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TechCrunchQuilt heat pump sports sleek design from veterans of Apple, Tesla, and Nest
Heating and air conditioning is usually pretty boring stuff, performed by appliance-like boxes with uninspired designs, from sheet metal outdoor units to cheap plastic indoor mini-splits. The heat pump startup unveiled its first products on Wednesday, and they sport the sort of sleek and intuitive designs you’d expect from veterans of Apple, Nest, Google, and Tesla. While design is a big part of the appeal, the startup wants to make the entire heat pump experience better.
- Engadget
Netflix will stream its first NFL games on Christmas Day
Netflix is set to stream NFL games live for the first time after locking in a deal for a Christmas Day doubleheader.
- Yahoo Finance
Grocery prices jumped 1.2% last month as food inflation returns to pre-pandemic levels
Food prices were unchanged month over month as shoppers get used to higher bills.
- Autoblog
Only a tiny fraction of Tesla FSD trial users signed up to pay for it
Tesla has tried a few promotional measures to drive FSD adoption, but they have so far not been the ticket it's looking for.
- Yahoo Finance
Gas price increases accelerate in April as overall inflation pressures ease
Gas prices rose in April, contributing to an overall rise in inflation
- TechCrunch
Embedded accounting startup Layer secures $2.3M toward goal of replacing QuickBooks
Layer is leaning into that better user experience, but with embedded accounting. Its customers are those, like Square or Toast, working with small and medium-sized businesses to offer accounting and bookkeeping features inside their own products. This is instead of using a separate accounting software, like QuickBooks, to manage their business finances.
- Yahoo Sports
NFL season schedule: How to watch every football game of the 2024-25 season
How you can keep up with every NFL game, from the season opener to the 2025 Super Bowl.
- TechCrunch
Shipping logistics startup Harbor Lab raises $16M Series A led by Atomico
Cargo ships docking at a commercial port incur costs called “disbursements” and “port call expenses.” Now, a Greek maritime software startup that we last covered when it raised a €6.1 million seed round — Harbor Lab — has gone on to raise a $16 million Series A funding round led by European VC Atomico. Harbor Lab says the costs that arise from a vessel’s port calls are the second largest expense for commercial vessels behind fuel, reaching around $2.2 million per vessel per year.
- Yahoo Sports
NBA playoffs: Jalen Brunson dominates Pacers again to put Knicks on verge of conference finals
The Knicks are a win away from their first Eastern Conference finals appearance since 2000.
- Yahoo Life
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit models share how they prepare to pose in bikinis — and it doesn't include dieting
Women share how they prepared to be featured in the brand's 60th anniversary issue.
- Yahoo Sports
Astros pitcher Ronel Blanco ejected after foreign substance check early in win over A's
Ronel Blanco, who threw a no-hitter earlier this year, is now likely facing a 10-game suspension.
- Yahoo Sports
Docs: NCAA could face $20B in damages, bankruptcy if proposed settlement offer isn't agreed upon
The potential settlement is believed to be in its final stages of adoption and consists of back pay, a new compensation model and an overhaul of the NCAA scholarship system.
- Yahoo Sports
Fox Sports host Doug Gottlieb hired as Green Bay's coach, will reportedly still host radio show
Gottlieb's repeatedly courted controversy in his media role and will reportedly continue to host his nationally syndicated radio show while coaching Green Bay.
- Yahoo Sports
Majority of Oregon State and Washington State home games to be televised on the CW in 2024
Fox Sports will televise one home game for each remaining Pac-12 team.
- TechCrunch
Google announces Gemma 2, a 27B-parameter version of its open model, launching in June
On Tuesday, Google announced a number of new additions to Gemma, its family of open (but not open source) models comparable to Meta's Llama and Mistral's open models, at its annual Google I/O 2024 developer conference. The headline-grabbing release here is Gemma 2, the next generation of Google's open-weights Gemma models, which will launch with a 27 billion parameter model in June. Already available is PaliGemma, a pre-trained Gemma variant that Google describes as "the first vision language model in the Gemma family" for image captioning, image labeling and visual Q&A use cases.
- Yahoo TV
'Bridgerton' Season 3: As Nicola Coughlan and Luke Newton's characters take center stage, here's where the series left off
Season 3 turns its attention to the friends-to-lovers courtship between Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton.
- TechCrunch
Google's generative AI can now analyze hours of video
Gemini, Google’s family of generative AI models, can now analyze longer documents, codebases, videos and audio recordings than before. During a keynote at the Google I/O 2024 developer conference Tuesday, Google announced the private preview of a new version of Gemini 1.5 Pro, the company’s current flagship model, that can take in up to 2 million tokens. Beyond being able to analyze large files, models that can take in more tokens can sometimes achieve improved performance.
- Yahoo Life
Gayle King is on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit at 69. Why it matters.
Why the iconic magazine is featuring stars like King, Martha Stewart, Maye Musk and others.
- Yahoo Sports
Introducing the all-women’s sports bar
The idea of an all-women sports bar began as wishful thinking, but now they are popping up all over the country.
- Autoblog
Jackery Explorer 2000 Pro portable power station is now at its lowest price ever
If you're in the market for some portable power, this fantastic Jackery Power Station deal could save you a huge $700!