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The Kansas City Chiefs are aiming to win their third consecutive Super Bowl on Sunday and become the first team to pull off a Super Bowl “three-peat.”They need to defeat the Philadelphia Eagles, of course. If they do, and they want to celebrate with caps and T-shirts emblazoned with “three-peat,” they need to come to an agreement with Pat Riley, the person who owns the trademark to that expression.That’s because Riley, once the head coach of the N.B.A.’s Los Angeles Lakers, strongly believed that his team would win three consecutive championships in 1987, 1988 and 1989.His team won two consecutive…
The PlayStation Network, which users of the Sony PlayStation platform rely on to play games, download content and access apps, fluttered in and out of service on Saturday but remained down for at least some users more than 20 hours after widespread problems with the network were first reported.“You might have difficulty launching games, apps or network features,” PlayStation said on its website, adding that the problems began at 7 p.m. on Friday.The company did not explain the cause of the outage and did not immediately respond to an email seeking more information.The issues affected users of PlayStation’s most popular…
Friday afternoon last week, Jensen Huang, the chief executive of the chipmaker Nvidia, slipped into the White House to meet President Trump for the first time. There was no fanfare, and he left without a single public photo taken of the two.Two weeks earlier, Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, had a lengthy lunch with Mr. Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. They dined with little fuss and also barely made the news.Neither executive joined his big tech contemporaries who stood ramrod behind Mr. Trump at his inauguration. Instead, the two were on entirely different continents: Mr. Nadella was traveling…
Chaos erupted aboard a Frontier Airlines flight from Denver to Houston this week when a man started bashing a window and several seats around him, prompting other passengers to subdue him with shoelaces and zip ties until the plane landed.The struggle, captured on videos and photos taken by passengers, began about 40 minutes into Flight 4856 on Tuesday night.The plane had reached its cruising altitude of 35,000 feet when the man broke the window’s inner pane and its plastic frame, a case of air rage that an F.B.I. spokesman confirmed on Saturday was being investigated by the bureau.So far, the…
At President Trump’s inauguration, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, was relegated to the overflow room while other tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg took prime spots on the dais under the Capitol rotunda.But days earlier, before flying into Washington, Mr. Altman was on the phone with Mr. Trump, preparing an announcement that would outflank Mr. Musk and put Mr. Altman’s company at the center of the new administration’s agenda for artificial intelligence.On the 25-minute call, Mr. Altman appealed to Mr. Trump’s love of a big story and of a big deal. Mr. Altman told the president-elect…
The clubby insular world of corporate law has entered the culture war.First, Elon Musk started railing against Delaware, which for more than a century has been known as the home of corporate law, after the Delaware Chancery Court chancellor, Kathaleen McCormick, rejected his lofty pay package last year. Eventually he switched where Tesla is incorporated to Texas.Now, Dropbox has announced shareholder approval to move where it is incorporated to outside Delaware, and Meta is considering following suit. Others are also evaluating whether to make the move, DealBook hears.Musk’s ire against the state where nearly 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies…
“But then my other arm would always get tired from pushing the stroller,” she said. “So I was like, ‘You know what? Let me put it on my ankle.’”Ms. Gale, 33, who also wears the watch on her ankle when she uses StairMaster and elliptical machines at the gym, does a double take whenever she sees someone else doing the same thing. It does not happen often, she said, but when it does, there tends to be an instant connection.“It has definitely been a conversation,” she said, “and I do recommend it to other people, especially moms. I’ll be like,…
Television commercial breaks are the bane of every N.F.L. fan. They interrupt a game already riddled with stoppages, bombard viewers with come-ons and force fans and players in the stadium to stand around for about two and a half minutes, sometimes in the freezing cold.Yet commercials are the lifeblood of the N.F.L. Without them, broadcasters could not afford to pay the league billions of dollars for rights fees, money that goes to paying players’ salaries and much more.Most games have 18 commercial breaks. A few timeouts, like at the end of the first and third quarters and at the two-minute…
When Matt Zerai heard that his favorite team, the Dallas Mavericks, had traded Luka Doncic, their 25-year-old superstar, to the Los Angeles Lakers over the weekend, he was devastated.“It kind of did feel like I lost a family member,” Zerai said. “No one trades a franchise player in their prime like that. They want to make excuses about his conditioning and about him gaining weight. He literally took us to the finals last year.”He and a few friends hatched a plan to host a funeral for the franchise. They ordered a coffin, blue like one of the Mavericks’ colors, and…
The Brooklyn Museum said Friday that it would soon cut more than 40 employees — between 10 and 13 percent of its work force — to alleviate the pressures of a financial deficit that is projected to reach $10 million by the end of its fiscal year in June.Anne Pasternak, the museum’s director, said in a letter that will be sent to the staff members on Friday afternoon that the museum was “experiencing strong headwinds: inflation has dramatically impacted our operating budget, adding millions of dollars to everyday costs and outpacing funding.” She wrote that the pressures were “further compounded…