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Referee Marcel Eckardt did not handle Friday's farcical frame well George Wood/Getty Images As someone who spends much of my working life frustrated by the obsessive focus on officiating in football, ...

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Halftime performer Red Panda returned to the court on Tuesday after injuring her wrist in July. Jeff Haynes / NBAE via Getty Images The most famous unicycle in basketball history is back. Red Panda, ...

CHENGDU, China — They’ve never met, but Ping Ping and Fu Shuang are getting ready for the blind date of a lifetime. The two pandas are preparing to leave China on a nearly 8,000-mile trip to their new ...

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A high school student in Philadelphia exposed how his classmates are struggling to read easy words and comprehend relatively simple sentences in a viral series of videos. And he may have gotten in hot ...

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Ever since Nvidia revealed frame generation with the RTX 4080, I have been dreading the day that a game developer uses it as a requirement to get to an acceptable frame rate. And while we’ve gone ...

One of my worst fears has come true: a game developer is officially using frame generation as a crutch to achieve 30 FPS. And I don't mean 30 FPS doubled to 60 FPS through frame gen – I'm talking ...

Nearly all of the 20 state-run health insurance exchanges in the US have added advertising trackers that transmit user activity back to big tech companies, in some cases sending more data than state ...