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Johnny Depp working with Al Pacino in first directorial job after Amber Heard trialthedigitalchaps

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[ad_1] Johnny Depp is back in the directors chair — complete with his big signature hats — for the first time in decades. Depp is directing the film “Modi,” with Al Pacino playing a supporting role as real-life French art collector Maurice Gangnat. The film is Depp’s first time directing since the 1997 feature “The Brave,” as well as … Read more

Prince Harry withdraws libel case against Mail on Sunday

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[ad_1] Prince Harry’s lawyers informed the court on Friday that he was ‘discontinuing’ his case – Anadolu The Duke of Sussex has withdrawn his libel case against the Mail on Sunday, just hours before he was due to hand over relevant documents to the High Court. Prince Harry’s lawyers informed the court at 10am on … Read more

North Korea claims it tested underwater nuclear attack dronethedigitalchaps

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[ad_1] North Korea claims it tested underwater nuclear attack drone – CBS News Watch CBS News North Korea says it has tested a nuclear-capable underwater attack drone in response to a combined naval exercise by South Korea, the United States and Japan earlier this week. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer has more. Be … Read more

Dow Jones Futures Rise, AI Play Soars After Market Shrugs Off Fed Warning

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[ad_1] Dow Jones futures rose solidly Friday morning, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. Super Micro Computer (SMCI) jumped overnight on strong preliminary results. X The stock market rally rose Thursday, shrugging off rising Treasury yields and fresh Fed comments signaling slower rate cuts. Techs led the way, with the Nasdaq 100 hitting … Read more

Neighbouring Kent councils hit by simultaneous cyber attacks

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[ad_1] Three local authorities in Kent – Canterbury City Council, Dover District Council and Thanet District Council – have fallen victim to near-simultaneous and potentially linked cyber attacks, knocking multiple public-facing systems across Kent offline. All three authorities are understood to be working alongside the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on incident response and … Read more

Ex-CM cautions party leaders against BJP’s efforts to make inroads among ethnic Muslim groups.thedigitalchaps

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[ad_1] Dr. Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah attending Gujjar-Bakerwal conference organized by the National Conference at Jammu.NC media cell The former Chief Minister and vice-president of the National Conference could not control his anger over the BJP’s expanding its footprints among nomadic Gujjars and Bakerwals of Jammu and Kashmir. While addressing the one-day Gujjar-Bakerwal conference … Read more

Top Reasons Why You Can Count On Dedicated Hosting Services

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[ad_1] Whether you operate a small business or a large enterprise, there is a wide range of web hosting options. If you’re doing some serious future thinking and looking for more power, expert dedicated hosting services are what you need. A dedicated web hosting service allows you to have exclusive use of all the resources … Read more

Atlas Air Cargo Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Miami After ‘Engine Malfunction’

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[ad_1] An Atlas Air cargo plane headed for Puerto Rico was diverted Thursday night after taking off from Miami International Airport because of engine trouble, according to an official and flight data. Flight 5Y095 landed safely after experiencing an “engine malfunction” shortly after departure, Atlas Air said early Friday. “The crew followed all standard procedures … Read more

Apple Takes a Humble Approach to Launching Its Newest Device

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[ad_1] When Apple released the Apple Watch in 2015, it was business as usual for a company whose iPhone updates had become cultural touchstones. Before the watch went on sale, Apple gave early versions of it to celebrities like Beyoncé, featured it in fashion publications like Vogue and streamed a splashy event on the internet … Read more

Microsoft makes its AI-powered reading tutor free

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[ad_1] Microsoft today made Reading Coach, its AI-powered tool that provides learners with personalized reading practice, available at no cost to anyone with a Microsoft account. As of this morning, Reading Coach is accessible on the web in preview — a Windows app is forthcoming. And soon (in late spring), Reading Coach will integrate with … Read more

Iceland Volcano Recedes After ‘black Day’ Of Town Firesthedigitalchaps

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[ad_1] REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – A volcano that erupted in southwest Iceland for the second time in less than a month appeared to be significantly less active on Monday despite indications of magma still flowing underground. “A black day” read the front page headline of Icelandic daily Morgunbladid across an image of bright-orange lava fountains and … Read more

