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Fast Company

Henry Chandonnet

How Wikipedia became a political lightening rod

Elon Musk’s attacks could kill Wikipedia. It’s not their first run-in with political backlash.

Wikipedia has faced political threats for years, but this time, it may be at a breaking point.

Fast Company

Sarah Bregel

Eating from plastic containers may increase risk of heart disease, study shows

Research shows that plastic takeout containers may leach harmful chemicals into food, increasing the risk of heart failure.

You can find plastic containers storing food in just about every grocery store. But a new study makes a strong case for never eating out of a plastic container, especially those meant to be heated, ever again. 

Mashable

Channel your inner Instagram girlie with $103 off the LG SanbyMe portable touchscreen monitor

SAVE $103: As of Feb. 21, you can get the LG StanbyMe portable touchscreen monitor for $896.99, down from $999.99, at Amazon. That's a $103 discount.

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Amazon deal of the day: Take $100 off our favorite noise-cancelling headphones

Check out the best Amazon deals of the day as of Feb. 21: OUR TOP PICK Bose QuietComfort Ultra $329 ...

ESPN.com

Adam Rittenberg

Nebraska nixes Tennessee home-and-home plan

Nebraska has opted out of its deal to play Tennessee in a home-and-home series scheduled for 2026 and 2027 because the Huskers' football stadium will be undergoing renovations.

ESPN.com

Kendra Andrews

Sources: Collier shares 1-on-1 money with staff

Unrivaled co-founder and player Napheesa Collier is giving half of her prize money for winning the league's first 1-on-1 tournament to her training and performance staff and assistant coaches working with her team, sources told ESPN.

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If You Want To Be The Best Gift-Giver In Your Friend Group, These 27 Things From Nordstrom Are A Good Place To Start

Friendship isn't a competition but if gift-giving was a game, you would win.

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SBNation.com

CarrieBerk

How NIL is shaping the future of college football recruiting: What you might not know

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NIL has a huge impact in today’s game of college football and recruiting.

When he’s not throwing touchdowns, Texas quarterback Arch Manning is shooting social media content for his sponsorship with Red Bull. The athlete has an NIL valuation of $6.5 million. Keep in mind, the 19-year-old is still in college.

The minimum salary for an NFL rookie in 2024 is $795,000. Meanwhile, college athletes are earning in the millions for sponsorships with major brands...

Fast Company

Associated Press

Why a proposed ban on lab-grown meat is getting pushback from Nebraska ranchers

Many Nebraska farm organizations are not worried about competition from ‘cell-cultivated’ meat.

The prospect of banning the sale of so-called lab-grown meat might seem like a no-brainer in Nebraska, where beef is king, but some of the proposal’s staunchest opposition has come from ranchers and farming groups who say they can compete without the government’s help.

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen—one of the largest pork producers in the country—is behind the push to ban cultivated meat,...

Fast Company

Michael Grothaus

UnitedHealth Group stock price takes another tumble on report of alleged DOJ Medicare billing probe

The health insurance giant has called a new report from WSJ “misinformation,” but investors may not be so sure. Shares were down about 9% early Friday.

UnitedHealth Group, America’s largest insurer, is facing yet another crisis. The company’s stock price (NYSE: UNH) plummeted in early trading this morning after a new report alleged that the private insurance provider is facing a probe from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) over its Medicare billing practices, a claim UnitedHealth...

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Questloves Sly Stone doc explores the burden of Black Genius in America

Questlove's Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius) asks the question "Is there a burden on Black Genius?" The film's producer Joseph Patel gives us a deep look into the film, Sly Stone's legacy, and the burden that comes with success for Black artists.

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The internet fears Protoclone, the human robot that bleeds

Clone Robotics just brought the very essence of your worst nightmares to life in gleaming, astonishing, graphic detail.

The Polish startup posted a video on X of Protoclone, a faceless, anatomically accurate synthetic human hanging from strings in the ceiling.

"Protoclone, the world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android," Clone Robotics introduced in the video that has now been seen by more than 33 million people on the platform. It has over "200 degrees of freedom, over 1,000 Myofibers,...

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Snag a new Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE for $160 off at Amazon

SAVE $160.27: As of Feb. 21, get the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE for $289.72 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $449.99. That's a discount of 36%.

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A Thousand Blows: Who were the Forty Elephants gang and their thief queen Mary Carr?

In Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight's Hulu/Disney+ show, A Thousand Blows, there are more than a few characters based on historical figures. Set in the grime and crime of 1880s East London, the most overt action takes place in the boxing ring, with real-life Jamaican immigrant Hezekiah Moscow (Malachi Kirby) taking on the best fighter on the Thames, Henry "Sugar" Goodson (Stephen Graham).

But beyond these matches, a band of stealthy, organised thieves are seizing their own piece of the...

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Twitch streamers uploads, highlights capped at 100 hours

Twitch is imposing a storage restriction on certain types of content.

The Amazon-owned streaming platform, which is largely dedicated to video games but also sometimes eating food, announced on its support website that anything under the "Highlights" and "Uploads" banner now counts towards a 100-hour storage limit, per profile. It should be noted that this does not apply to the temporarily saved VODs of livestreams or shorter, streamer-uploaded Clips.

Highlights and Uploads are generally...

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Stay charged and connected with 17% off the Anker Prime Power Bank

SAVE $30: As of Feb. 21, you can score the Anker Prime Power Bank for $149.99, down from $179.99, at Amazon. That's a $30 price cut.

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Save $60 on an annual PlayStation Plus Premium membership for a limited time

SAVE $60: As of Feb. 21, PlayStation owners can snag a 12-month PS Plus Premium membership for $60 off the usual price. That's just $99.99 for a whole year of the Game Pass-esque subscription service, rather than $159.99.

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Wired Top Stories

Kate Knibbs, Emily Mullin

The Ozempic Shortage Is Over

The semaglutide shortage has officially ended in the US—which means the GLP-1 drug industry is about to undergo massive changes.

SBNation.com

James Dator

Yankees finally ditch their ridiculous beard policy

“YOU CAN KEEP THOSE SIDEBURNS!”

One of the most antiquated policies in sports is dead. On Friday the New York Yankees announced that they were rescinding their 49-year-old policy of banning facial hair for players and team employees, now allowing “well-groomed beards.”

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The Yankees’ “appearance policy” first started when George Steinbrenner took over the team in...

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