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www.cbc.ca
2 days ago
Canada news

Ontario transportation minister, Toronto mayor to make an announcement | CBC News

Ontario Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, and Etobicoke Centre MP Yvan Baker are making a joint announcement.
Representatives from all three levels of government are involved in the announcement.
www.cbc.ca
1 month ago
Canada news

Federal ministers, Ontario officials to make announcement at York police headquarters | CBC News

Federal ministers of public safety and justice will make an announcement alongside Ontario officials at a news conference.
The announcement comes in the wake of a national summit on combating auto theft and rising vehicle theft in Ontario.
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Music
Consequence
4 weeks ago
Music

Def Leppard announce 40th anniversary expanded edition of Pyromania

Def Leppard announces 40th anniversary expanded reissue of Pyromania with unreleased demos and live recordings.
The 4-CD/Blu-Ray and 2-LP editions include remastered album, rare mixes, and concert recordings.
Consequence
1 month ago
Music

AC/DC tease big announcement: "Are you ready"

AC/DC is teasing a major announcement for Monday, February 12th, and fans are speculating that it could be the band's first tour dates in eight years.
The band posted video teasers with the words 'Are You Ready' and audio of the song of the same name from their 1990 album The Razor's Edge.
AC/DC's last tour in 2016 featured Axl Rose on vocals, replacing Brian Johnson, who had to leave the band due to hearing issues.
New York Post
1 month ago
Music

Taylor Swift fans are convinced she's announcing 'Reputation TV' at the Grammys 2024

Taylor Swift fans are anticipating a major announcement from her during the Grammy Awards.
There is speculation that Swift may announce the re-recording of her album 'Reputation (Taylor's Version).'
RAIN News
9 months ago
Music

Spotify intros new Ad Analytics program, promising attribution, conversion, and brand lift metrics - RAIN News

In a major and comprehensive product launch, Spotify today introduces Spotify Ad Analytics, a set of advertiser tools and solutions across podcast and music advertising.The new pixel-based technologies announced today grew from the company's acquisition of then-indie attribution company Podsights over a year ago.
RAIN News
9 months ago
Music

Triton Digital offers consolidated advertising across digital and broadcast segments - RAIN News

Audio adtech giant Triton Digital has announced that buyers can now streamline and consolidate their advertising across all audio segments - podcast, streaming, and broadcast.The broadcast piece is added by Triton's workflow automation partner Basis Technologies, which expanded its integration to give brands and agencies programmatic guaranteed buying access to broadcast radio ads.
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Kotaku
1 month ago
Video games

Where And When To Watch The Big Pokemon Day Presentation

The Pokémon Day Presents showcase streams on February 27 at 9 a.m. ET/6 a.m. PT on the official Pokémon YouTube channel.
Expectations for the showcase include potential announcements for a new RPG game, with rumors suggesting a Pokémon Black and White remake for the Nintendo Switch.
GameSpot
1 month ago
Video games

EA's First College Football Game In 10 Years Will Be Revealed Soon, Here's When

EA Sports is bringing back its college football series with the announcement of EA Sports College Football 25.
The game will be released in the summer ahead of the new college football season in August.
ReadWrite
1 month ago
Video games

Microsoft set to break silence next week on Xbox titles coming to Playstation

Rumors suggest that Sony's gaming rival will announce news about the future of exclusives and titles coming to PlayStation and Switch.
Data-mined leaks have hinted at potential games making an appearance on other consoles.
GameSpot
2 months ago
Video games

We Might Already Know Death Stranding 2's Official Title

Hideo Kojima's upcoming game, Death Stranding 2, may have the official title 'Death Stranding 2: On The Beach.'
An announcement about Death Stranding 2 is expected within the next 15 days, although it is uncertain if it will be featured in a State of Play presentation.
Mashable
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Tim Cook says big Apple AI announcement is coming later this year

Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the company will make an AI announcement in 2024.
Apple's upcoming iOS 18 update is expected to include smarter Siri and more AI integration into basic iOS features.
IndieWire
2 months ago
Independent films

2024 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners (Updating Live)

Winners of the Grand Jury Prizes announced
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Sundance Film Festival
Independent.ie
2 months ago
Liverpool FC

Jurgen Klopp to step down as Liverpool manager at the end of the season

Jurgen Klopp will step down as Liverpool manager at the end of this season.
The announcement was made in a video announcement released on the club's social channels.
ABC7 San Francisco
2 months ago
Film

Oscar nominations 2024: How to watch, which categories will be announced

Oscar nominations will be announced on Tuesday, January 23
Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid will announce the nominations
Independent.ie
4 months ago
London

Ryan Tubridy reveals next big career move - and he's set to relocate to London

Former Late Late Show host Ryan Tubridy teases his next career move on Instagram, hinting at a big announcement.
Tubridy will be joining Virgin Radio UK on January 4, coincidentally the date of his late father's death.
He expressed excitement about joining the station and mentioned his admiration for Terry Wogan.
www.standard.co.uk
9 months ago
London

UK strikes 2023: Which workforces are striking or threatening to walk out?

