BAFTA TV Craft Awards: ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘The Last of Us,’ ‘Slow Horses’ Among Winners The coronation of King Charles III, 'The Witcher,' 'Silo,' and the Eurovision Song Contest were also among the 2024 winners honored at the ceremony held in London. 04/28/2024 - 8:53 am | View Link
Building societies at threat of extinction due to young people's tech habits Almost half (47 percent) of building society customers reported difficulties engaging with their services, with digital experience a frequent pain point for many. 04/28/2024 - 3:00 am | View Link
Here's What the Recent 'Big Brother' Winners Have Been Up To These 'Big Brother' winners have been busy since leaving the house ... There is no doubt that Big Brother is one of the most grueling reality TV competitions. In addition to the draining physical ... 04/27/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
How DraftKings figured out NBA player Jontay Porter was betting on games Most recently, Toronto Raptors center Jontay Porter was banned for life from the NBA after he placed at least 13 bets on NBA games using an associate’s sportsbook account, disclosed confidential ... 04/25/2024 - 9:58 am | View Link
TikTok may be banned in the US. Here's what happened when India did it The hugely popular Chinese app TikTok may be forced out of the U.S., where a measure to outlaw the video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way ... 04/24/2024 - 7:03 am | View Link
Across social media, iPhone users have reported waking up to the scary realization that they had missed their alarm. “In the past six days of school, I’ve accumulated seven tardies,” said TikTok user CarterPCS. “I could’ve sworn it was because my alarm wasn’t going off.”
“I was literally late to work the other day because I slept through all four of my alarms that I had set,” TikTok user Charkaylotte recounted.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
President Ronald Reagan warned in 1986 that if Nicaragua’s “Sandinistas” remained in power, “terrorists and subversives” would have sanctuary “just 2 days’ driving time from Harlingen, Texas.” During the 1980s, Reagan gave more speeches on the Central American country than about almost any other foreign policy issue. Congress voted countless times on his policy of undermining Nicaragua’s Cuban- and Soviet-backed government by arming insurgents known as the Contra.
LOS ANGELES — Police removed barricades and began dismantling a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ fortified encampment early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave. Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.
The action came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse.
In 2018, we worked with Bill Gates on a special issue of TIME dedicated to the power of optimism. Gates’ view, shared by many of the issue’s contributors, was that people are wired to focus on when things go wrong and when they don’t work. Sometimes this attention distracts us from the moments when progress is being made.
Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to start a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become incensed by the runaway prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he had created in 2018 that made drugs and sold them at cost.