Wendy Hoppel, the Cleveland Guardians’ director of baseball administration, landed home in Ohio to see she had missed several calls from her social worker. She was returning from Major League Baseball’s offseason meetings in New Orleans. It was 2003 and Hoppel had been learning about MLB’s new software system. Meanwhile, her baby had just been…
French fashion brand AMI has been announced as the new main sponsor of Cannes Critics’ Week, replacing Nespresso which supported the section for close to 15 years. Launched by the French Union of Film Critics in 1962, the parallel Cannes section showcases first and second features, as well as shorts, by emerging talents, occasionally showcasing…
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The leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have called for a cease-fire in eastern Congo in a bid to end the latest deadly chapter in a three-decade conflict. Presidents Félix Tshisekedi of Congo and Paul Kagame of Rwanda committed to an “immediate and unconditional cease-fire,” according to a joint statement issued with…
Prezent, a startup empowering customers to build slide decks using generative AI, has raised $20 million as it further develops and refines its AI models for different use cases and expands into new markets. AI has many different applications — one of which is generating decks for business presentations, as it turns out. Off-the-shelf models…
The meat and potatoes portion of NFL free agency has come and gone, with multiple teams seeing their stock rise after several additions. On the flip side of that coin, there are many fans of certain (cough, cough, the Houston Texans) that are actively pouring bleach in their morning bowl of Cheerios after the Texans…
It’s so crazy that we spent years not hearing anything from Justine Bateman, to the point where most people forgot she existed, and now suddenly she’s styled herself into a right-wing commentator who pops up once a month to hate on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. My guess is that Justine learned the same…
From Brussels to Berlin, leaders across Europe are getting ready to spend hundreds of billions to rebuild their armies. The spending, they say, is necessary to prepare Europe for the dangers of a world where the United States no longer guarantees its security. But many of them are also hoping that the surge of money…
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Number 2 seeds boast a 145-11 (.929) all-time record versus No. 15 seeds in March Madness entering the 2025 NCAA Tournament. However, 15-seeds have upended 2-seeds in three of the last four NCAA Tournaments. This year’s second-seeded teams, which are Alabama, Michigan State, Tennessee and St. John’s, should be on upset alert. There’s more parity…
