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Macao becomes more than a gambling destination. Casinos win anyway

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MACAO — If you blindfolded an American tourist and plopped them on the Cotai Strip in Macao, they might take one look at the Venetian hotel and the replica Eiffel Tower and assume they were in Las Vegas.Like Las Vegas, Macao — a special administrative region of China — is transforming itself with fresh entertainment, waterparks, spas, fine dining and sports.This week Las Vegas Sands is hosting two NBA games in Macao, a return for the basketball league after a six-year absence from China. The company's president and chief operating officer, Patrick Dumont, owns the NBA's Dallas Mavericks and was…

Apple Took Down These ICE-Tracking Apps. The Developers Aren’t Giving Up

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Legal experts WIRED spoke with say that the ICE monitoring and documentation apps that Apple has removed from its App Store are clear examples of protected speech under the US Constitution’s First Amendment. “These apps are publishing constitutionally protected speech. They're publishing truthful information about matters of public interest that people obtained just by witnessing public events,” says David Greene, a civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.This hasn’t stopped the Trump administration from attacking the developers behind these ICE-related apps. When ICEBlock first rose to a top spot in Apple’s App Store in April, the Trump administration responded…

Read the Trump administration’s full indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James

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A grand jury indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on charges of bank fraud and false statements to a financial institution Thursday. It is the latest indication of President Donald Trump and his administration’s determination to use the Justice Department to pursue the president’s political foes. Read the full indictment by clicking on the document below. James last year won a staggering judgment against Trump and his companies in a lawsuit alleging he lied to banks and others about the value of his assets. James was indicted in the Eastern District of Virginia on one count after a mortgage fraud investigation,…

‘It’s like fencing with a close friend. Terrifying in a lovely way’: Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton on taking a gamble with their new drama | Colin Farrell

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On a humid morning in Macau, a blue-and-orange phoenix embellished with more than 60,000 flowers is hatching from an enormous pink Fabergé egg in the lobby of the Wynn Palace hotel. The haughty bird basks in the attention of onlookers as it rotates on a diamond-encrusted perch to the triumphant sound of clarions, before returning to its shell. Chancing upon this spectacle, you think to yourself, “How lucky that I was passing at that precise moment!” Stick around and you will be disabused of your sense of good fortune: the hatching occurs every 15 minutes without fail.It is summer 2024,…

Flipkart’s Super.money quietly partners with troubled Juspay as it expands its reach

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Super.money, a financial service platform spun off last year by Walmart-owned Flipkart, has quietly partnered with payments infrastructure firm Juspay as it expands into direct-to-consumer (D2C) checkout and targets $100 million in annual revenue by 2026. The partnership comes as Juspay works to rebuild momentum after facing pushback from major payment companies earlier this year — a dispute that complicated its fundraising efforts. Last week, Super.money launched its D2C checkout product, Super.money Breeze, which promises merchants a one-click checkout experience and aims to speed up online purchases by removing one-time passwords and repeated logins. The company did not disclose any…

Craig Bellamy: Harsh lesson in England defeat before Belgium clash

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Bellamy was on something of a charm offensive when he faced the media before this fixture. There was to be a new and bigger English audience to see what the Welsh public had already witnessed: his evolution from a combustible, confrontational player to a controlled, deep-thinking coach.This was the sternest examination so far of that new image.He simmered on the Wembley touchline as he watched his team fold obligingly in the face of torrential English pressure.Bellamy kept his cool on the surface but did he manage such calm in the changing room too?"I quite enjoyed half-time," he said."I was like,…

Candy maker Ferrero announces Super Bowl ad, World Cup promotions

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Ferrero North America is planning to spend more than $100 million on marketing campaigns tied to the Super Bowl and World Cup next year.The sports push comes as the confectioner's parent company drives further into the United States through acquisitions and investments in domestic production. Ferrero, which was founded in Italy but is now based in Luxembourg, entered North America nearly a half century ago, but the company only really started investing in the market over the past decade.In July, Ferrero bought cereal maker WK Kellogg for $3.1 billion, the latest in a deal spree that included snapping up Nestle's…

GitHub – James-HoneyBadger/Time_Warp: 🚀

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Compile Educational Programming Languages to Native Executables TimeWarp Compiler is a command-line tool that compiles educational programming languages (PILOT, BASIC, Logo) to native Linux executables. Transform your educational code into standalone programs that run without interpreters. 🎯 Multi-Language Compilation Compile 3 educational programming languages to native executables: PILOT - Educational language with turtle graphics (1960s) BASIC - Classic line-numbered programming (1960s) Logo - Educational turtle graphics language (1960s) GCC Compilation - Generate optimized C code and compile to native executables Cross-Platform - Linux executables (easily extensible to other platforms) No Runtime Dependencies - Standalone binaries that run anywhere 📚 Rich…

Thune says vote on health care subsidies possible, but only after government reopens

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Amna Nawaz: It is day nine of the government shutdown. Formal negotiations are at a standstill, but, this afternoon, the Senate's majority leader, John Thune, offered his Democratic colleagues a potential off-ramp. We spoke about it earlier today.Senate Majority Leader John Thune, we know it's an extraordinarily busy day. Thank you so much for making the time to join us back here on the "News Hour." Sen. John Thune (R-SD): Great to be with you. Thanks, Amna. Amna Nawaz: So I want to start by asking you about some news. It was reported earlier you told Semafor that you're considering…

The Woman in Cabin 10 review – silliness of Keira Knightley megayacht thriller tips it overboard | Film

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As it happens, ITV drama The Hack isn’t the only dramatisation of the Guardian’s investigatory journalism right now. There is also this … erm … entirely bizarre mystery thriller from Netflix, adapted from a novel by Ruth Ware, about an intrepid Guardian reporter called Laura Blacklock, played by Keira Knightley. Fresh off a lid-lifting scoop about Kurdish children, she is invited aboard a colossal private yacht with a party of notables and celebrities, as the guest of sinister plutocrat Richard Bullmer, played by Guy Pearce; he wishes to transport them all to a gala dinner in the Norwegian fjords for…