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Michael Jordan reacts to Tyler Reddick’s historic 3-peat win at COTA originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.Another week, another milestone for Tyler Reddick.AdvertisementThe 23XI Racing driver continued his red-hot start to the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season Sunday, winning the DuraMAX Texas Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas to become the first driver in NASCAR’s 77-year history to open a season with three consecutive victories.With team co-owner Michael Jordan watching from pit road, Reddick delivered a dominant performance on the 20-turn road course. He started from the pole,…

As persistent spam complaints have clouded Google’s Rich Communication Services (RCS) push in India, the company is turning to deeper carrier integration to bolster protections on the platform. On Sunday, Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator with over 463 million subscribers, said it had partnered with Google to integrate the carrier’s network-level spam filtering into the RCS ecosystem in the country. The move is aimed at strengthening protections against unwanted messages and fraud on the platform, the companies said. India has emerged as a particularly challenging market for spam and fraud across messaging channels, driven by the country’s vast mobile…

The 2026 SAG Awards are officially underway in Los Angeles—and they’ve rebranded! Please welcome to the stage the 2026 Actor Awards, hosted by Kristen Bell at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall.Let’s turn our attention to the red carpet, shall we? For the first time, the event comes with a dress code: “Reimagining Hollywood Glamour from the ’20s and ’30s.” We have high hopes that the very fashionable set of nominees—Chase Infiniti, Teyana Taylor, Emma Stone, and Ariana Grande among them—will live up to the early Hollywood brief. The men will surely deliver, too: stylish actors including Timothée Chalamet, Michael…

The latest ThinkBook X1 Carbon, which Lenovo debuted with extra fanfare back at CES 2026, boasts extra repairability beyond any other laptop in the company’s ultraportable repertoire. However, that easily removable keyboard and chassis were built more for the sake of trained technicians rather than the lowly laptop user who just wants to swap out their USB-C port for HDMI. Lenovo’s latest ThinkPad concept goes a step further. It promises a whole new level of modularity that is even more ambitious than Framework’s current design. It’s only held back by Lenovo’s need to hang on to too many proprietary components.…

The two NFL teams that appeared in the Super Bowl — the Patriots and the Seahawks — each used last year’s first-round pick on an offensive lineman. Who from this year’s draft could follow a similar path? This year’s candidates participated in athletic testing and on-field drills Sunday to close out the NFL Scouting Combine.CBS Sports currently has seven prospects ranked among the top-25 overall: Alabama’s Kadyn Proctor, Penn State’s Olaivavega Ioane, Utah’s Caleb Lomu and Spencer Fano, Miami’s Francis Mauigoa, Arizona State’s Max Iheanachor and Clemson’s Blake Miller. A year ago, eight offensive linemen heard their names called on opening…

Lenovo can make a robot, too. Alongside proof-of-concept foldable gaming PCs and modular laptops, it introduced the AI Workmate Concept at MWC 2026. With its own Intel Core Ultra processor, 64GB of memory and its own Pico projector, it’s an AI-laced “workmate” meant to streamline office tasks and collaboration. And it has an LCD face.For now, it’s a proof of concept, musing on how to integrate voice commands and LLMs (large language models) into workplace settings. It’s meant to sit on your desk, but preferably also near a wall – more on that later.Voice commands aside, the concept bot supports…

Rescue forces operate at a building hit by an Iranian missile strike in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Sunday, March 1, 2026. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe escalating conflict in the Middle East is fueling fears that Washington’s pursuit of regime change in Iran, and Tehran’s retaliation, could destabilize regions from the Gulf to Europe, leaving global leaders scrambling to assess the fallout.Follow CNBC’s live coverage of the U.S.-Israel strikes in IranThe U.S. and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran over the weekend, killing the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, prompting waves of attacks by Tehran across the…

Anthropic may have lost out on doing business with the US government, but it’s gained enough popularity to earn the number one spot on the App Store’s Top Free Apps leaderboard. At the top, Claude beat out both ChatGPT and Google Gemini, which respectively sit at the second and third spots on Apple’s free apps charts.The sudden surge in user downloads isn’t random. It follows news that President Trump has barred any federal agency from using Anthropic’s Claude or other AI tools after the AI company refused to concede on certain guardrails. After declining to have its AI models be…

Andreas HaleMar 1, 2026, 12:35 AM ETCloseAndreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas’ free time, he plays video games, obsesses over music and is a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is also a host for Sirius XM’s Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a senior writer at DAZN and Sporting News. He started his career as a music journalist for outlets including HipHopDX, The Grammys and Jay-Z’s Life+Times. He is also an NAACP Image Award-nominated filmmaker as a producer for the animated short film “Bridges” in 2024.Multiple…

Lego’s new Smart Brick is a pretty big deal. It packs a miniature computer, a microphone, and NFC tech into a classic 2×4 Lego brick, which can power all sorts of new experiences with select sets. It has so much promise that we awarded it “best in show” at CES 2026, and now, eight Star Wars-themed sets that support the Smart Brick (and include it, in some cases) are now available.Three of them include at least one Smart Brick, along with a charging cradle and cable, while the rest are merely “Smart Play compatible,” meaning they’re BYOB (bring your own…