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David Purdum

1 in 3 high-profile athletes threatened by bettors

The NCAA reports that nearly one in three star athletes receive abusive messages from people with "betting interests," with some college basketball players getting death threats during championship tournaments.

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Kristen Shilton

Former Blues coach Berube gets Maple Leafs job

The Maple Leafs are hiring former Blues coach Craig Berube to replace Sheldon Keefe.

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Mark Schlabach and Paolo Uggetti

Scheffler cards 66 after jail stint on 'chaotic' day

Scottie Scheffler's "chaotic" day that featured a brief morning stay in jail ended with the world's top-ranked golfer shooting a 66 at the PGA Championship.

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Savannah Leigh Richardson Jack Milko

Collin Morikawa’s birdie barrage soars him atop PGA Championship leaderboard

Collin Morikawa prepares to tee off on the 12th hole during the second round of the PGA Championship. | Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images

Collin Morikawa made a string of birdies on his back nine, helping him climb the leaderboard at the PGA Championship.

Collin Morikawa paraded around the front side at Valhalla on Friday, looking destined to win another major title and his second PGA Championship.

He made five straight birdies from holes four through eight, which vaulted him to...

The Verge

Richard Lawler

Motorola’s next Razr lineup might have bigger front screens for everybody

Image: 91Mobiles

After 2023’s big year for foldable phones, what’s next? According to these leaked pics, we can expect Motorola’s foldable Razr line to stretch that front cover screen even further on both versions. As revealed by 91Mobiles and Sudhanshu Ambhore on X, the Razr 50 Ultra 5G will feature a 4.0-inch screen on the outside, which is a noticeable upgrade from the 2023 Razr 40 Ultra (called the Razr Plus in the US) and its 3.6-inch front cover screen.

Photo by Allison...

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Sean Hollister

The Delta Emulator is changing its logo after Adobe threatened it

Delta Emulator is abandoning its current logo for a different, yet-to-be-revealed mark — because Adobe thinks Delta’s stylized letter “D” is a bit too close to its stylized letter “A” for comfort.

It’s not every day you see an app changelog that includes news of a legal threat, but get a load of this:

Image via iOS App Store “Adobe threatened legal action unless we changed our app icon — so we did!” it reads.

The situation unfolded quickly, according to...

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Gaby Del Valle

Head of Canada’s intelligence agency warns Canadians not to use TikTok

Illustration: The Verge

Canada’s security agency is trying to dissuade Canadians from using TikTok, telling users that their data is “available to the government of China.”

In an interview with CBC News set to air on Saturday, David Vigneault, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said that “there is a very clear strategy on the part of the government of China … to be able to acquire … personal information from around the world,” the CBC reports....

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Richard Lawler Tom Warren Jess Weatherbed Umar Shakir Sean Hollister Joanna Nelius Jon Porter Emma Roth Monica Chin Wes Davis

Microsoft’s Surface AI event: news, rumors, and lots of Qualcomm laptops

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

At Microsoft’s big AI and Surface event on May 20th, the company takes another shot at Arm Windows PCs.

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Fast Company

Shannon Cudd

WNBA live stream: How to watch women’s basketball without cable, including limited free options

Excitement is extra high with rising stars Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese joining the league this season. Here’s how to catch them in action.

Women’s basketball is keeping the momentum going from March Madness.

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Chris Morris

GameStop’s stock price plunges about 20% after meme stock surge

The video game retailer’s GME stock dropped back to Earth after the company announced plans to sell new shares and lowered its sales forecasts.

Roaring Kitty‘s meme stock revival may have come to an end. Shares of GameStop, after surging for the past week following the breaking-of-silence by investor Keith Gill, fell back to Earth Friday, losing close to 20% of their value.

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Reuters

VW doesn’t want Renualt’s help to make an affordable EV

The collapse of negotiations could mean the German carmaker may have to go it alone in developing its own affordable electric vehicle.

Volkswagen has walked away from talks with Renault to jointly develop an affordable electric version of the Twingo car, three sources familiar with the situation said, in a setback for the EU carmakers’ efforts to fend off Chinese rivals.

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Emily Price

Forget Ozempic: There could be an even more effective weight-loss drug on the way

A groundbreaking new study in ‘Nature,’ from a Novo Nordisk-funded research lab, boasts a drug that works better on mice than existing GLP-1s.

A new paper released in Nature this week discusses a new therapy for obesity that researchers say leads to more weight loss in mice than existing GLP-1 weight-loss medications, such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound, alone.

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Larraine Segil

Why Americans are hungry for transparent, reliable, and timely election information

An interview with the honorable Ellen McCarthy, founder of Trust in Media Cooperative.

At the Exceptional Women Alliance (EWA), we enable high level women to mentor each other to enable each leader to achieve personal and professional happiness through sisterhood. As the nonprofit organization’s founder, chair, and CEO, I am honored to interview and share insights from some of the thought leaders who are part of our peer-to-peer mentoring. 

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FastCo Works

How AI is supercharging work right now

It could be the most transformative technology of the next decade and beyond—but AI is also having an immense impact on businesses today.

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21 Very, Um, "Creative" Life Hacks From “Extreme Cheapskates” That I'm Not So Sure Were Worth The Money Saved

Someone actually found roadkill and then cooked it for dinner.

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Aces sell out WNBA-record 15 of 20 home games

The Las Vegas Aces have sold out 15 of their 20 home games -- the most in WNBA history -- and are the first team to sell out its allotment of season tickets.

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19-year-old Siegel catches air in Indy qualifying

Nolan Siegel, 19, brought the Indianapolis 500 practice to a halt on Friday when the rookie spun coming out of Turn 2 and hit the outside wall, sending his Dale Coyne Racing entry flying through the air before it landed on its side.

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Ohtani Day to be annual celebration in L.A.

The City of Los Angeles has declared May 17 Shohei Ohtani Day, with the city council passing a resolution to make this an annual observance for the duration of Shohei Ohtani's Dodgers career.

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Mike Coppinger

Fury in better shape at weigh-in for Usyk fight

Tyson Fury dropped some weight and appeared to be in good shape at the weigh-in for his heavyweight fight with Oleksandr Usyk.

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Jesse Rogers

Skenes strikes out first seven Cubs, 11 overall

Paul Skenes struck out the first seven Cubs hitters he faced Friday, setting a record for a Pirates pitcher and tying the major league record for a rookie.

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