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Sources: WNBA, players union meeting Monday could be pivotal
Alexa Philippou Close Alexa Philippou ESPN Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer and Ramona Shelburne Close Ramona Shelburne ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer for…
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Hong Kong to set up high-level team to plan Apec finance ministers meeting
Some 500 guests are expected to attend an Apec finance ministers’ meeting in Hong Kong in October, the first to be held in the city, with authorities set to appoint a team led by two senior officials to oversee planning for the event. Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui Ching-yu told a…
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Stranger Things: Tales From 85 hits Netflix on April 23
While the main series might be over, Netflix is far from done with Stranger Things. The first spin-off to hit the streaming service will be Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85. The company had said that the animated show would arrive sometime this year and now, alongside a new trailer, it confirmed a release date of…
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Elon Musks Grok is still undressing men
After weeks of flooding the internet with nonconsensual sexual deepfakes, X has finally reined in Elon Musk’s rogue chatbot Grok. Musk claims Grok obeys local laws and refuses to produce anything illegal — except it hasn’t and it can. My testing shows Grok still readily undresses men and is still churning out intimate images on…
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Now anyone can tap Ring doorbells to search for lost dogs
Ring is opening its Search Party pet finder service to non-Ring owners through the free Ring Neighbors app. The service has helped reunite owners with “more than one lost dog a day” since launch, according to the company. Anyone in the US can share a photo of their missing pet after they download and register…
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Alibabas Qwen ramps up AI app race with Spring Festival giveaway blitz
Alibaba Group Holding has joined rivals including Tencent Holdings and Baidu in rolling out Spring Festival red-packet giveaways to drive mass-market adoption of its artificial intelligence apps, committing 3 billion yuan (US$432 million) to spur spending across its ecosystem as it seeks to extend its edge in foundational models to consumer-facing products. The Hangzhou-based e-commerce…
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Faisal Islam: Mandelson, Darling and the conversation I cant forget
While the office got built, the bonus tax remained and JP Morgan did not, in the end, stop buying gilts, this episode is an incredible live example of the relative power of government and financial markets, of the actual dynamics of the “bond vigilantes”.
