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There is every chance that all cards are on the table with this Knicks team if they don’t at least match what they did a year ago, when they fell two games shy of the NBA Finals.

A key member of the 2024 championship team, Laney-Hamilton brings experience, vocal leadership, stifling perimeter defense, relentless toughness and clutch shot-making to a team that missed her presence throughout last season. 

When Luka Doncic (Grade 2 left hamstring strain) and Austin Reaves (Grade 2 left oblique strain) suffered their regular-season-ending injuries April 2, with just 2 ½ weeks before the NBA playoffs started, coach JJ Redick immediately made the Lakers’ mission clear. 

A low-cost transatlantic carrier is hitting the brakes on Los Angeles service, citing soaring fuel prices that are shaking the aviation industry. Norse Atlantic Airways has scrapped all flights from LAX for the upcoming summer season, a move tied to rising jet fuel costs linked to the ongoing conflict involving Iran. The airline confirmed to...

The multi-year deal between Fanatics and the Saudis entertainment arm to sponsor a flag football league involving Tom Brady is reportedly in trouble as funding from the Middle Eastern kingdom could potentially be pulled.

The Burns-Lawrence friendship started two years ago at a charity softball game hosted by Lawrence and Giants superfan Joe Ruback (License Plate Guy).

China's Unitree Unveils Robot With "Human-Like Physique" That Can Outrun Most People

The race for bipedal humanoid robot intelligence has certainly been in the news, with robots receiving "AI brains" that have already brought them onto factory floors and will likely become more visible in the public world in the coming years (see UBS). 

But there is another race that Chinese robot maker Unitree is simultaneously part of, and that is actual speed.

In recent days, Unitree posted a video on X titled "Unitree Breaks the World Record Again," indicating that one of its humanoid robots now has the "physique of an ordinary person, running at a world champion's speed."

Unitree said the robot completed a sprint at 10 meters per second, or 22.4 mph. For context, the fastest human sprint speed ever recorded was Usain Bolt's 27.8 mph during his 100-meter world record run at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics.

10m/s!! Unitree Breaks the World Record Again😊
With the physique of an ordinary person, running at a world champion’s speed!
Leg length: 0.4+0.4=0.8m, body weight: approx. 62kg!
H1: “Give me one more chance, give the world one more honor!” pic.twitter.com/Fk4Zo9zKit

— Unitree (@UnitreeRobotics) April 11, 2026

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Combine intelligence with speed, and the world is certainly racing toward the rise of robots that could one day chase down a human or even appear on the battlefield.

That's likely already happened. 

Tyler Durden Wed, 04/15/2026 - 19:40

"She woke up, not knowing exactly how she got there at the bottom of the staircase in the crew area," the California nurse's lawyer, Spencer Aronfeld, said of his client.

Bryon Noem reportedly spent tens of thousands of dollars on fetish-scene sex workers.

Iran secretly got its hands on a Chinese spy satellite to target American bases in the Middle East during the war, leaked military documents revealed.

Eric Swalwell’s money has become toxic.

“Ever since that Jessica deal, his life fell apart,” one man said of his brother's suicide.

A season like the one Miller and the Rangers had might have sent the 33-year-old “off the rails” in the past. 

Waymo Partners With Waze To Use Self-Driving Cars To Track Potholes

Authored by Dylan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Two Alphabet-owned companies, Waymo and Waze, announced on April 9 that they will team up to detect potholes and share that information with local government agencies to help get them filled more efficiently.

A self-driving Waymo vehicle awaits passengers in Los Angeles on July 1, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

“Waymo is already making roads safer where we operate,“ said Arielle Fleisher, the company’s policy development and research manager, in a statement. ”We want to build on the safety benefits of our service by partnering with organizations and city officials to help improve the infrastructure we all depend on.”

Waymo, which started out as a Google self-driving car project in 2009 and spun out into its own company under Alphabet in 2016, said the pothole program was inspired from feedback it gathered from city officials over the years and is intended to fill reporting gaps.

Waymos are covered with cameras and sensors. The company said it will use its feedback systems to detect potholes and share that information through Waze’s platform, which users will be able to verify.

Waze, a GPS navigation app that lets drivers alert others with live updates, was acquired by Alphabet-subsidiary Google in 2013 for around $1.1 billion.

“This pilot program with Waymo adds another source of data to that effort, giving cities a clearer picture of road conditions through our Waze for Cities platform. It’s a great example of how working together helps our community and makes our roads better for everyone,” Waze Strategic Partner Manager Andrew Stober said.

Waze and Waymo will launch the pilot program in five areas—the San Francisco Bay Area, where the two companies are headquartered in Mountain View, as well as the Los Angeles, Phoenix, Austin, and Atlanta metro areas.

“We appreciate the collaboration with Waymo and Waze as we explore how technology can help identify issues like potholes faster so we can respond more efficiently,” San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said in a statement. “We’re always looking for innovative ways to deliver better services for residents.”

Waymo said it has already identified around 500 potholes in these locations and will work to expand the program to more cities it serves.

Alongside these five locations, Waymo also operates in Dallas, Houston, Miami, Nashville, Orlando, and San Antonio.

The Nashville location is the newest addition, as Waymo started allowing users in Nashville on a rolling basis on April 7. The company also announced in February that it will expand to Charlotte, Chicago, and Sacramento, where it has released its fleet to begin gathering data on Sacramento’s streets.

Tyler Durden Wed, 04/15/2026 - 19:15

The two people who died were trying to save a child who had been swept away in a dangerous rip current.

Despite her deputy exchanging some high-profile barbs with Hochul’s team this week, Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Westchester) acknowledged “incremental progress” is being made in talks behind closed doors – including getting closer to a deal on anti-ICE measures and change lang-use approval processes proposed by Hochul.

In exchange for promoting the product, King would receive $100,000, and a six percent royalty.

A Major League Baseball umpire did not feel any brotherly love while in the city of Philadelphia last week, and it had nothing to do with baseball. 

In a saner world, the political weaponization of the DOJ under President Joe Biden would be a bipartisan scandal, but today's "moderate" Democrats won't lift a finger to protect traditional norms.

What could this player be in Year 3? The Jets should have that written on the wall of their draft room in Florham Park.