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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Quick Answer: Watch the Houston vs. Longwood March Madness game for free online with a trial to DirecTV Stream. We’ve nearly reached the end of the first round of the 2024 men’s NCAA basketball tournament. The No. 1-seeded Houston Cougars head to Memphis, Tennessee, in their first March Madness matchup of the postseason agains the No. 16-seeded Longwood Lancers. Can…

NASA scientists recently conducted a study on asteroid rocks that their spacecraft took from a distant "potentially hazardous"…

Sony Music Entertainment sued the producers of the 2022 Whitney Houston biopic Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody this week, claiming the producers have yet to pay for the use of Houston’s music catalog in the film, over a year after the movie first came out. In the suit, filed on Thursday, Sony Music claimed that the biopic’s producers, Anthem Films, Nybo Productions, and Black Label Media, entered a licensing agreement with the record company on December 5, 2022 and that payments for the use of the…

Intuitive Machines CEO Stephen Altemus stares wondrously at the two-ton contraption holding court in a cavernous, environment-controlled room at his company’s new digs at the Houston Spaceport. A tangle of wiring and electronics wrapped in silver and gold insulation crawls like ivy around the 13-x-5-foot hexagonal cylinder perched on six landing legs. Behind it, an oversize American flag hugs the wall in dramatic flair.  This is the Nova-C IM-1 lander, now awaiting a launch window beginning February 14 at 12:57 a.m. (ET)…

The cause of the blaze is still under investigation but no one was injured, officials say. The childhood home of Beyoncé caught fire early Christmas morning, leaving the pop star’s old house wrapped in flames well into the second story.  Officials told ABC 13 that the fire was reported around 2 am, but was quickly put out once fire teams arrived. “They did a great job,” District Chief Justin Barnes told ABC 13. “I’m going to say in less than 10 minutes, we had a really good grip on this fire.”…

Silicon Valley and other tech hubs are losing the tech talent war.Metro areas that consistently attracted huge numbers of tech workers have hit a turning point, according to fresh data from labor-market analytics firm Lightcast, crunched by D.C. think tank Brookings. The share of the nation’s tech workers who work in places such as Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Boston, New York, Los Angeles and the greater Washington, D.C. area is actually shrinking. Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

HOUSTON — The apartment complex where Teresa Eddins now lives is so quiet that “you can hear a pin drop” at night, she says — a stark contrast to the constant noise she withstood while living beneath a bridge two years ago. She was one of the first people who moved into a former hotel in Houston that served as a center to help homeless people navigate their way to more stability. She credits the transitional housing facility and programs launched as part of “The Way Home,” the large Texas city’s nationally recognized…

The Lakers are slowly starting to become whole, the return of versatile defender Jarred Vanderbilt, up-and-coming defender Cam Reddish and active big man Jaxson Hayes three more pieces to their puzzle.Vanderbilt sat out the start of the season while recovering from a left heel injury he suffered in the first preseason game against the Golden State Warriors on Oct. 7, while Reddish had sat out four of the last five games because of groin soreness and Hayes had sat out the last game because of left elbow soreness.But even…

The longest season in MLS history will continue one more week for LAFC.With Saturday’s 2-0 win over the Houston Dynamo in the MLS Western Conference final, LAFC earned a spot in next weekend’s Cup final with the Columbus Crew, adding a 53rd match to what has already been the league’s most exhausting schedule ever. But that’s not the only history the defending league champions hope to make in Ohio. With one more victory LAFC will become just the fourth team to win consecutive titles and the first to do so since the Galaxy…

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Exactly a decade ago, Amazon revealed a program that aimed to revolutionize shopping and shipping. Drones launched from a central hub would waft through the skies delivering just about everything anyone could need. They would be fast, innovative, ubiquitous — all the Amazon hallmarks. The buzzy announcement, made by Jeff Bezos on “60 Minutes” as part of a Cyber Monday promotional package, drew global attention. “I know this looks like science fiction. It’s not,” said Bezos, Amazon’s founder and…