The NFL has closed its review of wide receiver Stefon Diggs after determining there was insufficient evidence of a personal conduct policy violation, a league official told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Read Full Story →As a precursor to this week's mandatory minicamp, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens took his physical Monday at The Star, according to a source.
Read article →Yassine El Idrissi’s drama “Halima” has entered the Golden Goblet Awards Main Competition at the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival, where it celebrated its world premiere ahead of a press conference. The selec...
Read article →CEO Elon Musk said Sunday that the company "might be able to reach approximately" $1 trillion revenue in 2030."
Read article →Carvana has bought seven new vehicle franchises since last year that primarily sell Stellantis' Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram brands.
Read article →Washington and Tehran announced a memorandum of understanding had been reached over the weekend.
Read article →One of the stars of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s latest entry in its “Spider-Man” franchise has little spoken dialogue, but may end up stealing a few scenes. Samsung’s Galaxy phones are used by character Ned Leeds (p...
Read article →With the deadline Aug. 3, here's which front offices could make -- or break -- their future this trade season.
Read article →The union's primary spokesperson the last time MLB lost games to a labor fight sees signs of trouble ahead.
Read article →The quest to calculate pi spans more than 4,000 years, beginning with crude approximations in ancient Babylon and Egypt before Archimedes developed his polygon-based method of exhaustion in the third century BCE, bounding pi between inscribed and circumscribed shapes to achieve accuracy to two decimal places. This geometric approach dominated for over a millennium until 17th-century mathematicians introduced infinite series that converged far faster, enabling calculations of dozens and then hundreds of digits by hand. The arrival of digital computers transformed the problem entirely, with ENIAC calculating 2,037 digits in 70 hours in 1949 and modern supercomputers now exceeding 100 trillion digits. Each successive record reflects less a practical need for more decimal places than a benchmark for mathematical ingenuity and raw computational power, with pi calculation serving as a standard stress test for new hardware and algorithms.
Read Full Story →The American office has cycled through radically different organizing philosophies over the past century, from Frederick Taylor's factory-inspired surveillance floors designed for maximum output to the open campuses of Silicon Valley built around collaboration and employee satisfaction. A pivotal moment came in 1964 when Herman Miller's Action Office was introduced as a flexible humanist alternative to rigid rows of desks, only for corporations to reduce its principles to the cramped cubicle farm that came to define corporate life by the 1980s.
Read article →Scientists achieved a long-sought breakthrough in agricultural genetics by engineering hybrid rice plants to reproduce clonally through seeds, a process called apomixis that plant biologists had described as a "holy grail" for decades. The technique uses specific genetic mutations to produce more than 95% clonal seeds from commercial hybrid varieties, potentially eliminating the expensive helicopter-based pollen transfer methods currently used to produce hybrid rice seed at scale.
Read article →Honduran President Xiomara Castro dismissed Security Minister Ramón Sabillón following a massacre at a women's prison in Tamara that killed at least 46 inmates, the deadliest prison incident in Honduras in recent history. Gang members attacked the facility with machetes, guns, and flammable liquid, burning 26 people to death and killing the others by shooting or stabbing them in violence Castro publicly attributed to organized crime acting with the acquiescence of security officials.
Read article →Millions of American car owners found themselves owing more on their auto loans than their vehicles were worth in early 2023 as used car values fell sharply from the pandemic-era highs reached during the supply shortage. Average negative equity on vehicle trade-ins reached $5,341 in the fourth quarter of 2022, a 29% year-over-year increase, while the proportion of vehicle sales involving a negative-equity trade-in jumped 17% over the same period.
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