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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Kalen DeBoer looks to the scoreboard during a college football game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Florida State Seminoles at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, FL.Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Alabama’s loss at Florida State to open the season was its second straight to an unranked non-conference opponent. Three straight such losses have not occurred in the lifetime of the average college student in Tuscaloosa, or since 2000 when Mike DuBose was in his final season as coach of the Crimson Tide. The Tide, of course, has enjoyed much success…

Labor Day deal: With concerns over tariffs and price increases, Labor Day offers greater discounts on a ton of items, including top tech like the Apple M4 Mac Mini. You can still pick one up — even though Labor Day is technically over — for$545 at Amazon . This powerful computer already offers great value, so saving $54 is a bonus. If you were planning on picking one up, we suggest you make the most of this last-minute Labor Day deal and buy sooner rather than later. I bought the M4 Mac Mini after reading CNET laptop expert Joshua Goldman’s…

Paramount Skydance, continuing to round out its management ranks, has hired Jeff Silberman as senior VP of corporate strategy. Silberman spent more than eight years at Boston Consulting Group, most recently as a partner in its media and entertainment practice. Earlier in his career, he worked at law firms Cooley LLP and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. At Paramount Skydance, Silberman reports to Tony Driscoll, executive VP, head of corporate strategy and development. Driscoll, who had served as an adviser to Skydance since September 2024 prior to the close of the Paramount deal, previously held roles at Epic…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The Americas’ oldest known civilization had a thing for frogs. At an archaeological site about 68 miles north of Lima, Peru, investigators recently discovered a first-of-its-kind statue attesting to the Caral people’s affinity for amphibians. The tiny, symbolic artwork and other discoveries presented at a recent Ministry of Culture press conference highlight 18 years’ worth of excavation, conservation, and research at Vichama, a site inside the Caral Archaeological Zone (ZAC) in Peru’s Huaura Valley. The Caral civilization Also known as Norte Chico, the Caral civilization existed…

Film star Gerard Depardieu, one of the leading faces of French cinema, will face trial on charges of raping actress Charlotte Arnould in 2018, in the latest blow to his reputation after he was convicted of sexual assault earlier this year. Arnould first accused Depardieu of rape in 2018, saying the assaults occurred in his Paris home on two separate occasions when she was in her early 20s. Depardieu, 76, has denied wrongdoing in the case.

A cyber-attack has “severely disrupted” Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) vehicle production, including at its two main UK plants. The firm, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors, says it took immediate action to lessen the effect of the hack and is working quickly to restart operations. JLR’s retail business has also been badly hit but there is no evidence any customer data had been stolen, it said. The attack began on Sunday and comes at a significant time for UK car sales, as the latest batch of new registration plates became available on Monday 1 September.It’s traditionally a popular time…

Elon Musk doesn’t want Tesla to be just an automaker. He wants Tesla to be an AI company, one that’s figured out how to make cars drive themselves.  Crucial to that mission was Dojo, a custom-built supercomputer designed by Tesla to train its Full Self-Driving (FSD) neural networks. FSD isn’t actually fully self-driving; it can perform some automated driving tasks, but still requires an attentive human behind the wheel. But Tesla thinks with more data, more compute power and more training, it can cross the threshold from almost self-driving to full self-driving.  And that’s where Dojo was supposed to come…

Children across England are preparing to return to school this week following the summer break, but parents should be concerned for their safety and wellbeing while they are in school.After years of campaigning after the tragic death of my son Oliver to sudden cardiac arrest, I strongly welcomed the commitment given by the previous government to ensure that all state-funded schools across England received life-saving defibrillators. The rollout of the programme was significant and marked a giant step forward in improving emergency medical readiness, and potentially saving lives in schools across England.Now I am urging the current Labour government to…

Welcome to Literary Quotable Quotes, a quiz that challenges you to match a book’s memorable passages with its title. This week’s installment highlights the first lines from best-selling novels published in the middle years of the 20th century; epigraphs, prefaces and other introductory matter are not included. In the five multiple-choice questions below, tap or click on the answer you think is correct. After the last question, you’ll find links to the books themselves if you want to get a copy and see that quotation in context.

Getty Images The New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons have one of the fiercest rivalries in the NFL, and in recent years they’ve extended that rivalry to front office hirings. The Falcons’ front office is currently run by Terry Fontenot, who came to Atlanta from New Orleans in 2020 after nearly two decades with the Saints as a scout, director of scouting and assistant GM. On Tuesday, the Saints hired the man Fontenot replaced in Atlanta, as Thomas Dimitroff was announced as a new front office consultant in New Orleans.  Predicting the five worst teams in NFL for 2025: Browns, Saints…