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The NBA is close to a series of rights deals that will generate an astonishing $76 billion over 11 years for the sports league.
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The NBA is close to a series of rights deals that will generate an astonishing $76 billion over 11 years for the sports league.

Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has launched an investigation following an incident during its first crewed flight in two years, in which one of the parachutes on the New Shepard capsule failed to fully inflate.

The banking industry took its time to transition from paper bills to plastic cards. Now it’s in the midst of a more rapid transformation: going digital.
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It’s official, the Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks will face off in the NBA Finals. The best-of-seven series tips off this Thursday and will run through June, until one team achieves the four wins required to be crowned champion.
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This week at the Gizmodo science desk, deputy editor George Dvorsky reported on a modification to the famous Drake Equation that produces a rather sobering result about the number of extraterrestrial intelligences in our Galaxy. Health reporter Ed Cara chronicles a mysterious disease from the 1500s that vanished from…
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