With the NBA playoffs on the rise, TV networks and viewing audiences are on par for one first-round series in particular: the Portland Trail Blazers vs. the Los Angeles Lakers, with Damian Lillard, the hottest player since the NBA reboot, against LeBron James, the best basketball player of this generation. …

Hannah Ferrier speaks out after her shocking departure from Under blanket Mediterranean Sea unfolded in the Monday night episode. © Virginia Sherwood / Bravo / NBCU Photo Bank / NBCUniversal via Getty Hannah Ferrier After Bosun Malia White reported the franchise’s longtime head stewardess for having unregistered Valium and a …

Oculus / Aurich Lawson The next generation of virtual reality headsets remains unclear, but the VR software’s ecosystem has just unleashed a surprising – and potentially unwelcome – requirement for a whole swath of users. Beginning “this October,” everyone splintering in the Oculus VR ecosystem will be forced to sign …

Credit: Pizza Hut The largest Pizza Hut franchisee in the US will close 300 restaurants nationwide, parent company Yum! Markets announced Monday. NPC International Inc., which owns 1,227 Pizza Hut stores, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July and has now agreed to Yum! Markets to close 300 closed restaurants, …

An 18-year-old woman drowned Monday after rescuing several children from rough water in a lake in Minnesota, authorities said. A group of children swam Monday afternoon near Clearwater Lake, near Sinclair’s northern Minnesota township, when “some of them were trapped in the turbulent water that came over the dam,” the …