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REUTERS/Ints Kalnins LONDON — The Brexit Committee this week made a significant intervention into the Brexit debate when it urged Theresa May to consider the ‘Norway model’ as her official fallback option. The cross-party Exiting the European Union parliamentary committee, led by Labour’s Hilary Benn, said May should consider the Norway option as her backstop […]
Liam Hickey isn’t your typical first-time Winter Paralympian. That’s because he’s already competed at the 2016 Summer Games in wheelchair basketball. That experience — along with a silver medal from the 2015 Parapan Am Games in Toronto — gives the 19-year-old from St. John’s a degree of maturity and poise that belies his age. Hickey is “all-business” […]
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Republicans and some conservative-leaning personalities have been unsettled by President Donald Trump’s nebulous positions on gun control this week. The most telling sign of that frustration came after Trump held a televised meeting with lawmakers on Wednesday, during which he nodded and agreed with Democratic proposals while outwardly dismissing his Republican colleagues. […]
Putting politicians to shame, Olympic skiers from Ukraine and Russia put political squabbles to rest in a brief show of sportsmanship. Not only did they share the pedestal after winning medals, but also an embraced each other. On Sunday, Ukrainian Oleksandr Abramenko won gold in the men’s aerials event in freestyle skiing, Ukraine’s first gold […]
Netflix Brian Volk-Weiss has seen his share of documentaries. Heck, he’s even made a few, including a two-hour documentary going where no one has gone before (specifically, the History Channel’s 50 Years of Star Trek). But when the longtime TV producer first approached Netflix with an idea near and dear to his heart, it didn’t […]
In Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination by J.K Rowling, she presents words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in their life. How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagination to better both ourselves and others? Having the braveness to fail, she states, is […]
The year’s best shows were unburdened by the pressure of audience—and next year needs more of that quiet confidence. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a3c5fd2b1aa2c7905f105de/master/pass/SMILF-FINAL.jpg Feed: All Latest
How far does the mutant apple fall from the tree? Fox’s The Gifted has been exploring that question as it relates to the Strucker kids, who possess the same, lethal-when-merged powers as their great-grandfather and his sister. But Lorna aka Polaris also boasts VIP DNA, as the daughter of iconic X-Men villain Magneto. And as […]
– “Too long; didn’t read,” abbreviated tl;dr by internet commenters who can’t be bothered to spell out all of four words, could be our new national motto, a reflection of society’s shrinking attention span. Twitter’s generous doubling of its character limit notwithstanding, we live in a world that tends to ignore complex ideas that can’t […]
ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) has already changed some activities, including parts of finance like fraud prevention, but not yet fund management and stock-picking. That seems odd: machine learning, a subset of AI that excels at finding patterns and making predictions using reams of data, looks like an ideal tool for the business. Yet well-established “quant” hedge […]
