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Get $1,400 off a 100-inch Hisense TV at Best Buy

SAVE $1,400: As of Nov. 22, you can snag a 100-inch Hisense TV at Best Buy for $1,599.99. That's $1,400 off the list price.

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"Gladiator" Moments You Don't Want To Forget When You Watch "Gladiator 2"

I completely forgot Commodus did this to Maximus right before the final battle in the Colosseum.

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Ricky O'Donnell

Rudy Gobert and Julius Randle beefing on court made Wolves unravel vs. Raptors

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The Wolves were pointing fingers at each other as they melted down vs. the Raptors.

The Minnesota Timberwolves enjoyed one of the finest seasons in franchise history last year, winning 56 games and advancing to the Western Conference Finals. The Wolves were seen as a young and ascendant team behind 23-year-old superstar Anthony Edwards, but with a big luxury tax bill mounting, Minnesota decided to trade franchise pillar Karl-Anthony Towns to the New...

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James Dator

George Pickens blames snow for Steelers loss, calls Browns a bad team

The cope is real with this one.

George Pickens had himself a night on Thursday Night Football, and not in a good way. The Steelers receiver is coming under fire on Friday morning for his lack of focus what would have been the game-winning Hail Mary, then in the locker room he took a massive dose of copium before blaming the weather for the loss.

#Steelers WR George Pickens on the loss to the #Browns:

“The conditions played a huge, huge part in today’s game. I don’t really...

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Justine Calma

A proposed climate tax on crypto mining is gaining momentum

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A tentative proposal to tax cryptocurrency mining to raise funds for climate action took off during a United Nations climate conference that’s set to come to a close today.

A levy on energy-hungry crypto mining, at $0.045 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity used, could generate $5.2 billion in revenue annually, according to a report released last week by the Global Solidarity Levies Task Force, led by Kenya, Barbados, and France.

The Bitcoin...

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Quentyn Kennemer

The newest Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite are on sale for the first time

The new Paperwhite is bigger, and the base Kindle comes in a new color. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge

It’s about that time of the year to turn on the heat, warm up some cocoa, and curl up in your reading nook. If you’re running out of space for physical books to enjoy, Amazon’s newest Kindle ebook readers can hold thousands of digital ones, and some are on sale for the first time in the retailer’s Black Friday sale.

That includes the 2024 Kindle that’s dropped to...

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Mia Sato

Amazon to invest another $4 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic

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Amazon announced today that it’s pumping another $4 billion into Claude AI maker Anthropic, bringing its total funding amount to $8 billion. This latest round follows $1.25 billion last September and another $2.75 billion in March.

Along with the money, Amazon wrote in its blog post that Amazon Web Services (AWS) would be named Anthropic’s “primary training partner” and that the OpenAI rival would use Trainium and Inferentia chips for...

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Umar Shakir

Audi’s latest RS E-tron GT ‘Performance’ is its quickest car yet

Audi RS E-tron GT Performance starts at $167,000 before destination charges. | Image: Audi

Audi is giving its all-electric E-tron GT sports sedan higher performance, more battery range, and faster charging speeds for the 2025 model year. It’s also increasing its starting price.

The lineup now includes a new entry S E-tron GT model that starts at $125,500 before destination charges, a far cry from the already expensive $100,000 base it previously sold since the beginning in 2022....

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Tom Warren

SteelSeries Arctis GameBuds review: earbuds for your PlayStation or Xbox

SteelSeries brings its EQ audio expertise to consoles and mobile devices.

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Mia Sato

Threads is overhauling its search and trending features

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Meta is promising “long-overdue improvements” to its X competitor, Threads, including more precise search features and expanded trending topics.

First, users will be able to search for posts within a specific date range or from a single account — similar to what X’s search allows. Threads is also testing a new trending page in the US that includes additional topics to follow as well as AI-generated summaries of what other users are talking about.

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Gaby Del Valle

Elon Musk’s new DOGE plans are actually old ideas about mass deregulation

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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have laid out their plans for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a currently nonexistent entity they say will “cut the federal government down to size.” Though DOGE isn’t a real department — and may in fact just be President-elect Donald Trump’s way of placating Musk by giving him the appearance of a real job — it represents a long-running right-wing attempt to gut the civil service,...

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Kyle Bonagura

SWAC looking into claim of stolen practice film

A UAPB player informed the coaching staff that he was told by a Jackson State player that Tigers defensive players were in their team facility watching practice film of UAPB ahead of their matchup earlier this month, sources told ESPN.

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Reviewers Have Declared These 39 Amazon Products As "Must-Haves" So Don’t Be Surprised If They End Up In *Your* Cart

Soon you'll be adding your own 5-star, "must-have" review to the pile.

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Rhett Allain

Why Is It So Tricky to Show the Sun, Earth, and Moon in a Diagram?

In a nutshell, you can get the distances or the sizes right, but not both. Space is hard!

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Steven Levy

Bluesky Says It Won’t Screw Things Up

The not-a-Twitter-clone is exploding, and its CEO promises to not repeat old social-media mistakes. Her strategy? Massively empower users to decide how the service works.

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Noa Dalzell

WNBA Explained: History says winning the draft lottery is a really, really big deal

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Securing the No. 1 pick has historically benefitted WNBA franchise much more than their NBA counterparts.

This column is the first installment of SB Nation’s new “WNBA Explained” series, a new weekly column diving deep into different topics related to women’s basketball.

When an NBA team wins the Draft Lottery, it’s undoubtedly good news — but historically, it’s not that likely the player they select will ultimately lead them to a...

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Mark Schofield

Red Bull F1 dealing with a rear wing problem at the Las Vegas Grand Prix

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Worry at Red Bull F1 as team using wrong rear wing at Las Vegas Grand Prix

The 2024 Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix got off to a worrying start for Red Bull. Max Verstappen, hoping to capture his fourth straight F1 Drivers’ Championship in Las Vegas, finished fifth in FP1 with teammate Sergio Pérez a few places behind him in P10. Things did not improve in FP2 as both drivers took a step back, with Verstappen down in P17 and Pérez in...

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More than anyone else, she built the NWSL. Will she be a champion this weekend?

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The Brazilian trailblazer made women’s soccer into the sport it is today. This weekend, she will captain the Orlando Pride in search of her first NWSL Championship.

When soccer legend Marta scored last week in the semifinals, in an incredible breakaway that ended with four defenders falling over, the Orlando Pride home crowd went wild and rightly so—it was a stunning, almost impossible goal, one that only the Brazilian superstar could...

The Verge

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Apple’s first smart display needs to make the smart home just work

Some Apple Home users have shoehorned iPads into wall-mounted home controllers. However, reports indicate Apple is developing a dedicated home control device. | Photo By Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

The smart home has an interface problem. Searching for an app on your phone, fighting with a confused voice assistant, and fiddling with a “smart” display to turn off a light is enough to send anyone running back to the wall switch. But now,...

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David Pierce

The government’s plan to break up Google

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For two decades, Google Search has been unstoppable. Invincible. So thoroughly dominant that would-be competitors often couldn’t even get funding, because investors didn’t see the point in trying. But earlier this year, a judge declared that Google’s power, and the way the company wields it, was an illegal monopoly. And so now the US Department of Justice has to figure out how to undo it.

On this episode of The Vergecast, we dig into the DOJ’s...

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