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2023-12-02 19:20
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Legwarmers on for A Chorus Line Unusually for a live show – but hey, it’s Musicals Week – we k… Read More
2023-12-02 18:33
Around this time last year, Northampton surrendered a big lead in the final quarter to lose yet again at Saracens. This time, they did not. Saracens found themselves in the news this week, n… Read More
2023-12-02 18:15
National League South side Maidstone stunned League Two high-flyers Barrow by coming from behind to reach the FA Cup third round for the first time in their history with a 2-1 victory. Bivis… Read More
2023-12-02 18:00
Welcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday… Read More
2023-12-02 17:38
Leeds maintained their unbeaten home Championship record this season with a pulsating 3-2 win over 10-man Middlesbrough – with all of the goals scored in the first half. Middlesbrough… Read More
2023-12-02 17:11
Two Iranian Revolutionary Guards members serving as military advisers in Syria have been killed in an Israeli attack, Iranian state media has said. Strikes near the Syrian capital of Damascu… Read More
2023-12-02 17:00
As a woman in her 20s with an Instagram account, I’ve witnessed the explosive rise and destigmatization of medical spa treatments. From the influencer I ran track with in high school p… Read More
2023-12-02 16:30
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Andy Hunter Everton have formally appealed against the decision to deduct the club 10 points for a breach of Pre… Read More
2023-12-02 16:03
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature At this juncture, it’s time to speculate over what the best draw England and Scotland could get. On rankin… Read More
2023-12-02 07:29
22 countries call for tripling of nuclear by 2050 Twenty-two countries have called for a tripling of nuclear energy by 2050 in order to meet net zero goals. John Kerry, the US’s climat… Read More
2023-12-02 07:00
French Jews were only partly reassured when more than 100,000 people, including the prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, and two former presidents, turned out to demonstrate in Paris last… Read More
2023-12-02 06:00
Think Ingrid Bergman in the closing moments of George Cukor’s Gaslight. Evil Gregory, who has lately been persuading his wife Paula, played by Bergman, that she is mad, is – owin… Read More
2023-12-02 05:14
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Opening summary Hello and welcome to our continuing live coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. This is Adam Fulton a… Read More
2023-12-02 05:00
Rishi Sunak loses his marbles and causes a diplomatic spat in the process (1m18s); Gareth Gates discusses singing, scandal and how his stammer has shaped his life (7m32s); and the nature cur… Read More
2023-12-02 03:37
A SpaceX rocket has launched South Korea’s first military spy satellite, intensifying a space race on the peninsula after Pyongyang launched its own first surveillance satellite last w… Read More
A Monopoly Theme Park In This Economy? It Might Be The Closest We’ll Get To Home Ownership | Culture
2023-12-02 03:00
I’m nursing a drink at a diner, deep within the bowels of Melbourne Central station, when I realise something isn’t right. I pull a pile of crumpled Monopoly dollars from my pock… Read More
2023-12-02 02:36
Two people have been rescued from a home in Scotland after an explosion in residential Edinburgh. Police Scotland confirmed reports were received of an eruption at an address on Baberton Mai… Read More
2023-12-02 02:10
Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered the country’s military to increase the number of troops by nearly 170,000 to a total of 1.32 million, as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine… Read More
2023-12-02 01:59
A federal judge on Friday rejected Donald Trump’s attempt to dismiss his federal criminal case over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, ruling that he enjoyed no immunit… Read More
2023-12-01 19:25
Once again, it’s time for one of my favorite holiday traditions: the 16th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar—featuring images from both NASA’s Hubble telescope and its… Read More
2023-12-01 19:25
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature ITV have just shown an excellent piece on the life and career of the late Terry Venables by Gabriel Clarke. Here… Read More
2023-12-01 19:24
Remember a year ago, all the way back to last November before we knew about ChatGPT, when machine learning was all about building models to solve for a single task like loan approvals or fra… Read More
2023-12-01 19:05
Forests are worth as much as $150 trillion, according to the Boston Consulting Group, with much of the interest in them centering around carbon credits. That means that forests that are cons… Read More
2023-12-01 19:00
Bluesky, the startup aiming to build a decentralized social network to take on Twitter/X, says it has begun deploying new safety tooling to help moderate content on the network through autom… Read More
2023-12-01 18:54
It took only seconds for the bombs to start falling on Gaza again. The week-long ceasefire ended at 7am local time, and almost immediately the sound of explosions filled the corridors of al… Read More
