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TORONTO (AP) — Alejandro Kirk and Vladmir Guerrero Jr. powered the Toronto Blue Jays to yet another home win over the New York Yankees, snapping a postseason losing streak that stretched back almost a decade.Kirk hit two solo home runs, Guerrero also connected and the Blue Jays won a playoff game for the first time since 2016 by thumping the New York Yankees 10-1 in Game 1 of their AL Division Series on Saturday.Nathan Lukes had two hits, three RBIs and a diving catch, and Andrés Giménez added two hits and drove in a pair as the AL East champion…
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Winless in four games in which they never led, their head coach fired, two coordinators gone and No. 7 Penn State in town. UCLA couldn’t get much lower. “Nobody in the world expected us to win,” Bruins safety Key Lawrence said.Indeed, the Bruins were 25 1/2-point underdogs. They went out and stunned the Nittany Lions 42-37 on Saturday, becoming the first 0-4 or worse team to beat a top-10 team in 40 years.“You’d think it was Mardi Gras,” interim coach Tim Skipper said, describing the locker room atmosphere. “There was water flying everywhere, there’s music, there’s…
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — DJ Lagway and Dallas Wilson might be the combination Florida coach Billy Napier needs to save his job.Lagway threw for a season-high 289 yards and two touchdowns — both to Wilson, a true freshman making his college debut — and Florida upset No. 9 Texas 29-21 on Saturday to end a three-game skid.“It’s us against the world,” Lagway said. “That’s our mentality.”Arch Manning and the Longhorns (3-2, 0-1 Southeastern Conference) had a chance in the final minute thanks partly to a defensive penalty, but he threw incomplete deep and was sacked twice. That set off a…
Rite Aid is closing all locations, according to a recent post on the U.S. pharmacy chain’s website.”All Rite Aid stores have now closed. We thank our loyal customers for their many years of support,” read a post at the bottom of the Rite Aid website.CBS News reached out to Rite Aid for comment on Saturday.Rite Aid filed for bankruptcy in May, the second such filing in nearly two years. The company also filed for bankruptcy in October 2023 and said at the time that the restructuring would “significantly reduce the company’s debt” while helping to “resolve litigation claims in an…
At ease, Hollywood.OpenAI may be changing its tune about the use of copyright materials in its video-generation tool, Sora.Since launching earlier this week, the new Sora 2 app — which allows users to generate short AI videos from text prompts — has been flooded with clips featuring well-known animated characters and big brands, sparking warnings from legal experts over potential copyright lawsuits.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has now outlined changes that would give rights holders more control over the use of their intellectual property on the platform, which was the No. 1 free app on the Apple App Store on Friday.In a blog…
Agriculture is a thirsty industry, consuming 70% of all fresh water used worldwide. In some countries, like India or Chile, it can be more than 90%. For Mario Bustamante, who lives in Chile, the problem hits close to home. “Lack of water is a big issue here,” he told TechCrunch. Bustamante is betting that AI can help slash water use in farms across the world. His startup, Instacrops, was originally founded to deploy internet-of-things (IoT) sensors on farms to warn farmers about damaging frost conditions, but as the hardware became commoditized, the company pivoted to software and water use. Now,…
OpenAI may be reversing course on how it approaches copyright and intellectual property in its new video app Sora. Prior to Sora’s launch this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI had been telling Hollywood studios and agencies that they needed to explicitly opt out if they didn’t want their IP to be included in Sora-generated videos. Despite being invite-only, the app quickly climbed to the top of the App Store charts. Sora’s most distinctive feature may be its “cameos,” where users can upload their biometric data to see their digital likeness featured in AI-generated videos. At the same…
SAO PAULO (AP) — Friday night was anything but typical at a bar near Paulista Avenue, one of Sao Paulo’s busiest areas and a popular destination for tourists. Nearly every table was ordering beer, wine or draft beer but no cocktails.Edilson Trindade, the manager who has worked at the bar since 2018, told The Associated Press the establishment usually sells about 80 caipirinhas — Brazil’s national cocktail made with cachaça, lime, sugar and ice — each night. Last week, he didn’t sell a single one. No other cocktails were ordered, either.“Clients have been worried, and we’re advising them it’s better…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Phillies right fielder Nick Castellanos was benched on Saturday for Game 1 of the NL Division Series against Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Shohei Ohtani.The right-handed-hitting Castellanos said he had “communication” issues earlier this season when he was scratched from the lineup by manager Rob Thomson. Castellanos played 147 games and hit just .250 with 72 RBIs this season a year after he played in all 162. Max Kepler got the start in right field against LA, batting seventh.Castellanos played all 34 games for the Phillies over the last three postseasons. He became the first player in MLB…
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee’s Jackson Chourio left Saturday’s NL Division Series opener against the Chicago Cubs with a hamstring injury after becoming the first player to have three hits in the first two innings of a postseason game.Chourio spent a month on the injured list after straining his right hamstring while running the bases on a triple in a July 29 victory over the Cubs.“It’s scary,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said during the TBS telecast of Game 1. “He had a hamstring that kept him out a month, and it’s the same hamstring, so we’re worried about it. It’s really…