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Making moves: LIV allows teams to trade players

In a first for LIV, the 13 teams can negotiate trades through June 9 in an effort to improve their teams but without altering the contracts of players.

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Baxter Holmes

How a forgotten basketball icon revolutionized the NBA -- and blazed a trail for Nikola Jokic

He once scored 99 points in a game. Radivoj Korac, from the same town as the Nuggets' star, ignited a basketball revolution that continues to shape the NBA -- even five decades after his tragic death.

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Medea Giordano

10 Great Deals on Last-Minute Mother’s Day Gifts (2024)

Does Mom need a KitchenAid or new headphones? Some of our favorite gear is on sale from Amazon and Target.

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Jack Milko

USGA leaves door open for LIV golfers to find way into future U.S. Opens

USGA CEO Mike Whan at the 2024 Masters Tournament. | Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images

USGA CEO Mike Whan did not rule out the possibility of LIV Golf stars directly receiving access to the U.S. Open.

Many LIV Golf members have begged governing bodies to create pathways into majors since the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) does not award points at LIV events.

After all, the Saudi-backed circuit has robust talent, including Brooks Koepka, who won the PGA Championship last year at...

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Lauren Feiner

Intel expects revenue blow after US blocks chip sales to Huawei

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Intel expects new export restrictions to China to impact its revenue for the next quarter, according to a new financial filing.

The US Department of Commerce said Tuesday it had revoked certain licenses for chip exports to sanctioned Chinese company Huawei. Intel said in its filing that the Commerce Department informed it Tuesday of the license change, which it said impacted the export of “consumer-related items to a customer in China,...

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David Pierce

I regret to inform you that LinkedIn’s games are very fun

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I almost didn’t get Pinpoint this morning. Here’s what it taught me about B2B sales.

I’m kidding! But I have to admit something: I’ve been going on LinkedIn every day recently, and I’m having a great time. Last week, the company announced it was adding three games to its app, both on desktop and mobile, as a naked engagement ploy to get you to open the app every day. I hate to say this, but it’s working.

The three games are called Pinpoint, Crossclimb, and...

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Will Knight

Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA

Demis Hassabis, Google’s artificial intelligence chief, says the AlphaFold software that revolutionized the study of proteins has received a significant upgrade that will advance drug development.

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Andrew Higgins

In Serbia, Xi Underlines Close Ties With Ally That Shares Wariness of U.S.

Visiting friendly leaders in Eastern Europe, the Chinese president commemorated the 25th anniversary of a misdirected U.S. airstrike that destroyed China’s embassy in Belgrade.

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James Dator

NHL mock draft 2024: Macklin Celebrini gives Sharks what they’ve been missing

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The Sharks are getting a new star at the top of the 2024 NHL Draft. Here’s what happens after that.

The San Jose Sharks are the big winners after the NHL Draft Lottery on Tuesday night, landing the No. 1 pick and Macklin Celebrini with it. Celebrini is nowhere near as highly touted as Connor Bedard was a year ago, but nevertheless he’s an absolute lock to be the first pick — with a considerable fall off after that.

Don’t mistake that...

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Jack Milko

Rory McIlroy won’t be joining PGA Tour board after all, feels unwanted

Rory McIlroy looking dejected during the final round of the 2023 Horizon Irish Open. | Photo By Ramsey Cardy/Getty Images

Rory McIlroy, who stepped down from the PGA Tour Policy Board in November and expressed interest in returning, will not re-join after all.

Rory McIlroy offered to lend a helping hand and return to the PGA Tour Policy Board after he resigned last fall.

But members of the board did not want the Northern Irishman’s input.

“It got pretty complicated and messy, I...

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Mark Schofield

Miami Dolphins CEO Tom Garfinkel on the growth of F1, hot laps with Jaylen Waddle, and more

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SB Nation participated in an invitation-only media roundtable with Tom Garfinkel ahead of the Miami Grand Prix

MIAMI — Dawn breaks at Hard Rock Stadium on the day of the 2024 Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix. The campus around the stadi slowly comes to life, on a day that will see celebrities, the motorsport world, dignitaries, and thousands of fans descend on the location to see one of the greatest spectacles in motorsport. But...

