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Chicago Sky forward DiJonai Carrington was assessed a flagrant 2 foul and ejected from a Saturday, Aug. 8 game against the visiting Indiana Fever after colliding at the basket with Sophie Cunningham ...

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The U.S. military resumed strikes against Iran on Wednesday, aiming to further decimate its ability to disrupt maritime traffic, hours after President Trump threatened to unleash a “big attack” on the ...

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Anthropic just released Claude Opus 4.8, and while the benchmark improvements are quite real, the most meaningful change for everyday users is something far simpler. You can now tell Claude how hard ...

After a busy Google I/O, the company’s chief executive sits down with the hosts of “Hard Fork” to discuss the future of Google Search, how he’s using A.I. agents and his advice for college graduates.

If Python developers have one consistent gripe about their beloved language, it tends to be this: Why is it so hard to take a Python program and deploy it as a standalone artifact, the way C, C++, ...

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