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Jason Parham

Jane Schoenbrun Wants to Blow Up Your TV

Growing up, director Jane Schoenbrun escaped into shows like X-Files and Twin Peaks. Their new movie is about the relief, and danger, of getting lost in screens.

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Brooke Pryor

Flores to take part in NFL's accelerator program

Brian Flores will be among the participants in the NFL's fifth accelerator program, an event hosted by the league to strengthen the pipeline of diverse candidates for front office and coaching positions.

ESPN.com

Dream moving Clark, Fever visits to NBA arena

The Atlanta Dream are moving their two regular-season home games against Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever to the home of the NBA Hawks to accommodate much larger crowds expected at those games.

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Mark Schofield

How fantasy players could be impacted by the 2024 NFL schedule

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Now that the NFL schedule is out, we can start thinking about the upcoming fantasy football season

Now that the full 2024 NFL schedule has been released, fans can start planning for the upcoming season.

And fantasy players can start thinking about bye weeks.

Bye weeks can cause serious problems for fantasy players, particularly when good teams have bye weeks on the same week, or when bye weeks come later in the season during...

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Mark Schofield

Jared Goff could live up to his big contract, thanks to the NFL schedule makers

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If past is prologue, Goff might be in for a big year thanks to Detroit’s schedule

One of the biggest pieces of NFL offseason news to break in the past few weeks? The news of Jared Goff’s big-money contract extension with the Detroit Lions. Fresh off helping Detroit advance to the NFC Championship Game Goff got PAID, putting pen to paper Thursday on a new four-year, $212 million extension with $170 million guaranteed. The...

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Umar Shakir

You could be eligible for a piece of Apple’s $35 million iPhone 7 settlement

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A June 3rd deadline is approaching to either file a claim connected to this class action lawsuit against Apple or opt out. If you purchased an iPhone 7 or 7 Plus that suffered from microphone audio issues, you may be eligible to claim from a settlement pool of $35 million, with amounts ranging from at least $50 to as much as $394.

Customers who have used one of the devices between the dates of September 16th, 2016, and January 3rd, 2023, are...

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Tom Warren

Threads starts testing a TweetDeck-like feed of real-time posts

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Meta is starting to test a TweetDeck-like experience for Threads today. It will allow Threads users to create customizable feeds that are stacked in a column interface on the web — just like TweetDeck did before it became a paid service and was rebranded to X Pro last year.

“If you’re in the test, you can choose to keep things simple with a single feed, or add separate columns for your favorite searches, tags, accounts, saved posts, and notifications,”...

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Lauren Feiner

House passes bill that would make ticket sellers show total prices upfront

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The House passed the TICKET Act 388-24 on Wednesday, which would force ticket sellers to show consumers total prices (including fees) upfront and guarantee refunds when events are canceled or postponed.

The bill would still need to pass the Senate and be signed by the president to become law, but the overwhelming support in the House is a positive sign. The legislation comes after the Ticketmaster fiasco around Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour...

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Anna Merlan

RFK Jr. Is Priming His Audience for Election Denialism

Robert F. Kennedy's campaign—and his life's work—have laid the groundwork for supporters to blame his inevitable loss on an elite conspiracy.

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Myron Medcalf

Richardson: Calipari can lead Arkansas to title

Arkansas hired John Calipari to lead the program to its first national title since 1994, the year Nolan Richardson's team won the crown. Richardson said Thursday that Calipari has the "support" and capabilities to end the 30-year drought.

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Adam Rittenberg

Hunter, Ewers, Edwards share video game cover

Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter, Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers and Michigan running back Donovan Edwards are sharing the cover of EA Sports College Football 25, set to be released July 19.

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Matina Stevis-Gridneff

Calls to Pause Slovakia’s E.U. Election Campaigning Raise Questions

At least one party, the opposition Progress Slovakia, said it would suspend its campaign, in a move to help “end the spiral of attacks and blame.”

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Adam Liptak

Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Consumer Watchdog’s Funding

A decision against the agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, could have cast doubt on all of its regulations and enforcement actions.

The Verge

Tom Warren

The Mac vs. PC war is back on

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Microsoft isn’t launching a new version of Windows next week, but what it’s about to unveil could be just as significant. After nearly four years of falling behind Apple’s MacBooks, sources inside Microsoft tell me that the company is confident it can finally beat Apple’s own chips that power the MacBook Air.

On Monday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will detail the company’s “AI vision across hardware and software” at an event...

The Verge

Jess Weatherbed

Sony’s new Xperia 1 VI flagship zooms in on photography nerds

Sony has introduced the Xperia 1 VI, the sixth generation of the company’s flagship smartphone that could tempt photography enthusiasts away from rivaling iPhone and Pixel devices. Some of those perks include a true optical zoom, AI-assisted autofocus, and a unified app experience.

It has three cameras on the back: a 24mm main camera with a 48-megapixel Sony Exmor T sensor, a 16mm ultrawide, and an 85-170mm variable zoom telephoto camera that provides magnification around 3.5x to...

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David Pierce

The new ‘Hulu for Sports’ streaming service has a name: Venu Sports

Venu Sports is supposedly the next big thing in sports streaming. | Image: Venu Sports

A new sports streaming service is coming later this year. We’ve known for months who is working on the service; it’s a co-venture from ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Now, we also know what it’s going to be called: Venu Sports.

The naming announcement comes a few months after the three networks said they were planning to launch a “differentiated sports-centric service,” a much-needed...

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James Dator

Every Easter Egg in the Chargers schedule release video you probably missed

The Chargers killed it again with the schedule release video.

When it comes to schedule release videos the Los Angeles Chargers never fail to impress — and this year is no different. Their Sims-themed creation is a perfect mix of inside jokes, nostalgia, and good-natured ribbing that turns something fairly mundane like a calendar and makes it special.

should we REALLY make our schedule release video in the sims?

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James Dator

The Giants just unveiled one of the ugliest NFL uniforms of all time

Ewwww,

Honoring history is important, but the Giants flew too close to the sun and created an absolute mess. To commemorate the 100th year of the franchise the team is bringing out what they call “Pieces of the Past” — which is apparently code for this abomination.

A look at the New York Giants’ commemorative uniform that will be worn up to two times this season: pic.twitter.com/TlDr59VrKw

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) May 16, 2024

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