Image copyright Web Summit Image caption Rohit Prasad is responsible for the machine learning capabilities that power Alexa Rohit Prasad has 17 smart speakers in his home powered by Amazon’s smart assistant. “I test my own technology – with all of them being called Alexa, I see which one is […]
Daily Archives: November 19, 2019
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Fans rushed to Twitter to applaud Shirley for speaking out on her struggles with backlash from the show. One user gushed: “Cheered me right up this morning watching this. Glad the issue is being talked about, it really is getting out of hand. Love you and Daniel together & great […]
The launch comes as the former First Lady’s bestselling memoir ‘Becoming’ reached it’s one year anniversary. Writing on social media, Michelle said: “The pages of the journal are meant to be an invitation, a place where you can come to meet yourself on your own terms.” Her new journal, based […]
A 16-year-old white girl has been arrested after police said classmates reported she had a plot to attack a black church in Gainesville, Georgia. The unidentified student allegedly had a notebook with plans to murder parishioners at the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has a predominantly black congregation, according […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Wednesday said it struck dozens of Iranian targets in Syria, carrying out a “wide-scale” strike in response to rocket fire on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights the day before. The military said its fighter jets hit multiple targets belonging to the elite Quds force, […]
You never really leave the WWE. Brie Bella and Nikki Bella realized just that during Tuesday night’s all-new Total Divas. In their latest guest appearance, the Bella Twins contemplated coming out of retirement as some of their female peers began preparing for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship match at […]
Speaking to Express.co.uk, she said: “Queen Elizabeth’s engagement ring, made in London but with diamonds taken from Prince Philip’s mother’s tiara, stays away from the coloured gemstones that future generations have. “It features a beautiful 3ct ‘old cut’ diamond set in a traditional claw setting in platinum with five smaller […]
CBS won television’s weekly Nielsen crown, despite not having a prime-time football game, primarily because games on rival NBC and Fox had relatively lackluster showings By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer November 19, 2019, 9:23 PM 1 min read CBS won the weekly television ratings crown despite being without the […]
Tom Hanks portrays the legendary Mister Rogers in the upcoming film, A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood. It is the true story based on the life of Fred Rogers. Fans know he was an iconic children’s television host thanks to his PBS show, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Rogers had an impact […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Few aspects of life escape the touch of high tech in cutting-edge Japan, including an official song written to welcome Pope Francis when he visits Japan from Saturday. Pope Francis waves as he boards the airplane to depart Fiumicino Airport to begin his apostolic visit to Thailand […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senior U.S. officials told impeachment investigators in Congress on Tuesday they were concerned by President Donald Trump’s effort to get Ukraine to investigate a political rival, with one White House official calling it a “shock.” The third day of impeachment hearings conducted by the House of Representatives […]
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA.N) will raise up to $12.9 billion in its Hong Kong secondary listing and is set to price its shares at HK$176 each, a 2.8% discount to their New York share price, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. A logo […]
MADRID (Reuters) – Canada became the first nation to reach the quarter-finals of the revamped Davis Cup on Tuesday after beating the United States for the first time at the 16th attempt. Tennis – Davis Cup Finals – Caja Magica, Madrid, Spain – November 19, 2019 Canada’s Denis Shapovalov celebrates […]
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The American Medical Association (AMA) on Tuesday called for a total ban on all e-cigarette and vaping products that are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as smoking cessation tools. FILE PHOTO: A man uses a vaping product in the Manhattan borough of New […]
Image copyright Getty Images Making spacecraft is not a job in which you can afford to be slapdash. At Lockheed Martin, for example, it used to take a technician two painstaking days to measure 309 locations for certain fasteners on a particular curved panel. But according to Shelley Peterson, the […]
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA.N) will raise up to $12.9 billion in its Hong Kong secondary listing and is set to price its shares at HK$176 each, a 2.8% discount to their New York share price, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. A logo […]
Artist’s rendition of an Earth-like “exomoon” orbiting a gas giant planet in a star’s habitable zone. NASA/JPL-CalTech Astronomers have taken a close look at a Saturn-sized exoplanet and found it may have temperatures similar to Earth. While it’s not likely the nearby exoplanet is habitable, there’s a chance it might […]
“As the organiser of that evening, I had invited Joe to play along with a wonderful bunch including Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Nuno Bettencourt, Paul Rogers, Nathan East, Cozy Powell and Rick Wakeman. “We all felt there was no finer thing than to play Rocky Mountain Way with its originator, […]
In the past week, Chinese health officials have confirmed three cases of the plague – one bubonic, two pneumonic. While the latest case saw a man from Inner Mongolia contract bubonic plague – which wiped out half of Europe in the 14th century – experts are more concerned about the […]
The Los Angeles Lakers have been told how they could acquire Lauri Markkanen – but it would cost Kyle Kuzma. The Lakers completely revamped their roster this summer, largely due to the big trade for Anthony Davis. Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram and Josh Hart went to the New Orleans Pelicans […]