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Jack Milko

St. Andrews hosting The Open in 2027 highlights how PGA Frisco stands out among legendary courses

The 18th hole during the second round of The 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews. | Photo by Keyur Khamar/PGA Tour via Getty Images

St. Andrews will again host The Open in 2027, which made us examine all four major venues for that year. One sticks out like a sore thumb.

Unlike the United States Golf Association (USGA), which has announced U.S. Open venues for the next 25 years through 2051, the R&A likes to wait until the last minute to unveil their host courses for The Open...

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Adam Rittenberg

Irish CB, first-round hopeful Morrison enters draft

Notre Dame cornerback Benjamin Morrison, whose 2024 season was shortened by an October hip injury, is headed to the NFL draft, where he will be a possible first-round pick.

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Jamal Collier

Spoelstra to Heat on Butler's ban: 'Get over it'

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra delivered a message to his team in the wake of another suspension for star forward Jimmy Butler, who will miss the upcoming two-game road trip in Milwaukee and Brooklyn as punishment for missing a team flight.

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Get a free $100 Amazon gift card when you pre-order the new Samsung Galaxy S25

GET A FREE $100 AMAZON GIFT CARD: Pre-order the new Samsung Galaxy S25 (128GB or 256GB, unlocked) and get a free $100 Amazon gift card. Orders are expected to begin shipping on Feb. 7.

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Stop losing your stuff with a 4-pack of Apple AirTags, back down to their lowest price

SAVE $29.01: As of Jan. 23, get a 4-pack of Apple AirTags for $69.99 at Amazon, down from their usual price of $99. That's a discount of 29% and their lowest price yet.

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Assassins Creed Shadows has a little something for everybody

It turns out the way to get me interested in a new Assassin's Creed (well, more interested than I already was) is to include features from the AC games I played 10 to 15 years ago.

To be a little more specific, Ubisoft's latest open-world stabbing simulator Assassin's Creed Shadows builds on the recent RPG-ish entries like Valhalla by incorporating mechanics and design philosophies from older entries like Brotherhood and Syndicate. From Valhalla, it borrows the idea of training and deploying...

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Phones with TikTok pre-installed listed for thousands of dollars on eBay

Sellers on eBay have capitalized on TikTok's uncertain fate in the U.S. by selling secondhand phones for thousands of dollars with the app pre-installed.

According to Wired, listings for phones with TikTok installed have proliferated on the online marketplace amidst the TikTok ban saga. On Jan. 18, U.S. users were denied access to the app with a pop-up saying, "A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now." But the very next day,...

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John McAfee returns from the dead to promote a memecoin on Elon Musks X

If enough hasn't already happened this week – John McAfee is apparently back from the dead.

Well, his account on Elon Musk's X has been revived at the very least.

On Wednesday night, John McAfee's @officialmcafee X account started posting again even though McAfee himself was found dead from suicide in June 2021 in a prison in Spain while awaiting extradition to the U.S. 

To be fair, the X account belonging to the eccentric founder of McAfee antivirus hadn't been completely dormant since his...

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Social Security Administration axes pages referring to changing gender or sexual identity

Keen-eyed individuals spotted another blow to LGBTQ protections under the U.S.'s new presidential administration.

First flagged by Media Matters for America journalist Ari Drennen, the official page for changing sexual (or gender) identification on government documents — overseen by the Social Security Administration — has been removed from public view. The page currently displays an access denied notice that reads "You are not authorized to access this page."

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Southern dogs experiencing snow for the first time is super heartwarming

I don't know if you've ever had the good fortune of seeing a dog discover snow, but it is pure joy. I remember my then-puppy's first snow like it was yesterday.

A rare snowstorm, however, has struck the southern U.S. — states like Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida — meaning many dogs are discovering snow. After all, how often does a pup in New Orleans get to see snow? In a time where you might need some cute videos — well, that time is pretty much any time — the snow in the...

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The Oscars Finally Seem To Be Taking The Horror Genre Seriously. Thank God.

