Each week of the college football season has the feel of playoff intensity — one loss can derail a team’s national championship hopes. That’s especially true this year with teams playing shortened seasons to minimize the risk of athletes contracting COVID-19. The two biggest games today feature No. 5 Georgia playing No. 8 Florida in …
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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Today is Election Day. While millions of Americans have already voted, millions more are heading to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots in the race between Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden. We probably won’t know the winner before going …
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The Los Angeles Dodgers are one win away from their first World Series championship in 32 years. The Dodgers won Game 5 on Sunday behind a strong start from Clayton Kershaw and three-plus shutout innings from its bullpen. The Tampa Bay Rays will try to extend the series to a full seven games and win Games 6 and 7, a …
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With the rescheduled Masters looming in November, Tiger Woods is teeing it up this week. Woods is playing in his first PGA Tour event since he missed the cut at last month’s US Open. The Zozo Championship was moved from Japan to the Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Woods will be joined by …
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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Dell isn’t waiting for turkey leftovers to kick off Black Friday deals. On Thursday, it launched its Black Friday Sneak Peek sale that will run through Sunday, Nov. 1. At present, you’ll find a handful of high-powered laptops from both Dell’s XPS and Alienware lines …
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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Get ready for a night of political firsts. Tonight’s debate will be the first and only one between the two vice presidential candidates, Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris, herself the first Black woman and the first …
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The spotted cow boxes are back. If you’re old enough to have once had an AOL account, a Blockbuster card or a Nintendo Game Boy, then you may recall Gateway’s line of computers that shipped in black-and-white cow-print boxes. Founded in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1985, Gateway enjoyed a successful run in the 1990s selling low-cost computers direct to consumers. …
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Nvidia announced its new Ampere-based GeForce RTX 3000-series graphics cards earlier in September that promise to be better, faster, stronger than its current stable of RTX 2000-series GPUs. The new cards and gaming PCs with the new cards won’t begin rolling out until later this fall, which means you’ll need to exercise patience if you’re looking to upgrade your current …
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The Labor Day laptop deals are going fast. But if you’re on the hunt for a new laptop this fall, whether for work or college, it’s still possible to find great price cuts on Best Buy, Amazon and NewEgg. And since your three-day weekend plans likely involve activities that are more entertaining than shopping for a new laptop, I’ve done the legwork for …
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Major League Soccer stopped before it really got started this year. After each of its 26 teams had played two games, the league shut down in March as the coronavirus spread. MLS has returned to the pitch but instead of resuming its regular season, it’s holding a monthlong, World Cup-style tournament at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports complex near Orlando, …
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