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David Fucillo

Your daily NFL trivia game, Saturday edition

Think you can figure out what NFL player we’re talking about? You’ll get five clues to figure him out.

We’re back for another day of the SB Nation in-5 daily trivia game, and we’re returning to our system of a new article each day for the game.

We tried using a single article for the game, updated with the latest game each day, but it was creating a bit of an unwieldy experience in the comments. So, we’ll have the current day’s game plus the previous three days in each...

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Jack Milko

This 6-foot-8 PGA Tour pro provides terrific insight for tall golfers

Christo Lamprecht during the first round of the 2024 Shriners Children’s Open. | Photo by Ian Maule/Getty Images

Christo Lamprecht is one of the tallest pro golfers in the world, so he lent some advice to other players his size.

Christo Lamprecht burst onto the scene at Royal Liverpool in July 2023, as the then-Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket led The Open by himself after day one.

The amateur drove the ball admirably on that Thursday, consistently carrying tee shots beyond 330 yards with...

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Asuka Kawanabe

Can the AirPods Pro 2 Really Replace Hearing Aids? We Asked a Grandmother

Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 have some added hearing-aid capabilities. How well do they work in practice? I asked my grandmother, who is in her eighties, to try them for a week.

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Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts

Microsoft’s AI Recall Tool Is Still Sucking Up Credit Card and Social Security Numbers

Plus: The US indicts North Koreans in fake IT worker scheme, file-sharing firm Cleo warns customers to patch a vulnerability amid live attacks, and more.

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Constant Méheut, Kim Barker and Maria Varenikova

Cajole, Plead and Flatter: Ukraine Makes Its Case to Trump

Using diplomacy, flattery and the occasional shot in the dark, Ukraine is doing everything it can to win over President-elect Donald J. Trump to its side.

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Theodore Schleifer and David Yaffe-Bellany

Tech Industry and CEOs Curry Favor With Trump Ahead of His Inauguration 

It was a week of frenzied activity, as Silicon Valley billionaires and their companies brandished checks and compliments for the President-elect.

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Michael D. Shear

Trump’s Transition Business Largely Happens After Night Falls

At his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, the president-elect has been hosting diplomatic dinners, announcing cabinet picks and firing off texts to his aides — all after the sun goes down.

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Christina Goldbaum and Daniel Berehulak

Syria Shudders as Assad’s Prison Atrocities Come Into the Light

At the country’s most notorious prison, Syrians confront their worst fears: that they will never know what happened to the loved ones who disappeared.

Fast Company

The Conversation

Trump’s plans to reform the government will depend on administrative law

Administrative law provides the legal standards used by the courts to determine whether new or revised policies are valid.

There’s a lot of speculation about what Donald Trump’s second term in the White House will bring. But there’s one thread that’s likely to tie together many of the changes and conflicts: the subject I teach—called “administrative law.”

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These 53 Inexpensive Alternatives To Popular Products Are So Good, You Will Never Buy The Pricier Version Again

If you're looking to save a little bit of money, we've got you covered on everything from must-have cleaning helpers to cult-fave beauty products and must-have fashion trends — and everything in between.

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Only True Bookworms Will Have Read At Least Four Of The 2024 Goodreads Winners

And we want to know your favorite books of 2024!

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32 No-Fail Gifts Under $50 If You’re Clueless On What To Get The Kids In Your Life This Christmas

Because your smallest family members are the biggest critics.

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Mashable

An affordable MacBook Pro makes the perfect present this season

TL;DR: Gift a refurbished MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar for $379.99 (reg. $1,499) and bring joy with high-performance tech.

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Ditch Microsoft 365 — this permanent Office license is only $33

TL;DR: Through December 22, get a Microsoft Office lifetime license for Windows for $32.97 — that’s under $5 per app.

If you’re still paying Microsoft 365 fees only to get access to Office apps, try a permanent license as a far more cost-effective alternative. Here’s everything you need to know:

Pay just once and download the complete app suite onto one Windows PC for lifelong use. You only have to purchase again when you replace your device

It includes all of the essential apps like...

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Get Microsoft Visual Studio Pro for $28 and take your development skills to new heights

TL;DR: Own Microsoft Visual Studio for life for just $27.97 through Dec. 22 and transform your development process with advanced tools.

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This HD gaming projector comes preloaded with 36,000 games — get it for $50 off

TL;DR: Order through Dec. 15 for on-time Christmas delivery and get this 2-in-1 Gaming Projector with 36,000+ games for just $99.99 (reg. $149.99).

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Mashable

The War of the Rohirrim finds another use for the The Lord of the Rings eagles

It's the question Lord of the Rings viewers have been asking ever since Peter Jackson's trilogy came out: Why didn't Frodo and the Fellowship just ride eagles into Mount Doom?

SEE ALSO: 'The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim' review: What if Éowyn got her own movie?

The reasons are fairly simple. A flock of Great Eagles flying into Mordor would have immediately wrecked the secrecy the Fellowship strove for. Plus, the eagles just aren't...

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Heres why there are orcs in The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, an anime prequel set 183 years before The Lord of the Rings, spends most of its time centered on the bloody war between Rohan's king Helm Hammerhand (voiced by Succession's Brian Cox) and Dunlending lord Wulf (Medusa Deluxe's Luke Pasqualino). But for one brief moment, the film shifts from its solely human focus to a broader look at what's going on in the rest of Middle-earth — specifically, Mordor.

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What most people think they know about the Big Bang is wrong

Many textbooks and science educators have attempted to describe the Big Bang as the birth of the universe — an explosive start that happened at a specific point creating matter and flinging it into the void like shrapnel from a grenade. 

But the Big Bang is not really the moment of creation — more like its aftermath. The Big Bang didn't emerge from a particular location in space, and it wasn't an explosion — at least not in the traditional sense. 

Popular culture — and cosmologists,...

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