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Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie Match in Long Sleeve Maxi Dresses at Vulture Festival in Los Angeles

Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie Match in Long Sleeve Maxi Dresses at Vulture Festival in Los Angeles

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Twinning! Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie stunned while attending the Paris and Nicole Richie: How it All Began panel discussion at New York Magazine’s Vulture Festival 2024 at NYA East in Los Angeles, California on Nov. 17. Getty Images for Vulture The dynamic duo behind The Simple Life came together ahead of the premiere of their reunion special to give fans a sneak peek of what they can expect from the revival show — and they did it in style. Hilton and Richie are known for their past matching moments featuring denim-on-denim outfits, Von Dutch trucker hats, Juicy Couture tracksuits, and more memorable looks, and stuck to their twinning theme for the event. David Klein/Getty Images The DJ opted for a black, sequined look, while the House of Harlow designer chose a red number. Hilton and Richie explained how they decided to honor the 20th anniversary of the reality television series, which followed the best friends as they tried to do different blue-collar jobs, before closing out the night by chanting their famous “Sanasa” song with the audience. …

Gary Lineker says ‘right time’ to leave Match Of The Day as he hints of changes to show’s format | Ents & Arts News

Gary Lineker says ‘right time’ to leave Match Of The Day as he hints of changes to show’s format | Ents & Arts News

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Gary Lineker has said it is “the right time” to leave Match Of The Day and hinted the BBC could change the format of the Premier League highlights show. The 63-year-old will step down as host at the end of the season and described his time on the show as an “absolute joy and privilege”. Speaking on his podcast, The Rest Is Football, he said: “It has been an absolute joy and privilege to present such an iconic show for the BBC. “But all things have to come to an end.” Lineker went on to say the broadcaster enters a new three-year deal to host top-flight highlights, and that to stay on for another 12 months “would be a bit weird”. “I think the next contract they’re looking to do Match Of The Day slightly differently, so I think it makes sense for someone else to take the helm. “I bowed out in my football career when I felt it was the right time. I feel this is now the right time.” Lineker refused to …

Lineker goes: Does TV still need Match Of The Day? | Ents & Arts News

Lineker goes: Does TV still need Match Of The Day? | Ents & Arts News

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👉 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app 👈 After 25 years, Gary Lineker is leaving the BBC’s Match Of The Day. He’ll stay on for the corporation’s coverage of the FA Cup and the next World Cup – but he’ll get his Saturday nights back from the end of this season. The change will likely help the BBC’s presenter wage bill and might save some run-ins about Lineker’s use of social media – but what about the programme he leaves behind? Sixty years after MOTD’s launch, do TV viewers really still “look away now” to avoid the scores before 10.30pm on a Saturday? In the era of YouTube fan channels, TikTok accounts and wall-to-wall live coverage, is a set-piece highlights programme showing its age? Niall Paterson looks over the options for one of the BBC’s biggest brands – how can it change for an audience falling out of love with linear TV without alienating other viewers? He’s joined by Rob Harris, our sports correspondent, and Stuart Rowson, a former BBC Sport executive …

Gary Lineker to leave BBC’s Match Of The Day at the end of the current football season | UK News

Gary Lineker to leave BBC’s Match Of The Day at the end of the current football season | UK News

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Gary Lineker is to leave Match Of The Day after 25 years, Sky News understands. The former England striker will step down at the end of the current football season in May 2025. It is understood he will stay at the BBC until the end of the next World Cup which is being held in the US, Mexico and Canada in 2026. Image: Gary Lineker on Match of the Day in 2018. Pic: BBC/Pete Dadds His departure from the long-running show was earlier reported by The Sun. Lineker has hosted the Premier League highlights show since 1999, after his predecessor Des Lynam moved to ITV. Lineker was briefly removed from Match Of The Day in March 2023 following controversy over comments he made on social media criticising the then Conservative government’s asylum policies. The row prompted the BBC to launch an independent review of its social media guidelines and Lineker returned to screens soon after. But the 63-year-old may stay on at the BBC after 2026 working on podcasts – an area where Lineker has …

Real Madrid’s LaLiga match against Valencia postponed due to deadly floods | Football News

Real Madrid’s LaLiga match against Valencia postponed due to deadly floods | Football News

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The Spanish Football Federation adjusted this week’s LaLiga schedule in response to the disaster. Real Madrid’s away match at Valencia this weekend has been postponed by the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) due to floods that have killed more than 95 people. Villarreal’s home match against Rayo Vallecano was also suspended after the flash floods in eastern Spain. LaLiga asked the RFEF to postpone Valencia’s and Villarreal’s matches on Saturday as well as three second-division games involving teams from affected areas. “It has been agreed to postpone matches that were to be played in professional and non-professional competitions, both in 11-a-side football and in indoor football [in the Valencia region],” the RFEF said in a statement on Thursday. The federation had already postponed several midweek Copa del Rey first-round matches, including Valencia’s game against Parla Escuela. A moment of silence for the flood victims will be held at matches this weekend in Spain, including league leaders Barcelona’s Catalan derby against Espanyol on Sunday. Source link

