View photosNew York Yankees’ Clint Frazier (77) celebrates his two-run home run that also drove in Luke Voit, behind, during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)BOSTON (AP) — Less than two weeks removed from a slide that threatened to derail …

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Getting big leads has been relatively easy for the Boston Celtics in these Eastern Conference finals.This time, they also found a way to finish the job.And just like that, the East title series got a whole lot closer.Jaylen Brown scored 26 points, Jayson Tatum added 25 and the Celtics got right back into the East …

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This week we published our interview with Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter. We discussed his first year as CEO; the company’s profitability target after three decades (Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992); Spot, Pick, Handle, and Atlas; and the company’s broader roadmap, including which robots are next. The interview comes on the heels of Boston …

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Giannis Antetokounmpo was named NBA MVP for the second straight year on Friday, putting him in rare company with some of the most storied superstars of all time. He marks the 11th player in league history to win the award in back-to-back years, which raises a question beyond basketball: Is Giannis the greatest Greek athlete …

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Nobody makes documentaries quite like Frederick Wiseman. He doesn’t interview his subjects; he doesn’t provide on-screen identification for who’s talking; he doesn’t use any non-diegetic music. What he does do is plant the viewer firmly inside what “Hamilton” calls “the room where it happens,” taking us deep inside the heart of the hospitals, the department …

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“WHEN DID Walmart grow a conscience?” The question, asked approvingly in a Boston Globe headline last year, would have made Milton Friedman turn in his grave. In a landmark New York Times Magazine essay, whose 50th anniversary fell on September 13th, the Nobel-prizewinning economist sought from the first paragraph to tear to shreds any notion …

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Boston Police have identified the woman who was killed in an elevator accident in an apartment building as a teacher at Boston University. Officers found 38-year-old Carrie O’Connor in the elevator on the first floor of a building in the city’s Allston neighborhood, CBS Boston reports. O’Connor was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said …

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BOSTON (AP) — Two computer hackers have been indicted on charges that they defaced websites across the U.S. in retaliation to the killing of Iran Gen. Qassem Soleimani, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The men, whom authorities believe to be living in Iran and the Palestinian territories, are accused of hacking into U.S. websites and replacing …

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Tomase: Kemba keeps acing what Kyrie failed as a Celtic originally appeared on NBC Sports BostonKyrie Irving’s Celtics low point wasn’t his disgraceful capitulation vs. Milwaukee in last year’s conference semifinals, because by then we already knew they were cooked and he was gone.It actually came five months earlier in Orlando. You remember the play. …

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