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- Billionaires continue to set records when major league teams are on the market.
- Guggenheim Partners CEO Mark Walter is reportedly buying the Los Angeles Lakers for $10 billion.
- Here are all the billionaires buying and selling teams in 2025.
Few assets are as exclusive
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- My identical twin sons have been fiercely competitive with each other from toddlerhood.
- Their rivalry helped them thrive on the sports field, but brought tension in academics.
- Although they now attend different colleges in the same city, they'll still defend each other.
My identical twins have been competing since they were

The Counterpart charger is a $44 wall plug with one standout feature: a built-in retractable cable. It’s designed to reduce clutter and simplify your everyday charging setup. But is smart cable management enough to justify the price?

Apple might be reaching for the stars with the battery in its next high-end iPhone.
Or, at least, reaching for what several Android phones have already achieved, anyway. A new leak from prolific Chinese leaker Setsuna Digital on Weibo (courtesy of GSMArena) suggests the iPhone 17 Pro Max will have a 5,000mAh battery, the first ever 5,000mAh cell from Apple in an iPhone. It would beat the previous
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- Coney Island has been a popular destination for the Fourth of July since the early 20th century.
- Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest has been held on July 4 since the 1970s.
- Vintage photos of the Fourth of July on Coney Island show crowded beaches and the hot-dog contest.
No place does the
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For this special holiday edition of AI Playground, I asked ChatGPT and Anthropic's powerful new Claude 4 chatbot for recommendations for my Tahitian trip. I'm on vacation with my wife and a group of friends to celebrate the birthday of one of our oldest friends, Theresa. We
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Big Tech just won big in the battle over data and copyright. The implications for business, publishing, and the future of the web are profound.
Two recent US court rulings, including one in favor of Anthropic's use of millions of
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- Beans are packed with nutrients, including fiber and protein.
- A new study suggests consuming one cup per day can also lower low-grade inflammation in the body.
- Here are the recipes participants used to get it done.
Beans, beans, the magical fruit. The more you eat, the more you … can cut down on dangerous, chronic low-grade inflammation.
Researchers at Illinois
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Good morning. Happy 249th birthday, America — not that we're counting! — with warm regards from London.
As the BI Today team is off for the holiday, I'm bringing you an abbreviated version of the newsletter.
In today's big story, why
