. First reported in Game File and confirmed by Netflix, the streaming company has quietly closed of one of its studios, the first in the three years since the company began its foray into gaming.
According to Game File, the shuttered studio was known as Blue. In 2022, Netflix announced it hired former Overwatch executive producer Chacko Sonny to run the studio. Since then,...
At just $40, Hoto’s electric screwdriver is a cool tool we’d recommend for anyone doing handiwork. | Image: Hoto
‘Tis the season for assemblies. With the holidays coming up, many will soon have their hands full with a bunch of new decorations and gifts to build. To take some pressure off, you can give Hoto’s electric screwdriver a try. It’s a perennial favorite in our various gift guides, and now you can get a whole kit with its magnetic carrying case and a 25-piece set of...
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Arkansas is sitting atop lithium reserves that could be vast enough to satisfy the entire world’s demand for EV batteries, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
It estimates that there could be 5 to 19 million tons of lithium under southwestern Arkansas. That would be enough to supply nine times the amount of the key material needed globally for car batteries in 2030, the USGS says.
Lithium is a key ingredient for rechargeable batteries used...