DNA helps match ‘Well Man’ skeleton to 800-year-old Norwegian saga

DNA helps match ‘Well Man’ skeleton to 800-year-old Norwegian saga

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The complete skeletal remains of the “Well Man” Age Hojem, NTNU University Museum A Norwegian saga written more than 800 years ago describes how a dead man was thrown into a castle well – and now, researchers believe they have identified the remains of this man. The Sverris saga is an 182-verse Old Norse text that records the exploits of King Sverre Sigurdsson, who rose to power in the second half of the 12th century AD. One part says that a rival clan who attacked Sverresborg castle, near Trondheim, Norway, “took a dead man and cast him unto the well, and then filled it up with stones”. The well was inside the castle’s ramparts and was the community’s only permanent water source. It has been speculated that the man thrown into the well in the saga may have had a disease and putting him there was an early act of biological warfare. In 1938, a medieval well in the ruins of Sverresborg castle was partly drained and a skeleton was found beneath rubble and boulders …

Silicon Valley shaken as open-source AI models Llama 3.1 and Mistral Large 2 match industry leaders

Silicon Valley shaken as open-source AI models Llama 3.1 and Mistral Large 2 match industry leaders

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Open-source artificial intelligence has reached a watershed moment, challenging the long-held dominance of proprietary systems and promising to reshape the AI landscape. This week, two significant developments have propelled open-source AI models to the forefront of technological capability, potentially democratizing access to cutting-edge AI tools. On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta, unveiled Llama 3.1, declaring it had achieved “frontier-level” status. This bold claim suggests that Meta’s freely available AI now rivals the most advanced systems from industry leaders like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Just a day later, Mistral, an emerging French AI lab, released Mistral Large 2, a model that reportedly matches or surpasses existing top-tier systems, particularly in multilingual applications. In my experience, the accuracy gap between open-source and proprietary is negligible now and open-source is cheaper, faster, more customizable & sustainable for companies! No excuse anymore not to become an AI builder based on open-source AI (vs outsourcing to APIs)! pic.twitter.com/3bW5aA1tNt — …

Hosts Germany thump Scotland in Euro 2024 opening match

Hosts Germany thump Scotland in Euro 2024 opening match

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Clinical Germany thumped Scotland 5-1 in their Euro 2024 tournament opener on Friday with the host nation scoring three first-half goals and enjoying a man advantage after Ryan Porteous received a straight red card before the break. Issued on: 14/06/2024 – 23:06Modified: 14/06/2024 – 23:08 1 min Florian Wirtz opened the scoring in the 10th minute when he connected with a cross that goalkeeper Angus Gunn could only palm against the post and watch helplessly as it rolled into the net during a match in which Germany dominated possession. The three-times European champions doubled their lead in the 19th minute at the Munich Football Arena after a series of passes ended with Kai Havertz picking out Jamal Musiala who took a touch in the area and fired into the roof of the net. It went from bad to worse for Scotland when Porteous was sent off for a foul on Ilkay Gundogan in the penalty area with Havertz converting from the spot to make it 3-0. Substitute Niclas Fuellkrug fired home a fourth late in …

Match looks to Hinge as Tinder fails

Match looks to Hinge as Tinder fails

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Match Group, the company that owns several dating apps, including Tinder and Hinge, released its first-quarter earnings report on Tuesday, which shows that Tinder’s paying user base has decreased for the sixth quarter in a row. On the other hand, Hinge has seen an increase in members who are willing to pay for the app. Tinder had 10 million paying users in Q1 2024, which is a 9% decrease from the previous year. Meanwhile, Hinge now has 1.4 million paying users, a 31% increase year over year. The decline of Tinder was foreseeable due to the shift in dating app culture that has taken place in recent years. Younger users are more interested in pursuing serious, long-term relationships instead of casual hookups, which is what Tinder is known for. Since its inception, Hinge has gained popularity among users looking for more substantial connections. While Tinder struggles to retain paying users, Hinge is on track to become a “$1 billion revenue business,” touts CEO Bernard Kim during a conference call with investors on Wednesday morning. Hinge …

This company just launched red solar panels to match terracotta tiled roofs

This company just launched red solar panels to match terracotta tiled roofs

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Photo: Sonnenkraft Austrian solar manufacturer Sonnenkraft has debuted its new “Terracotta” solar panel that matches red-tiled roofs and is historic-building compliant. Red solar panels “With our new solar module ‘Terracotta,’ which is produced in Austria, we would like to make a contribution to ensuring that monument protection and sustainable energy production go hand in hand,” said Peter Prasser, managing director of St. Veit an der Glan-based Sonnenkraft. “The terracotta module is also the perfect solution for design-savvy customers with red tiled roofs and contributes to local added value.” The 400W double-glass solar panels have red frames, and have general building approval from the German Institute for Building Technology (DIBt). They feature TopCon solar cells and have a power conversion efficiency of 20.02%. (Solar panel efficiency – how much sunlight a panel converts to electricity – typically ranges from 15-23%.) Electrek’s Take Solar panels are typically blue polycristalline or black monocrystalline, so panels made of “colored encapsulation material [that] achieves a homogeneous red effect,” as Sonnenkraft puts it, is something I’ve not seen before. (Let me know …