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CFP viewership topped by Saturday NFL games

College football's 12-team playoff rollout was spoiled by the NFL, with the Texans-Chiefs getting 15.5 million viewers while the SMU-Penn State game averaged 6.4 million. The Steelers-Ravens game drew 15.4 million viewers to Clemson-Texas' 8.6 million.

The Verge

Jay Peters

2024 has been an amazing year for roguelikes

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This year showed that a roguelike can be almost anything.

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BuzzFeed - Latest

30 Organization Products To Declutter Your Home For The New Year — And Keep It That Way

Let's make a toast to neat, tidy, and organized homes all year long ????.

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99 British Tweets That Prove, No Matter What, Brits Have A Great Sense Of Humour

"My Mum is using Uber Eats for the first time and she asked me if it’s same day delivery"

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Booker out for Xmas; other stars questionable

Suns guard Devin Booker is set to miss Wednesday's game against the Nuggets. Several other stars are listed as questionable.

ESPN.com

Buffs add record insurance coverage for star duo

Colorado secured what it said was record insurance coverage for Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter as the star duo opted to play in the Alamo Bowl.

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If You, Like Me, Are A Sheep When It Comes To Beauty Products, These 33 Popular Ones Are Worth It

"Baaaa" — all of us joining the herd buying this decadent TikTok-famous perfume rollerball and $7 smudgeproof tubing mascara.

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Wired Top Stories

Angela Watercutter

Nosferatu’s Resurrection Was a Long Time Coming

There’s nothing more done to death than the vampire. Director Robert Eggers says he tried to avoid the obvious by returning to “the older folklore.”

SBNation.com

David Fucillo

Full list of Week 17 straight-up picks with confidence levels

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We make picks for all 16 NFL games with levels of confidence ahead of Week 17.

The holiday season has arrived and that means a busy week for the NFL. Wee 17 kicks off with a Christmas doubleheader on Netflix. It follows with a Friday game on Amazon Prime, a tripleheader on Saturday, nine games on Sunday, and Monday Night Football to wrap things up. Five days of football!

The playoff race is heating up as we come down the home...

SBNation.com

David Fucillo

Your daily NFL trivia game, Wednesday edition

Think you can figure out what NFL player we’re talking about? You’ll get five clues to figure him out.

We’re back for another day of the SB Nation in-5 daily trivia game, and we’re returning to our system of a new article each day for the game.

We tried using a single article for the game, updated with the latest game each day, but it was creating a bit of an unwieldy experience in the comments. So, we’ll have the current day’s game plus the previous three days in each...

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David Fucillo

Week 17 NFL Survivor pool strategy with safe, value, trap picks, plus an upset special

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It’s time to figure out your Survivor picks for the 2024 season. We’ll break down safe, value, and trap picks heading into Week 17.

Happy holidays to all! This week marks Christmas, the start of Hanukkah, and the start of Kwanzaa, among other holidays to close out the 2024 calendar year. It also means we’re coming down the final stretch of the NFL regular season with two weekends of football remaining.

If you’ve managed to survive this long in...

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Tavares Cebola and John Eligon

At Least 21 Killed in Clashes Over Mozambique’s Disputed Election Ruling

Hundreds of buildings were damaged or looted, including schools and hospitals, in a wave of unrest after Daniel Chapo was confirmed as the winner of the presidential election.

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Charles King

Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ an Anthem of Hope, Was Born of a Contentious Friendship

How a contentious friendship between political rivals led to the creation of a classic Christmas anthem of hope.

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Emmanuel Morgan

Netflix’s Christmas: NFL Games and Beyoncé Halftime Show

As part of its push into live programming, the streaming service is hosting two N.F.L. games and a big musical performance on Christmas.

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Gabe Cohn

A Complete Character Guide to ‘A Complete Unknown’

The biopic, with Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, is peppered with figures from the folk world and beyond. These are some of them.

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Manohla Dargis

‘A Complete Unknown’ Review: Timothée Chalamet Goes Electric

The actor stars as a young Bob Dylan, who woos folk followers only to betray them later at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

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Karen Weise and Jovelle Tamayo

An A.I. Boom Makes Electricians Flock to Central Washington

The rural region is changing fast as electricians from around the country plug the tech industry’s new, giant data centers into its ample power supply.

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Ivan Nechepurenko

Azerbaijan Airlines Passenger Plane Crashes in Kazakhstan

Russia’s state aviation authority said the Azerbaijan Airlines plane had been trying to make an emergency landing. The Kazakh authorities said that at least 29 people survived.

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Emily Anthes

The Animal Celebrities Who Surprised, Soothed and Screamed at Us in 2024

Moo Deng the pygmy hippo, Flaco the escaped eagle-owl, Charlotte the maybe-pregnant stingray — they distracted us from the messy human world but were also clear reflections of it.

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John Eligon, Julie Bourdin and Sergey Ponomarev

Cyclone on French Archipelago Exposes Resentments Over Immigrants

In the ruins left by Cyclone Chido, people from Mayotte, off the eastern coast of Africa, are calling to deport the undocumented immigrants who had settled there from neighboring islands.

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