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Caitlin Clark has finally taken Taylor Swift up on an offer to watch a Kansas City Chiefs game together. Clark was seen in the same suite as Swift at Arrowhead Stadium during the Chiefs’ divisional round playoff game against the Houston Texans Saturday. It is the first time that Clark and Swift have been seen at a game together, after Clark claims she was invited by Swift to join in earlier this season.  Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift talks with Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever during the second half in the AFC Divisional Playoff between the Houston Texans and the Kansas City Chiefs…

Years of rumours have preceded this moment, essentially turning the grand announcement of the Nintendo Switch 2 into less of an exciting moment, and more of a “Finally!” one. Yes, Nintendo has officially announced the successor to the Nintendo Switch and it’s called….well, the Nintendo Switch 2. The reveal trailer was rather understated. It depicts the existing Nintendo Switch going through a Pokemon-like evolution. The screen grows bigger, the Joycons sprout new buttons and grow magnetic strips that let them snap onto the main console easier. In fact, the trailer doesn’t go into any details about what’s under the hood,…

Getty ImagesTrump says he been talking to China’s Xi through aides since his electionChina’s economy rebounded in the last three months of last year, allowing the government to meet its growth target of 5% in 2024, Beijing announced on Friday.But it is one of the slowest rates of growth in decades as the world’s second largest economy struggles to shake off a protracted property crisis, high local government debt and youth unemployment.The head of the country’s statistics bureau said China’s economic achievements in 2024 were “hard won,” after the government launched a slew of stimulus measures late last year.Beijing has…

Steve Bannon, the former Trump White House chief strategist, has described the tech titans gathering at Monday’s inauguration as “supplicants” to Donald Trump making “an official surrender”, akin to the Japanese surrender to allied forces on the deck of the USS Missouri in September 1945.Bannon, who served as architect of Trump’s 2016 presidential win but later fell out with the president-elect after he criticized his intellect and members of his family, told ABC News in an interview airing Sunday that Trump “broke the oligarchs” who had previously been aligned against him.Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple…

The job market hasn’t been great in the last few years, especially in tech, leaving a lot of people actively looking for jobs. Scammers are taking advantage of this. They have come up with a new trick where they pretend to be recruiters to spread crypto miners on people’s devices. It starts with an email inviting the person to schedule an interview for a job. But when they click the link, it installs a malicious app that secretly mines cryptocurrency. This app hijacks your PC’s resources, like the CPU and GPU, which slows down its performance significantly.I’M GIVING AWAY THE LATEST & GREATEST…

The mediating country Qatar on Saturday announced a time for the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas to take effect the next day, setting off final preparations for a truce that much of the world hopes will end 15 months of destruction in Gaza.The deal should go into effect at 8:30 a.m. local time on Sunday, said Majed al-Ansari, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of Qatar, which spent months alongside the United States and Egypt struggling to broker an agreement.Israel’s government approved the deal early Saturday morning after hours of deliberations and amid internal rifts in the governing coalition…

Israeli PM’s officeBenjamin Netanyahu says Israel reserves the right to resume fighting Hamas “if needed”Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country is ready to resume the war against Hamas should talks for a second phase of the ceasefire fail.In a televised speech just hours before it was due to start on Sunday, Netanyahu stressed that the ceasefire was “temporary” and Israel reserved the right to resume strikes in Gaza – and had the backing of US President-elect Donald Trump to do so.Netanyahu also outlined what he called the success of Israel’s military campaign over the last 15 months -…

Months ago, Donald Trump filed a frivolous lawsuit against CBS where he claimed that 60 Minutes edited their interview with Kamala Harris. The Wall Street Journal reported:Paramount Global executives have held internal discussions about settling a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump over a CBS News interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, according to people familiar with the situation, a sign of larger efforts to dial down tensions with the incoming president.Paramount, owner of CBS, its namesake studio and several cable channels, has a major piece of business in front of the new administration: its planned merger with Skydance Media. It’s…

Israel Defense Forces prepare for return of hostages IDF personnel in coordination with the Israeli Health Ministry prepared Saturday for the return of hostages. The hostages are expected to return to Israel from the Gaza Strip Sunday. (Credit: Israel Defense Forces) The Israel Defense Forces, in coordination with the Health Ministry, additional government ministries and security authorities, completed final preparations Saturday to receive the first of the hostages being released by Hamas from the Gaza Strip Sunday. The preparations included home-like conditions inside trailers for the hostages to sleep before they head to hospitals to be looked over and all the…

25 December 2024, 1:41 pm 1 minute Reuters exclusively reported that private equity firms KKR and Bain Capital each offered more than $5 billion in first-round bids for the non-core assets of Japan’s Seven & i Holdings, according to people familiar with the matter.  KKR offered around 800 billion yen ($5.1 billion) for York Holdings, an entity due to be spun out of the Japanese retailer, two of the people said. Rival U.S. firm Bain offered around 1.2 trillion yen, one person said. Local buyout firm Japan Industrial Partners offered around 750 billion yen, one said.  Why it matters  Seven…