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A Google Stadia video game controller with a Night Blue finish, taken on November 27, 2019. (Photo … [+] by Olly Curtis/Future Publishing via Getty Images) Future Publishing via Getty Images Say what you will about Google Stadia’s ill-fated run as a game streaming service, but Google is handling its death very well. In fact, I’d say the care and attention they’re giving to how they’re wrapping up Stadia’s existence feels like more than they ever devoted to it when it was alive and… Source link

Lisa Marie Presley and Nicolas Cage in the early 2000s. (Photo: FilmMagic) Nicolas Cage issued an emotional statement after ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley‘s death calling the news “devastating.” Lisa Marie, the only child of icon Elvis Presley, passed away on Thursday hours after suffering cardiac arrest. “Lisa had the greatest laugh of anyone I ever met. She lit up every room, and I am heartbroken,” Cage tells Yahoo Entertainment. “I find some solace believing she is reunited with her son… Source link

Lisa Marie Presley and Nicolas Cage in the early 2000s. (Photo: FilmMagic) Nicolas Cage issued an emotional statement after ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley‘s death calling the news “devastating.” Lisa Marie, the only child of icon Elvis Presley, passed away on Thursday hours after suffering cardiac arrest. “Lisa had the greatest laugh of anyone I ever met. She lit up every room, and I am heartbroken,” Cage tells Yahoo Entertainment. “I find some solace believing she is reunited with her son… Source link

A Google Stadia video game controller with a Night Blue finish alongside a gaming monitor, taken on … [+] November 27, 2019. (Photo by Olly Curtis/Future Publishing via Getty Images) Future Publishing via Getty Images We are witnessing what I would argue is probably one of the biggest failures in gaming industry history, the shutdown of Google Stadia, which is coming just a week from now. Google Stadia will shut down in full on January 18 at 11:59 PM PT (via The Verge) and if you haven’t… Source link

By Kanishka Singh and Akriti Sharma (Reuters) – Bed Bath & