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Paula Lavigne and Dan Murphy

Dept. of Education: Title IX applies to athlete pay

The direct payment plans that many major college athletic departments are making for athletes would violate Title IX law, according to a Department of Education memo.

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ESPN

Brady to be with Fox for long haul, says agent

Tom Brady plans to be in the Fox broadcast booth for the duration of his 10-year contract, his agent, Don Yee, told the Sports Business Journal on Thursday.

ESPN.com

With ban over, Butler off injury report vs. Nuggets

Jimmy Butler could be returning to action for the Miami Heat when they host the Denver Nuggets, as he isn't listed on the Heat's injury report for Friday's game.

ESPN.com

Paula Lavigne

UF hoops asst. faces sexual assault allegations

A Florida athletics department employee filed a sexual assault complaint against an assistant men's basketball coach Tuesday as the school continues to investigate head coach Todd Golden for alleged Title IX violations.

Wired Top Stories

Zoë Schiffer

Mira Murati’s AI Startup Makes First Hires, Including Former OpenAI Executive

It’s a major get for Murati’s mysterious startup, which has also poached engineers and researchers from a number of other prominent AI firms.

Wired Top Stories

Lily Hay Newman

Hackers Likely Stole FBI Call Logs From AT&T That Could Compromise Informants

A breach of AT&T that exposed “nearly all” of the company's customers may have included records related to confidential FBI sources, potentially explaining the Bureau's new embrace of end-to-end encryption.

BuzzFeed - Latest

38 Wildly Effective Cleaning Solutions You’ll Kick Yourself For Not Buying Years Ago

Your other regret will be all the time wasted on ineffective cleaners.

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The Verge

Charles Pulliam-Moore

Trading is coming to Pokémon TCG Pocket later this month (with some caveats)

The Pokémon Company

It’s coming a little later than we initially thought, but The Pokémon Company (TCPi) has finally announced when Pokémon TCG Pocket’s long-awaited trading functionality is rolling out.

Today, TCPi revealed that, along with Pokémon TCG Pocket’s next set of cards, the game’s trading feature is set to launch later this month. TCPi didn’t specify an exact date in its statement about the update, but it did explain that trading will involve some restrictions...

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David A. Fahrenthold

Two Watchdogs Were Rebuffed From Joining Trump’s Cost-Cutting Effort

“We have no room in our administration for Democrats,” a transition spokeswoman replied after good-government activists tried to join the president-elect’s new efficiency department.

NYT > Home Page

Maggie Haberman, Dana Rubinstein and Christopher Maag

Eric Adams Heads to Mar-a-Lago to Meet With Trump

The New York mayor, who is under federal indictment, has spoken warmly about President-elect Donald J. Trump in recent weeks and has said he is open to receiving a pardon from him.

SBNation.com

Noa Dalzell

Unrivaled announces first WNBA player injury ahead of league tip-off

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Phantom guard Marina Mabrey will miss the first 2-4 weeks of the season with a calf strain suffered during training camp.

Unrivaled — the new 3-on-3 professional women’s basketball league tipping off Friday — announced that Marina Mabrey sustained a right calf strain during training camp that is expected to keep her out of play for 2-4 weeks.

Mabrey, a member of the Phantom club, underwent an MRI at Mount Sinai with team physician Dr. Danica...

Fast Company

Eve Upton-Clark

Americans keep falsely claiming this random man from Vancouver is RedNote’s CEO

No, Jerry is not in charge of RedNote. Yes, he is amused by the mistake.

Americans flocking to the Chinese app RedNote thought they’d been welcomed by the platform’s CEO. Turns out, he’s just a guy from Vancouver.

Fast Company

Florian Schattenmann

3 lessons in leadership I learned from the bass guitar

From practicing to moving everyone in the same direction, playing this musical instrument taught me a lot.

For me, the intersection of my scientific roots and the creativity that helps me lead innovation for one of the world’s largest food and agriculture companies came from an unlikely place—the bass!

Wired Top Stories

Emily Mullin

An Entire Book Was Written in DNA—and You Can Buy It for $60

What may be the first commercially available book saved in DNA is the latest example of how consumers might use molecular data storage.

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34 Products That Will Make You Feel Like You Leveled Up Your Human Existence

Once you try this affordable "airbrush" foundation spray, there's simply no going back.

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The Verge

Emma Roth

SpaceX catches Starship booster for a second time but loses the spacecraft

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SpaceX successfully caught its Super Heavy booster for the second time. During Starship’s 7th test flight from Boca Chica, Texas, Super Heavy descended into the launch tower’s “chopstick” arms, allowing it to grab the booster.

Despite the successful catch, SpaceX lost communications with the Starship spacecraft mounted atop the booster. “It successfully separated from the super heavy booster, but during that ascent phase, a couple of the engines dropped...

The Verge

Lauren Feiner

Biden punts the TikTok ban to Trump

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The Biden administration says it will leave it to incoming President Donald Trump to figure out how to deal with the mess of the TikTok ban, ABC News reports.

“Our position on this has been clear: TikTok should continue to operate under American ownership,” a White House official told ABC News. “Given the timing of when it goes into effect over a holiday weekend a day before inauguration, it will be up to the next administration to...

The Verge

Andrew J. Hawkins

GM banned from selling your driving data for five years

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General Motors and its subsidiary OnStar are banned from selling customer geolocation and driving behavior data for five years, the Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday.

The settlement comes after a New York Times investigation found that GM had been collecting micro-details about its customers’ driving habits, including acceleration, braking, and trip length — and then selling it to insurance companies and third-party data brokers...

The Verge

Sheena Vasani

Sony’s black PlayStation 5 accessories are now available for preorder

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Sony announced a collection of black PlayStation 5 accessories in the midst of CES last week, and you can now preorder them ahead of their release date on February 20th. The new DualSense Edge controller ($199.99), Pulse Elite headset ($149.99), Pulse Explore wireless earbuds ($199.99), and PlayStation Portal ($199.99) are all available for preorder from Sony, Amazon, and a string of other retailers starting today.

Sony’s new PS5 accessories are just as sleek as the...

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