Mikel Brown Jr. reached the NBA with a head start few rookies have. Long before being selected sixth overall by the Brooklyn Nets at Tuesday’s NBA Draft, the 20-year-old guard had been embedded in Adidas’ ecosystem through a name, image and likeness deal that began in high school. “By the time our athletes walk across...
As a kid growing up in Detroit in the 1950s and ‘60s, David Roberts loved baseball. He lived a few miles from the Detroit Tigers’ home stadium. But young Dave was a Cleveland Indians fan – because his grandfather told him the Tigers, due to racist ownership, had been one of the last Major League...
International authorities and a raft of private technology companies say they have disrupted a cybercrime “assembly line” that allowed crooks to collect millions of login credentials and steal more than $47 million in ransom payments and by other fraudulent means. The crux of the operation was the simultaneous targeting of two unrelated tools that are...
Indiana Fever stars Aliyah Boston and Caitlin Clark led an Indianapolis takeover in the second round of WNBA All-Star Game fan voting. WNBA All-Star Game voters have caught the Indiana Fever. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images) Indiana teammates Aliyah Boston and Caitlin Clark headline the second round of WNBA All-Star Game fan voting: the tallies released by the league...
The best way to encapsulate the complex, game-changing legacy of Clive Davis, the legendary label head who died Monday at 94, is through his discovery and meticulous shaping of Whitney Houston into a global pop star. The year was 1983. Months earlier, Davis orchestrated the gold comeback of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, with...
Andscape explores the intriguing teams, people and themes around the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America. Listen to this story Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… PHILADELPHIA — Shortly after Haiti lost its World Cup Group C match to Brazil last week, I approached Jean Claude Edwards and his daughter, Tamikha, as...
The experimental app, internally called “Arena,” would be independent of Facebook and Instagram. It could compete for attention with Polymarket and Kalshi, the biggest prediction markets.
Federal officials are urging the lone major tech company holdout to allow government safety evaluations, weeks after ordering Anthropic to pull its latest model.
The car’s driver-assistance system was in use when the crash killed a woman on Friday, the police said.