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James Dator

Soccer players suspended in France for throwing lit flares into stands

A wild scene broke out in France.

Anarchy broke out in the closing minutes of Valenciennes vs. Troyes in France over the weekend when play had to be suspended in the 89th minute due to the pitch becoming littered in lit flares.

What happened next was unlike anything we’ve seen before. Frustrated Troyes players began picking up the lit flares, throwing them back into the crowd, and potentially creating a deadly scenario in the stands.

This all stemmed from frustration bubbling...

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Joseph Acosta

Dodgers no-hitter prediction gone wrong is definitive proof baseball jinxes exist

The timing is simply incredible, you can’t make it up

Sometimes, predictions made before a game can go horribly wrong. Charles Barkley’s guarantees on Inside the NBA almost always go poorly, and we always see pregame predictions go wrong in football. However, this poorly timed prediction on the MLB Network might take the cake. MLB Network’s Greg Amsinger predicted that Los Angeles Dodgers star pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto would throw a no hitter, putting the star on...

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Chris Welch

The new Sonos app is missing a lot of features, and people aren’t happy

Everybody, hold on. We’ll get through this. | Image: Sonos

Last month, Sonos announced a complete overhaul of its mobile app for iOS and Android. It was supposed to meaningfully streamline the previous version, “bringing services, content, and system controls to one customizable homescreen.” Sonos wanted the app to feel more personalized and more modern and to make “tab to tab jumping a thing of the past.”

I didn’t get a chance to use the new app firsthand in April; Sonos...

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Jess Weatherbed

Amazon Prime Video ads are about to get more intrusive

The new Prime Video ad formats will arrive sometime later this year. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

It’s barely been four months since Amazon placed ads in its Prime Video streaming service, but the retail giant is already introducing more annoying promotional tactics — such as displaying ads whenever someone hits the pause button.

On Tuesday, Amazon announced it will roll out three new ad formats for Prime Video later this year to tempt subscribers to purchase...

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Andrew Webster

Nintendo’s new NES collection is all about speedrunning

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Nintendo is embracing the world of speedrunning in its own way. The company announced a new collection of NES games for the Switch called Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, but the twist is the bundle is built entirely around playing really fast.

The collection features 13 different games — including Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, and a whole lot of Super Mario Bros. — but instead of playing through the entire thing, players are tasked with completing...

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Justine Calma

The world’s largest carbon removal plant is here, and bigger ones are on the way

Climeworks’ Mammoth direct air capture plant in Hellisheiði, Iceland. | Image: Climeworks

Mammoth, the largest industrial facility yet built to filter carbon dioxide out of the air, just powered up in Hellisheiði, Iceland. It’s run by Swiss climate tech company Climeworks, whose clients include JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, among others.

It was the latest industrial plant built with the purpose of sucking carbon dioxide out of the air, a process called direct...

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Wes Davis

Stack Overflow is feeding programmers’ answers to AI, whether they like it or not

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Stack Overflow’s new deal giving OpenAI access to its API as a source of data has users who’ve posted their questions and answers about coding problems in conversations with other humans rankled. Users say that when they attempt to alter their posts in protest, the site is retaliating by reversing the alterations and suspending the users who carried them out.

A programmer named Ben posted a screenshot yesterday of the...

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Umar Shakir

A new iPhone shortcut replicates Android’s best new feature

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One of Android’s best new features, Circle to Search, is unfortunately not available to iPhone users. But Google is throwing Apple fans a bone with a solution that essentially replicates the function.

Google’s design manager for Google Lens, Minsang Choi, shared a new iOS shortcut in a post on X that’s designed to leverage the Action button on iPhone 15 Pro devices. When activated, the shortcut takes a screenshot of whatever you’re...

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