What UK retail sales slump reveals about recession and interest rates

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[ad_1] High street sounds recession alarm as December retail sales crash. (Jeff Moore, PA Images) Retailers suffered their worst decline in sales in nearly two years in the run-up to Christmas, fuelling fears that the economy may have entered a shallow recession in the second half of 2023. Retail sales volumes shrank 3.2% between December … Read more

Jerry Krause deserved better than boos at the Bulls he helped soar | Chicago Bullsthedigitalchaps

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[ad_1] Last Friday the Chicago Bulls held a halftime ceremony to unveil their Ring of Honor, a pantheon reserved for the organization’s greatest contributors, but many of them couldn’t make it. Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen are feuding as a wedding between Michael’s eldest son and Pippen’s ex-wife draws near. Dennis Rodman was waylaid by … Read more

China’s Mutual Funds Implode at Fastest Pace in Five Years as Stocks Sink

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[ad_1] (Bloomberg) — A meltdown in Chinese shares is wreaking havoc on the country’s asset management sector, pushing mutual fund closures to a five-year high in another sign of waning investor confidence. Most Read from Bloomberg About 240 local mutual funds were liquidated last year, according to Bloomberg-compiled data dating back to 2014. That’s the … Read more

Hybrid Cars Enjoy a Renaissance as All-Electric Sales Slow

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[ad_1] As Teslas and other electric vehicles dazzled car buyers with futuristic technology and dreams of a gasoline-free future, hybrid cars began to seem like yesterday’s news. Sales of the Toyota Prius, the standard-bearer for hybrids, fell 85 percent over a decade. Now, a slowdown in the growth of electric car sales has led General … Read more

Tech firms: Investigatory Powers review will undermine privacy of UK citizens

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[ad_1] Government plans to update the UK’s surveillance laws could divert tech companies away from safeguarding the privacy and security of their customers towards meeting the surveillance needs of government. The warning from technology companies comes in a briefing for government ministers on the risks posed by government plans to modernise the Investigatory Powers … Read more

Davos 2024—Sam Altman, Will.i.Am, Sting, and morethedigitalchaps

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[ad_1] Greetings, Davos delegates and WEF watchers! It’s the final day of the 2024 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, and the ending here is always a bit of a sad affair. Up and down the Promenade, the pop-up cafes and chalets that serve as temporary corporate headquarters in the Alps will get broken down, … Read more

Early Christmas shopping and November discounts brings COVID lockdown level shock fall in December retail sales | Business News

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[ad_1] There has been a shock fall in retail sales in the key December shopping period, sharpening the decline seen in recent months, official figures show. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said sales fell an unexpected 3.2%, despite Christmas and reported discounts offered by major chains and some positive reports by major … Read more

Netflix set to remove ‘nightmare’ matches with a much simpler feature for finding shows and movies

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[ad_1] NETFLIX could be planning to remove a key feature that’s meant to help people find new TV and movies they might like, according to a report. At the moment, you’ll be familiar with the “match” rating that appears next to everything on the streaming platform. 1 Match percentages could soon disappear from NetflixCredit: Getty … Read more

X is rolling out audio and video calls to Android

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[ad_1] Elon Musk’s own social network X is rolling out the ability to make audio and video calls directly from the app to its Android client. One of the X engineers working on the project posted about the feature release and said it will be available to Android users after an app update. audio and … Read more

Taiwan’s Democracy Draws Envy and Tears for Visiting Chinese

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[ad_1] At the Taipei train station, a Chinese human rights activist named Cuicui watched with envy as six young Taiwanese politicians campaigned for the city’s legislative seats. A decade ago, they had been involved in parallel democratic protest movements — she in China, and the politicians on the opposite side of the Taiwan Strait. “We … Read more

YouTube Cuts 100 Employees as Tech Layoffs Continue

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[ad_1] Google will cut 100 employees at its video platform, YouTube, on Wednesday, continuing piecemeal layoffs after shedding more than a thousand jobs in the past week. The tech giant notified workers from YouTube’s operations and creator management teams that their positions had been eliminated, according to an email reviewed by The New York Times. … Read more

Vision Pro discount for Apple employees not so generous

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[ad_1] Apple Apple is just hours away from launching preorders for its most important product since the release of the Apple Watch nearly a decade ago. Preorders begin for the Vision Pro mixed-reality headset at 5 a.m. PT (8 a.m. ET) on Friday, January 19, with shipping starting two weeks later on February 2. The tech … Read more

