Shai Hope of West Indies celebrates his half-century. Photo: AFP LONDON: Shai Hope and Justin Greaves steadied the West Indies first innings reply with an unbroken fifth-wicket partnership of 174 as the home side reached 318 for four at the close of the third day of the second and final Test against Sri Lanka at…
With the latest iOS 27 developer beta, Apple is giving testers an early look at one of the upcoming improvements to its AI-powered Siri: the ability to adjust how quickly and expressively the AI assistant speaks. In iOS 27 beta 3, out today, Apple has enabled the voice controls for “Pace” and “Expressivity” that were…
Copycat ZachXBT meme coins spread across chains, but the on-chain sleuth sold all tokens sent to his donation wallet and donated the proceeds. Prominent blockchain investigator ZachXBT said that several meme coins using his name and likeness were launched across multiple blockchains over the past week to capitalize on the recent attention surrounding him. He…
Penny Boudreau, the Nova Scotia woman convicted of second-degree murder in the death of her 12-year-old daughter, Karissa, has had her day parole extended. For John Elliott, a retired Southwest Nova RCMP Major Crimes sergeant who worked on the original case, it’s a disappointing outcome. “(Karissa’s) not a statistic. She was a person. She was…
An ancient dairy product from eastern France is sparking an unexpected revolution across social media and international grocery aisles. Cancoillotte (pronounced kahn-kwye-yotte), a gooey, molten cheese with roots tracing back 2,000 years to the Franche-Comté region near the Swiss border, has officially transformed into the internet’s latest foodie obsession. What was once stereotyped as a…
Babar Azam has been reappointed as Pakistan Test captain. Photo: AFP Pakistan Test captain Babar Azam has said that he is confident and better prepared as he takes charge of the Test side once again, adding that his focus will remain on discipline, fitness and performance. “Whenever you get the opportunity to captain Pakistan, it is always…
Known for its cloud infrastructure that allows developers to deploy agents without managing servers, Vercel has quietly become one of the most central companies in AI software. The company currently sees 6 million deployments a day, half of them triggered by coding agents, and more than 1 trillion tokens flow through the company’s AI gateway…
Ripple said it has received full authorization under the European Union’s MiCA crypto framework after Luxembourg’s financial regulator granted the company a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) license. The authorization follows Ripple’s preliminary approval in June and, together with the company’s existing Electronic Money Institution license, allows the blockchain payments company to offer regulated crypto-asset…
U.S. Republican Congresswoman Claudia Tenney proposed legislature Monday which she says would “hold Canada accountable” for “unfair” provincial limits on importing American alcohol — which were made in response to the trade war and tariffs launched against Canada last year. The Combating Attacks on our National Alcoholic Drinks by Allies (CANADA) Act states that under…
Using NASA’s Perseverance rover, scientists are getting a greater understanding of the nature of some of the organic carbon — the molecular backbone for all known living organisms — detected on Mars as they explore the question of whether Earth’s planetary neighbor ever harbored life. New research describes the structure of the organic carbon found…
