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European clubs as Uefa looks to streaming services

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Europe's top clubs could cash in on streaming rights as Uefa looks to raise over £4bn per year from its next TV deals.Officials from the governing body believe the next broadcast rights sale for Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League games could bring in a minimum of €5bn (£4.3bn) annually.The current rights, sold in 2024, are worth about £2.9bn per year and new deals will come into effect from 2027.Rights are due to be put out to tender this month and are likely to involve a six-year commitment - double the current length.One first-pick game per round could…

AST SpaceMobile lands key Verizon deal amid growing competition with SpaceX and T-Mobile

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AST SpaceMobile has inked a new deal with Verizon to bring space-based cellular broadband across the United States, marking its most significant partnership to date and its latest move to capture a larger share of the emerging space-to-cellular market. Under the agreement, Verizon will integrate AST’s satellite network with its terrestrial infrastructure, using Verizon’s 850 MHz spectrum to extend coverage in remote areas where towers can’t reach. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal builds on an earlier partnership between the two entities announced last year, in which Verizon made a $100 million commitment to support AST’s service…

Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025: Beth Mooney rescues Australia from shock defeat by Pakistan

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Beth Mooney's masterful century rescued Australia from one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history and set up an ultimately resounding 107-run victory over Pakistan.The defending champions were floundering at 76-7 against Pakistan's spinners but the unflappable Mooney hit 109 to drag her side to 221-9, turning a day that could have been about exposed Australian frailties into a clear example of why they are huge favourites to secure an eighth title. The left-hander was the latest member of Australia's vaunted batting line-up to step up, repelling Pakistan as they sensed the most significant victory in their history. Mooney…

OnePay is rolling out crypto to mobile banking app

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OnePay, the fintech firm majority-owned by Walmart, will soon offer cryptocurrency trading and custody on its mobile app, CNBC has learned.OnePay will offer customers access to bitcoin and ether later this year with help from the startup Zerohash, according to people with knowledge of the matter who declined to be identified before an official announcement.The move shows that OnePay, founded by Walmart and venture firm Ribbit Capital in 2021, sees crypto as a core offering as it builds out its "everything app" for digital finance.The fintech firm has methodically added new products in its quest to become an American super app…

GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development

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After acquiring GitHub in 2018, Microsoft mostly let the developer platform run autonomously. But in recent months, that’s changed. With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke leaving the company this August, and GitHub being folded more deeply into Microsoft’s organizational structure, GitHub lost that independence. Now, according to internal GitHub documents The New Stack has seen, the next step of this deeper integration into the Microsoft structure is moving all of GitHub’s infrastructure to Azure, even at the cost of delaying work on new features. In a message to GitHub’s staff, CTO Vladimir Fedorov notes that GitHub is constrained on capacity in…

WATCH LIVE: Department of Justice officials hold news briefing on arrest made in Palisades fire disaster

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have made an arrest in connection with the deadly January wildfire that destroyed the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades. A briefing on the arrest is scheduled to begin at noon. Watch in the player above. That’s according to a law enforcement official not authorized to publicly discuss the case. Federal officials and Los Angeles police said earlier Wednesday that they are about to announce a “significant development” related to the criminal investigation into the fire. The blaze, which erupted on Jan. 7, killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,000 homes and buildings in…

That’s me in the £45m Hockney! The man in the masterpiece relives sitting for David back in the heady LA party days | David Hockney

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‘Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh!” Laughter explodes down the line from California. “It was a very long time ago!” says the painter Don Bachardy. His voice is high and rasping. Listening to him, you could be forgiven for thinking that the late Truman Capote was still with us. As for what happened “a very long time ago”, Bachardy is referring to the parties he threw with his partner, the British novelist Christopher Isherwood. Their home in Adelaide Drive, Santa Monica, was a salon thronged by movie stars and writers as well as Bachardy’s fellow artists.“Yes, we had a good time…

A break down of the H-1B changes — and why more changes could come

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A few weeks ago, President Trump announced the application fee for an H-1B visa would increase to $10,000. The price tag sent shock waves through, especially the tech ecosystem, which heavily utilizes the visa to bring talent in from other countries. On this week’s Equity, we sat down with Jeremy Neufeld, the director of immigration policy at the Institute for Progress, to talk about the visa changes, what it means, and why it’s happening. He said the intention of the visa change makes sense, but the implementation of it has “left a lot to be desired.” “Some of the proposals…

Judd Trump suffers surprise second-round defeat by Matthew Stevens in China

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World number one Judd Trump suffered a surprise defeat in the second round of the Xi'an Grand Prix as he fell 5-4 to Matthew Stevens in China.From 3-1 behind against 2019 world champion Trump, Welshman Stevens won the next three frames to take a 4-3 lead.Trump was trailing by 38 points with 27 left on the table in the eighth frame but earned a decider by forcing a foul on the blue and then on the pink before clearing up and sinking the respotted black.Both players had opportunities to win the decider, but 47-year-old former Masters and UK Championship winner…

2025 box office headed for best post-Covid haul

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"Zootopia 2", "Wicked: For Good", and "Avatar: Fire and Ash."Courtesy: Disney Enterprises, Inc. | Universal PicturesThe box office is about to heat up.After a sizzling summer of action-packed blockbuster fare, theatrical momentum stalled in the fall. But, the winter slate is poised to deliver a consistent spark of ticket sales, pushing the 2025 domestical haul above $9 billion and toward a post-pandemic high, according to the latest estimates."The box office year-to-date domestically is running about 4% ahead of last year and, if we can expand on that lead, we could be looking at the biggest post-pandemic year for movies," said…