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Fantasy football is dying, and here's the proof. The hottest new way to spend the day after a game is to see which team is firing their coach, with the tiebreaker being how much of a buyout the fired coach will be paid. Well, that's the college tiebreaker. The pro tiebreaker...

Say goodbye to the Guy Fawkes masks and hello to inflatable frogs and dinosaurs.

Anytime you arrive at an event dressed similarly to another guest, things can feel a bit awkward. But the Vatican is notoriously secretive. You had no way of knowing what kind of huge hat the pope would be wearing tonight. Nevertheless, you’re in this mess, here’s what to do...

Listeners share whether they're seeing higher coffee prices due to tariffs yet and if that's changing their caffeine habits.

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Officials in the US and UK have taken sweeping action against “one of the largest investment fraud operations in history,” confiscating a historic amount of funds in the process.

In the top of the sixth inning of Game 2 of the ALCS, FS1 ran a surreal segment of play-by-play broadcaster Joe Davis demonstrating how to carve up a turkey live on air, in honor of Canadian Thanksgiving, which took place that day. Bird carving had already established itself...

Defector's newest podcast arrives next week: Only If You Get Caught is our latest show and it's all about breaking the rules. The first episode is out October 21.

Over the course of our first season, we will tell the stories of eight cheating scandals, both in and outside of sports. That is the first task of each episode anyway; the more interesting part of the show, the thing that makes it special and makes me feel especially proud of our work, is that each cheating scandal is also a window into something larger. The operating theory of OIYGC is that if you want to answer the questions that really matter about any given competitive framework—Who has power? Where are the lines of tension?—you have to understand why people break the rules, and how.

As engineering organizations scale their product lines, a common pattern emerges: Cycle times start to increase. In many cases, after

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Jason Snell, at Six Colors: The entire point of a streaming-only product is that once you’re off traditional TV, you can go beyond the single stream and provide interactive options. The whole point of streaming TV, especially sports, should be that you can leave the flat...

A baseball can be a weapon. It's harder than you might think. Held in your hand, there is a little give to it. But there's no give when you're hit by one, except from your body. It feels like a punch from a tiny hand, like a baby Mike Tyson that's chosen to hurt you. The po...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we're talking about fake dead husbands, garnishes, athletic athletes, and more.

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Graeme Wood, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The Way of the Strangers: Encounters With the Islamic State, offers analysis of the current ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, and why one Palestinian philosopher told him he feels a "paradoxical optimism" that the current peace will hold.

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On Saturday, the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of hundreds of scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who were mistakenly fired the day before. Apoorva Mandavilli, science and global health reporter at The New York Times, explains what happened and who remains at the CDC.

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OpenAI has announced “AI sovereignty" partnerships with governments around the world, but can proprietary models compete with Beijing’s open source offerings?

It looks like fabric, feels like metal and is as light as rubber. Meet the Ming Polymesh—the 3D printed bracelet breaking new ground in horology.

If you know P99 CONF, you likely can’t wait for P99 CONF 2025. It will be premiering on your browser

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Well, I think I'm done. I've got the outline for the slides complete. I can't possibly talk about all the stuff that's in the slides. Once I leave tomorrow I think perhaps I'll post a link for the slides and maybe offer a place to comment. Maybe. I get very nervous about th...

Actresses are often tasked with doing a lot with just a little. There is no way around the fact that most movies are written by men, for men, about men, and as a result women usually figure into them in tertiary roles, as objects more than subjects in themselves. It's often ...

Elizabeth Glazer, founder of the journal Vital City and former director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, talks about the challenges the next mayor will face regarding Rikers Island, and what each says about the current plan to close Rikers in favor of borough-based jails.

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