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49ers Suspend LB De’Vondre Campbell 3 Games for Refusing to Play

The 49ers suspended linebacker De’Vondre Campbell three games for refusing to enter Thursday night’s game against the Rams.

How Next-Gen Data Analytics Is Changing American Football

At the NFL’s Big Data Bowl, scientists compete to develop new stats that better capture player performance.

This NBA Team’s Winning Strategy: Play Like ‘Junk’

The Houston Rockets are winning despite a lackluster offense because of a commitment to defense.

Netflix Gets Trippy With Aaron Rodgers

‘Aaron Rodgers: Enigma’ follows the controversial NFL star through an injury and a spiritual journey.

NBA Year-End Roundtable: Which Players and Teams Can Bounce Back in 2025?

Our NBA insiders answer some of the biggest questions as we close in on the new year and look toward the back half of the 2024-25 NBA season.

Iranian women could face death penalty for defying new morality laws

Women in Iran could face the death sentence or up to 15 years in prison if they defy new compulsory morality laws due to come into effect this week.

Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft

Harvard University announced Thursday it’s releasing a high-quality dataset of nearly 1 million public-domain books that could be used by anyone to train large language models and other AI tools.

How Will the Rebels Rule Syria? Their Past Offers Clues.

Every fall, when farmers across the rolling, red dirt hills of Idlib Province in northern Syria harvest their olive crops, they routinely find at least one representative of the local tax authority stationed at any oil press.

What If the Sixers’ Nightmare Is Just Beginning?

As miserable as Philadelphia’s start has been, the ending could be worse. Even for a franchise familiar with suffering, this season has produced a unique type of torture. To say Jared McCain plays like a veteran feels banal at this point.

Lucy Grealy Understood What It Meant To Be Seen

Lucy Grealy was an unsparing observer of human physiognomy. She was a poet, with the requisite eye for piercing detail, but her attention to personal appearance—and its effect on the observer—had a particularly bracing lack of euphemism. Here is her description of the person she calls “Dr.

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Syrian rebels reveal year-long plot that brought down Assad regime

Syrian rebels began planning the military assault that toppled the Assad regime a year ago, in a highly disciplined operation in which a new drone unit was deployed and where there was close coordination between opposition groups around the country, the top military commander of the main rebel group

I Helped the Army Remember Its Values. I Wish I Could Do the Same for the Country.

THERE ARE TIMES IN ALL OUR LIVES when we lose our way.

Dunder Methods: The Hidden Gems of Python

Dunder methods, though possibly a basic topic in Python, are something I have often noticed being understood only superficially, even by people who have been coding for quite some time.

Assad Has Fallen. What’s Next for Syria and the Middle East?

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled the country early Sunday local time as a lightning advance by a coalition of rebel groups brought an abrupt end to 50 years of brutal rule by the Assad family.

9 Firefox Settings I Always Keep Disabled

Although Firefox is well-regarded by privacy-conscious users, some of its default settings can expose you to privacy risks. Additionally, the browser isn't optimized for performance, security, and user experience.

Curated by our editorsStories to fuel your mind

49ers Suspend LB De’Vondre Campbell 3 Games for Refusing to Play

How Next-Gen Data Analytics Is Changing American Football

This NBA Team’s Winning Strategy: Play Like ‘Junk’

Netflix Gets Trippy With Aaron Rodgers

NBA Year-End Roundtable: Which Players and Teams Can Bounce Back in 2025?

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Iranian women could face death penalty for defying new morality laws

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Lucy Grealy Understood What It Meant To Be Seen

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Syrian rebels reveal year-long plot that brought down Assad regime

I Helped the Army Remember Its Values. I Wish I Could Do the Same for the Country.

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Assad Has Fallen. What’s Next for Syria and the Middle East?

9 Firefox Settings I Always Keep Disabled

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