Blog – Page 210 – viralpique.com

Airports face delays as shutdown deepens air traffic control staffing woes

0 CommentsPolitics

Amna Nawaz: Thousands of flights have been delayed across the country this week, as the government shutdown enters its eighth day. In fact, more than 2,500 flights were delayed just today.In an interview with FOX News, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said controllers calling out sick were a significant reason for the huge spike in delays. Sean Duffy, U.S. Transportation Secretary: Historically, there's about 5 percent of delays that is attributed to staffing issues in our towers. In the last couple of days, it's been 53 percent. And so my message to the air traffic controllers who work for DOT is…

Mary Page Marlowe review – Susan Sarandon shines in slippery study of a life in pieces | Theatre

0 CommentsCulture

If there is something familiar about a play comprising disparate scenes from a single woman’s life, performed by five different actors, that is because it was the central conceit of Annie Ernaux’s The Years, searingly adapted for the stage last year.Mary Page Marlowe premiered before that, in 2016, at the Steppenwolf theatre in Chicago, and takes similar shape. There are 11 scenes, non-chronological, that travel 70 years around the life of Mary Page Marlowe, an accountant, wife to three husbands, mother to two children and daughter of an alcoholic, who becomes perilously dependent on drink herself. She too is portrayed…

Novoloop’s upcycled plastic takes a step closer to production

0 CommentsTechnology

Plastic recycling startup Novoloop has inked a deal with a major manufacturer to produce its upcycled thermoplastic polyurethane at commercial scale, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The agreement helps nudge the Menlo Park-based Novoloop through the so-called “valley of death” that many climate tech startups must slog through. Startups that depend on hardware are particularly susceptible to stumbling in the valley, the dreaded moment when they’ve proven their initial technology and have not generated sufficient revenues from selling their product. Under the terms of the deal, Novoloop will supply Huide Science and Technology with a chemical building block used to make…

England v Wales: We want to test ourselves against the best – Ben Davies

0 CommentsSports

Davies has played against England three times, including a 2-1 loss at Euro 2016 - a result that still rankles."The 2016 one, it still hurts the last-minute goal to concede, but in that one we were playing a game more result-dependent," he said."We're very lucky in this team that we have incredible guys all across the board, players that come in, players that maybe don't play every single time but show their best foot every time they come in."It's just a fun environment to be around. We enjoy each other's company on the pitch, off the pitch. It feels like…

Trump late night TV threats spell trouble for advertisers

0 CommentsBusiness

A sign is displayed outside the El Capitan Entertainment Centre in Hollywood where the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show will be recorded on the first night the show will return to the ABC lineup on September 23, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty ImagesLate-night television has come under fire in recent months. That could leave advertisers and media companies, already clinging to what's left on live TV, with an even smaller pool of options.The recent upheaval in late-night programming — namely the cancellation of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and the temporary suspension of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"…

California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharing

0 CommentsEntertainment

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed a bill which requires web browsers to make it easier for Californians to opt-out of allowing third parties to sell their data. The California Consumer Privacy Act, signed in 2018, gave Californians the right to send opt-out signals, but major browsers have not had to make opt-outs simple to use. The bill signed Wednesday would require them to set up an easy-to-find mechanism that lets Californians opt-out with the push of a button, instead of having to do so repeatedly when visiting individual websites. Privacy and consumer rights activists have been nervously waiting…

Rubio passes Trump urgent note on Middle East peace deal during antifa roundtable

0 CommentsPolitics

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was holding a roundtable event with conservative influencers about antifa Wednesday when Secretary of State Marco Rubio, standing in the back corner of the White House’s Blue Room, caught his eye. He had news for Trump, he said, but it would have to wait until after the media left. Then Rubio passed the president a note. WATCH: Trump hosts roundtable on antifa after EO designating it a ‘domestic terrorist organization’ News photographers covering the event zoomed in on the handwriting on White House stationery that read, “You need to approve a Truth Social post soon so…

Katy Perry review – like being high on Haribo while trapped in a theme park | Katy Perry

0 CommentsCulture

Katy Perry’s Lifetimes world tour arrives in Glasgow with a lot of baggage: somewhat scathing takes from its US run, backed up with lukewarm feelings about both her recent sojourn into space, and last year’s 143, an EDM-influenced album controversially co-produced by Dr Luke. Despite this, Perry is still a much-loved star in many camps, with her own brand of kooky iconography adopted by her fans tonight – like J-Lo at the 2019 Met Gala, I also run into a woman dressed up as a burger in the venue toilets. The tour is not the disaster that some have reported,…

Sora’s downloads in its first week was nearly as big as ChatGPT’s launch

0 CommentsTechnology

After OpenAI’s video-generating app Sora surged to the No. 1 position on the U.S. App Store, it has now, technically, experienced a bigger first week than ChatGPT on iOS, according to new data from app intelligence provider Appfigures. Its estimates show that Sora saw 627,000 iOS downloads in its first seven days of availability, compared with ChatGPT’s 606,000 iOS downloads during its first week. This isn’t the fairest comparison, however, because ChatGPT was available only in the U.S. during its first week, while Sora is currently offered in the U.S. and Canada at launch. Still, Appfigures says that Canada contributed…

World Grand Prix: Luke Humphries and Gary Anderson into quarter-finals

0 CommentsSports

World number one Luke Humphries moved into the quarter-finals of the World Grand Prix in Leicester with a comfortable 3-1 win over Krzysztof Ratajski.Humphries, 30, was champion in 2023 and runner-up last year, and reached the last eight after a half-time adjustment - hitting six 180s and averaging 95.58 at the 'double in, double out' tournament.He said: "I went off at the break and said to myself 'you must be doing something different because you don't play like this usually'."So I slowed my throw down and I started hitting the trebles. On the practice board I am hitting everything and…