The Boston Bruins, off to an 8-9-3 start and currently outside of a playoff seed in the clogged Eastern Conference, fired coach Jim Montgomery, the team announced Tuesday, while elevating associate coach Joe Sacco to interim head coach.
Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket reinvents the gacha game for a Pikachu-loving audience. It’s attracted millions of players—and more than a little controversy.
The Daily Show host urged Democrats to act more like Republicans if they want to get anything done.
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Just one day after 404 Media revealed that HarperCollins struck a three-year AI training deal with an unnamed company, Bloomberg now says Microsoft will use the publisher’s content to train a not-yet-announced AI model.
HarperCollins said in a statement to 404 Media that its deal will include “select nonfiction backlist titles” and that authors will have to opt into the training program.
One author, Daniel Kibblesmith, posted screenshots a few days ago...
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Newell is Georgia’s third-highest recruit of all time behind now NBA players Anthony Edwards and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.
When it comes to the Georgia Bulldogs, almost everyone’s minds instantly travel to the 8-2 football team vying for a spot in the College Football Playoff with quite a number of NFL hopefuls on the roster.
That has been the case in each of the last four seasons, as the Bulldogs basketball team has been inconsistent, hovering around .500...
Taika Waititi joins the cast of 'Interior Chinatown' to bring to light what it's like to be a marginalized group, like Asian Americans, in America and in Hollywood.
Wicked is easily one of the most anticipated films of 2024, as it's bringing to the big screen a three-time Tony Award–winning musical that defined a generation of theater kids, with a Hollywood-scale spectacle of song, dance, and star power. As the Wicked Witch's origin story told from a place of empathy, it's a movie meant to make us believe in magic again. But even with a cast that boasts two-time Academy Award nominee Cynthia Erivo, pop star Ariana Grande, Bridgerton dreamboat...
It's no secret that Amazon is one of the go-to retailers for Black Friday savings. This year, the mega retailer's Black Friday shopping event kicks off on Nov. 21 and runs through Dec. 2 — and as in previous years, deals started pouring in on Apple products, smartwatches, TVs, and much more days (weeks, even) prior.
Avid shoppers keeping their eyes on exclusive Black Friday deals can enjoy a breezy shopping experience while they benefit from major deals this season, thanks to Amazon's...
Shop now and fa-la-la-la-la until Christmas morning.
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Despite widespread issues with video quality and buffering, Netflix’s live-streamed Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul boxing match brought in an average of 108 million viewers, based on TVision data in the US and first-party data in global markets. With 65 million concurrent streams, Netflix says the fight was the “most-streamed global sporting event ever.”
Of those simultaneous streams, 38 million were from households in the US, and the...
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A Minecraft Movie has a new trailer giving us a taste at the kind of story moviegoers can expect. The trailer predominately features Jack Black as Steve, the silent protagonist players embody in Minecraft. In the trailer, Black’s Steve is way more chatty, giving us his backstory as a child who quite literally yearns for the mines. As an adult, Steve finds a special blue cube that transports him to the Minecraft world where, “anything you can imagine is...
Canceled oral arguments in one case and a judge’s recusal in another have added to questions about the future of four state cases against Donald J. Trump and his allies.
Perplexity will give users product cards showing relevant items in response to questions related to shopping.
Artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity on Monday launched a shopping hub to attract users, in a bid to beef up its platform as it attempts to take on Alphabet-owned Google’s dominance in the search engine space.
The sixth test flight of Musk’s megarocket is set to lift off from the Starbase facility in Texas this evening.
The sixth test launch of SpaceX’s megarocket Starship is now scheduled for Tuesday, November 19, with a 30-minute launch window opening at 4:00 p.m. CT/5:00 p.m. ET. The rocket is set to lift off from the company’s Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas. The broadcast will start roughly a half hour before launch, and you can follow along live on SpaceX’s website and X...
The steakhouse chain has been the subject of a raft of fake reviews by people looking to shuttle tourists away from their favorite restaurants.
The restaurant chain Angus Steakhouse, recently described by one food critic as “unpatriotic in its crapness’, is climbing the ranks of London’s best restaurants thanks to an elaborate Reddit ruse.
Tom’s of Maine ignored ‘approximately 400 complaints’ related to the color, taste, and odor of its toothpaste, per the FDA.
Tom’s of Maine has always been known for using natural ingredients to make its products—like toothpaste, deodorant, and mouthwash—ingredients, which the company says are “good for you and the planet.” But it turns out that some of its toothpaste has been made with bacteria-contaminated water.
The first head protection concept introduced to the biking world was a hat made from pith, which is the spongy rind found in the stem of sola plants.
Imagine – it’s the mid-1800s, and you’re riding your high-wheeled, penny-farthing bicycle down a dusty road. Sure, it may have some bumps, but if you lose your balance, you’re landing on a relatively soft dirt road. But as the years go by, these roads are replaced with pavement, cobblestones, bricks or wooden slats. All these materials...
The Weather Prediction Center issued excessive rainfall risks beginning Tuesday and lasting through Friday as the strongest atmospheric river that California and the Pacific Northwest has seen this season bears down on the region.
Northern California and the Pacific Northwest are bracing for what is expected to be a powerful storm, with heavy rain and winds set to pummel the region and potentially cause power outages and flash floods.
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World No. 1 Nelly Korda, who plays as quickly as anyone, provided a solution to the LPGA’s biggest issue: slow play.
Slow play has been a pertinent topic of discussion on the LPGA this season. And the biggest stars in the game have had enough.
Two days after winning her seventh event of the season at The ANNIKA, Nelly Korda fielded a question about the glacial pace of...
The wiki paid homage to the "Tumblr Sexyman" phenomenon. After hosting site Fandom deleted it, fans scrambled to collect its archive and find a new home.