General secretary Mick Whelan said they are in it for the long haul and will continue to ballot every half year on whether to continue their stand against the government's pay offers.Train drivers are sick to the back teeth of their employers and the Government failing to negotiate in good faith, and blaming drivers for their inability to manage services and the rail industry effectively, Mr Whelan said.
www.standard.co.uk
9 months ago
London

Sadiq Khan announces funding to provide mentors to 100,000 young Londoners

S adiq Khan has announced funding to enable an unprecedented 100,000 young Londoners will have a mentor by the end of 2024, as part of a drive to reduce youth violence in the city.The Mayor says that a 10 million funding boost will allow a further 50,000 young people in the capital access to mentoring support.
www.standard.co.uk
9 months ago
London

Review to examine how London can use tech to combat threat of wildfires and flooding

The Mayor said his London Climate Resilience Review' will examine how technology - including AI - can be harnessed to future-proof the capital against the devastating impacts of extreme temperatures and flash-flooding.Mr Khan made the announcement in a speech to mark the start of London Tech Week, in which he said the review would be led by Emma Howard Boyd CBE, chair of the Green Finance Institute and UN Global Ambassador for Race to Resilience and Race to Zero.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
New York City

Jack McNally, N.Y.P.D. Detective Turned Defense Sleuth, Dies at 89

Jack McNally, who as a police detective in 1964 made the first arrest in the most audacious jewel theft in New York City history, and who then became a private investigator for famous defense lawyers like F. Lee Bailey and worked on behalf of clients like O.J. Simpson, died on May 28.He was 89.His death was announced on the website of the Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home on Staten Island, which handled the funeral arrangements.
Black & White & Read All Over
9 months ago
Juventus

Juventus 2022-23 Season Ratings: Massimiliano Allegri

Massimiliano Allegri is not a divisive figure.Rather, the beleaguered Juventus manager has, over the course of the last two campaigns, slowly but surely galvanized support to the point of an overwhelming majority - support, of course, for his immediate and unsanctimonious removal.At this juncture, Mad Max makes people mad, and despite the fact that his fans number somewhere in the single digits globally among Juventini, the boss has stuck around for two consecutive campaigns and might well be around for another.
www.cbc.ca
9 months ago
Toronto

'Canada has a lot of unpaid bills': $10B settlement reached in landmark First Nation treaty annuities case | CBC News

It took more than a decade of litigation, but 21 Anishinaabe communities along the north shore of Lake Huron in Ontario will finally access a fair share of the wealth generated on their lands over the past 173 years.The Robinson-Huron Treaty signed in 1850 promised its Indigenous beneficiaries annual payments in exchange for the right to use their lands.
www.cbc.ca
9 months ago
Toronto

Small communities a big focus for doctors in training at Northern Ontario School of Medicine | CBC News

Canada is often lauded for its universal health care system, but universal doesn't mean equal access.The reality is that seven million Canadians, particularly those in smaller communities, are without a family doctor in Ontario alone the number is two million.The Northern Ontario School of Medicine University (NOSM) is working to change that with a curriculum that challenges how doctors get trained.
www.cbc.ca
9 months ago
Toronto

Ontario government moves forward with GO train expansion into Durham Region | CBC News

The Ontario government says it's one step closer to extending GO train service further into Durham Region.On Thursday, Premier Doug Ford announced his government has given an early stage planning contract to Bowmanville Construction Partners to extend the Lakeshore East Line almost 20 kilometres east into the town of Bowmanville in Clarington, Ont.
www.cbc.ca
9 months ago
Toronto

Ontario is facing a 'devastating' number of fire deaths. Have you tested your smoke alarm? | CBC News

Ontario's top fire official is taking a new step to prevent fire-related deaths as the province faces the highest number of such fatalities in 20 years.On Wednesday, Ontario Fire Marshal Jon Pegg announced Sept. 28 will be the province's first Test Your Smoke Alarm Day.The designation comes after 133 people died as a result of residential fires in 2022.
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

