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Messi and Ronaldo Are Building Tech Portfolios. Mo Salah Is Playing a Different Game
Football’s three defining stars of the past two decades — Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Mohamed Salah — are preparing for life after the game, and their off-pitch strategies are increasingly diverging. As the 2026 World Cup marks Ronaldo’s final tournament and another career milestone for Messi and Salah, Messi and Ronaldo have moved heavily…
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2026 Emmy Nominations Analysis: What to Make of the ‘Widow’s Bay’ Surge, Taylor Sheridan Rejection and ‘Amazing Race’ Disappearance
The US Television Academy has announced the nominees for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards, unveiling finalists across more than 100 categories as chosen by 27,000 voters. Executive Editor of Awards Scott Feinberg analyses the picks for clues ahead of final voting (17-26 August), the Creative Arts ceremonies (5-6 September) and the Primetime telecast (14 September…
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Ariana Grande impersonator shares DM she received from singer: “You’re very beautiful as YOURSELF”
Ariana Grande impersonator Paige Niemann has shared a private direct message she says the singer sent her in 2019, publishing it in her new six-part Apple TV documentary series “Turning The Paige”. In the message, Grande gently encouraged Niemann to embrace her own appearance, writing that she was “very beautiful as YOURSELF” without heavy make-up…
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Casey Bloys on HBO’s Huge Emmy Noms Haul, ‘The Pitt’ Dominance, Whether He Has ‘Heated Rivalry’ Regrets and His Own Future Post-Merger
HBO’s content chief Casey Bloys spoke to Variety after the platform led the 2026 Emmy nominations with an industry-topping 122 nods, driven by strong showings for the drama “The Pitt” and the comedy “Hacks”. The haul marks a high point in Bloys’s decade running HBO, but it arrives amid uncertainty, as the pending acquisition of…
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World of Warcraft’s divisive change to combat addons is here to stay
Almost six months after World of Warcraft’s Midnight expansion sharply restricted the combat information available to third-party add-ons, game director Ion Hazzikostas has publicly defended the change and confirmed it is here to stay. The move disabled many of the game’s most popular community tools, and remains divisive among players, but Blizzard considers it a…
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With EU backing, QuantumDiamonds aims to speed up chip manufacturing
QuantumDiamonds, a German startup spun out of the Technical University of Munich, has secured €76 million in non-dilutive funding from Germany’s federal economy ministry and the state of Bavaria, approved by the European Commission under the European Chips Act. The money will fund a new Munich facility to produce semiconductor testing equipment, part of a…
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Mark Zuckerberg And Meta Deride “Headline-Seeking” Damages Sought By State AGs In Social Media Safety Suit: “Untethered From Reality”
Meta and Mark Zuckerberg have hit back at a group of US state attorneys general who are seeking up to $1.4 trillion in damages in a federal lawsuit alleging the company misled consumers over its data practices. In a court filing this week, Meta’s lawyers dismissed the figure as “untethered from reality” and without precedent,…
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Kristin Cavallari doubles down on controversial claim about her divorce from Jay Cutler
Reality television personality and entrepreneur Kristin Cavallari has repeated her claim that she received no money from her 2022 divorce from former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler. Speaking on the “Aspire with Emma Grede” podcast, she said her jewellery business, Uncommon James, gave her the financial independence to leave the marriage, and that she walked away…
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Bethesda union says company HR forced staff to remove a display honoring their laid-off colleagues
The union representing workers at Bethesda, the studio behind Fallout and The Elder Scrolls, has alleged that the company’s human resources department ordered staff to take down a display honouring colleagues who had been laid off. The claim matters because it points to tensions between the unionised workforce and management over how recent job losses…