Amazon Fire TV Stick users are just realizing that ‘sync mistake’ is causing sound delay that ruins movie-watching

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[ad_1] AMAZON Fire TV Stick users struggling with TV sound issues could be making a sync mistake. It’s easy to fix and means the sound from your speakers will once again match what’s happening on screen. 1 Fire TV Stick users may need to change the sync settings if they’re having sound issuesCredit: Getty If … Read more

AI will create a thousand Post Office scandals

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[ad_1] At the same time that UK political parties vie in their condemnation of the Post Office scandal, they unite in their promotion of AI as the answer to tricky social problems. This means that, in effect, they are arguing for more of the same; for more occasions where computing and bureaucracy combine to … Read more

READ: The chilling texts Fotis Dulos sent to his five kids’ nanny hours after murdering wife Jennifer ‘with the help of his socialite lover’thedigitalchaps

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[ad_1] Chilling texts sent by Fotis Dulos the day after he allegedly murdered his wife in her Connecticut home have been shown in court.  Jurors were shown messages the Greek national sent to their nanny, Lauren Almeida, asking her for any news on his 50-year-old wife’s disappearance on May 24, 2019.  Just hours after the … Read more

America’s 4 largest car makers all pass on the Super Bowl for the first time in 23 years — and the race to catch Elon Musk could be to blame

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[ad_1] For the first time in 23 years, none of America’s four largest automakers will air national Super Bowl ads – but foreign-owned companies like Kia and Volkswagen are picking up their slack. The “challenging U.S. automotive market” is a leading reason why. Slowing consumer demand and high interest rates are pressuring Ford, Toyota, GM … Read more

Reddit plans to launch IPO in March, report says

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[ad_1] Reddit is preparing to launch its initial public offering (IPO) in March, according to a new report from Reuters. The report notes that the move comes more than three years after the San Francisco-based social media platform first began eyeing an IPO. Reddit is planning to make its public filing in late February and … Read more

Peregrine spacecraft snaps Earth photo just before burn-up

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[ad_1] Astrobotic’s Peregrine spacecraft is no more. After just over 10 days in space in a mission cut short by a fuel leak that began soon after launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the spacecraft is believed to have up during a high-speed reentry into Earth’s atmosphere over the South Pacific on Thursday … Read more

Ron DeSantis and Fox News, Old Friends, Hit Turbulence

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[ad_1] When the Fox News host Laura Ingraham urged Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida “to step aside and endorse Trump” on Tuesday night, it was the latest sign of a sharp deterioration of relations between the Republican presidential hopeful and the network that made him a star. Ms. Ingraham’s exhortation, in the wake of Mr. … Read more

PSTN switch-off threatens access to adult social care services

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[ad_1] London’s chief digital officer (CDO) has raised alarm over the impact of the copper switch-off on adult social care and other vital local government services, warning over its impact to vulnerable people and the rising costs being borne by local authorities. In 2017, telecommunications providers announced their plans to switch off the UK’s … Read more

Moms For Liberty To Launch Manhattan Town Hall Event Amid Protests From NYC Elected Officialsthedigitalchaps

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[ad_1] Topline Moms for Liberty, the controversial conservative education reform group, is planning to hold a town hall event onManhattan’s Upper East Side on Thursday night, marking the group’s first major event in New York City and drawing criticism from liberals. The event will feature at least two elected members of the local school council. … Read more

Why iRobot Stock Dropped Today

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[ad_1] Shares of iRobot (NASDAQ: IRBT) fell 14.2% on Thursday as investors speculated over the implications of an upcoming meeting of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Amazon‘s (NASDAQ: AMZN) pending acquisition of the home-robotics specialist. After the regular session closed, however, iRobot stock plummeted another 40% in after-hours trading following a separate report … Read more

Axiom Space’s first all-European crew on their way to ISS

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[ad_1] The first all-European commercial crew has launched safely from the Kennedy Space Center and is now on its way to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the four-person crew for Axiom Space’s Axiom-3 mission blasted off the launchpad at just before 4:50 p.m. ET (1:50 p.m. ET) on Thursday before … Read more

Dow Jones Futures: Market Shrugs Off Fed As Taiwan Semi, Apple Jump; AI Play Soars Latethedigitalchaps

