Alex Pereira admits he wasn’t hacked when he had his infamous spat with the UFC. Earlier this year, Pereira made headlines when he teased a possible retirement after rumors that he might be getting passed over for a light heavyweight title shot in favor of Jiri Prochazka. “Poatan” quickly retraced his comments, claiming he was hacked, but speaking with Ariel …
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MusicMusicWe’re emerging from a season in which our cultural obsessions, from music to movies to TV, were fractured. What does that mean for fall? Getty Images/Ringer illustration By Nora PrinciottiSept. 3, 10:20 am UTC • 6 min Back in April, as Charli XCX neared the end of her Coachella set, several phrases appeared across the jumbo screen behind the stage. …
Read More »This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Gabrielle Anwar. It has been edited for length and clarity. When I look back at old family photo albums, I see a little girl who looks hollow and vacant. I now understand why. My parents didn’t have the tools to help me. Like many from their generation, they lacked the vocabulary …
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Earlier this month, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott said of Micah Parsons, “11 is a Cowboy.” Now? Not. “I can’t say I was completely surprised, but I definitely didn’t think he was going to get traded,” Prescott told reporters on Sunday regarding the Parsons trade, via Ali Jawad of ALLDLLS.com. “Just with the way our negotiations went down, and to some …
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As deputy US attorney Todd Blanche announced last week that the justice department would release transcripts of his interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, he described this disclosure as being “in the interest of transparency”. “Except for the names of victims, every word is included. Nothing removed. Nothing hidden,” Blanche also said of his two-day sit down with Maxwell, who was convicted …
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After decades of debauchery and an untold number of conceptions, revelers at Burning Man celebrated a rare birth at Black Rock City on Wednesday morning, after a festivalgoer unexpectedly went into labor on the Playa. “It’s an absolute miracle,” said new father Kasey, 39, of Salt Lake City, who asked that only the family’s first names be used to protect …
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Packers quarterback Jordan Love appeared on Micah Parsons’ podcast during Super Bowl week and said he wanted Parsons to join him on the Packers. At the time, few thought that could happen. Now that it has happened, Parsons was asked about Love’s recruiting him to Green Bay and said it wasn’t a serious discussion because at that time, Parsons thought …
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For those of you who enjoyed Elden Ring‘s co-op spin-off Nightreign on release but now think meh, this is too easy, well buckle up buttercup. Bandai Namco and FromSoftware have announced a high-difficulty mode. It’s known as Deep of Night and it’s intended for seasoned players who have navigated through the Night many times, which counts me out. To see …
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A few days ago we brought you word that Google was looking to crack down on “sideloaded” Android applications. That is, software packages installed from outside of the mobile operating system’s official repository. Unsurprisingly, a number of readers were outraged at the proposed changes. Android’s open nature, at least in comparison to other mobile operating systems, is what attracted many …
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By simulating Einstein’s equations under extreme conditions, researchers may finally glimpse what happened before the Big Bang. Credit: Shutterstock What if the Big Bang wasn’t truly the beginning? A team of cosmologists is using the power of supercomputers to push past the limits of Einstein’s equations and explore mysteries once thought unsolvable. By applying numerical relativity—simulations that can model extreme …
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