By Elvira Pollina MILAN (Reuters) -Italian tech company Bending Spoons said on Wednesday it will acquire AOL from Yahoo, which is backed by Apollo Global Management, adding a storied internet brand to its growing portfolio of digital businesses. Bending Spoons said it secured a $2.8 billion debt financing package to support the acquisition, as well as investments in research and …
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Barack Obama had harsh words for businesses and universities that have caved to Donald Trump and the policies “cooked up” by Stephen Miller. Speaking on the final episode of comedian Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, the former president said that institutions must be willing to endure “a little discomfort” in order to stand up to the Trump administration’s strong-arm tactics. “If …
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At least one self-described “ex-CEO” of the Walt Disney Company is extremely disappointed in the current brass’ decision to bench Jimmy Kimmel over the late-night host’s remarks about the reaction to Charlie Kirk‘s fatal shooting and strong-arming from the Trump administration. Declaring that he “finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny,” Bob Iger‘s first predecessor bluntly asked today: “Where has …
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A regular Einstein Cross has four objects around 90 degrees from each other. The fifth image appears very close to the central lensing object and is invisible. However, this time it showed up. The discovery was made by Pierre Cox, a French astronomer, Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and the study’s lead author, who first …
Read More »Scientists might have accidentally discovered how lightning forms – from bending ice TechSpot Flexoelectricity and surface ferroelectricity of water ice Nature It Turns Out Bending Ice Produces Electricity, And This Could Finally Explain The Origin Of Lightning IFLScience Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent Phys.org Ice shows hidden ability to produce electricity when stressed: Study Interesting Engineering Source link
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Read More »LIGO Detects Black Hole Smashup So Extreme It’s Bending Einstein’s Rules SciTechDaily Heaviest Black Hole Merger Flouts a Forbidden Gap American Physical Society Astronomers detect most massive black hole collision to date CNN Scientists Found a Black Hole That Shouldn’t Exist. Now Physics Has a Problem. Popular Mechanics Physicists detect largest-ever merger of 2 black holes equal in size to 240 suns USA Today Source …
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