Nelly Korda won the 2024 LPGA Drive on Championship on Sunday. The 25-year-old beat Lydia Ko in a playoff to take victory in her hometown course. The win at Bradenton Country Club in Florida is her first on the Tour since the 2022 Pelican Women’s Championship. With the win, Korda bagged the winner’s prize check … Read more
There have been many warnings, including by President Joe Biden, about how generative AI can be used to manipulate audio and video to create deepfakes that show people — politicians, among them — saying or doing things they didn’t actually say or do. If you’re among those who think, ‘Phooey, those concerns are just overblown,’ … Read more
Luke Littler made it to the final of the 2023/24 Paddy Power World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace. There is £500,000 prize money up for grabs. Tom Dulat | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images LONDON — A 16-year-old named Luke Littler on Wednesday will compete in the final of the PDC World Darts Championship … Read more
Hansard will lead a possible two-pronged assault from trainer Gary Moore on the Betfair Exchange Trophy at Ascot on Saturday. Owned by the Noel Fehily Racing Syndicates, the five-year-old has always been held in high regard and stepped up on his reappearance second in the Elite Hurdle to carry a monster weight to victory in … Read more
BERLIN — The Russian-American writer Masha Gessen received a German literary prize Saturday in a ceremony that was delayed and scaled down in reaction to an article comparing Gaza to Nazi German ghettos. The comparison in a recent New Yorker article was viewed as controversial in Germany, where government authorities strongly support Israel as a … Read more
The final shot of the entire series followed Mai walking up to an ATM and checking her balance to see $4.56 million ‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ winner awaits $4.5m prize 10 months after finale Squid Game: The Challenge, a spinoff of the Netflix superhit Squid Games, has recently concluded. The finale of the show saw … Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian authorities banned members of the late Mahsa Amini’s family from traveling to receive the European Union’s top human rights prize on her behalf, a civil rights monitor reported. Amini’s death while in police custody in 2022 sparked nationwide protests that rocked the Islamic Republic. The U.S.-based HRANA said late … Read more
Netflix better have Mai Whelan‘s money because the Vietnamese immigrant did not emerge victorious on the grueling “Squid Game: The Challenge” for nothing! The winner of the real-life version of the hit Korean drama series battled over 400 contestants for the life-changing prize money. However, months after the reality TV show’s conclusion, the victor claims she has … Read more
SINGAPORE — SINGAPORE (AP) — Britain’s Prince William said Wednesday that he hopes to expand his Earthshot Prize program into a global movement to bolster environmental innovators and galvanize governments to be more engaged in green sectors so that climate change would be easier to tackle. William said he foresees policy shifts in environmental protection … Read more
SINGAPORE — Celebrities joined Britain’s Prince William to walk the “green carpet” in Singapore on Tuesday for the third Earthshot Prize awards ceremony, where five winners ranging from solar-powered dryers to combat food waste to making electric car batteries cleaner were unveiled. The Prince of Wales said at the first ceremony held in Asia that … Read more