No. 7 PG recruit Lewis decommits from Kentucky

Acaden Lewis, the No. 7-ranked point guard in the 2025 class, decommitted from Kentucky, he told ESPN on Thursday.

Venmo’s dubious defaults look like a permanent privacy foul

Payments service makes your friends list public by default, and many users never bother to change that setting.

If it weren’t for Signal, Venmo might be the most infamous app of the Trump administration—and maybe the most beloved among journalists covering this White House.

This Famous Physics Experiment Shows Why the Government Should Support ‘Useless’ Science

Basic research often pays huge dividends—but that’s not why we do it.

2025 NFL Draft position rankings: Interior offensive line, guards, centers

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The draft experts from our 32 NFL team sites ranked their top OGs and OCs and we collected the data for you.

Unlike this year’s offensive tackle class, the strength of the guard class is in the middle rounds as opposed to the top. While guys like Tyler Booker (Alabama) and Grey Zabel (North Dakota State) are the likely first-round picks of the group, there’s even more potential to be had on Day 2 and Day 3 with a number of experienced players...

Ferrari hoping upgrades can close the gap to McLaren and Max Verstappen

Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton are hoping Ferrari’s upgrades can close the gap to the front of the F1 field

One of the many beautiful things about Formula 1?

The answer to what ails a team could be right around the corner, in the form of the next set of upgrades to their challenger.

That is what Ferrari is hoping for, as the team will roll out some upgrades to the SF-25 at this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix. The team is bringing an updated floor to Bahrain this weekend, with...

Your daily NFL trivia game, Friday 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. Game instructions are at the bottom if you’re new to the game! Feel free to share your results in the comments and feedback in this Google Form.

If you can’t see the game due to Apple News or another service, click this game article.

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Your daily MLB trivia game, Friday edition

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

We’re back for another day of the SB Nation MLB in-5 daily trivia game. Game instructions are at the bottom if you’re new to the game! Feel free to share your results in the comments and feedback in this Google Form.

If you can’t see the game due to Apple News or another service, click this game article.

Thursday, April 10,...

Take A Road Trip Through The USA And We'll Guess If You're A Dog Or Cat Person

The best part of road trips is the snacks!

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The White Lotus star Patrick Schwarzenegger demonstrates a Saxon-style protein shake

In order to make the ultimate Saxon-style protein shake, you need a few key ingredients.

Appearing on The Tonight Show in the clip above, Saxon himself (aka The White Lotus star Patrick Schwarzenegger) demonstrates how it's done, from the copious quantities of protein powder to the slightly unnerving laughter.

Chef's kiss.

A star was wrongly accused of a cosmic crime: devouring its own planet

Two years ago, a star on its deathbed was charged with a heinous act — eating a planet — in a system 12,000 light-years away from Earth. 

But new evidence has emerged in the case that astronomers say exonerates this elderly Milky Way star of the crime. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space counterparts, a team observed that while the planet did die in the belly of a stellar beast, it didn’t go down the way they once...

Dire wolves might sound cool, but they do nothing to fix our biodiversity problem

Through gene editing, scientists at Colossal Biosciences are reviving long-extinct animals. But is it really for the sake of conservation, or just human curiosity?

Earlier this week, Time published an explosive story about an American company that reportedly revived a long-extinct species, the dire wolf. To some, it’s a scientific miracle: Some 10,000 years after the species went extinct, the planet is once again home to three living dire wolf pups, brought about by the ingenuity of...

This tiny screw is powering the humanoid robot revolution

Planetary roller screws are emerging as a critical—and costly—component in next-gen robots. China is racing ahead in controlling their supply.

The humanoid robotics revolution is just around the corner. Test models are already working in factories alongside human beings across the world, while AI companies develop new foundation models designed to help robots navigate their environments as easily as humans do.

Received an AI-generated résumé? Don’t reject it just yet

Dismissing it could be more costly than you think.

When an AI-assisted résumé lands on a hiring manager’s desk, most people have the knee-jerk reaction to chuck it straight onto the reject pile. While more and more companies are using AI in their day-to-day operations, when it comes to résumés and cover letters, the use of artificial intelligence remains taboo.

Why I read 597 applications for one job—no AI involved

What I learned from running an old-school hiring process for my VC fund’s next chief of staff.

Last month I posted a job description on our blog for a chief of staff role at my venture capital firm, Graham & Walker. Turns out, that job description really hit a nerve. Within an hour, more than a hundred candidates had put their hat in the ring and filled out the long Google form that served as our only form of application.

Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages

Some misconfigured AI chatbots are pushing people’s chats to the open web—revealing sexual prompts and conversations that include descriptions of child sexual abuse.

Trump’s New Plan for Social Security Death List, and China’s Counterattack on Tariffs

Plus, Hollywood stunts in the spotlight.

The ‘China Shock’ Offers a Lesson. It Isn’t the One Trump Has Learned.

Economists say the U.S. manufacturing decline in recent decades was not mainly about free trade, but about the pace of change without time to adjust.

Steeling China for a Tariff Fight, Xi Faces His Biggest Test Since Covid

Xi Jinping has refused to back down in China’s tariff confrontation with President Trump. But he’ll have to persuade his people that the pain is worth it.

"The 'Official' Diagnosis Was A 'Break With Reality'": 15 Times A Doctor's Hasty Misdiagnosis Could Have Killed Their Patient

"One of my lung lobes had to be removed, and I was placed on a ventilator — to this day, I deal with chronic chest pain..."

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NYT Mini crossword answers, hints for April 11, 2025

The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times' revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe.

With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who play it.

So, when a tricky clue disrupts a player's flow, it can be frustrating! If you find yourself stumped playing The Mini — much like with Wordle and Connections —...