Prince Harryand Meghan Markle reportedly spent Christmas at their California home, absent from Sandringham’s royal celebrations with King Charles and other family members.The Duchess of Sussex recently described their U.S. holiday as intimate and festive, noting how much she loves the festive season.Meanwhile, The King’s annual Christmas speech, which highlighted family unity and public service, notably omitted Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.Article continues below advertisementPrince Harry And Meghan Markle Spend A Quiet Christmas In CaliforniaMEGAHarry and Meghan reportedly spent the holiday at their home in California, as they received no invitation to Sandringham, where Prince William and Kate Middleton honored…
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“MUSK vs MAGA” Trump is known for enjoying the gladiatorial spectacle when conflict breaks out in his inner circle. He has been conspicuously silent during the hostilities that Politico characterized as “Musk vs MAGA.”Many MAGA figures have been agitating for a complete closure of America’s borders while the problem of illegal entries is tackled, and hoping for a steer from Trump that would reassure them that he remains firm in his America First stance.For some long-time loyalists, Silicon Valley has already inserted itself too deeply into MAGA politics.”We welcomed the tech bros when they came running our way to avoid…
The Church of England is facing a long overdue reckoning in Africa. Its leader, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, announced his resignation in November after an independent review brought attention to his failure to report to the authorities the barrister John Smyth, a prolific abuser of children. Smyth is found to have physically, sexually and psychologically abused more than 100 boys and young men over four decades at Church of England-affiliated summer camps in England, South Africa and my country, Zimbabwe. He died in Cape Town, South Africa in 2018, at the age of 77, without ever being held accountable.…
After losing their fifth consecutive game in improbable fashion on Thursday night, the Sacramento Kings reportedly made the decision to fire head coach Mike Brown on Friday, ending a two-and-a-half-year run with the team. Along with the five-game losing streak, the Kings have also lost 12 of their last 17 games and find themselves in 12th place in the Western Conference on the outside of the playoff picture. The biggest issue this season for the Kings, among many, has been closing out games, having lost five games after entering the fourth quarter with the lead. That is the second-most games…
Opinion The Movies, Memes,Habits, and Hobbies That TookUs Far, Far Away in 2024 The Movies, Memes,Habits, and HobbiesThat Took Us Far,Far Away in 2024 Endless wars, expensive groceries, extreme weather — those are just some of the issues in the E section of our index of things we’d prefer to have skipped in 2024. So we asked Times Opinion staff members to share how they escaped it all this year. These are the habits we started, the ones we quit, the culture that brought comfort and the memes that made us laugh so hard, we momentarily achieved a state of…
Millions of small businesses have yet to file a Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) Report, a document that identifies who owns a business by providing personal details like names, addresses, and dates of birth, and it’s due in a couple of weeks—or is it?That’s what business owners want to know as the report’s legality continues to make its way through the courts.BOI reporting is required as part of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), which went into effect in January 2024, but its legality is still being worked out. And this week has been a game of ping pong. On Monday, the…
Humans use both speech and gestures to convey informationStanford University An artificial intelligence model can make virtual avatars gesture naturally to match spoken words – possibly paving the way for AI-generated newsreaders or influencers that move more realistically as they speak. As humans talk, we gesture to help convey our meaning. But when video game characters or digital avatars attempt similar behaviour, they often make generic movements regardless of what they are actually saying. To make virtual figures gesture more realistically, researchers first had to teach an AI model the connection between speech and body language – and the emotions……
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The company you founded is turning a healthy profit and has become a market leader, so you’ve decided to sell it and are expecting a respectable return. You could wait and keep growing it so it fetches a better price, but you need capital and a management team with the vision and resources to make it happen. Selling to a private equity firm while remaining involved during the growth phase could be the strategy you need — if you’re willing to lose everything to try to hit that mark.Losing everything is always…