Dallas' new deep threat and Boston's new defensive groove: Keys to pivotal Game 4s

The Celtics bounced back in Cleveland, while the Mavs got another win closer to an upset of the top-seeded Thunder. What lies ahead in Monday's Game 4s?

What marijuana reclassification could mean for medical research

The U.S. pot sector could see an influx of medical research funding from healthcare investors amid renewed interest from pharmaceutical firms.

The U.S. pot sector could see an influx of medical research funding from healthcare investors amid renewed interest from pharmaceutical firms, should a proposal to reclassify cannabis as a lower-risk substance be approved, industry experts said.

Someone Allegedly Put Their Baby On The Floor At The Taylor Swift Eras Tour Paris Show, And The Venue Responded

View Entire Post ›

OpenAI's GPT-4o Model Gives ChatGPT a Snappy, Flirty Upgrade

Prepare for ChatGPT to get more emotional. OpenAI demonstrated upgrades that make the chatbot capable of snappier conversations and showed the AI helper picking up on and expressing emotional cues.

The First Person to Receive a Pig Kidney Transplant Has Died

The hospital that carried out the procedure two months prior says there’s “no indication” that the transplant was related to his death.

Sauber aiming for a ‘reset’ after a difficult Miami Grand Prix

Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images

Like many rivals, Sauber is bringing some upgrades to Imola where they are hoping for better results than they saw in Miami

Formula 1 returns this week, with the grid kicking off the European portion of the schedule with the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. This week is likely to be an emotional one for the sport, as the grid returns to Imola for the first time since 2022, with last year’s race canceled due to devastating flooding in the region. In...

PGA Championship: Top 25 players with best chance to win at Valhalla, ranked

Scottie Scheffler during the final round of the 2024 RBC Heritage. | Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images

The PGA Championship is now upon us, so here are the top 25 players with the best chance to win at Valhalla.

The PGA Championship has produced an impressive list of winners over the past decade.

Brooks Koepka has won three Wanamaker Trophies, while Justin Thomas has claimed two. Phil Mickelson became the oldest major champion three years ago at Kiawah Island, and Collin Morikawa...

Tile owner Life360 picks satellites over partnering with Apple or Google

Life360 owns Tile, which makes popular location trackers like the Tile Pro. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge

Tile is promising satellite connectivity for its Bluetooth trackers in a move that could boost the company as an independent alternative to its Big Tech rivals: Apple’s Find My network and Google’s newly revamped Find My Device network.

Life360, the family locator and safety service company that bought Tile in 2021 announced a partnership with the satellite company...

Denon adds Siri to its smart speakers

Denon Home smart speakers now support Apple’s Siri voice assistant. | Image: Denon

Way back in 2021, Ecobee’s thermostats became the first non-Apple device to integrate Siri voice control into its hardware, following Apple’s making the voice assistant available to third-party devices at WWDC that year. Fast-forward a few years, and there’s finally another device with Siri on board: Denon smart speakers.

While primarily known for its receivers, Denon’s line of wireless...

Cruise is back driving autonomously for the first time since pedestrian-dragging incident

Photo: Getty Images

Cruise’s autonomous vehicles are officially back on the road and driving autonomously for the first time since one of its driverless vehicles dragged a pedestrian over 20 feet in San Francisco.

Cruise said last month that it would resume testing with manually driven vehicles focused on mapping and gathering road information — minor tasks for a company with as many autonomous miles as Cruise. But Cruise needs to show local officials that it is suitably...

Apple News Plus is ready to work offline

Image: Apple

Even if subscribers are outside cellular or Wi-Fi range (or if there’s a massive outage), Apple News Plus on iOS 17.5 can still supply them content now that it’s added Offline Mode — this must’ve been farther down the list from Apple Maps, which added offline navigation last year in the iOS 17 update. Top Stories, Apple News Today audio briefings, magazines, narrated articles, and puzzles can automatically download to your iPhone or iPad, all optimized to maximize...

Zelda: Majora’s Mask is now a native PC game, and every N64 title could follow its lead

I thought opening the impossible door in Mario 64 was the coolest thing that’d happened to the Nintendo 64 in years, but Mr. Wiseguy’s just-released N64 Recompiled blows me away. It’s a tool that theoretically lets you turn any N64 game into a native PC port, the better to play and preserve N64 games — and to showcase its abilities, you can already download Windows and Linux-native apps for The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask that seem to run incredibly well.

It almost seems...

ChatGPT will be able to talk to you like Scarlett Johansson in Her

Photo: Warner Bros.

OpenAI is releasing a Her-inspired voice assistant feature that can read your facial expressions and translate spoken language in real time — and hopefully do it all without abandoning you like in the movie.

During a livestream demonstration on Monday, OpenAI engineers and CTO Mira Murati gathered around a phone to show the new capabilities. They encouraged the assistant to be more expressive while making up a bedtime story, then abruptly requested it to switch...

The brand-new Apple iPad Air just got its first discount at Amazon

In two days, the all-new 2024 Apple iPad Air tablet will officially hit the market. While waiting for the big drop, shoppers can make sure they're among the first to get their hands on the new iPads by pre-ordering from the Apple Store, Amazon, and others. Today, they're already getting their first discounts.

Best Apple iPad Air 2024 deals: Best budget-friendly Apple iPad Air 2024 deal ...

Jam out this summer with up to 38% off portable speakers

GET UP TO 38% OFF: As of May 13, Amazon is offering up to 38% off portable speakers. Choose from Bose, JBL, and other top brands.

Our top picks: Best deal overall JBL FLIP 5 $79.99 at Amazon ...

OpenAI announces GPT-4o, a multimodal voice assistant

OpenAI has unveiled GPT-4o, a new AI model that combines text, vision, and audio.

At its highly anticipated livestream event, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati shared that GPT-4o can process text, audio, and vision in one model. GPT-4o will be available to all users, including free users, in ChatGPT and the API.

SEE ALSO: Apple and OpenAI 'finalizing terms' for bringing ChatGPT to iOS 18

The announcement confirmed previous rumors of a voice assistant....

IHG's summer sale is here — members save 25%

Save 25%: IHG Hotels & Resorts' Summer Sale has started with IHG One Rewards members saving 25% and non-members scoring 20% off. Stays must be booked between May 24 through September 2. Book before May 21 to save. Rates are pre-paid and non-refundable.

Opens in a new window ...

How Target took over these one-of-a-kind quilts

What happens when distinctive cultural tradition collides with corporate America?

Over the past two decades, Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their daring geometric patterns. The groundbreaking art practice was cultivated by direct descendants of slaves in rural Alabama who have faced oppression, geographic isolation and intense material constraints.

Melinda French Gates is resigning from the Gates Foundation—and taking $12.5 billion to give away herself

Melinda French Gates has been cochair of the Gates Foundation since it launched in 2000.

Melinda French Gates is resigning from her role as cochair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the nonprofit she launched with her then-husband Bill Gates in 2000. Her last day with the foundation will be June 7. The nonprofit said that it will now change its name to the “Gates Foundation.”

OpenAI’s voice generator helped this patient get her voice back after surgery

Her synthetic but remarkably real-sounding AI voice can now say almost anything she wants.

The voice Alexis “Lexi” Bogan had before last summer was exuberant.