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[ad_1] Dow Jones futures were little changed after hours, while S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures rose slightly. Super Micro Computer (SMCI) jumped overnight on strong preliminary results. X The stock market rally rose Thursday, shrugging off rising Treasury yields and fresh Fed comments signaling slower rate cuts. Techs led the way, with the Nasdaq … Read more

Review: HyperX Cloud III and Pulsefire Haste 2 wireless

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[ad_1] The start of the a hew year signifies a change. People resolve to do new things; detox their home, hit the gym, clean out the pantry, read some books, and declutter their calendars. This time of year usually calls people to refresh their tech setup. Especially if you’re working from home, it’s time to … Read more

Powering up cyber security defences with AI

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[ad_1] Data has never been more valuable. It’s the lifeblood of modern business and is simultaneously increasingly vulnerable to attack. The growing use of hybrid cloud and remote working means that bad actors have a larger attack surface than ever before. The result? A rapidly evolving threat landscape that’s progressively more difficult to police. … Read more

Hawks’ Bogdanović plays through grief after death of countryman Dejan Milojevićthedigitalchaps

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[ad_1] Three-time Serbian Player of the Year and current Atlanta Hawks guard Bogdan Bogdanović delivered a strong performance off the bench during Wednesday night’s win over the Orlando Magic. Bogdanovic played 24 minutes and finished with 12 points. But Bogdanović was playing with a heavy heart, saying his mind was on his friend, Golden State … Read more

At Davos, War Is on the Agenda, but the Focus Is on A.I. and Elections

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[ad_1] Each day this week has brought a new and fleeting reminder to the executives and politicians at the annual World Economic Forum meeting of the two wars threatening global security and clouding the economy. Ukraine’s president spoke on Tuesday. Israel’s spoke on Thursday. Neither was able to hold the collective attention of a gathering … Read more

From Visual Look Up to Safari Private Tabs: Hidden iOS 17 Features Make My iPhone Much Better

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[ad_1] I’ve been using iOS 17 since it was released last September, bringing several big new features to the iPhone, like contact posters, live voicemail and StandBy mode. But I’m still finding useful and interesting features that make using my iPhone a little better. Like every mobile software release, iOS 17 has hidden features and settings that … Read more

House Republicans set Hunter Biden deposition date for late Februarythedigitalchaps

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[ad_1] WASHINGTON — Two Republican-led House committees announced on Thursday that Hunter Biden will appear for a closed-door deposition on Feb. 28 as part of their impeachment inquiry efforts into his father. “Hunter Biden will appear before our committees for a deposition on February 28, 2024. His deposition will come after several interviews with Biden family … Read more

Shipping chiefs told UK ‘won’t stand by’ while Red Sea attacks continue

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[ad_1] The UK “won’t stand by” while international shipping is under attack, the Government vowed as Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they would continue targeting vessels – including those from Britain. Transport Secretary Mark Harper held crisis talks with the shipping industry to say the UK will not allow international maritime trade to be “held to … Read more

Millions of Facebook users warned over AI bots ‘lurking in Messenger app ‘posing risks’ including graphic content

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[ad_1] SECURITY experts at Kaspersky have warned about the dangers of chatbots on Facebook Messenger. Not all chatbots pose a danger but some are said to come with various risks. 1 Facebook Messenger is said to have hundreds of thousands of bot accounts on the appCredit: Getty Kaspersky made the claims in a blog post … Read more

Postmates’ founder’s new app TipTop offers instant cash for your stuff

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[ad_1] When TechCrunch’s former editor-in-chief Matthew Panzarino joined a startup, we knew it was one that would pique our interest. Panzarino, well-known among TC staff as an avid collector of everything from shoes to novel cooking appliances to iPhones, recently became the latest addition at TipTop, a new startup from Postmates founder Bastian Lehmann. The … Read more

Drugmakers hiking prices for more than 700 medications, including Ozempic and Mounjarothedigitalchaps

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[ad_1] Fighting rising prescription drug costs Fighting rising prescription drug costs 07:59 Pharmaceutical companies are hiking prices for more than 700 medications, including popular weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Mounjaro, industry research shows. The average price increase at year start was about about 4.5%, the analysis from 46 Brooklyn found. That represents a slightly slower pace … Read more