Switzerland has won Eurovision, topping the leaderboard in a competition fraught with last-minute changes and backstage incidents. Non-binary performer Nemo used their childhood opera experience to pull together an impressive performance mixing rap, rock, drum ‘n bass and classical opera, as well as balancing on a revolving disc spinning at speed as they sang. The
Israel has called on residents from more areas of Rafah in the Gaza Strip to evacuate and head to the “expanded humanitarian area” as it prepares to ramp up its military assault. Despite heavy US pressure, Israel has said it will proceed with an assault on the southern city, where more than 1.4 million people
Photo is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 The US government is reportedly set to announce wider tariffs on several categories of Chinese goods, including various green products like solar panels and batteries, medical goods, and in particular an increase of tariffs on Chinese EVs from 25% to 100%. The rumors were first reported late Thursday that
A social enterprise that hopes to train young people to protect the ocean has expanded to the UK. The Sea Rangers Service is now running from Port Talbot, after first launching in The Netherlands in 2016. They hope to restore one million hectares of ocean biodiversity by 2040, while training 20,000 young people, mainly from
John Keim, ESPN Staff WriterMay 10, 2024, 05:56 PM ET Close John Keim covers the Washington Commanders for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2013 after a stint with the Washington Post. He started covering the team in 1994 for the Journal Newspapers and later for the Washington Examiner. He has authored/co-authored four books. You can
A police officer has been shot in the leg with a crossbow during an incident in High Wycombe. Police say the incident took place as the officer was responding to reports of a man in his 60s suffering a stab wound in the Buckinghamshire town. A 54-year-old man, from High Wycombe, has been arrested on
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Omar Marques | Getty Images A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X against Israel’s Bright Data, in a case that involved the scraping of public online data and its appropriate uses. X, formerly Twitter, sued Bright Data, alleging the company “scrapes data from X” and sells it “using
Elon Musk says Tesla is going to spend over $500 million on expanding the Supercharger network this year after firing the entire charging team. It says a lot about the reason behind the firing. Last week, Elon Musk fired Tesla’s entire charging team amid broader layoffs at the company. We reported that the move resulted in Tesla backing
No deportation flights to Rwanda will take off under a Labour government, Sir Keir Starmer has told Sky News. The Labour leader told Sky News political editor Beth Rigby “there’ll be no flights” as he wants to “scrap the scheme”, which aims to send asylum seekers entering the UK illegally from a safe country, such
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple CEO Tim Cook waves to journalists after his meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 17, 2024. Willy Kurniawan | Reuters Apple took on Thursday the unusual step of apologizing for a short advertising video promoting the
Police confront environmental activists in a forest near the Tesla Gigafactory electric car factory on May 10, 2024 near Gruenheide, Germany. Axel Schmidt | Getty Images Climate protesters angry about Tesla’s plans to expand its Berlin-Brandenburg Gigafactory in Germany tried to break into the plant on Friday, according to a statement from local police. “Multiple
Google employees vented their frustration at the company’s two most senior officials during an all-hands meeting, citing a “significant decline in morale” over cost-cutting and lack of pay raises — despite the search giant’s robust earnings. CEO Sundar Pichai and Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat were peppered with questions during last week’s gathering — just
A financial executive was convicted Thursday of enabling his boss and others to make over $22 million illegally by trading off his tips ahead of the public announcement that an acquisition firm was taking former President Donald Trumps media company public. An agitated Bruce Garelick dropped his head and repeatedly wiped his face with his
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is reportedly considering allowing users to create artificial intelligence-generated pornography and other explicit content with its tech tools — but deepfakes like the graphic nude images of Taylor Swift will be banned. The Sam Altman-run company said it is “exploring whether we can responsibly provide the ability to generate NSFW (not-safe-for-work) content in
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed into law a bill that would ban most abortions in the state after six weeks, before many people know theyre pregnant, further decimating abortion access in the South. The bill passed the Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon in a 7040 vote. DeSantis signed it into law hours
Opening arguments are expected to be heard at a Wilmington, Delaware, courthouse on Monday in Dominion Voting Systems defamation trial against Fox News, which has been accused of telling vacuous lies about the 2020 presidential election and the tech companys role. At stake is some $1.6 billion, the amount Dominion demands in restitution, along with
Montana lawmakers passed a bill on Friday banning TikTok from operating in the state amid growing concerns about the app’s suspected ties to the Chinese government. The bill was passed by the state House in a 5443 vote and now heads to Gov. Greg Gianforte’s desk. If Gianforte signs it into law, Montana will become
Harry Lyles Jr., ESPN Staff WriterMay 10, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions In an era of college football with roster turnover at an all-time high, Virginia Tech has worked to build a culture that stresses continuity. That continuity has led expectations to blossom in Blacksburg. A big reason for those expectations was a
Google employees vented their frustration at the company’s two most senior officials during an all-hands meeting, citing a “significant decline in morale” over cost-cutting and lack of pay raises — despite the search giant’s robust earnings. CEO Sundar Pichai and Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat were peppered with questions during last week’s gathering — just
A financial executive was convicted Thursday of enabling his boss and others to make over $22 million illegally by trading off his tips ahead of the public announcement that an acquisition firm was taking former President Donald Trumps media company public. An agitated Bruce Garelick dropped his head and repeatedly wiped his face with his