2023-12-01 18:30
AI is everywhere, and predictably, sales teams are among the early adopters. So I wasn’t surprised to see Scalestack raise $1 million to help make sales teams’ lives easier. So… Read More
2023-12-01 18:26
Forcing the New York representative out of the House after a conviction would have been justified; pushing him out beforehand is not. Graeme Sloan / Sipa USA / AP December 1, 2023, 1:26 PM E… Read More
2023-12-01 18:17
The families of hostages being held in Gaza have said they are terrified about the safety of their loved ones after the end of a seven-day ceasefire. Fighting resumed on Friday after the exp… Read More
2023-12-01 18:03
A new report by the Financial Times says X will now turn to small and medium-sized advertisers to shore up revenue after the company’s owner Elon Musk alienated big brands fleeing X ov… Read More
2023-12-01 07:30
An ID card that appears to belong to a Chinese prisoner was found inside the lining of a coat from the British brand Regatta, raising concerns that the clothing was manufactured using prison… Read More
2023-12-01 06:20
The Big British Beef Battle 8pm, Channel 4 Will eating beef become the new smoking? Ade Adepitan shows us exactly how bad farming, importing and consuming beef is for the planet – its… Read More
2023-12-01 06:19
World leaders and assorted dignitaries are due to fly in to Cop28 today including UK prime minister Rishi Sunak and King Charles. My colleague Alehta Adu is with the prime minister and says… Read More
2023-12-01 05:30
The Loy Krathong festival in Thailand, a funeral service for Rosalynn Carter in Georgia, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, an eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily, hostage a… Read More
2023-12-01 05:01
Leading defense tech startup Anduril has developed a new product designed to take-on the proliferation of low-cost, high-powered aerial threats. The product is called Roadrunner, a modular… Read More
2023-12-01 05:01
The US saw a rise in executions in 2023 as a result of Florida’s revival of the death penalty, amid Ron DeSantis’s “tough on crime” campaign for the Republican presid… Read More
2023-12-01 05:00
The boss of Iceland has hit out at “exploitation” of new parents and joined calls for a price cap on baby formula after the competition watchdog found evidence of greedflation by… Read More
2023-12-01 03:25
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Opening summary Welcome to our continuing live coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. This is Adam Fulton and I&rsquo&hell…Read More
2023-12-01 03:00
The seven-week war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza was put on pause this week as the two sides agreed a series of temporary truce agreements to allow for the release of Israeli hostages and… Read More
2023-12-01 02:20
Ron DeSantis, a hard-right contender for the Republican presidential nomination, took the debate stage in Georgia on Thursday night for a contest dubbed, by one eager news site, “The V… Read More
2023-11-30 19:07
Hamas has claimed responsibility for a deadly gun attack at a busy bus stop in west Jerusalem in which three Israelis were killed on Thursday morning, prompting the prime minister, Benjamin… Read More
2023-11-30 19:06
Instagram’s Twitter/X rival, Threads, is becoming more competitive with the expansion of its keyword search feature to all markets where the app is available. The feature was initially… Read More
2023-11-30 19:06
Halfway through Small Things Like These, the Irish writer Claire Keegan’s Booker-shortlisted 2022 novel, something out of the ordinary happens. The coal merchant Bill Furlong discovers… Read More
2023-11-30 18:27
The government has dealt a blow to the Barclay family’s efforts to strike a deal to transfer control of the Telegraph newspaper and Spectator magazine to a consortium backed by the UAE… Read More
2023-11-30 18:25
The Atlantic’s writing and reporting on one of the most controversial and influential foreign-policy thinkers of the past 50 years The Atlantic. Source: W. Steche / Bildarchiv VISUM /… Read More
2023-11-30 18:02
While Apple Music Replay fails to live up to Spotify Wrapped, YouTube Music’s 2023 Recap offers a personalized and interactive experience. YouTube Music introduced three new features t… Read More
2023-11-30 18:01
With all of the communication methods businesses use to get in front of customers, some continue to get results for their marketing campaigns from ye old email. That’s because “i… Read More
2023-11-30 17:55
Whether you are a tech optimist or not, you have to acknowledge that progress rarely follows a straight line. While the world keeps getting better at churning semiconductors, we are still st… Read More
2023-11-30 17:53
Benjamin Netanyahu should have resigned after an hour, then a day, then a week and a month after the 7 October debacle, the most horrific day in Israel’s history. He did not, because h… Read More
2023-11-30 17:47
Bradley Cooper’s Maestro is a wonderful look at the composer that dives headfirst into his brilliant work and complicated inner life. Jason McDonald / Netflix November 30, 2023, 12:47… Read More
