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Black Friday is technically over, but long gone are the days in which all of the deals dry up at midnight. Black Friday is very much a multi-day event now, with most of the best deals (as long as they ...

No. 13 Miami is looking to keep its College Football Playoff hopes alive in a must-win road trip to face an old Big East foe in Virginia Tech, which has its own reasons to celebrate even as it winds ...

Virginia Tech is finalizing an agreement to hire James Franklin as the school's new head football coach, sources tell Sports Illustrated. Franklin will replace Brent Pry, who was fired by the Hokies ...

Electricity demand is surging, driven by artificial intelligence and a boom in data center construction. Some warn the U.S. grid can’t keep up. But Scott Strazik, CEO of GE Vernova, says his company ...

Google DeepMind shared on Thursday a research preview of SIMA 2, the next generation of its generalist AI agent that integrates the language and reasoning powers of Gemini, Google’s large language ...

No. 11 Texas Tech lost its first non-conference test to No. 14 Illinois with a final score of 81-77. JT Toppin led all scorers with 35 points, including 24 in the second half, and added 11 rebounds.

"Those laid off now are finding it harder to quickly secure new roles, which could further loosen the labor market." A new report by the analyst firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, which tracks layoffs ...

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The Texas Tech Red Raiders welcome the BYU Cougars to Lubbock, TX, this Saturday for a Big 12 showdown. The undefeated BYU Cougars are 8-0 and No. 1 in the conference, while the Texas Tech Red Raiders ...

Silicon Valley’s mega AI spending spree isn’t slowing down anytime soon. But Wall Street’s patience to see a return might be wearing a little thin. That message rang clear when Meta, Microsoft, Amazon ...

With the release of Sora, and more recently Sora 2, OpenAI has made a grand entrance into the video editing software market. The app is able to generate high-quality videos from basic text prompts, ...