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The sudden and surprising scuffle between Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels and LSU over the re-issuance of his number (5) has implicated Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, given that the school has to date honored its vow to not use his number (9) again.

In a lengthy video statement on Thursday, Flock Safety's CEO Garrett Langley sat down to address privacy, safety and accountability. He said auditing for law enforcement customers is on the way.

Cami Clark—who started what she called a ‘revolutionary porn company’ where she sought investment from Jeffrey Epstein—keeps a low profile but is a key adviser to the AI chief. Its coming IPO could raise trillions.

As previewed in April, Google Meet’s “Take Notes for me” feature can now work for in-person meetings. This Gemini-powered feature...

-- The Wisconsin Department of Health Services on Thursday confirmed more measles cases in Iowa and Lafayette counties.

Judge James Donato just ordered Google to make it easier to install rival app stores on Android.

OpenAI is giving ChatGPT and Codex a new way to learn from and remember how you use your Mac, even...

Greene is having the reconstructive procedure on his right elbow for the second time in his career.

Insomniac has revealed an impressive performance mode for Marvel’s Wolverine on the base PlayStation 5.

The Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk horror anthology premieres with 13 half-hour episodes on Sept.

Tyson Foods said on Thursday it will close or sell three of its beef plant and packaging operation sites, further shrinking its beef footprint as a historic U.S. cattle shortage deepens losses for the largest U.S.

Apple’s new App Store proposal would allow it to collect fees from developers on digital purchases made via external links, including a 15 percent cut from standard apps.

will join the S&P 500 next week as part of an off-cycle change, S&P Dow Jones Indices said Thursday, sending the social networking platform’s sha...

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OpenAI is on track to generate annualized revenue of more than $40 billion based on its current performance, according to people familiar with the matter, roughly doubling its run rate from the end of 2025 and bolstering the company’s plans for a Wall Street …

The top editor of Forbes has left his job after reportedly being fired for accepting $6 million from the founder of a firm that works with the magazine. The New York Times reported this week that the payment came from RJ Shook, whose company, Shook Research, …

AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.

Michigan tops 12,000 Cyclospora cases as the CDC adds almost 3,500 infections to the US total.

The growth case for Archer Aviation is getting stronger.

US scrutiny of billionaire’s sprawling finance holdings reached beyond insurers into securities and asset management giant

The Department of Public Health issued an emergency order banning kratom sales for up to a year while municipalities draft their own regulations for the substance. The move is part of a new effort by the Healey administration to curb the sale of what is somet…

Tenant advocates and nonprofit lawyers have filed motions opposing a landlord lawsuit against the city’s Rent Guidelines Board.

Check your perks and compare trade-in deals before pre-ordering.

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Apple now sends out push notifications to iPhone lock screens when the company identifies government spyware targeting someone's devices.

The Pixel Tag pairs UWB and Bluetooth Channel Sounding to precisely pinpoint your lost items.

Gboard Rambler is likely the flagship Gemini Intelligence feature on the Pixel 11 series, but it’s not the real-time transcription...

Action RPG NEO BERLIN 2087 will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam in 2028, publisher ByteRockers’ Games and developer ELysium Game Studio announced.

I don’t know how to describe Google’s green, or “Pistachio” color, for the base Pixel 11.

Restart.run is changing shape and moving off daily coverage.

Microsoft has released security patches to address a Windows zero-day vulnerability known as "LegacyHive," disclosed after the July 2026 Patch Tuesday.

It seems that Rockstar's extended look for GTA 6 on Netflix could feature multiple episodes. Here are more details.

Wild Blue Skies (PlayStation 5) Review – 5/10: Bowie and pals’ adventure successfully impersonates the Star Fox 64 experience, but it’s an underwhelming

Why did they do a show eight hours AFTER the phones were announced??

Louis lost access to the data after its cloud storage provider apparently went out of business.

The latest version of Suno Studio looks more like a real music production suite, adding MIDI, effect plugins, a chatbot, and custom AI effects.

Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, Deep Research, and its Mico character.

Google’s official Pixelsnap charger with stand is down to $35, making the charging bundle that actually works with every Pixel...

