I met Steve Jobs, the driving force behind Apple, a few years before he died. What he passed on to me marked me. If there was one thing it did well, it was innovating with a focus on balancing design and function. The aesthetic meeting point nailed it like no one had ever done. CLICK …
When books are written about Netflix’s big investment in prestige cinema, Noah Baumbach White noise can go down as the movie that finally killed the goose that laid the golden budgets. That’s not to say the streaming service won’t ever fund a writer’s vanity project again — it still hasn’t landed that Best Picture Oscar, …
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A new operator, Hard Rock International, began operating the iconic Mirage resort on the Las Vegas Strip on Monday, following Nevada state gambling regulatory approval. for a nearly $1.1 billion sale by former site owner MGM Resorts International, the companies told me. Hard Rock International, based in Florida and owned by …
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Google has been integrating code written in the Rust programming language into its Android operating system since 2019 and its efforts have paid off in the form of fewer vulnerabilities. Memory security bugs — like out-of-bounds read and write or post-free usage — account for more than 65% of high- or critical-severity bug vulnerabilities in …
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We are just days away from kicking off the FIFA World Cup this Sunday, November 20. What better time to try to predict the entire tournament? From the host nation’s opening day to the Lusail Stadium final, these are my predictions. Could it be a glorious World Cup final for Lionel Messi with Argentina? If …
It was 12 years ago in the state of Kentucky that Mike Repole became more than “Mike from Queens” in the world of thoroughbred racing. Oh, he still bought seekers and strove to become the main owner of Saratoga Racetrack. But one autumn afternoon in 2010 Churchill Fallssuddenly, he becomes Mike Repole, owner of Uncle …
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