2023-11-30 06:49
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Dawn has broken over the Cop28 climate talks in Dubai. Here are the first few pictures appearing on the news wir… Read More
2023-11-30 06:39
Days after Evernote started testing a free plan with access to only one notebook and 50 notes with limited users, the company has now made this its new default free plan. The notetaking app… Read More
2023-11-30 06:00
Butterflies are good bellwethers for our increasingly weird climate and its impact on insect life because they are so visible. Autumn last year brought the first sighting of an American pain… Read More
2023-11-30 06:00
We knew it was coming, but stock-trading platform Robinhood is finally open for business in the U.K. — its first international market since debuting in the U.S. more than a decade ago… Read More
Israel-Hamas War: Ceasefire Extended For A Day Amid Last-minute Mediation Efforts | Israel-Hamas War
2023-11-30 05:34
Israel’s military said early on Thursday that a truce with Hamas would continue into a seventh day, minutes before it was due to expire, as mediators continued to work towards further… Read More
2023-11-30 05:00
Days after a privacy complaint was lodged against Meta in the European Union over its latest controversial shift of legal basis claimed for processing people’s data for ads, consu… Read More
2023-11-30 05:00
Standing inside the border station at Raja-Jooseppi – with leather gloves tucked into his fleece-lined hat on the table in front of him and snow falling in the darkness outside –… Read More
2023-11-30 04:14
Taiwan’s president has said China is unlikely to attempt an invasion any time soon because it is “overwhelmed” by domestic problems. Tsai Ing-wen made the remarks in an int… Read More
2023-11-30 03:00
Welcome and Summary Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. My name is Reged Ahmad and I’ll be with you for the next while. The extended truce between Israel an… Read More
2023-11-30 03:00
Delegates from every country in the world are meeting today at the beginning of the Cop28 climate talks in Dubai, hosted by the United Arab Emirates. The scale of the challenge ahead of them… Read More
2023-11-29 19:05
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Ent… Read More
2023-11-29 18:53
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Team news: Havertz starts Mikel Arteta makes a couple of changes from the win at Brentford on Saturday. Kai Have… Read More
2023-11-29 18:41
After introducing an in-app shop that invited premium subscribers to buy digital decorations for their profiles, Discord now wants everybody to get in on the goods. Discord is expanding acce… Read More
2023-11-29 18:25
The Tesla Cybertruck, the first of which will be delivered Thursday four years after its debut, is loved and loathed. For fans, it’s a symbol for what Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk stand… Read More
2023-11-29 18:25
The European Commission has hatched confidential Plan B proposals to “cushion” the impact of a looming 10% tariff on imports and exports of electric vehicles, the Guardian has le… Read More
2023-11-29 18:05
As part of an international law enforcement investigation, the FBI and the Dutch Financial Intelligence and Investigation Service have seized the websites of a crypto mixer that was allegedl… Read More
2023-11-29 17:59
There’s been a debate of sorts in AI circles about which database is more important in finding truthful information in generative AI applications: graph or vector databases. AWS decide… Read More
2023-11-29 17:58
Amazon’s launching a privacy-preserving service that lets AWS customers deploy “lookalike” AI models trained for one-off company-company collaborations. Called Clean Rooms… Read More
2023-11-29 17:55
Five Mexican journalists have been shot and wounded in a single day, in the worst day of violence against the country’s press in more than 10 years. In one of the attacks on Tuesday, f… Read More
2023-11-29 17:50
We’re searching for seasoned startup founders and subject-matter experts to host a roundtable at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024. Our one-day summit, designed for emerging early-stage star… Read More
2023-11-29 06:20
Being Kae Tempest 9pm, BBC Two When Jay-Z popped backstage to praise Kae Tempest and play them some new tracks, all Tempest could think was: “Beyoncé calls you on that phone!&rd&hell…Read More
2023-11-29 05:52
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Palestinian media have reported two people, including a child, were injured by Israeli bullets during a large-sc… Read More
2023-11-29 05:30
The opening salvo in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year was not a rocket or a missile. Rather, it was an essay. Vladimir Putin’s On the Historical Unit… Read More
2023-11-29 05:00
We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2019: The noisy dispute over the mean… Read More
2023-11-29 04:00
FEBE Ventures’ name stands for “for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs,” and true to form, it is continuing to support seed-stage startups with the launch of its second fund. T… Read More
2023-11-29 03:10