Complete the Pokédex to partner up with a new Pokémon, encounter new Legendary Pokémon, and more.

Apple’s big September event is almost here, with three new iPhone models set to launch: iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and iPhone Ultra.

Steven D’Achille opens up about the Lindsay Clancy case and why families need better postpartum mental health care.

Study finds wait times for cancer surgeries hit 10-year high.

A rabid bat became tangled in a woman's hair at Olympic National Park and swooped at other visitors, prompting officials to warn of possible exposure.

As a general rule, you are lucky to be living in 2026.

Does drinking orange juice have health benefits? Why is orange expensive? Does orange juice contain a lot of sugar?

Ticks that carry Lyme and other diseases have gained a foothold in unexpected areas and should be considered a major threat farther south, a new CDC report finds.

The culture war over ADHD is based on a misunderstanding of what a psychiatric diagnosis actually means.

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The Rhode Island Department of Health announced that a Newport County man was diagnosed with Powassan virus disease, a rare tick-borne illness.

A mutated variant of COVID-19 could be behind the surge in viral levels seen across the Bay Area.

The solution to everyday aches might be as simple as what's on your plate. You’ve probably heard the phrase “anti-inflammatory diet,” but what does that really mean, and can it actually make a difference? We asked experts about the exact foods that reduce pai…

Even over-the-counter drugs can cause serious side effects if you don’t follow the directions, as Al Roker learned after getting ulcers from a common pain med.

When it comes to maintaining cognitive health, daily brain games like Sudoku and crosswords aren’t enough to protect the mind as you age.

A drug already taken by millions for a heart condition may also be slowing Alzheimer's decline, new research shows.

Most individuals encounter their health primarily through an annual health screening, which provides a limited snapshot of their health status. A new study by the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), challenges the…

California’s COVID activity is again peaking higher in summer than winter, prompting officials to urge some residents not to wait for the fall vaccine update.

A team of researchers say they've found the first-ever evidence of how microbiota could influence the traits of psychopaths.

Why is the Sun's corona millions of degrees hotter than its surface? And how does it maintain its inexplicably high temperature?

In a first, astronomers say they’ve detected a long ribbon of stars outside the Milky Way. The globular cluster stellar stream could reveal clues about dark matter.

A Georgian polyphonic song travels farther from Earth than any human creation, carrying a nation's voice into the cosmos—and its journey raises ancient questions about what humanity chooses to remember.

Understanding what happened in these forests 56 million years ago may help humanity recognize similar thresholds before we cross them again, the lead author of a new study writes.

A mysterious heat engine lurks in the Sun's turbulent surface, where universal physics—the same forces that sculpt ocean waves and storm clouds—may finally solve why our star's corona blazes hotter than its own source of fire.

A Neanderthal gene inherited by modern humans is linked to greater muscle mass and small changes in jaw and tooth traits.

Diamond is more than a dazzling gem—the extremely hard form of carbon makes up the pellet that encases fuel for inertial confinement fusion, and scientists believe it rains down deep inside ice giant planets like Neptune and Uranus. In both cases, the materia…

The dual black hole system, dubbed LID-1166, is the first close-separation pair of its kind confirmed this early in the universe. The discovery could help to explain how the earliest black holes grew so large, so fast.

Why do two individuals faced with the same information sometimes make completely different decisions? It is a question made famous by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, whose book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" explored the contrast between rapid, intuitive decisions…

The world's most valuable camels aren't in the Middle East—they're feral, uncounted, and roaming Australia's vast empty interior.

Parents who ran with strollers had less overuse injuries than parents who ran without them.

A billion-kilometre journey ended not with a bang but with a bounce—revealing unexpected truths about one of Saturn's most alien moons.

The 100,000-year estimate follows directly from 335.7 million square kilometres of deep seabed and a measured average visual-survey rate of 2.9 square kilometres per system per year.

A fossil discovery in Brazil has uncovered a creature from a lost world 240 million years ago. Its strange combination of features is giving scientists a new look at the animals that lived before dinosaurs changed the planet forever.

A centuries-old mystery persists even as astronomers have grown better at watching the sky—and they still can't fully explain what made the earth appear to breathe during that eclipse.