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Saquon Barkley has been impressive this season and finished Thursday’s game against the Washington Commanders with 146 rushing yards and two receptions for 52 yards. He also scored two touchdowns with just 20 seconds coming off the game clock to help the Philadelphia Eagles secure a 26-18 win. The win improved Philly’s record to 8-2,…
Taylor Swift has officially made moves in Canada. After touching down in Toronto on Thursday, the pop star and her team were greeted with an extravagant escort service led by the Toronto Police Department. Despite the excitement surrounding her upcoming six-show “Eras Tour” lineup at Rogers Centre, the motorcade stirred controversy among locals who were…
Image: Valve Half-Life 2 is getting a major update in celebration of the classic title’s 20th anniversary. In addition to Steam Workshop support directly within the game, Valve has fixed bugs and restored some content, added new graphics settings, updated gamepad controls, and a whole lot more. You’ll also be able to get the game…
“Jeopardy!” fans were left angry and confused Wednesday after the game show accepted a technically wrong answer for a final clue. The final Jeopardy clue read: “It’s the geographic word in the title of a Robert Burns poem about “the mountains … covered with snow … the straths & green valleys below.” Contestant Evan Dorey…
Jake Paul learned a tough lesson Thursday night: Don’t step on Mike Tyson’s foot. The fighters met Thursday for their final weigh-in before facing off in a highly anticipated matchup at AT&T Stadium Friday night. But things took a drastic turn when the former heavyweight boxing champion slapped the YouTuber turned boxer on stage. Speculation swirled…
Illustration: The Verge Google Workspace is rolling out a Gemini-powered AI image generator directly in Google Docs that lets you quickly whip up visuals for your writeups. Essentially, it’s a clip art maker that follows in the footsteps of Microsoft’s AI-generated art feature in its Office products. Google’s image generator in Docs is available to…
Image: ESPN ESPN is testing an AI-generated avatar with the Saturday college football show SEC Nation. Dubbed FACTS, it’s going to be “…promoting education and fun around sports analytics” with information drawn from ESPN Analytics, which includes data like the Football Power Index (FPI), player and team statistics, and game schedules. We haven’t seen the…
Soldiers scramble through trenches under a haze of yellow smoke, machine gunfire booms across the fields, invisible drones buzz overhead and voices scream in Ukrainian “Watch out!” The scene could be 1,860 miles away in Ukraine’s Donbas region, but instead some 2,000 Ukrainian conscripts and veterans are training in the muddy fields of France’s eastern…
Democrats in Massachusetts are plotting a revolt against House Rep. Seth Moulton after he made multiple statements condemning his party for supporting trans inclusion in women’s sports, according to the Boston Globe. Salem Democratic City Committee chair Liz Bradt told the Globe that she had heard from “several” people in the area who were considering…
Image: The Verge US Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has sent a letter to Valve CEO Gabe Newell asking if the company intends to take measures to curtail extremist content on Steam. The letter references a report by the Anti-Defamation League that identified a large number of user accounts and user-created groups “that glorified antisemitic, Nazi,…