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Alcaraz twice fell a break down in the first set against De Minaur before recovering and making the decisive break in the 12th game.The 21-year-old was more dominant with his serve in the second set and made the only break in the sixth game. “I started quite badly with the serve, I was struggling a little bit mentally with it,” said Alcaraz.”It was just the first few games with my serve, then I think I improved a lot. I calmed myself down and started to think positively again. Alex started strong, playing aggressively, and the first set was really tight.”I’m…

What just happened? The U.S. Department of Justice has argued that Google illegally built “monopoly power” through its web advertising business, manipulating online ad services across multiple sectors and forcing higher fees on publishers reliant on its technology. Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that the tech giant’s anticompetitive behavior harmed publishers, and the DOJ contended that Google should be forced to divest its ad tech business. A federal judge handed Google yet another courtroom defeat on Thursday, ruling that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly in key segments of the online display advertising industry. This decision could pave the way…

You may have already seen the headlines: Signs of life have reportedly been discovered on an alien world.  A team of astronomers led by Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge used the James Webb Space Telescope to search for interesting molecules in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system called K2 18b. The team now says they’ve found molecules that, on Earth, are associated with life, in an abundance that is hard to explain otherwise. Sign up for our newsletter We summarize the week’s scientific breakthroughs every Thursday. Combining that with the planet’s mass, size and distance…

And as the family members have continued to spend more time together—whether they’re just at home or taking trips to Disneyland, Australia, or the Bahamas for Kourtney’s birthday last year—they try to soak in every moment.”With my babies and my husband, I have a desire to slow down,” the reality star said in an April 3 episode of The Kardashians. “It’s nice to actually linger in a moment not rushing so that you can experience everything. If you just slow everything down, then it’s like everyone can enjoy and experience things more together.”And together, is where she likes to be.”I…

As the Bahrain Grand Prix unfolded and George Russell raced in second place, messages slowly came through on his radio that different systems were failing. Team principal Toto Wolff put it simply: “The car was wounded.”The Mercedes driver suddenly suffered a brake-by-wire failure, and it took time to find the settings to reset the system, Wolff said. He lost the GPS, and he experienced onboard Drag Reduction System (DRS) issues, which led to his race engineer having to tell him over the radio when he could use the system.The fear arose that the Briton “would lose the whole dash —…

Verizon today announced new features for its Unlimited Ultimate plan, which is the company’s highest-tier plan at the current time. Unlimited Ultimate customers now have access to 200GB of premium Hotspot data, which downgrades to 6Mb/s after that. Verizon is also offering unlimited data in more than 210 countries and destinations around the world, plus customers can choose one of 140 countries to get up to 300 minutes of calling from the US per month. High-speed data worldwide is capped at 15GB per month, and after that, speeds are limited to 1.5Mb/s. Verizon’s Unlimited Ultimate plan is $100 per month,…

The US president says prospect of a trade deal with the EU is ‘100 percent’, praising the Italian prime minister as ‘fantastic’.US President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have expressed optimism about a possible United States-European Union tariffs deal as the two leaders met at the White House, as economic uncertainly roils the market. Meloni has cast herself as the only European who can de-escalate Trump’s trade war, and she has highlighted their conservative common ground, declaring that she wants to “make the West great again.” “There will be a trade deal, 100 percent,” Trump declared on…

In the clip, Grande and co-director Christian Breslauer detail the video’s concept Ariana Grande is spilling all the secrets from her Brighter Days Ahead short film. In a new behind-the-scenes clip, the pop star shares the touching concepts behind her dreamy visual, inspired by the 2004 indie classic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. At the end of March, the singer released the short film in tandem with Eternal Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Day Ahead, which featured six new tracks. The visual showcased each deluxe track by pairing them with a memory for lead character Peaches, a role Grande reprises from…

More than 1,400 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) workers were terminated from their positions on Thursday amid a broader Trump administration shakeup at the independent government agency, sources tell WIRED. There were around 1,700 employees in total at the CFPB.The mass reduction in force, or RIF, comes nearly a month after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from removing probationary employees at the CFPB and other agencies. On Friday, an appeals court ruled that the CFPB could begin terminations again so long as “individual assessments” were conducted for each terminated employee. Around 200 employees…

President Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell are facing off over how the central bank will respond to the economic impact of the White House’s trade war. Trump and Powell appear to be locked on a collision course with each other as the Fed has maintained a pause in rate cuts in response to sticky inflation while Trump’s tariffs promise additional upward pressure on prices. As Powell sounds the alarm over the stagflationary risks of Trump’s tariff policies, the president is calling for interest rate cuts and threatening to fire the Fed chief. Trump spoke multiple times on Thursday…