New Partygate video shows Tories dancing, drinking and laughing at lockdown rules'

A new Partygate video, appearing to show Tory staff drinking, dancing and joking about bending Covid lockdown rules has emerged just days after Boris Johnson was found to have lied about rules being followed.The video, said to have been taken on December 14, 2020, when socialising inside was banned in parts of the UK, shows for the first time, staff joking about their Christmas party at the Conservative Campaign Headquarters in London breaking the rules, according to The Mirror.
www.theguardian.com
9 months ago
UK politics

Cabinet Office refuses to release Boris Johnson's notebooks over security concerns

A collection of 25 notebooks from Boris Johnson's time in office is being withheld by the government after a security services review found they contained highly sensitive material.It comes after officials advised that only those with the highest level of security clearance should be able to see the sensitive passages, according to the Times.
www.theguardian.com
9 months ago
UK politics

Boris Johnson: fresh questions as Daily Mail signs ex-PM as columnist

Boris Johnson has been unveiled as a new columnist for the Daily Mail, which the former Conservative leader is expected to use as a platform to be a thorn in the side of Rishi Sunak.The news comes after the chair of a watchdog from which former ministers are obliged to request approval before accepting jobs said he would be seeking clarification from Johnson on whether he was taking a job as a Daily Mail columnist.
www.npr.org
9 months ago
Health

Opioid settlement payouts are now public and we know how much local governments got

Public art in Altoona, Penn., one of many cities hit hard by the opioid epidemic.Marianne Sinisi organized the installation after her son died of an overdose.State and local governments have received about $3 billion so far out of $50 billion total in settlements from national lawsuits.Nancy Andrews/KFF Health News Thousands of local governments nationwide are receiving settlement money from companies that made, distributed, or sold opioid painkillers, like Johnson & Johnson, AmerisourceBergen, and Walmart.
BBC News
9 months ago
UK politics

Nadine Dorries: What happens next in Mid Bedfordshire seat?

The parties are already campaigning and people in the constituency are telling us they just want the limbo to be over, but still we wait for Conservative MP Nadine Dorries to formally stand down from her safe seat in Mid Bedfordshire.She made the move at a similar time to two other Tory MPs stepping down - former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Uxbridge & South Ruislip in west London, and Nigel Adams in Selby & Ainsty in North Yorkshire.
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

Nadine Dorries demands answers about peerage before she resigns

Nadine Dorries has said she will not formally step down as an MP until she gets answers from Downing Street about the decision to deny her a peerage a move that will prolong the by-election struggle for Rishi Sunak.The former culture secretary insisted it is absolutely my intention to resign but said her requests for documents is now sadly necessary as she accused No 10 of varying and conflicting statements over her absence from Boris Johnson's resignation honours list.
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

Nadine Dorries demands answers about peerage before she resigns

Nadine Dorries has said she will not formally step down as an MP until she gets answers from Downing Street about the decision to deny her a peerage a move that will prolong the by-election struggle for Rishi Sunak.The former culture secretary insisted it is absolutely my intention to resign but said her requests for documents is now sadly necessary as she accused No 10 of varying and conflicting statements over her absence from Boris Johnson's resignation honours list.
www.cnn.com
9 months ago
US politics

Trump lawyer who bailed on documents case says in separate lawsuit he is withdrawing due to irreconcilable differences'

A lawyer who was representing former President Donald Trump in his defamation lawsuit against CNN said Friday that he was withdrawing from the case, in the latest sign of the break-up of the Trump legal team since the lawyer, Jim Trusty, and another Trump attorney stopped representing the former president in the criminal documents case against him.
www.cnn.com
9 months ago
US politics

Biden taps Dr. Mandy Cohen for top role as next CDC director

President Joe Biden intends to appoint Dr. Mandy Cohen to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House confirmed exclusively to CNN, succeeding Dr. Rochelle Walensky in the critical public health role as the agency grapples with challenges in the aftermath of the pandemic.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
US politics

Coast Guard Ends Post-9/11 Antiterrorism Patrols at Guantanamo Bay

The U.S. Coast Guard has ended its antiterrorism patrols of the waters around Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, shutting down a special security operation that was rushed to the remote outpost after the Sept. 11 attacks.Crews in special fast boats equipped with M2 heavy machine guns patrolled the coast near the prison complex for 21 years as part of the detention operations on the base.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
US politics

