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Hardwood Is Basketball’s Longtime Foundation. A German Company Would Love to Change That to Glass

Hardwood has been the long-running foundation for basketball, but could the sport eventually find a home on glass?

Explained: What Is the Semi-Automated Offside Technology Set to Be Introduced in the Premier League?

The Premier League is set to introduce Semi-Automated Offside Technology (SAOT) on 12 April to improve the accuracy and speed of offside decisions. Learn how SAOT works and its impact on VAR.

Aap MI Aa Sakte Hain: How Mumbai Indians Scout Talent and Make Them Into Stars

From Bumrah and Hardik, to Vignesh and Ashwani this season, the talent-spotters of IPL’s most successful franchise continues to unearth match-winners

Why Ovechkin Is ‘Nearly Impossible’ to Stop: Opponents, Teammates Explain His Shot

Top NHL blueliners, goalies and scorers explain Ovi’s unique skill as he closes in on Wayne Gretzky’s record.

The Dying Embers of the Phoenix Suns’ Historic Flameout

The most expensive roster in the NBA is lurching toward the finish line and a potentially franchise-altering summer. “It’s upsetting,” says Devin Booker. “When you’re playing with this type of talent, you expect a championship.”

A 1930s movement wanted to merge the US, Canada and Greenland. Here’s why it has modern resonances

A movement that wanted to merge North America into one nation and extend its borders as far as the Panama Canal might sound incredibly familiar. But this group, called the “technocracy movement”, was a group of 1930s nonconformists with big ideas about how to rearrange US society.

Canada, be prepared for hardships not seen in generations

John Turley-Ewart is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail, a regulatory compliance consultant and a Canadian banking historian. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says we will “fight like we’ve never fought before.

The US Army Is Using ‘CamoGPT’ to Purge DEI From Training Materials

The United States Army is employing a prototype generative artificial intelligence tool to identify references to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) for removal from training materials in line with a recent executive order from President Donald Trump.

4 Rowing Machine Workouts to Transform Your Cardio – Approved by a Coach and a World-Record Holder

Earlier this year, Phil Clapp sat down on a Concept2 machine in London and rowed 1,000 meters in two minutes, 38.2 seconds – faster than anyone is known to have pulled that distance before.

This budget-friendly laptop accessory is my secret weapon against messy desks (and it's $20 off)

Laptop or desktop? I'm sure many people ask themselves this question when shopping for a new computer. Laptops are obviously more mobile and better suited for users on the go. Desktops, on the other hand, enable a much richer PC ecosystem.

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The U.S. waged a trade war against Canada before. Here’s how it ended

On an early-fall afternoon in 1890, Sir John A. Macdonald stood before a large crowd at a picnic in Halifax and delivered an impassioned speech that sounds eerily familiar in 2025. The topic? Tariffs. The threat? Annexation.

Learn API Fundamentals and Architecture – A Beginner-Friendly Guide

What is an API? How Do APIs Work?

Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf just challenged Anthropic CEO’s vision for AI’s future — and the $130 billion industry is taking notice

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We Should Have Seen What Sally Mann Saw 40 Years Ago

It was 1988. My first year as a high school English teacher in a girls’ school had just ended. I was heading to Alabama for my wedding when the head of the school called me to his office to announce a temporary reassignment for the following fall. “Ms.

Canada’s existential election has very quickly become unserious

You recall: in light of the existential threat posed by Donald Trump, Canadian politics had been transformed. There was no alternative. The country’s very survival was at stake. No longer could we afford to dawdle along as if the world owed us a living – or as if we had no natural predators.

Curated by our editorsStories to fuel your mind

Hardwood Is Basketball’s Longtime Foundation. A German Company Would Love to Change That to Glass

Explained: What Is the Semi-Automated Offside Technology Set to Be Introduced in the Premier League?

Aap MI Aa Sakte Hain: How Mumbai Indians Scout Talent and Make Them Into Stars

Why Ovechkin Is ‘Nearly Impossible’ to Stop: Opponents, Teammates Explain His Shot

The Dying Embers of the Phoenix Suns’ Historic Flameout

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