Getty Images NBA veteran Marcus Smart has agreed to a contract buyout with the Washington Wizards and plans to sign a two-year, $11 million deal with the Los Angeles Lakers after clearing waivers, according to ESPN. The 31-year-old, who played in just 54 combined games over the past two seasons due to injuries, brings a
MLS Eastern Conference foes will face off when the New York Red Bulls host Inter Miami on Saturday. The Red Bulls are currently eighth in the conference standings and are unbeaten in four of their last five matches, including a 5-3 win against the New England Revolution their last time out. Meanwhile, Lionel Messi and
The Saturday MLB schedule features several important showdowns between World Series contenders, including Dodgers vs. Brewers at 9:10 p.m. ET. Milwaukee is riding an eight-game winning streak, but Los Angeles is the -140 favorite in the Saturday MLB odds with the over/under at 8.5. Brewers designated hitter Christian Yelich has a team-high 19 home runs
I’m still chipping away at my summer reading backlog over here, and this week finally made it to Alex Foster’s Circular Motion, which came out in May. And, wow, I wasn’t quite ready for the emotional journey this one took me on. It’s set in a near future — people ride OneWheels and going viral
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OpenAI has achieved “gold medal-level performance” at the International Math Olympiad, notching another important milestone for AI’s fast-paced growth. Alexander Wei, a research scientist at OpenAI working on LLMs and reasoning, posted on X that an experimental research model delivered on this “longstanding grand challenge in AI.” According to Wei, an unreleased model from OpenAI
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Looks like we can skip the drum roll for the next Battlefield title reveal. Seen in a leak of Electronic Arts’ upcoming first-person shooter, the company is shipping promotional materials to content creators for Battlefield 6. The name drop may not be all that surprising, but the highly anticipated title could be a turning point
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Corning, the US-based glass manufacturer behind Gorilla Glass, has vowed to end its exclusive deals and other practices that the European Commission deemed to be anti-competitive in order to avoid getting fined. If you’ll recall, the commission announced that it was investigating Corning last year, accusing it of squashing competition with its exclusive supply agreements
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We’ve been busy in the Engadget reviews department over the last few weeks, keeping up with Prime Day, product launches and the accumulating stack of devices on our desks. If you missed any of our in-depth testing recently, you can quickly catch up on the latest camera, laptop, phone and soundbar reviews in the list
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Key Takeaways on Placental Mammals Placental mammals have a placenta, an organ that develops during gestation and bridges mother and fetus. The placenta provides nutrients to the fetus to develop in the womb, protecting the baby from the outside world until they are fully developed. While we don’t know the first placental mammal for sure
If you’ve ever struggled to keep up in spin class or wondered why sprint training feels extra brutal, you might be right to blame it on your genes — or more precisely, your ancient cousins’ genes. A new study by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Okinawa Institute of Science and
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