Golf's Titanic Deal Stokes Anger on Capitol Hill

One of golf's greatest tests will unfold starting on Thursday, when the U.S. Open begins at the Los Angeles Country Club.It might be an easier lift it will assuredly be a shorter one than the test that is emerging in Washington.The abrupt announcement last week that the PGA Tour will tie itself to Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and its LIV Golf league is provoking American officials in ways as predictable as they might be persistent in the months ahead.
time.com
9 months ago
US politics

Why Campaign Websites No Longer Have 'Issues' Pages

A week ago, on the verge of launching his 2024 presidential campaign, Chris Christie's old website from his 2016 run was still online.The site included an in-depth Issues page, which detailed the former New Jersey Governor's support for common-sense bail reform, lowering corporate tax rates, and creating a nationwide veterans' mental health hotline.
www.cnn.com
9 months ago
US politics

Latest on federal indictment against Donald Trump

Special Counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on the unsealed indictment against Donald Trump at the Justice Department on Friday.Alex Wong/Getty Images Jack Smith, the special counsel announced by Attorney General Merrick Garland last year to oversee the criminal investigations into the retention of classified documents at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort and parts of the January 6, 2021, insurrection, is a long-time prosecutor who has overseen a variety of high-profile cases during a career that spans decades.
www.npr.org
9 months ago
Faith

'Still alive,' Pope Francis jokes as he leaves a Rome hospital 9 days after surgery

Pope Francis leaves the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic in Rome, on Friday, nine days after undergoing abdominal surgery.Andrew Medichini/AP ROME Pope Francis was discharged Friday from the Rome hospital where he underwent abdominal surgery to repair a hernia and remove scarring from previous operations, with his surgeon saying the pontiff was "better than before" his nine-day hospitalization.
www.npr.org
9 months ago
Arts

Ida B. Wells Society internships mired by funding issues, says Nikole Hannah-Jones

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is a co-founder of The Ida B. Wells Society.She's pictured above in New York in December 2021.Robert Bumsted/AP Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, best known for founding The 1619 Project, said in an interview with a not-for-profit news organization that administrative delays have made it impossible to carry on with several academic projects intended to foster the careers of young Black investigative journalists.
BBC Sport
9 months ago
Soccer (FIFA)

Webber to step down as Norwich sporting director

Norwich City sporting director Stuart Webber is to leave the role following a six-year spell at Carrow Road.Norwich have twice won promotion to the Premier League during Webber's time at the club but were relegated 12 months later on both occasions.He informed the board of his decision in March and work to find a replacement is already under way.
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

Johnson uses first column to discuss weight-loss drug amid claims of rule breach

Boris Johnson has used his first Daily Mail column to detail how a weight-loss drug did not work well for him amid accusations his new journalistic role is a clear breach of ministerial rules.In a 1,200-word article, the former prime minister discusses his unsuccessful personal experience with appetite-suppressants but reaches the conclusion that they could be used to tackle Britain's obesity crisis.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
Europe news

Boris Johnson, Out of Parliament, Is a Columnist Again

Boris Johnson's image was splashed across the front pages of London newspapers on Friday, a day after a Parliamentary committee condemned him for misleading lawmakers about parties during the coronavirus pandemic.But it was conspicuously absent from The Daily Mail, the biggest and most influential British tabloid.
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

Rishi Sunak attacks Nadine Dorries over her failure to resign as promised

Rishi Sunak has lashed out at Nadine Dorriess failure to resign as an MP as promised with No 10 describing her decision to hang on days after she said she was quitting as unusual.The prime minister said her constituents deserve proper representation and he was looking forward to a by-election in the former culture secretary's Mid Bedfordshire seat.
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

Nigel Adams says he will do utmost' to help Sunak win election despite quitting

A Boris Johnson ally who quit the Commons in a reported row over a peerage has insisted that he will do his utmost to help Rishi Sunak win the next general election.Conservative Nigel Adams announced on Saturday that he was stepping down as Selby and Ainsty MP with immediate effect, becoming the third Tory to quit Westminster in the space of 24 hours.
Black & White & Read All Over
9 months ago
Juventus

OFFICIALLY OFFICIAL: Juventus sign Dean Huijsen to contract extension

Around the time his 18th birthday arrived back in mid-April, the reports came down that Juventus Next Gen starlet Dean Huijsen was ready to sign a long-term contract extension.If things went right, it was the kind of deal that would see him rise to the senior level with plenty of time to spare before his next potential new contract.
Puck Prose
9 months ago
National Hockey League

After Ottawa Senators Sale, When Will an NHL Team Sell for $1 Billion?

