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Scotland’s STV is continuing to build its production suite by investing in former Channel 4 exec Joe Churchill’s new digital outfit, Fan Club. At the same time, the commercial network is bringing its linear and streaming services together in one unit, while its CEO says there is “no ceiling” for international growth at production wing STV Studios. In a deal announced at a Capital Markets Event this morning in the UK, STV has taken a minority stake in Fan Club for an undisclosed amount, taking the number of indie producers in its stable to 22. Fan Club differs to the…

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During Computex 2025, Advanced Micro Devices held a press event to introduce its Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics cards and Threadripper CPUs for next-gen gaming. With up to 16 GB GDDR6 memory, the new GPUs unlock new levels of performance while delivering a suite of new and enhanced features for next-gen gaming, the company said. AMD said it is extending its leadership in high-performance computing by unveiling new graphics and workstation products engineered to address the toughest workloads in gaming, content creation, professional industries, and AI development. The company unveiled the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 WX‑Series and AMD Ryzen…

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Rumor mill: Leaks, rumors, and comments from Microsoft over the past few years have fueled speculation that the company is fundamentally changing its console strategy. If the latest information is accurate, the next Xbox could essentially be a Windows PC with a console-style user interface that runs older Xbox games through emulation. A most recent leak outlines Microsoft’s alleged plans to launch a console-like front end for Windows, allowing users to install Steam via the Microsoft Store, and release an Xbox emulator for PC. While some details align with previous rumors, readers should take the information with a sizable grain…

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Rescuers battle weather and conditions to find missing after storm kills six people at remote mine.Torrential rains have forced Indonesian rescuers to suspend their efforts to find 14 missing gold miners after a landslide in the remote east of the country killed six of their colleagues. Officials reported on Monday that the weather and difficult terrain were hindering the search for the workers in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua. Torrential rain triggered a landslide and floods late on Friday near a small mine run by residents in the Arfak Mountains in West Papua province, Abdul Muhari, a spokesperson for the…

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annual: Adjective for something that happens every year. (in botany) A plant that lives only one year, so it usually has a showy flower and produces many seeds. antiviral: A virus-killing substance prescribed as a medicine. atom: The basic unit of a chemical element. Atoms are made up of a dense nucleus that contains positively charged protons and uncharged neutrons. The nucleus is orbited by a cloud of negatively charged electrons. cell: (in biology) The smallest structural and functional unit of an organism. Typically too small to see with the unaided eye, it consists of a watery fluid surrounded by…

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Dave Navarro said in a new interview that there is “no chance” Jane’s Addiction will ever reunite again following a viral onstage confrontation that abruptly ended the band. Speaking to Guitar Player, Navarro was asked what was the least favorite gig in his lengthy career. The guitarist easily pinpointed, “It would be a gig last September, on Friday the 13th, in Boston.” On that night, in an incident that spread across social media, Jane’s Addiction’s “Core Four” reunion quickly came to an end after singer Perry Farrell attacked Navarro onstage; the band canceled the remainder of the tour soon after,…

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Steve Kiner, an All-American linebacker at the University of Tennessee who played for three N.F.L. teams and became well known for his candor about his drug use, died on April 24 in Palm Harbor, Fla. He was 77.His wife, Carol (Smith) Kiner, said the cause of his death, in hospice care, was Alzheimer’s disease, which she said was most likely the result of concussions sustained during his playing days.At 6-foot-1 and 205 pounds, Kiner was undersized for a linebacker. But he played aggressively and fiercely at Tennessee, helping to anchor the Volunteers’ defense with Hacksaw Reynolds, a future star N.F.L.…

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Apple plans to mostly stop announcing new features more than a few months before they are ready to launch, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and Drake Bennett. The pair of reporters revealed this noteworthy tidbit towards the bottom of a lengthy report about Apple’s artificial intelligence shortcomings today. This alleged change in strategy comes after Apple was forced to delay its more personalized version of Siri, which will be powered by Apple Intelligence. Apple first previewed the promised Siri upgrades during its WWDC 2024 keynote, and at the time it said the features would be available within the following year.…

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Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) tore into House Republicans over sinking a key committee vote that would help advance President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” calling it a “real misstep.” “The stock market seems like it is moving up. Now, if Congress can start doing the things that President Trump’s doing, it would even help us more. Today was a real misstep on the Republicans part, in the budget side, that four of them looked out for themselves instead of moving the bill along, reconciliation,” McCarthy during his appearance on John Catsimatidis’s radio show, “Cats Roundtable” on WABC…

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