The NBA is urging its players to take additional precautions to secure their homes following reports of recent high-profile burglaries of dwellings owned by Bucks forward Bobby Portis and Timberwolves guard Mike Conley Jr.
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Opens in a new window ...I completely forgot Commodus did this to Maximus right before the final battle in the Colosseum.
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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...
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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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...
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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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...
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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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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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,...
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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In a nutshell, you can get the distances or the sizes right, but not both. Space is hard!
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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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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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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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...
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,...