Let's turn back the clock to 2014, and let's take a look at a different sport besides the NHL, like the NBA.You probably remember the controversy surrounding former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, which forced him to sell the Clippers to current owner Steve Ballmer for around $2 billion.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
World politics

NATO defense chiefs vow to stand by Ukraine, pledging more air defenses and training for fighter pilots.

NATO allies and others meeting in Brussels on Thursday vowed to keep up their support for Ukraine indefinitely as Kyiv makes slow progress in its push to take back Russian territory, with a special emphasis on providing air defenses and ammunition and stepping up F-16 fighter jet training.The meeting of some 50 countries from the U.S.-led Ukraine Defense Contact Group comes as Ukraine, armed with Western weapons, has been challenged by Russian strikes and heavily mined fields in the early phase of its counteroffensive.
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
France news

Canadian quits Chinese-founded development bank, complains 'Communist Party hacks' dominate it

A Canadian public relations manager for a Chinese-founded development bank announced his resignation Wednesday in a statement that accused it of being dominated by Communist Party hacks and said Canada's interests weren't served by being a member.The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank confirmed in an email that Bob Pickard resigned as its director general of global communications and rejected his criticism as unfounded.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
World politics

Turkey's Erdogan Hosts Talks on Sweden's NATO Membership

Skip to content Continue reading the main story Moscow June 14, 1:42 p.m. Washington June 14, 6:42 a.m.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey in Ankara, Turkey, in June.Credit...Burak Kara/Getty Images ISTANBUL President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey is hosting high-level talks on Wednesday aimed at bridging differences over Sweden's application to join NATO.
BBC Sport
9 months ago
Soccer (FIFA)

BBC 'absolutely committed' to Women's World Cup deal

The BBC is "absolutely committed" to securing a deal with Fifa to broadcast the Women's World Cup, its chief content officer has said.With 37 days until the tournament in Australia and New Zealand, there is still no agreement between football's governing body and any UK broadcaster.It means games involving England may not be available to domestic viewers.
RMNB
9 months ago
Washington Capitals

Dylan Strome, Mitch Marner, Anthony Cirelli, and more attend charity tournament benefitting children's hospital SickKids

Dylan Strome joined forces with a host of NHL players in support of a great cause.On Thursday, Strome participated in the 15th annual Robert Naccarato Memorial Charity Golf tournament in support children's hospital SickKids and The Robbie Foundation.The tournament took place near Vaughan, Ontario and featured a slew of NHL players from around the area.
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

Sussexes advised to get messaging right' after lucrative Spotify deal ends

A PR guru has advised the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to get their messaging right after their lucrative podcast deal with Spotify was ended by mutual agreement.Meghan and Harry's production company Archewell Audio only made one podcast series for the streaming giant after signing a contract in late 2020, estimated to be worth around 25 million US dollars (19.5 million).
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

Second boy dies three weeks after being pulled from river

A second boy has died three weeks after an incident in which a group of teenagers got into trouble in a river in Cumbria.The announcement of the 14-year-old's passing by Cumbria Police follows the death of 15-year-old Lewis Michael Kirkpatrick, whose body was found in the River Eden in Carlisle on May 27.
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

Second boy dies after teenagers got into trouble in Carlisle river

A second boy has died following an incident in which a group of teenagers got into trouble in a river in Cumbria.The announcement of the 14-year-old's passing by Cumbria Police follows the death of 15-year-old Lewis Michael Kirkpatrick, whose body was found in the River Eden in Carlisle on May 27.The younger teenager had been airlifted to hospital and died in medical care in the early hours of Thursday.
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

US author on second Women's Prize for Fiction win: Lightning has struck twice

Barbara Kingsolver says she is happy that her readers will follow her wherever I go in a literary way after winning the Women's Prize for Fiction for a second time, becoming the first author to do so.The US novelist, 68, said lightning had struck twice after being announced as the winner of the prestigious prize and the achievement was a validation of her Appalachian roots.
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

Tesco launch major Clubcard change from today

Tesco has urged its 20 million Clubcard customers to cash in their rewards before they are cut from three times to two times their value.The UK's biggest supermarket announced in March that its Clubcard points will be worth twice their value when customers cash them in, rather than three times as they are now, from today (June 14).
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

Tesco to launch major Clubcard change from tomorrow

Tesco has urged its 20 million Clubcard customers to cash in their rewards before they are cut from three times to two times their value.The UK's biggest supermarket announced in March that its Clubcard points will be worth twice their value when customers cash them in, rather than three times as they are now, from June 14.
www.npr.org
9 months ago
Health

