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In a league full of questionable tattoos, Ball takes the cake
The NBA is full of pretty bad tattoos. From Mike Scott’s emoji tattoos to the assortment of tattoos that Birdman Chris Andersen had, the ink process for NBA players has been very hit and miss, most of them misses.
However, I don’t think we’ve seen anything like LaMelo Ball’s newest tattoo, and we may not see anything like it again. The Hornets’ star got some new ink on his back and it sure is ......
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A software engineer who was fired from Google in connection to internal protests at the company’s offices says the company retaliated against him for merely watching the demonstration against an Israeli defense contract.
The former employee, who asked to remain anonymous, said he went to the lounge on the 10th floor of Google’s New York City office around lunchtime to check out the protest.
“When I got there, there were probably 20-ish people sitting on...
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Buttons feel magical. You press here, and invisible connections make something happen elsewhere. But “magical” is probably not how I’d describe most public drinking fountains.
Who among us hasn’t walked up to a drinking fountain, expecting a bubbling stream of life-giving water, only to experience the crushing disappointment of a measly trickle after smashing in that button?
But I’m beginning to think it’s not the drinking...
Art is integral to the success and longevity of social movements. It's woven into the very fabric of progress. The fight for Palestinian liberation is no different.
Dozens of protests over the Israel-Hamas war have erupted across college campuses over the past few weeks. They began at Columbia University and spread to more than a dozen other schools across the country, led by students calling for their universities to divest from companies that are aiding Israel's military efforts in Gaza.
...The one-time crypto king was sentenced on Tuesday to four months in prison after pleading guilty to money laundering.
Changpeng Zhao, founder of crypto exchange Binance, was sentenced on Tuesday to four months in prison after pleading guilty to money laundering last November.
Foreigners must show their passport to access services. Women with ‘born in Afghanistan’ on their ID are barred.
Around 30 men are crammed into a Kabul classroom, part of the debut student cohort at a Taliban-run institute training tourism and hospitality professionals.
H-1B critics generally welcomed the changes but called them insufficient.
Lottery bids for highly educated worker visas plunged nearly 40% this year, authorities said Tuesday, claiming success against people who were “gaming the system” by submitting multiple, sometimes dubious, applications to unfairly increase chances of being selected.
Live agents are perceived as being better than bots at most customer service tasks, especially when frustrated consumers are looking for a little empathy.
“Please hold for the next available agent.”
The mostly foreign tourists have crowded the small area, triggering a wave of concerns and complaints from residents.
The town of Fujikawaguchiko has had enough of tourists.
A US judge has sentenced crypto kingpin Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, to four months in prison for breaking anti-money-laundering rules.
China's brain-computer interface technology is catching up to the US. But it envisions a very different use case: cognitive enhancement.
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LeBron James is reportedly about to be an NBA free agent again with several factors at play
The NBA world stops when LeBron James becomes a free agent. For the fourth and likely final time in his legendary career, James is poised to enter the open market this summer for one more round of non-stop speculation about his basketball future.
James is still one of the best players in the NBA, and he just proved it in the Los Angeles Lakers’ first...
Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former chief executive of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, had pleaded guilty to money-laundering violations.
The move would kick off a lengthy rule-making process and would amount to a major change in federal policy.
Representative Don Bacon accused Representative Ilhan Omar of antisemitism in suggesting some Jewish students were “pro-genocide.” Democratic leaders have said little about their colleague’s language.
The students who took over Hamilton Hall on Tuesday could be charged with a range of offenses, but they are unlikely to face jail time, according to a legal expert.
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Binance founder Changpeng Zhao was sentenced to four months in prison for failing to establish adequate anti-money laundering protections. Zhao, once the head of the largest crypto exchange in the world, pleaded guilty in November 2023.
Judge Richard Jones says that Zhao prioritized “Binance’s growth and profits over compliance with US laws and regulations.” While Jones doesn’t think Zhao is likely to reoffend, the scale of...
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Amazon is doubling down on enterprise AI with the release of its AI chatbot Q, even as its competitors angle to offer more consumer-facing products.
Amazon announced Q in November and made it available only to a small number of users. In a post, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy writes that bringing Q to more people will help solve misalignment issues for developers.
The chatbot acts as an assistant for Amazon Web Services (AWS) users, learning from a...