The Lakers made the playoffs in 2013 but were swept by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round, just weeks after Kobe Bryant suffered a season-ending Achilles tendon tear.
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Law Murray,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2026
In the small community of Waiohinu on the southern point of Hawaii's Big Island, a mudslide swept through and destroyed about a dozen homes.
Instead, Google intends to use real-world data scrubbed of identifying markers to help its AI agents perform better.
—
Suzanne Rowan Kelleher,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2026
Maas scrubbed her Instagram of all previous posts for the big reveal, and digital billboards in Los Angeles, Denver and New York City also broadcast the book news.
—
Emily St. Martin,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Aug. 2026
Legacy databases are notoriously fragmented, proprietary data is rarely cleaned or standardized, and cybersecurity protocols surrounding corporate intellectual property remain a massive liability.
—
Ivan Illan,
Forbes.com,
17 Aug. 2026
The coffin was covered with mud, and, before bringing it inside his house, Luwi cleaned it off with a bucket of water and a sponge.
Its forecast for revenue growth in the current quarter fell short of expectations, which executives pinned on a supply crunch in components getting vacuumed up in the AI boom.
—
Stan Choe,
Fortune,
1 Aug. 2026
One man leaned his shoulder into the drill as another vacuumed up the dust of century-old concrete.
—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
19 July 2026
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