Biden taps former North Carolina health secretary to lead CDC

Dr. Mandy Cohen, former secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, will replace outgoing CDC director Rochelle Walensky.Bryan Anderson/AP President Biden has named Dr.Mandy Cohen, former state health secretary in North Carolina, to serve as the next leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
Sports

Michael Jordan to Sell Majority Stake in Charlotte Hornets

Michael Jordan, the owner of the Charlotte Hornets and one of the most storied athletes in sports history, has agreed to sell his majority share in the team to a group led by Gabe Plotkin and Rick Schnall, two private equity investors.The team as a whole was valued at $3 billion, according to a person familiar with the details of the agreement but not authorized to discuss them publicly.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
Sports

Our Golf Reporter Didn't See the PGA Tour-LIV Golf Deal Coming, Either

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.Alan Blinder's plans blew up around 10 a.m. last Tuesday.Mr. Blinder, who covers golf for The New York Times, had just settled in at his home office when he received a heads-up from a source with some gobsmacking news: The PGA Tour and LIV Golf, the insurgent league bankrolled by billions of dollars from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, had agreed to a partnership, suspending a bitter and costly struggle for supremacy of men's professional golf.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
Sports

Pros Won't Be Hitting Golf Balls This Far Forever, Whether They Like It or Not

The United States Golf Association acknowledged Wednesday that it had heard ferocious opposition to its proposal for professional players to use balls that travel shorter distances but it also signaled no interest in abandoning its ambitions to rein in equipment in the next several years.The association and the R&A, a governing body based in Britain, had in March proposed a rule that they estimated could trim top golfers' tee shots by an average of about 15 yards.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
Sports

First Came Golf's Flash Grenade. Now, Here's the U.S. Open.

Jon Rahm was at home last Tuesday, preparing coffee with his children underfoot, when the news arrived in a flood of text messages.Collin Morikawa glanced at Twitter and saw the word there.During breakfast at Michael Jordan's private club in Florida, Brooks Koepka peered at a television and glimpsed a headline.
Los Angeles Times
9 months ago
Los Angeles Rams

Lincoln Riley calls USC plans for facility upgrades 'an absolute game changer'

After a year spent rebuilding its football program, with a new coach and a new culture, USC is turning its attention to rebuilding facilities.USC announced on Thursday long-awaited plans to build a three-level, football-only performance center that includes a second, full-length practice field alongside its current practice field, a new locker room, new weight and training rooms, multiple player lounges and a rooftop hospitality deck, among other amenities meant to garner the attention of recruits and set USC apart from other blue blood programs.
Eater SF
9 months ago
SF food

Popular NoPa Cafe Automat Trims Back Its Dinner Service

All-day dining spot Automat debuted in November 2021 with a plan to serve casual, but ambitious, food from breakfast to dinner.Now it seems the restaurant is scaling back a bit, as it announced Wednesday that it is stopping dinner service as of Saturday, June 24.Acknowledging that "daytime is what we have become known for," the post goes on to say that it's been a challenge running its extensive daytime and bakery program along with its dinner menu, both space- and staff-wise.
Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
9 months ago
Design

Spatial Computing in Design? This stunning Lamborghini concept car was designed entirely in VR - Yanko Design

As a community of people who literally help build new technologies for the world, designers aren't new to VR-based tools.AR/VR headsets have been available for the better part of a decade now, and designers have formed perhaps one of the largest demographics to use these devices for sketching, modeling, rendering, and reviewing designs.
Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
9 months ago
Design

Starfield-themed Xbox controller, headphones and smartwatch are must-have for action RPG lovers - Yanko Design

At the annual Xbox Games Showcase 2023, Microsoft laid a major emphasis on its upcoming sci-fi RPG dubbed Starfield, along with the announcement of other major titles coming to the platform.But the highlighting bit for us was the announcement of Starfield Xbox controller and Starfield headphones.At the event publisher Bethesda also unveiled the real-life version of Starfield's Constellation Edition watch that's modeled exactly after the one seen in the game.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
World politics

Your Thursday Briefing

Image Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader.Credit...Iranian Supreme Leader Office, via Associated Press The Biden administration has been quietly negotiating with Iran to limit its nuclear program and free imprisoned Americans, according to officials from three countries, as part of a larger U.S. effort to ease tensions and reduce the risk of a military confrontation with the Islamic country.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
World politics

