Lucas has signed a contract to take over as Miami’s head at the conclusion of the regular season, according to multiple reports. He will not coach Duke in the NCAA tournament.
March 2025
NBA power rankings 2024-25: Cavaliers retake top spot in rankings, Pistons move into top 10
Detroit has moved into the top 10, maybe the biggest surprise of the NBA season.
NBA power rankings 2024-25: Cavaliers retake top spot in rankings, Pistons move into top 10
Detroit has moved into the top 10, maybe the biggest surprise of the NBA season.
Jennifer Hudson gets nailed in the face sitting courtside with Common at a Knicks game
Jennifer Hudson gets whacked in the face as a basketball flies courtside at a New York Knicks game. Tell Common that doesn’t happen in the cheap seats.
More AI Is Coming to Your Google Search Results
When Google rolled out AI Overviews for Search last year, it didn’t go over so well. The company’s AI made some pretty massive mistakes with its results, many of which went viral. In response, Google pulled back the feature, reworked it, and slowly reintroduced it to the masses. You’ve probably noticed.
This month, Google is continuing its work of adding AI to Search—whether you want it or not. First, it’s rolling out a new version of AI Overviews that’s powered by Gemini 2.0, the company’s latest AI model. Google says this update will help with “harder questions,” like coding, math, and multimodal (prompts using different types of media) requests. In addition, teens can now see AI Overviews, as can users without a Google Account. Yippee.
Introducing AI Mode
But the larger AI announcement from Google is something the company is currently testing: AI Mode. See, Google says that they’ve heard from “power users” that they are looking for AI responses from more of their Google searches. In response, AI Mode lets you ask the AI multi-part questions, that offers more advanced reasoning, thinking, and multimodal functions.
On paper, it sounds like a more complex AI Overview, but it’s a bit more nuanced than that. AI Mode is its own tab in Search, that turns the UI into more of what you’d expect from ChatGPT or Gemini. Google says this experience is supposed to combine what would’ve taken multiple searches into one: You ask the AI something complicated, it reasons through it (showing its thinking along the way) and delivers a full answer with multiple results, claims, and summaries—citing its sources for each of its generations.
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Google says AI Mode uses a “query fan-out” technique to generate its results. Essentially, it searches for multiple related things at the same time, combining those results together into the response you see at the end. AI Mode pulls from many different data points for its results, including web results, Google’s Knowledge Graph, and shopping data.
Google uses the following query to demonstrate this approach: “What’s the difference in sleep tracking features between a smart ring, smartwatch and tracking mat?” AI Mode supposedly takes that multi-part question, develops a multistep “plan” to conduct a number of searches to find the information, and changes that plan according to the results it returns.
This is still obviously a work in progress (as AI search is across the board) so Google says AI Mode won’t get it right all the time. In fact, you may simply see a result of just web links, if the program thinks the AI result isn’t good enough.
I’m not sure how useful AI Mode actually is, especially when compared to either searching with Gemini, or a traditional Google Search (especially one without the AI). I’ll need to wait until Google lets me try the feature out for myself before making any judgement calls. My guess, though, based on my current experience with AI, is that I’ll prefer the usual Search method.
How to try Google’s AI Mode
If you have any interest in trying Google’s new AI Mode, there are a couple ways to get in. First, if you are a Google One AI Premium subscriber, you’ll be among the first to be invited to try out AI Mode in Labs.
If you aren’t a subscriber, however, you’ll need to jump on the waitlist. Sign into your Google Account, then head to Google Labs. Under “Introducing the AI Mode Experiment,” choose “Join waitlist.” Google will then bring you to a page advertising the feature, where you can confirm you are on the waitlist.
2025 NFL Draft scouting report: Shedeur Sanders, QB, Colorado
It is fair to wonder exactly what his ceiling is at. Sanders will have to be dropped into a good ecosystem to keep ascending at the next level.
2025 NFL Draft scouting report: Mason Taylor, TE, LSU
Taylor might not be as flashy or explosive as Tyler Warren and Colston Loveland, but he should be a quality starting tight end in the NFL sooner rather than later.
2025 NFL Draft scouting report: James Pearce Jr., edge, Tennessee
He’s a classic weakside edge rusher that teams will try to hide against the run. Pearce’s frame and speed-only style gives apprehension about how he will affect the game if he doesn’t win right away.
These Shokz Bone Conduction Headphones Are $60 Off Right Now
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Bone conduction headphones are ideal for activities where it is vital to your safety to hear your surroundings. That’s because they use a technology that sends audio vibrations through to the inner ear while leaving your ear canals open. Shokz is one of, if not the best, brand making bone conduction headphones right now; at the high end of Shokz’s offerings is the OpenRun Pro 2, which I got to review and put to the test. But the OpenRun Pro are also quality headphones and are currently discounted on Best Buy for $99.99 (originally $179.95), the lowest price they’ve been, according to price-tracking tools.
If you’ve never used bone conduction headphones, they’re worth a try, and the Shokz OpenPro are a great introduction. The technology has come a long way since their early days. The major downside of the way they work has been that the bass doesn’t sound as good as their in-ear counterparts. The OpenRun Pro is designed to compensate for some of that—you won’t get the same thumpy bass you’d get from regular headphones, but it’ll be the best you can get from any other bone conduction headphones.
As the name implies, these are meant to be used on runs outdoors. They have an IP55 rating for dust- and water-resistance, are lightweight and comfortable, and, because of their design, can be worn with bicycle helmets and sunglasses.
You can use these as everyday headphones around the house as well since they can take calls; just be mindful that they don’t block any sound. If you plan to use these in a location with a loud music or has a lot of ambient noise, you’ll hear everything, so you might prefer taking regular headphones—but that will defeat the purpose of the “open ear” headphones.
2025 NFL Draft scouting report: Tyleik Williams, DT, Ohio State
Williams won’t be a true pass rush threat in the NFL, but he can at least help his team get to pass rush downs.