On July 1, the same day college athletes around the country were finally allowed to sign third-party sponsorship agreements and monetize their name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights, a Times Square billboard touted Hanna and Haley Cavinder, twin sisters and the leading scorers for the Fresno State University basketball team. They’d just signed on as faces of Boost Mobile.
During 202…
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The new movie Till, expanding to wide release on Friday, does not draw its title solely from the name of Emmett Till, the boy whose 1955 lynching remains one of American history’s best-known examples of racial brutality. The movie is also the story of the activism that horrific crime inspired in the life of Mamie Till-Mobley, his mother.
Till is a film about love, a fi…
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Google said it will terminate services for Stadia, its troubled cloud gaming service, after it failed to gain traction with players almost three years after its launch.
Stadia was an attempt from Alphabet Inc.’s Google to take on the video game console giants with a platform of its own. Unlike traditional consoles, Stadia allowed users to play games on devices such as Android phones…
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(Bloomberg) — The National Republican Congressional Committee will begin accepting campaign contributions via cryptocurrency, the party announced Thursday.
The NRCC, House Republicans’ campaign arm, said the move would allow it to use new technology to support the party’s House candidates.
“We are focused on pursuing every avenue possible to further our missi…
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Doja Cat is a creature born, bred, raised, and elevated by social media. The internet is her playground, her teacher, her inspiration, her disciplinarian, her delight, and her punishment. In person, Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, 27, is polite and cautious, and tends to look off to the side while formulating answers to questions. But on social media, she’s Doja Cat—and she has claws. …
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Warning: This post contains spoilers for House of the Dragon.
It’s a blink-and-you-miss-it moment in the Season 1 finale of House of the Dragon, but Alicent Hightower (Emily Carey, then Olivia Cooke) gifts Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alcock, then Emma D’Arcy) a page from a book that the two erstwhile friends discussed way back in Episode 1 of the sh…
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Before the pandemic, Earl Stewart could count over 300 new cars sitting on the lot of his family’s Toyota dealership in South Florida on any single day. The high inventory meant customers could find the exact model and color they wanted for well below sticker price. But now, Stewart’s lot has just a fraction of the cars he had before, with inventory down to 31 as of Friday.
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Hong Kong will hand out 500,000 air tickets to bring in much-needed visitors as part of a global publicity campaign unveiled on Thursday.
The city’s leader John Lee announced the giveaway at the launch of the Hello Hong Kong campaign at a briefing, saying it was “probably the world’s biggest welcome ever.” Lee highlighted a number of events coming up including the …
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The contentious debate over TikTok’s future reached a new peak on Wednesday after the Biden Administration threatened a nationwide ban on the popular video-sharing app unless its Chinese owner promised to sell its stake in the company, TikTok confirmed to TIME. The recent divestiture demand was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The apparent ultimatum by the Committe…
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The Victoria and Albert Museum (the V&A) in London is looking to hire a Taylor Swift superfan to advise on Swiftie fan culture. The V&A, named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, put out a job advertisement for five “superfan advisor” roles, including one that specializes in the fandom of Swift ahead of the European leg of her Eras tour, which will begin on May 9.
The oth…
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