Israel's Judicial Crisis Resurfaces as Compromise Talks Abruptly Halt

An effort to resolve a dispute over the future of Israel's judiciary, an issue that has divided the country for months, suffered a major blow Wednesday after a dramatic showdown in Parliament over a committee that picks the nation's judges.Opposition leaders said they were withdrawing from negotiations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government, pausing talks, for at least a month, aimed at reaching a compromise over a contentious plan to overhaul the judicial system.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
World politics

No Charges for Israeli Soldiers in Death of Detained Palestinian American

Israeli military prosecutors will not pursue criminal charges against soldiers who detained and gagged a 78-year-old Palestinian American man and then left him unconscious in a building site shortly before he was pronounced dead.The Israeli Army announced on Tuesday that soldiers involved in the detention of the man, Omar Assad, 78, during an early-morning operation in January 2022 in a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, would only face internal disciplinary measures.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
World politics

Germany Is Expected to Introduce Its First National Security Strategy

BERLIN Germany is expected to introduce its first comprehensive national security strategy on Wednesday, an effort to address Germany's priorities and ambitions in a Europe transformed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.The announcement is a key part of the coalition agreement of the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, but it comes as the war in Ukraine has heightened Germany's sense that it has become vulnerable to new military, economic and geopolitical threats, including climate change.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
World politics

Russia Targets Central Ukraine in Deadly Aerial Attack

Skip to content Continue reading the main story Moscow June 13, 1:40 p.m. Washington June 13, 6:40 a.m.Police officers standing next to the bodies of people killed by a Russian missile strike, in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, on Tuesday.Credit...Andrii Dubchak/Reuters At least six people were killed on Tuesday morning after Russian forces struck buildings in a central Ukrainian city that was already reeling from the Kakhovka dam disaster, in what Ukrainian officials said was the latest such attack that appeared to target civilians.
AdExchanger
9 months ago
Marketing tech

Google Infuses More AI Features Into Search, Shopping, Maps And YouTube | AdExchanger

Try to get through a conversation about media or search without someone mentioning generative AI or some form of AI-infused technology - dare you.On Wednesday, Google made six AI-related announcements in one day, including the ability to use images in Bard prompts, additions to its Search Generative Experience (SGE), a virtual clothing try-on feature and two new AI-powered video campaigns for YouTube.
www.mercurynews.com
9 months ago
East Bay (California)

California lets Allstate hike rates but insurer still won't write new home policies

Allstate has received California's blessing to raise homeowner insurance premiums 4%, but the state's fifth largest home insurer said it has no plans to reverse its decision last fall to stop writing new policies.That will mean higher bills for Allstate's existing customers, and no relief for other homeowners in the state who are losing their coverage in areas ravaged by recent destructive wildfires, floods and landslides.
www.mercurynews.com
9 months ago
East Bay (California)

Oakland's homeless community enjoys a day of free music and food

OAKLAND The sun was out.A cool breeze was blowing.It was the perfect day for some jazz and blues in the park.On Monday afternoon, the First Presbyterian Church of Oakland brought a free music festival to the Mosswood Park Amphitheater.Like most concerts, this one provided foot-tapping tunes and general merriment.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
Europe news

The Phillip Schofield Scandal Explained, From Daytime TV to Parliament

It's not every day that Britain's Parliament discusses daytime television.But the resignation of the anchor Phillip Schofield, after admitting to a relationship with a much younger man employed by the same show, has dominated British news coverage for weeks, fueling tabloid headlines but also raising questions about workplace ethics.
Harvard Business Review
9 months ago
Business

What Is Apple's Vision Pro Really For?

To understand the value of Apple's new goggles, it's helpful to think about how virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) correspond to two fundamental tasks in decision making.VR presents new information; AR distills information from an existing environment.But previous headsets and internet-enabled glasses haven't tapped into the potential for either of these in a decision-making context.
www.standard.co.uk
9 months ago
Manchester United

It's mad': Marcus Rashford calls for an end to gruelling season schedules

E ngland forward Marcus Rashford has reiterated calls for the "mad" football calendar to be reconsidered by authorities.The Manchester United talisman is expected to make his 62nd and 63rd appearances of the season when England round off a gruelling campaign, which included a winter World Cup, with Euro 2024 qualifiers against Malta and North Macedonia.
Creative Bloq
9 months ago
Graphic design

Everyone's talking about the droid design in Star Wars Outlaws

Unless you've been living under a rock (on Tatooine, of course), you've no doubt heard that the big news from this week's Ubisoft Forward event was the announcement of Star Wars Outlaws, the first open-world game from a galaxy far, far away.While the idea of a GTA-esque Star Wars game has fans excited, there's one particular piece of character design that's proving particularly notable.
Los Angeles Times
9 months ago
LA food

Michelin just added 10 new restaurants to its California guide - and 6 are in L.A.

