The receiver piece of the Giants roster puzzle is starting to fit together. Wideouts Montrell Washington, Zach Pascal and Jordan Bly were three of the first eight players cut Friday as the Giants started to drop from 90 to 53 players. The others were inside linebackers Dyontae Johnson and K.J. Cloyd, offensive linemen Jimmy Morrissey and Jaison Williams, and cornerback …
Read More »Congress is set to receive the first batch of Epstein files. It’s not likely to quell the drama. Politico First wave of Epstein files is being sent to Congress, says Oversight Committee chair NPR DOJ to start sharing Epstein files with Congress on Friday Axios Justice Dept. Will Begin Sharing Epstein Files on Friday, Top Republican Says The New York Times House panel to …
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SpaceX continued the growth of its broadband internet service with the launch of 24 more Starlink satellites from California on Thursday (Aug. 14). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 1:05 a.m. EDT (0505 GMT or 10:05 p.m. PDT on Aug. 13 local) from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base. About nine minutes later, after a …
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It’s time for your monthly reminder that your Amazon Prime subscription also comes with a bunch of free games. And in many cases, while that “free” perhaps deserves scarequotes for falling under a subscription fee for a monstrously evil corporation, they’re actually yours to keep forever, with no DRM, and no requirement to keep up your sub. That’s true for …
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This week, Nintendo issued its latest backwards compatibility fixes for a few Switch 1 games on Switch 2 stemming from the latest firmware patch. It’s not as large a batch as the previous wave, but this shows that the company is committed to further improvements where possible. The latest list is as follows: Cotton Reboot High Tension D.C.III: Da Capo …
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One Illinois county is sounding the alarm after reporting the discovery of the season’s first West Nile-positive mosquitoes. What’s happening? In late June, the Will County Health Department announced that a batch of mosquitoes in the city of Joliet, which is around 40 miles southwest of Chicago, tested positive for West Nile virus. Patch reported on the announcement, adding that …
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Kohl’s shares soared Tuesday as investors piled in amid renewed exuberance for so-called meme stocks. The struggling department store’s stock price jumped nearly 38%, or $3,92, to close at $14.34 a share. Like other beaten down stocks suddenly embraced by retail investors, Kohl’s has benefited this month from buzz in online investor communities like WallStreetBets, the Reddit forum that in …
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NEW YORK (AP) — As the stock market pushes into record territory and bargains become harder to find, investors are once again turning to some of Wall Street’s beaten down companies in hopes of a quick score. The latest so-called meme stocks are the department store Kohl’s, which has surged this week, and the online-based real estate company Opendoor Technologies, …
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What’s up, besties? It’s World Emoji Day, which means it’s time to look at some new emoji (or is that emojis?). In a post on its blog today, the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit behind the standardized set of emoji across you see across all your various devices and apps, previewed its next set of icons and expressions. The group says …
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Today is World Emoji Day, and the Unicode Consortium is sharing a preview of some of the new emoji that should hit your devices early next year as part of Unicode 17.0. If you ask me, it’s a promising batch, especially the Bigfoot emoji — sorry, “hairy creature.” The list includes these emoji, according to the Consortium: I can think …
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