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Harrison Faigen

Tyrese Maxey forced Jon Stewart’s soul out of his body with improbable Sixers comeback

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Jon Stewart was a stand-in for all Knicks fans when the broadcast caught his reaction to Tyrese Maxey’s late-game explosion.

If you thought Kelly Oubre beefing with Ben Stiller would be the most memorable Sixers player vs. Knicks celebrity comedian fan interaction of the NBA playoffs, you were gravely mistaken.

That honor now belongs to forever Daily Show host Jon Stewart, who served as the stand-in for all Knicks fans when he made an...

BuzzFeed - Latest

14 Times Famous People Casually Name-Dropped Other Celebs In Their Memoirs

Rebel Wilson said, “Some actresses would get offended if I called them plus-size in this book, so I have to be careful with what I say. This is why, I think, Adele hates me.”

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Wired Top Stories

Lauren Goode

The Affordable Connectivity Program Kept Them Online. What Now?

Millions of people relied on the federal Affordable Connectivity Program to stay online and access work, health care, and school. Now that the program has expired, some fear being cut off.

NYT > Home Page

Jacey Fortin

Brown University Students and Officials Make Deal to Dismantle Encampment

Brown students took down their tents on campus after the university in Rhode Island agreed to discuss their demands for divestment from support for the Israeli military.

BuzzFeed - Latest

If You're Determined To Be More On Top Of Your Stuff, Here Are 33 Organization Products To Help

If opening your socks and underwear drawer scares you, this post has a solution for you.

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ESPN.com

Tisha Thompson

Sources: Ohtani money went to bookie via casino

The payments Ippei Mizuhara sent from Shohei Ohtani's bank account to a bookmaking operation were forwarded to casinos, where the money was deposited in gambling accounts, converted to chips and cashed out to pay the bookie, multiple sources told ESPN.

The Verge

Brandon Widder

Apple’s latest AirPods Pro with USB-C have returned to their all-time low

The second-gen AirPods Pro offer a wealth of ecosystem tricks, along with some of the best ANC you can get in a pair of earbuds. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge

Earlier today, Beats announced the Solo 4 alongside the forthcoming Solo Buds. The latter joins a burgeoning lineup of wireless earbuds under the Beats brand, though, despite being an Apple product, they don’t offer noise cancellation and the kind of deep ecosystem tricks afforded by the latest AirPods Pro with USB-C....

The Verge

Emma Roth

iOS 17.5 beta lets you keep Find My on during iPhone repairs

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge

Pretty soon, Apple might let you send your iPhone in for repair without disabling Find My and Activation Lock. In the fourth iOS 17.5 beta, 9to5Mac and MacRumors found that Apple is planning to introduce a new “Repair State” mode that keeps the anti-theft measures on while your iPhone is getting fixed.

Apple and many authorized repair providers currently ask you to turn off Find My when you’re getting your iPhone repaired. It has this requirement...

The Verge

Allison Johnson

Turns out the Rabbit R1 was just an Android app all along

I mean, at least it’s just $200? | Image: David Pierce / The Verge

Since it launched last week, Rabbit’s R1 AI gadget has inspired a lot of questions, starting with “Why isn’t this just an app?” Well, friends, that’s because it is just an app.

Over at Android Authority, Mishaal Rahman managed to download Rabbit’s launcher APK on a Google Pixel 6A. With a little tweaking, he was able to run the app as if it were on Rabbit’s own device. Using the volume-up key in place...

Fast Company

Hunter Schwarz

Why Walmart launched a premium grocery label, with fancy branding to match

The packaging for Walmart’s Bettergoods line looks like something you might find in Target. That’s intentional.

Walmart’s new private label brand, Bettergoods, doesn’t look like what you might expect a Walmart private-label brand to look like. And that’s entirely the point.

The discount retailer is pitching the new brand to shoppers looking for “elevated culinary experiences,” according to the company. With a vivid and colorful new brand identity that has the looks, messaging,...

ESPN.com

Jeff Legwold

Sources: Broncos not picking up Wilson's option

The Broncos have informed Zach Wilson and his reps that they will not pick up the fifth-year option in the quarterback's contract, sources told ESPN's Jeff Legwold. Wilson was traded to Denver by the Jets last week.

ESPN.com

Alden Gonzalez and Jeff Passan

Angels star Trout needs surgery for torn meniscus

Mike Trout needs knee surgery, but the procedure isn't considered to be season ending.

Wired Top Stories

Louryn Strampe

Google's Pixel 8A Is Coming, but Last Year’s Pixel 7A Is at Its Lowest Price Yet

If you’ve wanted to join the Google Pixel ecosystem, you’re in luck. Google’s A-Series phone is on sale alongside the Pixel Watch 2.

NYT > Home Page

Alan Feuer and Maggie Haberman

Trump Wants to Prosecute Biden. He Also Thinks Presidents Deserve Immunity.

In arguing to the Supreme Court that he cannot be charged for acts while in office, Donald Trump has asked the justices to enforce a norm that he has long threatened to shatter.

NYT > Home Page

Annie Karni

House Republicans, Seeking Edge Amid College Protests, Spotlight Antisemitism

Republican leaders said they would hold additional hearings with top university administrators and potentially withhold millions of federal dollars from universities that fail to keep Jewish students safe.

NYT > Home Page

Peter Baker

Biden, a Bystander to ’60s Protests, Is Now a Target

For President Biden, the campus unrest over the Gaza war recalls peace protests of his youth. But this time he cannot easily bypass the turmoil.

The Verge

Emilia David

New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and others sue OpenAI and Microsoft

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images

More news organizations, including the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, and four others, are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement.

The publications, all owned by the hedge fund Alden Global Capital, claim that both OpenAI and Microsoft trained on their articles without compensation or permission. The plaintiffs included as evidence several...

The Verge

Quentyn Kennemer

Google is building a fart button into Android

This could be the perfect gas to get Google I/O started this year. | Illustration: The Verge / Shutterstock

I simply don’t know how to feel about an incoming update to the Google Phone app that adds sound effects to the Android dialer. First spotted as part of a beta update by 9to5Google, the app may soon let you tap one of six “Audio Emoji” buttons to play a short sound clip that both sides of the call can hear.

There’s clapping, laughing, crying (a sad, sliding trombone),...

The Verge

Chris Welch

Fubo drops Discovery networks and blasts WBD for abusing its power

Image: Fubo

The face-off between streaming TV service Fubo and Warner Bros. Discovery is continuing to escalate. Fubo announced via a late afternoon press release that it has dropped Discovery networks effective immediately — “including Discovery, HGTV, Food Network and TLC, among others” — and has been unable to reach a separate deal to bring Turner sports networks TNT, TBS, and truTV to its customers.

The company claims that it had little choice but to drop the batch of...

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