If Demi Moore can take this one to the finish line, it's not only a win for her, but for every overlooked horror performance from the last 10 years.

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Jim Tankersley, Emma Bubola, Andrew Higgins and Aurelien Breeden

Trump Is Leading a Global Surge to the Right

But not all of the leading conservative populist parties in the world are the same — in rhetoric or on policy.

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Lauren Feiner

Epic will expand its mobile game store by helping cover developer iOS fees

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Epic Games plans to add nearly 20 third-party games onto its mobile app store worldwide on Android and in the European Union on iOS and launching its free games program on mobile beginning with Bloons TD 6 and Dungeon of the Endless: Apogee. It’s also promising to pay some iOS fees for developers that are part of the program to overcome what Epic calls a major hurdle to moving outside the App Store.

“Our aim here isn’t just to launch a...

The Verge

Jay Peters

OpenAI’s new Operator AI agent can do things on the web for you

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OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator that can “go to the web to perform tasks for you,” according to a blog post. “Using its own browser, it can look at a webpage and interact with it by typing, clicking, and scrolling,” OpenAI says. It’s launching first in the US for subscribers of OpenAI’s $200 per month ChatGPT Pro tier.

Operator relies a “Computer-Using Agent” model that combines GPT-4o’s vision capabilities...

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Richard Lawler

Microsoft rumored to launch a smaller Surface Pro and Surface Laptop soon

The Surface Laptop Go 3 could get a replacement very soon. | Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

It’s been less than a year since Microsoft launched its first Qualcomm Snapdragon X-powered Surface devices, and now a new rumor says followups could debut as soon as this spring. A report from Windows Central updates rumors that have circled since 2023, citing sources who say that new versions of the Surface Laptop and Surface Pro 2-in-1 are in the works, with 11- to 12-inch size...

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Andrew Webster

Ninja Gaiden 4 is coming to Xbox, PC, and PS5

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Microsoft promised a new game announcement at its Xbox Developer Direct event, and that game turned out to be Ninja Gaiden 4. The new entry in the long-running franchise is being co-developed by Team Ninja along with Platinum Games, the team behind action games like Bayonetta and Nier: Automata. The game is launching in Fall 2025, and will be coming to Xbox, PC, and PS5 (it will also be available via Game Pass).

While the Ninja Gaiden franchise has been around since...

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Andrew Webster

Doom: The Dark Ages looks metal as hell and launches in May

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After revealing its next Doom game last summer, id Software is almost ready to release it: the studio announced that Doom: The Dark Ages is launching on May 15th.

The news came as part of Xbox’s most recent Developer Direct livestream, which provided the best look yet at the prequel. As the name implies, The Dark Ages is set in a medieval fantasy realm and takes place long before the events of Doom Eternal and the franchise’s 2016 reboot. The developers say that...

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Will Knight

OpenAI’s Operator Lets ChatGPT Use the Web for You

The company that kicked off the AI chatbot craze now wants AI to do more than just talk.

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Doug.Farrar

X-Factors on offense for the AFC and NFC Championships

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Offensive secret superstars for the Eagles, Commanders, Bills and Chiefs

Conference championship games are played in rarefied (and sometimes thin) air. The stakes are obviously higher, individual plays mean more, and the game script can veer in highly unpredictable ways that can decide things pretty quickly.

For the four teams left in the 2024 season as we turn our attention to the NFC and AFC Championship games, it’s also about maximizing the...

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Ricky O'Donnell

The 2026 NBA Draft is a historic class with 3 potential No. 1 picks

The 2026 NBA Draft looks like an all-timer because of three special talents.

Cooper Flagg gave the 2025 NBA Draft the superstar it needed at the top of the class when he decided to reclassify in Aug. 2023 to essentially skip his senior year of high school at Florida prep powerhouse Montverde Academy. Flagg was originally slated graduate high school in 2025, which would have had him ticketed for the 2026 NBA Draft. While Flagg’s reclassification balanced out the elite young talent...

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