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All The Best Toys And Games To Buy During Walmart’s Black Friday Sale

For the little kids, the big kids, and even the adults who embrace their inner kid.

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Antonio Piemontese

COP29 Agreement Says Someone Should Pay to Help Developing Countries, But Not Who

Rich countries have agreed to pay developing nations $300 billion a year to help them with their climate actions—but the agreement doesn’t say who specifically should contribute or how.

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Jack Milko

Tiger Woods makes Hero World Challenge decision sure to disappoint fans

Tiger Woods at the 152nd Open Championship. | Photo by Andy Buchanan/Getty Images

Tiger Woods has made his decision on whether or not he will play in next week’s Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas.

Tiger Woods will not be playing at the Hero World Challenge next week, the tournament he hosts every December in the Bahamas.

He made the announcement on social media.

“I am disappointed that I will not be able to compete this year at the Hero World Challenge, but always look forward...

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Wes Davis

Meta’s mixed-reality attempt at a Wii Sports knockoff is coming

Home Sports remembers that bowling was the best part of Wii Sports. | Image: Meta

A new game called Home Sports is coming to the Meta Quest 3 and 3S on December 11th, and from its aesthetic to its music, this $19.99 title is clearly trying to be the Wii Sports (or Nintendo Switch Sports if you like) for mixed reality.

Images: Meta / Nintendo That logo looks very familiar.

Like Nintendo’s simplistic motion control-based sports series, Home Sports offers several games: hockey,...

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Catie Edmondson

Mitch McConnell Is Ready to Pick His Own Fights After Senate Leadership

The longest-serving Senate leader is relinquishing his post in the next Congress and planning to use his influence in ways that could put him at odds with President-elect Donald J. Trump.

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Katie Barnes

Judge rejects request to sit SJSU volleyball player

A judge rejected a request to block a San Jose State women's volleyball team member from playing in the Mountain West tournament on grounds that she is transgender.

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Jeff Carlisle

WC, Olympic champ Naeher retiring from USWNT

United States goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher announced her international retirement on Monday, calling the past 15 years "the greatest honor."

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ESPN staff

Surprise ROY? Repeat MVPs? Expert picks for NBA early-season awards

Our NBA insiders break down their choices for the six major awards based on players' and coaches' performances one month into the 2024-25 NBA season.

Mashable

Are you holding space for the lyrics of Defying Gravity?

It's time to trust your instincts, close your eyes...and try holding space for "Defying Gravity." Or at least that's what Wicked fans will have you believe after an interview with stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo went viral late last week.

SEE ALSO: 'Wicked' review: Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo aspire for movie musical magic

In the video, Tracy E. Gilchrist, an interviewer from Out Magazine who was apparently through with playing by the...

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Intels 20-year-old AI ethics prodigy on the future of artificial intelligence

Ria Cheruvu has been ahead of the curve for most of her life. After graduating from her Arizona high school at just 11, the student deemed prodigy became one of the youngest people to ever graduate from Harvard. Her collegiate record is a marvel to many. 

Following a period studying neurobiology and during the completion of her first computer science degree, Cheruvu was hired for Intel's ethics team — preceding the AI boom that would soon hit mass markets, and years before the phrase...

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Amazon workers plan global protests and strikes on Black Friday

Amazon employees around the world are preparing for protests and strikes on Black Friday.

The global effort has been organized by UNI Global Union, which represents service industry workers, and activist group Progressive International. 

Amazon workers in more than 20 countries plan to strike and take part in protests starting on Black Friday, one of the biggest annual shopping days for retailers. The protest efforts will go on into Cyber Monday, one of the biggest online shopping days of the...

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31 Things From Amazon You'll Be Adding To Your Wish List In 3, 2, 1...

Three words: lidded charcuterie board ???? ????

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Justine Calma

UN climate negotiations were a major bummer

Activists protest against fossil fuels and for climate finance on day 11 at the UNFCCC COP29 climate conference on November 22nd, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan.  | Photo by Sean Gallup / Getty Images

Maybe it was the host of the UN climate summit in Azerbaijan this month calling oil and gas a “gift of God.” Or the US, the world’s biggest oil and gas producer, reelecting a president who says “we don’t have a global warming problem” just before the conference. Then again, the...

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Umar Shakir

GM has a deal to bring a new Cadillac F1 team to the grid

GM design rendering of the Cadillac Formula 1 Team concept. | Image: GM

General Motors has a deal to join Formula 1 under the Cadillac brand and participate in the FIA Formula One World Championship for the 2026 season, the automaker announced on Monday. Formula 1 says it has accepted in principle and will move GM and Cadillac's application forward to become the 11th team on the grid — making it the first new team to join since 2016.

Formula 1 says it’s been in talks with GM and...

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Quentyn Kennemer

The best Black Friday gaming deals you can shop right now

Console deals like one that takes $75 off a Switch OLED are in rare abundance, and there’s even more to shop. | Image: Nintendo

Black Friday is brimming with great deals on new games, including older titles you can purchase for pennies on the dollar and recent hits that might be hard to justify at full price. You can usually find great deals on gaming accessories, too, from controllers and headsets to expanded storage for consoles like the Xbox Series X / S.

We’ve combed through...

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Emma Roth

Anthropic launches tool to connect AI systems directly to datasets

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Anthropic has released a new open-source tool to connect AI assistants directly to the information they need to inform their responses or carry out tasks. The new Model Context Protocol (MCP) provides a universal connection to all sorts of data sources, which Anthropic says will improve performance.

Earlier this month, OpenAI started testing a new “Work with Apps” feature that lets the Mac version of ChatGPT directly connect to certain coding apps. Anthropic’s...

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Andreas Hale

MVP calls claims Paul-Tyson was rigged 'illogical'

Most Valuable Promotions on Monday called allegations that Jake Paul's unanimous decision victory over Mike Tyson was fixed "illogical and inane."

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Matt Kamen

Does Cloud Gaming on PlayStation Portal Mark the End for Consoles?

PlayStation's handheld will finally support dedicated game streaming—and with another portable playing device supposedly inbound, can Sony make cloud gaming take off? If it can't, who else can?

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HP Omen 17 review: This gaming laptop stays cool under pressure

The HP Omen 17 is designed with minimalists in mind — and I’m here for it. It’s nice to sometimes go crazy with per-key RGB lighting and designs that scream "gaming laptop," but the HP Omen 17 elicits sleek simplicity with just enough customization to keep things fun.

Granted, I wish the chassis was aluminum, not plastic, but that would’ve made this big boy even heavier. Plus, thermal management would be trickier. Its hefty weight is a fair trade for all the delicious internals...

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Score 6 months of Max for just $2.99/month with this Black Friday deal

SAVE $42: Through Dec. 2, get six months of Max with ads for only $2.99 per month instead of $9.99 per month. That's a total of $42 in savings or 70%.

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