Author: Vidya Saras

Real Madrid are working behind the scenes to bring Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold to the Santiago Bernabeu next summer as the full-back has yet to sign a new contract at Anfield. The right-back has been with the Merseyside club for his entire career since Jurgen Klopp handed the Englishman his debut in 2016 and despite being a crucial star in Arne Slot’s squad, the Premier League club have yet to offer the defender a new contract with his current deal set to expire at the end of the season.As a result, there has been a lot of talk around Alexander-Arnold’s future in…

A Russian whale watcher has been found alive, along with two dead relatives, two months after he set off. State TV showed 46-year-old Mikhail Pichugin in a hospital in Magadan, talking and smiling after his ordeal. Chief doctor Yuri Lednev said he was suffering from dehydration and hypothermia but was in a stable condition. The family went missing after setting off for Sakhalin Island from Cape Perovsky in the Khabarovsk region on 9 August. A rescue effort failed to locate them.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Sir Keir Starmer, prime minister, on Wednesday joined forces with chancellor Rachel Reeves to face down a cabinet revolt over plans for “grim” curbs to public spending next year.Reeves has faced resistance from a number of ministers over her plan to rein in public spending in 2025/26, with some cabinet colleagues writing letters to Starmer to complain about the Treasury’s approach.As talks about what will be in the Budget on October 30 went down to the wire, one ally of the prime…

Last week, Warner Bros.’s Wicked did what any movie adapting a well-known Broadway play would do and uploaded a new poster highlighting its main stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. The poster, which saw Grande’s Glinda whispering in the ear of Erivo’s Elphaba, now sees itself at the epicenter of online drama between fans that got so out of hand that Erivo had to air them out on her official social media account. The new image of Grande and Erivo pays homage to the original play’s iconic illustration. Even if you have never seen Wicked on stage, chances are you’ve…

Emmanuel LafontDisney’s stage version of their hit film is an unmatched global phenomenon. Twenty-seven years on from its premiere, its director discusses why it was a big risk that paid off 10 billion-fold.The Lion King musical is a beast of a show – captivating US audiences since 1997, it is the highest-grossing production of all time, in theatre or in film, taking over $10 billion (£7.68 billion) worldwide. It’s currently celebrating 25 years in the West End, hits 27 years on Broadway next month, and has been staged all around the world – from South Africa to South Korea, Australia…

This post is long overdue. I talk about Bitcoin a lot. In any given week, I’ll have dozens of conversations about bitcoin with various people across different sectors. And like a pendulum oscillating every other year, the narrative of bitcoin not being a medium of exchange keeps coming back. I get it. When influencers from the community are pushing this narrative, people listen. They’re influencers. But in this post, I want to set the record straight: Bitcoin IS a medium of exchange, now and in the future. What’s more, its future as a store of value (SoV) depends on its…

The 2nd edition of the ethereum.org Translatathon is in the books! This year, we saw 327 contributors translate an incredible 2.53 million words across 70 languages. Let’s look at the details: What is the Translatathon? The Translatathon is our yearly translation competition to increase the amount of non-English Ethereum content. Participation is open to anyone who is bilingual and no technical knowledge is required. During the Translatathon, participants can learn more about Ethereum while contributing to ethereum.org and competing for prizes. 2 weeks of applications9 days of translations2 weeks of quality evaluations The goal was to get more translations in…

“People receiving a social allowance reserved for people with disabilities [the Allocation Adulte Handicapé, or AAH] are directly targeted by a variable in the algorithm,” says Bastien Le Querrec, legal expert at La Quadrature du Net. “The risk score for people receiving AAH and who are working is increased.”Because it also scores single-parent families higher than two-parent families, the groups argue it indirectly discriminates against single mothers, who are statistically more likely to be sole-care givers. “In the criteria for the 2014 version of the algorithm, the score for beneficiaries who have been divorced for less than 18 months is…

PRESS RELEASE — Tata Elxsi, the leading global design and technology services company, announced the launch of Coalesce powered by the Snapdragon Spaces™ XR Platform (Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform | Snapdragon Spaces [qualcomm.com]) from Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Coalesce is an XR-based immersive collaboration solution that brings together spatial computing, digital twins and simulations. It facilitates reviews of product models and supports collaboration features for sharing text/audio comments, notes, and screen recordings with globally dispersed teams, including a 360-degree review for immersive interaction. The Snapdragon Spaces XR platform is paving the way to a new frontier of spatial computing. The platform is…

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