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NCAA Bars Transgender Athletes From Women’s Sports After Trump Order

The decision, effective immediately, came a day after President Trump signed an order barring transgender girls and women from playing in women’s sports at federally funded educational institutions.

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OpenAI picks Texas for ‘flagship’ data center in Stargate project

Around 16 states have indicated interest in building data centers for Stargate.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI said on Thursday that Texas will be the “flagship” data center site in the Stargate project it is building with SoftBank.

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Harrison Faigen

Myles Turner celebrated nearly a decade of surviving NBA trade rumors with a perfect meme

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At least Myles Turner has a sense of humor about how many trade rumors he’s been in during his career with the Pacers.

Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner has been in trade rumors linking him to the Los Angeles Lakers since 2021, and basically every season since, including the current, 2024-25 campaign. But after another NBA trade deadline came and went on Thursday, Turner is once again still a member of the reigning Eastern Conference Finals...

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Mark Schofield

Toto Wolff hails Mercedes F1’s reinvention ahead of 2025 season

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff talked Lewis Hamilton and more as the team launched their adidas kit for the 2025 F1 season

Mercedes is ushering in a new era this Formula 1 season.

With living legend Lewis Hamilton beginning his journey at Ferrari after departing the team, Mercedes is turning to young phenom Andrea Kimi Antonelli to drive alongside George Russell. In addition, the team welcomed a new clothing partnership with adidas, which they launched at the company’s headquarters in...

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Kate Knibbs

USAID Workforce Slashed From 10,000 to Under 300 as Elon Musk’s DOGE Decimates Agency

The US government’s primary foreign aid organization is losing the vast majority of its staff, forcing the agency’s lifesaving work to screech to a halt.

Mashable

Trump wants a TikTok deal, but China still might let it die

President Donald Trump boasted that he would save the popular social media platform TikTok from a ban in the U.S. And that still could happen. However, according to those close to the talks, negotiations between the U.S. and TikTok's parent company, the China-based ByteDance, have stalled.

In a new report from the Washington Post, sources involved in the deal discussions say that it appears the Chinese government may still let it die unless it receives "larger concessions" from the Trump...

Mashable

Tinder now allows you to search by what youre looking for

Tinder has rolled out relationship goals and relationship types in the last few years, and now — right ahead of Valentine's Day — it's letting users search for matches based on what they're looking for.

SEE ALSO: 10 free dating apps worth trying in 2025

Daters can go to the Explore page on the app, which evokes a more Instagram or TikTok look. Explore already gave users options to search others by shared interests, like whether they're...

Mashable

Researchers created an AI reasoning model on par with OpenAIs o1 for less than $50

The floodgates have opened for building AI reasoning models on the cheap.

Researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington have developed a model that performs comparably to OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek R1 models in math and coding — for less than $50 of cloud compute credits.

What's more, the model was trained on only 1,000 questions, and took just 26 minutes and 16 Nvidia H100 GPUs. Stanford researcher Niklas Muennighoff said in a email to Mashable that the cost is an estimate based on...

Mashable

Amy Schumer and the Kinda Pregnant cast allow a Paper Magic 8 Ball to interview them

Amy Schumer is joined by the Kinda Pregnant cast (Jillian Bell, Brianne Howey, Urzila Carlson, and Lizze Broadway) in playing around with a Paper Magic 8 Ball, which prompts them into talking about their favorite moments from the shooting their new film.

Kinda Pregnant is now streaming on Netflix.

Mashable

How to manage quarterly taxes as a solopreneur

Being a solopreneur comes with plenty of benefits: You can set your own hours, decide your own business priorities, and kiss performance reviews goodbye. But a one-and-done tax season? That is not one of them.

In many cases, independent workers must pay the tax they owe not in one lump on April 15 but in four installments throughout the year. These payments are the dreaded quarterly, or estimated, taxes

Quarterly taxes can be confusing, but they don't have to be scary. Once you know the basics...

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Manfred: Fans concerned over no MLB salary cap

Rob Manfred says he is getting emails from fans concerned over MLB's lack of a salary cap following an offseason spending spree by the Dodgers.

Fast Company

Lily McDonald

RBLX stock plummets 20% after Roblox misses target for daily active users

The gaming company’s fourth quarter earnings report has investors fearing that the platform’s growth is slowing after years of progress.

Roblox shares dropped as much as 20% on Thursday after the gaming company reported disappointing fourth quarter results in bookings and daily active user figures, creating fear that the growth in the gaming platform is slowing after years of progress.

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Stephanie Nolen

Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order

The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.

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Is Eli Manning a Hall of Famer?

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We debate whether or not Eli Manning belongs in Canton this soon.

The inductees into the 2024 Pro Football Hall of Fame will be announced on Thursday with one of the most contentious first-ballot nominees in recent history. This will be Eli Manning’s first chance to be enshrined, and the expectation is that he will likely get in.

Does Manning deserve this honor, or is this a case of him coasting on his name? Today we debate whether Eli is actually...

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Mark Schofield

Why the Bears and White Sox will need to start winning if they want public stadium funds

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Proposed legislation in Illinois could prove problematic for Bears stadium hopes

Two Chicago-area sports teams, the Chicago Bears and the Chicago White Sox, are hoping to build new stadiums. The Bears are looking to construct a new $4.7 billion stadium just south of their current site at Soldier Field, and the White Sox are hoping to build a new stadium in the South Loop. As you might expect, both ownership groups are looking for public funding to...

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Ricky O'Donnell

NBA trade deadline instant grades for every 2025 major deal made as they happen

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Let’s give out instant grades for the big moves at the 2025 NBA trade deadline.

The 2025 NBA trade deadline will forever be remembered for a deal that took place a few days before the buzzer. The Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks completed the trade of the century by exchanging Luka Doncic for Anthony Davis over the weekend. The NBA has been on fire ever since, with Khris Middleton, Kyle Kuzma, Zach LaVine, and De’Aaron Fox all finding new...

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Joseph Acosta

Super Bowl 2025: Eagles offense vs. Chiefs defense is fascinating chess match

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Here’s how the Eagles and Chiefs matchup when Philly has the ball.

Welcome to part two of the Super Bowl LIX breakdown from Establish the Fun. Read our film review of the Chiefs offense vs. Eagles defense. Now let’s dive into the other side of the ball.

Now, you’re probably expecting me to start off with something here about QB Jalen Hurts and the passing game.

YOU THOUGHT WRONG!

As up and down as Hurts and the Eagles’ passing game has...

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Sources: Suns trading Nurkic to Hornets for Martin

The Phoenix Suns are trading Jusuf Nurkic and a 2026 first-round pick to the Charlotte Hornets for Cody Martin, Vasilije Micic and a 2026 second-round pick.

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