New Zealand great Kane Williamson announces retirement from international cricket

New Zealand’s Kane Williamson in action ICC Men’s Champions Trophy match against South Africa in Lahore, Pakistan on March 5, 2025. — Reuters/File New Zealand’s most prolific run-scorer and arguably greatest-ever batsman Kane Williamson announced his immediate retirement from international cricket on Friday. Widely regarded as one of the finest batters of his generation, Williamson…

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Threads finally brings messaging to the web

Threads is rolling out messaging on the web, bringing one-on-one and group chats to desktop, the Meta-owned social network announced on Tuesday. By bringing messaging to the web, Threads is aligning its desktop experience more closely with competitors like X and Bluesky. Connor Hayes, Meta’s head of Threads, said in a post that web messaging…

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Recipe: Pistachio mint pesto – BC

By Reuben Major Special to Global News Posted May 21, 2026 2:07 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Pistachio mint pesto ITEM AMOUNT PROCESS METHOD Olive Oil 150 g Combine all ingredients into the Vitamix blender and puree until textured consistency. Do not puree on highest setting to smooth….

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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 ASR: A 600M-Parameter Cache-Aware Streaming Model Transcribing 40 Language-Locales in Real Time

NVIDIA’s Nemotron Speech team has released Nemotron 3.5 ASR. It is a 600M-parameter streaming Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model. A single checkpoint transcribes 40 language-locales in real time. Punctuation and capitalization are built in natively. The model ships as open weights on Hugging Face. The license is OpenMDW-1.1. The architecture is a Cache-Aware FastConformer-RNNT. What…

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