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Just eight teams remain in the NFL playoffs, and a trip to Championship Sunday is on the line this weekend as the divisional round takes center stage. The league is coming off a truly wild Wild Card Weekend, with most games decided in the final moments, setting the stage for what’s shaping up to be one of the most memorable postseason runs in recent memory. The bar is high for the divisional round — and it has a lot to live up to.As much as the focus is on the matchups that will determine who advances and who goes home,…

Database provider ClickHouse secured $400 million at a $15 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported, representing about a 2.5x increase from its $6.35 billion valuation last May. The round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group, the startup said, with participation from investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, GIC, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. ClickHouse, which spun out from Russian search giant Yandex in 2021, develops database software designed to process the massive datasets required by AI agents. The company competes with Snowflake and Databricks. The company also announced the acquisition of Langfuse, a startup that helps developers track and evaluate…

We independently select these products—if you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. All prices were accurate at the time of publishing.Meatballs are one of my favorite make-ahead meals. When I was in college, my mom would send me back to school with a big batch of them to make sure I was eating real food. Now I cook them myself and keep some tucked away in the freezer for nights when I really don’t feel like cooking. Sometimes I do get a little tired of the tomato-and-oregano-flavored balls waiting for me, though. Don’t get me wrong…

The mountains are having a moment, and it’s in this terrain that Umit Benan’s fall collection returned to archetypes of masculine elegance recast through a textured, subtly playful lens. As always, the designer started from an idea of classics—the urban man who divides his life between weekday tailoring and weekend alpine escapes—but let materiality and ease do the reshaping. “There’s always a starting image for me,” Benan said. “This time it was a photo of my father in St. Moritz in 1988, dressed in all colors. That’s the man I wanted to bring back, the one mixing cashmere with mountain…

Here in the Pacific Northwest, we’re heading into the cold and windy season, which generally means power outages. One of the best ways to stay prepared for those cold and dark days is a portable power station like the Jackery Explorer 300 Plus, which is currently marked down by $100 at Best Buy and by the same amount at B&H. It’s compact enough to tuck away in a cabinet for a rainy day, but still has enough juice to power small and medium sized devices.I actually picked up one of these a few weeks ago ahead of a big windstorm,…

It was a typical winter Friday for 45-year-old David Nozzolillo. And on a cold and blistery day, him and his coworkers at Wintrust Bank in Orland Park didn’t want to veer far for lunch. So they ate at the Hooters in the adjacent parking lot.”I don’t really like the food there, but begrudgingly did,” Nozzolillo. “I tried to eat as clean as possible; I got the naked wings without any sauce or breading. Did get some fries. Turned out to be the pregame meal of champions.”Nozzolillo finished working from home. He was on the phone with a client until 5…

Google has filed its appeal to the Department of Justice’s antitrust case that ended with a federal judge ruling that the company was maintaining a monopoly with its search business. While the company goes through the appeals process, it’s also asking that implementation of the remedies from the case, which include a requirement that Google share search data with its competitors, also be paused.“As we have long said, the Court’s August 2024 ruling ignored the reality that people use Google because they want to, not because they’re forced to,” Google said in a statement. “The decision failed to account for…

Micron stock rose nearly 8% Friday as investors looked to buy AI chip supply chain stocks after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported robust earnings on Thursday, signaling continued AI infrastructure spending.Shares of Micron, one of the makers of memory and storage for artificial intelligence systems, is up over 250% over the past year, as memory is in a worldwide shortage and seeing a surge of demand. Memory is used in AI systems to keep large amounts of data close to the graphics processing unit, or GPU, so it can run large AI models without slowing down.”AI driven-demand is accelerating,” Micron…

Welcome to Deep Dish, a weekly roundup of food and entertainment news. Last time we discussed the newly rejiggered food pyramid.I don’t know about you, but I have spent a lot of time in recent years thinking about the spoon-sized amount of microplastics that’s likely inside my brain. What would I eat with said spoon? I’d ponder. Is it a soup spoon or a demitasse? I’d picture the spoon in pieces, floating somewhere near my parietal lobe. I’d blame the spoon when I couldn’t remember the name of a distant acquaintance at a party, when I could feel my attention…

The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the PJM Interconnection, the biggest electricity market in the US, to hold a power auction meant to spur a massive buildout of new power plants.Lawmakers and tech companies building out new data centers face growing fury from Americans over rising electricity ratesPJM operates the largest electricity grid in the US, which spans 13 states across the Midwest and Atlantic and includes the concentration of data centers in Virginia. The governors of all states, including Democrats Josh Shapiro (D-PA) and Wes Moore (D-MD) signed onto the statement issued today with…