We all need to stop getting mad about the fact that our favorite streaming series are now full of ads and focus on how awful those ads are. Yes, it is infuriating that streaming platforms sold a product they could not reasonably hope to sustain. The promise that, for a small fee, viewers would be…
Bishop Montgomery told officials at Mater Dei on Monday that it will not be able to play its scheduled football game Friday at Santa Ana Stadium, thus forfeiting to the No. 1-ranked Monarchs. Numerous Bishop Montgomery players are subject to possible one-game suspensions for leaving the bench with 24 seconds left on Saturday in Honolulu…
Elon Musk is planning to launch a new payments platform, called XMoney, in beta form to select users in April. InΒ announcingΒ a planned partnership between XMoney and Visa more than a year ago, then X CEO Linda Yaccarino referred to the platform as a so-called “Everything App” β a reference to the kind of all-in-one digital…
βIβm not afraid.β With these three words Sunday morning, Pope Leo XIV offered as powerful a rebuke of President Trump and everything he has wrought on the world as anyone ever has. Three words that mocked Trump for being the bully that he is. Three words that undercut Trumpβs self-hyped aura of invincibility. Three words…
Based on the 1951 Convention on Refugees, anyone who has a well-founded fear of persecution can claim asylum in the UK, be that based on their race, religion, nationality, sexuality or other reason. They must be in the UK to do so. A record 111,084 people claimed asylum in the UK in the latest year…
If anyone needs a definition for what grinding means in sports, sophomore Carlos Acunaβs performance on Wednesday at Cal State Northridge provided the answer. In six of seven innings, the Birmingham High pitcher saw Carson get the leadoff man on base. Thatβs usually something that leads to disaster. But Acuna kept coming up with key…
The wait, and the apparent discomfort, continues. Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford was scheduled to practice for the first time on Monday, but the back issue that has sidelined him since the start of training camp prevented him from doing so. βWeβre going to be smart,β coach Sean McVay said, βbut he didnβt feel good enough….
The Ducks held their annual fan appreciation day Sunday, handing out thousands of gifts, from a new car to team jerseys and gift cards. But the one prize the Ducksβ long-suffering fans really wanted, a playoff berth, remained just out of reach. Needing a win to clinch a postseason berth for the first time since…
Ocado is to cut around 1,000 jobs as part of a plan to slash costs and restructure its operations. The company, which provides automated technology for distribution centres and runs its own UK online grocery business through a joint venture with Marks & Spencer, said two-thirds of the job losses would be in the UK….
Washington β The Pentagon gave Anthropic an ultimatum this week: Give the U.S. military unrestricted use of its AI technology or face a ban from all government contracts.Β At the center of the issue is a question of who controls how artificial intelligence models are used, the Pentagon or the company’s CEO. The Pentagon’s AI…