The Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 to capture the franchise's first World Series championship. Jacob Misiorowski pitched the decisive game, while RBI hits from Cooper Pratt, David Hamilton and William Contreras built the lead before the Rays answered late with doubles from Liam Hicks and Chandler Simpson. The win caps a season in which Milwaukee posted baseball's best regular-season record and swept the Los Angeles Dodgers in the playoffs.
cnn.com
· 2026-10-29
As the World Series opens between Milwaukee and Tampa Bay, MLB's current collective bargaining agreement is set to expire Dec. 1, and owners are pushing for a salary cap in the next deal. MLB's proposal would cap 2027 luxury-tax payrolls at $245.3 million and limit free-agent deals to $265 million over six years, while the players' union has vowed never to accept a cap.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-23
Between 1994 and March 1997, a Tampa, Florida father and his ten-year-old son ran a telephone-only bulletin board called Sanity's Edge from a dedicated 286 PC, using a BigMouth voice card found in an old box. The son handled menus and the asylum theme while his father, the sysop known as Dr. Null, built the database backend; callers paid about five dollars a month to join.
sanitys-edge.shouden.us
· 2026-10-19
New housing data shows list prices falling across 36 of the 50 largest U.S. metro areas as autumn approaches, with Austin, Tampa, and Memphis registering the steepest drops. The pace and severity of price cuts vary widely by region, forcing many sellers to lower their expectations.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-07
Waymo has launched public robotaxi rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa, expanding its US footprint to 14 cities. The company says tens of thousands of people in each city have already signed up and will be granted access gradually ahead of a wider rollout.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-01
A developer built a tool that scrapes Costco's undisclosed gas-price data from an internal API called AjaxGetGasPricesService, pulling prices from roughly 600 warehouses nationwide. The project began as a personal effort to compare two nearby Costco locations in Tampa during a spring fuel price spike tied to Strait of Hormuz tensions, then expanded into a broader dataset showing how Costco's gas pricing moved relative to competitors.
jack.bio
· 2026-08-24
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