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Russell Westbrook, #4 of the Denver Nuggets, dribbles the ball during the game against the Oklahoma City Thunder during Round 2, Game 1 of the 2025 NBA Playoffs at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on May 5, 2025.Zach Beeker | National Basketball Association | Getty ImagesNational Basketball Association superstar Russell Westbrook is taking a shot off the court at simplifying funeral planning with artificial intelligence.The famed Denver Nuggets point guard on Wednesday announced the launch of Eazewell, a startup that uses AI technology to streamline the process for coordinating funerals. Westbrook founded the venture with former Charlotte Hornets star…

Listen to article Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah reaffirmed his government’s opposition to the controversial canal project linked to the Green Pakistan Initiative and urged protesters to avoid blocking roads during their demonstrations. Speaking at a press conference in Karachi on Tuesday, Shah called on lawyers, nationalist groups, and other activists protesting against the construction of new canals to continue their resistance peacefully. “Lawyers and nationalists should continue their protest without troubling their own people,” he said. The CM reiterated that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) shares the protesters’ concerns and warned that the party could stage its own demonstrations if…

EXPLAINERUS is looking to fast-track investments by UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Bloomberg News said.United States President Donald Trump’s administration has reportedly discussed the possibility of expediting investments by the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar before his trip to the region next week. The early-stage talks were reported first by Bloomberg News. Any such development would require the US government to reform the Committee for Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS), an interagency organisation led by the US Department of the Treasury, and which also includes representatives from the Departments of Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security and State that…

A Google corporate logo hangs above the entrance to the company’s office at St. John’s Terminal in New York City on March 11, 2025.Gary Hershorn | Corbis News | Getty ImagesGoogle agreed to pay nearly $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle allegations of violating the data privacy rights of state residents, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Friday.Paxton sued Google in 2022 for allegedly unlawfully tracking and collecting users’ private data.The attorney general said the settlement, which covers allegations in two separate lawsuits against the search engine and app giant, dwarfed all past settlements by other states…

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to suspend the remainder of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 “with immediate effect for one week”, according to a statement on Friday. An IPL match on Thursday was abandoned midway after fighting began in India’s border regions, but the cricket board attributed the disruption to a power failure at the stadium in the hill city of Dharamsala. “Further updates regarding the new schedule and venues of the tournament will be announced in due course after a comprehensive assessment of the situation in consultation with relevant authorities and…

Pope Leo XIV leads the Pro Ecclesia Mass in the Sistine Chapel, on May 09, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican. Vatican Pool – Corbis | Corbis News | Getty ImagesPope Leo XIV signaled on Saturday he would continue with the vision and reforms of Pope Francis, telling the world’s Catholic cardinals the late pontiff left a “precious legacy” that must carry on.In his first meeting with all the cardinals since his election as pontiff on May 8, Leo also asked the senior clerics to renew their commitment to major Church reforms enacted by the landmark Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.Leo said Francis, who…

Renting has its benefits. It’s usually cheaper than buying a home, and it offers the freedom of moving without much hassle. That’s why about half of apartment renters in large urban markets usually move when their leases expire. But that is not happening now.The low turnover is “striking,” according to real estate analyst Alex Goldfarb at Piper Sandler. He said some of the largest landlords are seeing turnover at just 30% compared with the industry norm of 50%.He cited reasons including an unaffordable for-sale market, lack of rental supply on the coasts, nervousness about the economy and tariffs, the cost…

Eddy Cue, senior vice president of internet software and services at Apple Inc., speaks during a keynote session at the South By Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Monday, March 12, 2018. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAlphabet and Apple shares sank Wednesday after Eddy Cue, Apple’s services chief, said he believes that AI search engines will eventually replace standard search engines such as Google, according to Bloomberg.Cue said he expects to add artificial intelligence services from OpenAI, Perplexity and Anthropic as search options in Apple’s Safari browser in the future, according to the report.The Apple…

TIANJIN, May 10 (Xinhua) — Born in 1996, Yang Yali is a PhD student at the History Department of Nankai University in north China’s Tianjin. Since 2018, she has focused her research on the history of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, particularly exploring the Nanjing Safety Zone and the daily lives of residents in the Beijing-Tianjin area during the war.In September 2018, Yang began her master’s studies at Nanjing Normal University. Under the guidance of Professor Zhang Lianhong, she focused her research on “John Rabe’s Chinese Friends,” uncovering numerous Chinese individuals who protected and assisted refugees…

Listen to article Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) senators staged a protest during a Senate session on Tuesday against the controversial canal project, accusing the federal government of water theft and calling for urgent debate on the issue. The session, chaired by Senate Chairman Yousaf Raza Gillani, began with opposition members expressing frustration over not being given time to raise points of order, Express News reported. Tensions escalated when PPP senators stood from their seats, chanting slogans such as “Water thieves not acceptable” and “Stop stealing Sindh’s water.” Senator Saifullah Abro highlighted the ongoing protests in Sindh, where people have been demonstrating for…