Deliveroo gets $3.6b buyout proposal from DoorDash
DoorDash has until May 23 to submit a formal bid for Deliveroo.
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Mike Myers Opens Up About His ‘SNL’ Protest In Support Of Canada
Like his dual citizenship, Mike Myers is doubling down on his Saturday Night Live “Canada is not for sale” protest. In a new interview with the New York Times, the veteran comic and actor — who hails from Toronto, though largely resides in the U.S. — opened up about the reasoning for his political statement,…
Duran gets Boston’s 1st straight steal of home in 16 years in 7-3 win over Guardians for DH split
CLEVELAND (AP) — Jarren Duran had Boston’s first straight steal of home since Jacoby Ellsbury exactly 16 years earlier, and the Red Sox beat the Cleveland Guardians 7-3 Saturday for a doubleheader split after losing the opener 5-4. Duran tripled in the third inning and took off against Doug Nikhazy (0-1), a 25-year-old left-hander who…
Ex-Disney Worker Who Hacked Menus Gets 3 Years in Prison
A former employee of Walt Disney World who hacked into menus used by its restaurants and edited them — changing prices, adding profanity and altering listed allergens — was sentenced to three years in prison by a federal judge in Florida this week. None of the changes, including falsified information about food allergens that could…
Canada Election: Polls Tighten, But Carney’s Liberal Party Still Appears Poised to Win
As Election Day in Canada looms on Monday, support for the two major parties has started to converge in the polls, yet the race appears to remain the Liberal Party’s to lose. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party now leads the Conservative Party 42 percent to 39 percent on average, according to the CBC’s poll…
No, COVID-19 Vaccines Do Not Cause Infertility – Not Getting It Might
Despite claims of anti-vaccine activists no different than groups that used to claim vaccines cause autism, COVID-19 vaccines do not impact fecundability—the probability of conception per menstrual cycle—in female or male partners who received the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, or Johnson & Johnson vaccines. The prospective study instead indicates that COVID-19 infection among males may temporarily reduce fertility—…
NASA’s Mars orbiter snapped this image of Curiosity trucking along down at the surface
The Curiosity Mars rover covers a lot of ground for a robot that only moves at a max speed of .1 mph. A photo snapped recently by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provides a pretty cool visualization of what the rover has been up to so far this year, showing the tracks Curiosity left behind as…
bitchy | Tatler commissioned a portrait of King Charles & Camilla for their cover: thoughts?
The latest Tatler cover features yet another “commissioned” royal painting. Tatler did this last year, commissioning a painting of the (then incognito) Princess of Wales where “the Kate portrait” looked nothing like the actual woman. The Kate portrait/cover received widespread mockery… by British commentators and art critics. It’s the same with this new Tatler cover,…
How Pope Francis Wooed Donors
Founded by Conrad Hilton, the hotel magnate, the foundation is one of the biggest financial backers of Catholic sisters’ work around the world, and has given roughly $28.5 million to Vatican-led initiatives, including Vatican departments, the majority of that since 2020. Regardless of the conclave’s outcome, the foundation is committed to continuing its partnerships with…
Will Pope Francis Be Made a Saint?
Although three of the five popes before Pope Francis have been named saints, merely serving as pontiff is not a shoo-in to canonization. At least not anymore. In the early years of the Roman Catholic Church, most popes, starting with St. Peter, who is considered the first to hold the seat, were named saints after…