Larry Fink, an acclaimed and adventurous photographer whose subjects ranged from family portraits and political satire to working class lives and the elite of show business and Manhattan soc… Read More
2023-11-29 03:02
Uber has secured another win over the struggling taxi industry. Soon, riders in London will be able to hail an iconic black cab in the city. London cabbies can now start signing up for Uber… Read More
2023-11-29 03:00
Support The Guardian The Guardian is editorially independent. And we want to keep our journalism open and accessible to all. But we increasingly need our readers to fund our work. Support Th… Read More
2023-11-29 02:37
If you look closely, you can just about see the characters and scenes that once stretched across the walls of Wat Prasat, a temple in Nonthaburi. There’s the dark shape of an elephant… Read More
2023-11-29 02:21
The United Nations said Tuesday it deplored the executions of a 17-year-old and a 22-year old in Iran and urged Tehran to immediately stop applying the death penalty. The UN Human Rights Off… Read More
2023-11-28 18:40
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Group F permutations Following back-to-back defeats at the hands of Borussia Dortmund, Newcastle must avoid defe… Read More
2023-11-28 18:12
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Neil Batlivala, the CEO and co-founder at Pair Team, a startup building infrastruct… Read More
2023-11-28 18:08
Colleagues of Ruth Perry said they had never seen the Reading headteacher so upset as when she came out of her first meeting with an Ofsted inspector, the inquest into her death has been tol… Read More
2023-11-28 17:52
Amazon Web Services kicks off its AWS re:Invent event today from Las Vegas with a rapid-fire stream of announcements, including many unveilings of recent things it’s been working on.&n&hell…Read More
2023-11-28 17:46
Popular stock trading app Webull has acquired Mexican investment platform Flink, giving it an entry into the Mexico market. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Although Webull ha… Read More
2023-11-28 17:46
Amazon is launching an AI-powered chatbot for AWS customers called Q. Unveiled during a keynote at Amazon’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this morning, Q — starting at $20 pe… Read More
2023-11-28 17:30
We are all talking about the business gains from using large language models, but there are lot of known issues with these models and finding ways to constrain the answers that a model could… Read More
2023-11-28 17:25
The wife of Ukraine’s top spy chief is recovering in hospital after being poisoned, a spokesperson for the country’s military intelligence agency said on Tuesday, after apparentl… Read More
2023-11-28 17:17
Apple’s year-end review and answer to Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay, has arrived, but it’s still no match for Spotify’s personalized look back at your year in music… Read More
2023-11-28 17:03
In 1783, the City of London was gripped by a court case which symbolised the brutal economics of slavery. Two years previously, the Liverpool slave ship Zong had set out from Accra, in prese… Read More
2023-11-28 06:20
Berlin 1933 9.10pm, BBC Four The fractured mood of metropolis Berlin on the verge of international calamity is captured through personal diaries, letters and extensive film footage in this h… Read More
2023-11-28 05:30
Nearly half of the whales and dolphins found in UK waters over the past five years contained harmful concentrations of toxic chemicals banned decades ago, an investigation has found. Among o… Read More
2023-11-28 05:00
You might not be familiar with Hexa, the Paris-based startup studio that has launched dozens of B2B software companies, but some of its portfolio companies have become well-known unicorns, s… Read More
2023-11-28 05:00
Hussain Elius is best known as the co-founder of Pathao, one of Bangladesh’s top ride-sharing apps. For his latest startup, however, Elius is exploring the world of DeFi with Wind.app… Read More
2023-11-28 05:00
David Cameron will return to Brussels on Tuesday in an official capacity for the first time since his doomed campaign for Britain to remain in the European Union. The former prime minister… Read More
2023-11-28 05:00
Amazon kicked off AWS re:Invent, its annual customer conference, in Las Vegas tonight with a few new serverless offerings designed to make it easier to manage Aurora, Elastic Cache and Redsh… Read More
2023-11-28 04:45
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 11 Israeli hostages freed, taken to Tel Aviv hospital Eleven Israeli hostages, nine children and two women, were… Read More
2023-11-28 03:00
For most people in the UK, what happens to your assets when you die is a relatively simple process: you either specify your wishes in a will or your estate passes to your next of kin. But so… Read More
2023-11-28 02:29
Foxconn plans to invest $1.54 billion in India, the latest in its growing expansion plan, following a surge in revenues in the South Asian market. Foxconn said in a stock exchange filing tha… Read More
2023-11-28 02:00
Textiles and garments contribute 16% of Vietnam’s total GPD, but it’s challenging for small garment brands to take advantage of the country’s manufacturing prowess. Inflow… Read More
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