Do you remember the first time you used a robot vacuum? I remember mine. It was one of iRobot’s early Roombas. I was transfixed, watching this chunky black disc whiz noisily around, bashing into walls and furniture before zipping off in seemingly random directions like a hockey puck slapped haphazardly across the ice. It wasn’t good at its job, but …
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Jake Browning has officially been replaced and benched as the Bengals’ QB1 while Joe Burrow continues to recover from torn ligaments in his foot. Browning played poorly over the last three weeks to necessitate the trade for 40-year-old Joe Flacco. In his four appearances with three starts, Browning has completed 64.5 percent of his throws for 757 yards with six …
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Melissa Rycroft Struggling But Marching Forward … Following DWI Arrest Published October 7, 2025 7:24 AM PDT Melissa Rycroft admits she’s been struggling in the wake of her DWI arrest. The former “Bachelor” star broke her silence in the comments of her own Instagram Monday, telling a fan … “Life really sucks right now and I’m struggling, but I’m trying …
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A new update for Borderlands 4 is available now on all platforms, and after installing it you’ll discover that all of the game’s playable vault hunters are now stronger. But one in particular, Amon, is much, much more powerful after the patch, which is great because many (myself included) considered him to be the worst and weakest of the bunch. …
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New research reveals that three venomous snake species—including one of the most venomous snakes in the world—are even worse than we thought. As if mambas—large, highly venomous arboreal snakes in sub-Saharan Africa—weren’t bad enough, researchers have discovered that the venoms of three mamba species have a nasty one-two-punch attack that explains why antivenoms sometimes don’t work. The study reveals that …
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Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. For roughly one hour, everything in Chicago was different. I saw it with my own eyes. I saw Caleb Williams …
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President Donald Trump might regret sacking his last Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) chief because the new numbers are in and they’re just as bad as before. Released Wednesday, the agency’s latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover report recorded just 7.18 million employment listings for July. It’s only the second time they’ve dipped below 7.2 million since the last quarter …
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Some people are fans of the Philadelphia Eagles. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Philadelphia Eagles. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: Philadelphia Eagles. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) Your 2024 record: 14-3. Super Bowl champions. It didn’t have to be this way. …
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The Battlefield 6 open betas proved exceptionally popular earlier this month for many, but a significant portion of the PC playerbase were met with a daunting wall to play thanks to the game’s Secure Boot requirement. This technical hurdle is in place for the game’s anti-cheat, a kernel-level bit of software dedicated to curbing a rising cheating problem across online …
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