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Savannah Leigh Richardson

Nelly Korda historic chase at Cognizant Founders Cup off to strong start

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Korda posted another round in the 60s as her hunt for six in a row began at the Cognizant Founders Cup.

Nelly Korda fired off a 3-under 69 to start her Cognizant Founders Cup tournament. It put her in the hunt for yet another victory in 2024. As of this writing, she is tied for sixth on a stacked leaderboard.

Korda is riding a five-tournament win streak, which is tied with Nancy Lopez and Annika Sorenstam for the most ever.

Despite her strong start, Korda is...

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Jack Milko

Blades Brown, 16, makes PGA Tour debut in style at Myrtle Beach Classic

Blades Brown plays his tee shot during the first round of the 2024 Myrtle Beach Classic. | Photo by Raj Mehta/Getty Images

Blades Brown, only a sophomore in high school, is playing among the pros this week at the Myrtle Beach Classic.

The future is already here.

For the second straight week, a teenager has made their PGA Tour debut.

Like 16-year-old Kris Kim at last week’s CJ Cup Byron Nelson, Blades Brown is teeing up at this week’s Myrtle Beach Classic.

Brown, who became the...

The Verge

Tom Warren

Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 Start menu with floating widgets

Image: Albacore (X)

Microsoft has quietly started testing an intriguing change to the Windows 11 Start menu that could introduce a floating panel full of “companion” widgets. Windows watcher Albacore discovered the new Start menu feature in the latest test versions of Windows 11 that Microsoft has released publicly.

While Microsoft has not yet announced this feature, the “Start menu Companions” appear to be a way to allow developers to extend the Windows 11 Start menu with...

The Verge

Emma Roth

Apple apologizes for iPad ‘Crush’ ad that ‘missed the mark’

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Apple has apologized after a commercial meant to showcase its brand-new iPad Pro drew widespread criticism among the creative community. In a statement provided to Ad Age, Tor Myhren, Apple’s vice president of marketing, said the company “missed the mark.”

“Creativity is in our DNA at Apple, and it’s incredibly important to us to design products that empower creatives all over the world,” Myhren told Ad Age. “Our goal is to always celebrate the myriad of...

Mashable

TikTok's AI-generated content is getting watermarked

TikTok is taking another stab at curbing the rise of AI-generated misinformation taking over social media platforms, as it announces a new way its watermarking (or labelling) AI.

The platform announced today that it is joining the Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative and the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a nonprofit-backed project to align tech and social media companies on best practices for what is known as "content provenance," or the "basic, trustworthy...

Mashable

Jinkx Monsoon's 'Doctor Who' performance was inspired by Michelle Gomez

New 'Doctor Who' villain Jinkx Monsoon revels her fandom of Michelle Gomez and where she drew her inspiration from for 'Maestro'.

Mashable

New M4 iPad Pro is reportedly faster than the MacBook Pro

There's a new iPad Pro and it might be more powerful than the most powerful MacBook Pro.

At least, that's what Geekbench says. According to the popular benchmarking software's website (as spotted by MSPowerUser) the new iPad Pro's single and multi-core scores are 22 and 25 percent faster than the 2023 MacBook Pro. It should be noted that the new iPad starts at $999, while the MacBook is a full $1,000 more than that.

SEE ALSO: What's missing: 6 features the new...

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The Conversation

La Niña is coming: An atmospheric scientist forecast what to expect amid global warming

Forecasters are already warning that this year’s Atlantic storm season could rival 2021, due in large part to La Niña.

One of the big contributors to the record-breaking global temperatures over the past year – El Niño – is nearly gone, and its opposite, La Niña, is on the way.

Fast Company

The Conversation

What’s happening to the offshore wind industry and can it recover?

Altogether, projects that had been canceled by the end of 2023 were expected to total more than 12 gigawatts of power, representing more than half the capacity in the project pipeline.

America’s first large-scale offshore wind farms began sending power to the Northeast in early 2024, but a wave of wind farm project cancellations and rising costs have left many people with doubts about the industry’s future in the U.S.

Fast Company

Reuters

Gay couple files class-action lawsuit against NYC for IVF coverage

Many lawsuits have challenged unequal insurance benefits for LGBTQ people, including for fertility treatments.

New York City was hit with a lawsuit on Thursday claiming it discriminates against gay male city employees by only covering the costs of in vitro fertilization for women and heterosexual couples.

Fast Company

Grace Snelling

Remembering Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, who made graphic design bigger and bolder

The famous designer brought her lively ‘supergraphics’ to the build environment. She died Tuesday at 95 years old.

“I wanted to mix life and design and art,” said the iconic graphic designer Barbara “Bobbie” Stauffacher Solomon in a 2018 short documentary film about her work. And for most of her life, that’s exactly what Stauffacher Solomon did.

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Michael Voepel

Will Caitlin Clark make the U.S. Olympic team for the Paris Games?

The U.S. women will take 12 players to Paris. We look at whether the Fever guard will be among them.

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ESPN

Wilson, Stewart and more of the 25 best WNBA players in 2024

In the preseason edition of our top 25 rankings, here are the players -- from A'ja Wilson to Aliyah Boston -- we expect to be the best this year.

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Jason Parham

Why the Voices of Black Twitter Were Worth Saving

Black Twitter has been a cultural engine for well over a decade. It could also disappear at any time.

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Vanessa Friedman

Stormy Daniels Makes a Statement in Court for Trump’s Criminal Trial

During her time on the stand in former President Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial, the adult entertainer dressed for history — and a jury.

The Verge

Emma Roth

Corsair is about to acquire racing sim company Fanatec

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Corsair is pursuing an acquisition of the racing sim brand Fanatec. In an update shared on Thursday, Corsair says it’s negotiating with Fanatec to restructure the troubled company’s around €70 million (about $75.4 million) debt and cover short-term costs.

Over the years, Fanatec has established itself as one of the most popular brands for racing sim hardware. It offers a premium lineup of racing wheels, pedals, shifters, and more, which virtual racing enthusiasts...

The Verge

Sean Hollister

Asus’ next ROG Ally will be the ROG Ally X

“The next ROG Ally.” | Image: Asus

The Asus ROG Ally was the first true Steam Deck challenger; while I’d argue it fell a little short, it legitimately improved the state of affordable Windows handheld gaming with its plugged-in performance boosts and smooth variable refresh rate screen. Now, Asus is beginning to reveal its successor: the ROG Ally X.

Don’t call it an Ally 2: when it ships in the second half of the year, the Windows-based Ally X will have the same AMD Z1...

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This Gen Z'er Feels "Expendable" After Chronic Brain Fog Forced Him To Quit School — Here's How It Affects His Budget And Day-To-Day

"When the fog hits, I might as well be a different person: I get aggravated more, I get confused in conversations, I can't plan, and I get very impulsive, which means I've had to learn how to handle that — which has taken the better part of over a year at this point. I'm only 25, but I feel like I'm 85."

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Tim Bontemps

NBA suspends Bucks' Beverley for four games

The NBA has suspended Bucks guard Patrick Beverley for four games without pay for throwing a basketball multiple times at fans and "an inappropriate interaction" with an ESPN producer after Game 6 against the Indiana Pacers last week.

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