(Stephanie Breijo / Los Angeles Times)

Michelin additions
In advance of the Michelin Guide's annual update to its best restaurants in California, the international restaurant-scoring publication added 10 new names to the regional list, but what exactly those designations mean is yet to be seen.The company, best known in the culinary industry for employing anonymous inspectors to award restaurants from one to three stars, also provides accolades known as Bib Gourmands for businesses deemed to offer value and affordability; the guidebook also spotlights noteworthy openings.
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

Last day for hundreds of Lloyds Pharmacy branches in Sainsbury's

The UK's second-largest pharmacy chain is shutting down all its branches in Sainsbury's supermarkets after the decision to withdraw from the market was pushed forward.All 237 Lloyds Pharmacy branches will operate for the last day on Tuesday, shutting down operations forever in Sainsbury's.The closure of the leading pharmacy chain stores, initially scheduled for gradual implementation over the course of the upcoming year, has now been brought forward.
The Paris Review
9 months ago
Books

The Bible and Poetry - The Paris Review

Biblical figures, themes, and language have been used in poetry for centuries as a way for poets to explore human experience and emotions.
The Bible can be used to explore the human condition in a way that is both personal and universal.
The Bible can serve as a source of inspiration for poets, offering a way to express our deepest feelings and experiences in a meaningful way.
www.amny.com
9 months ago
Brooklyn

NYC Summer Streets' initiative will expand to all five boroughs this summer | amNewYork

Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams New York City is making around 20 miles of its streets car-free on various Saturdays this summer as part of its Summer Streets initiative expansion, Mayor Eric Adams announced in Queens on Monday.The initiative, which was first launched in 2008, will see large sections of roadways in each borough blocked off from vehicular traffic on five Saturdays over the course of July and August.
www.npr.org
9 months ago
Law

Trump is expected to appear in a Miami court on Tuesday. Here's what to expect

Donald Trump delivers remarks Saturday in Greensboro, N.C.Win McNamee/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump is expected to appear in a Miami courthouse on Tuesday following last week's unsealing of a federal indictment accusing him of mishandling classified documents.Trump is facing 37 federal charges, including obstruction and unlawful retention of defense information.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
US news

How Trump Plans to Beat His Indictment, Politically

Donald J. Trump will make his first appearance in federal criminal court on Tuesday.But the former president has been pleading his case for days in a far friendlier venue the court of Republican public opinion, where he continues to dominate the 2024 field.For Mr. Trump and his team, there has been a sense of familiarity, even normalcy, in the chaos of facing a 37-count indictment in the classified documents case.
GSMArena.com
9 months ago
Mobile UX

Apple might be working on a more affordable Vision Pro headset for a 2025 release

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is planning on delivering a more affordable version of the Vision Pro headset and it will likely arrive sometime in 2025.That's because the $3,499 price tag is obviously too restrictive and the Vision Pro as a product isn't intended for mass adoption.The report from Gurman claims the company was initially thinking of delaying the announcement of the Vision Pro's price due to negative publicity, but preferred to give everyone 9 months time to get used to it.
GSMArena.com
9 months ago
Mobile UX

Honor 90 global launch set for July 6

Following its announcement in China last month, Honor 90 is set to debut on the global stage on July 6.Honor will hold a launch event in Paris, France where we will get all the details concerning pricing and availability.Honor 90 global launch poster
Honor 90 is equipped with a Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chip, a 6.7" OLED screen with a 120 Hz refresh rate and a 50MP front-facing camera.
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

Why is the SNP under investigation over its party finances?

Police Scotland's investigation into alleged financial irregularities within the Scottish National Party (SNP), known as Operation Branchform, has taken a further twist after Nicola Sturgeon was arrested.Police Scotland said the former SNP leader, who quit in February, is in custody and is being questioned by detectives.
www.theguardian.com
9 months ago
Gender

Modernisation creeps on as London gentlemen's clubs open to women

Mild signs of a potential willingness to modernise have been observed in some of central London's establishment clubs in the past few weeks, led by the announcement that, after a wait of 166 years, women will finally be allowed to become members of Pratt's.The decision by the owner of Pratt's has been met mostly with resigned acceptance by the club's membership, which includes at least a dozen MPs, and has triggered renewed discussion of possible reform at the remaining hardcore handful of gentlemen's clubs that refuse to admit women.
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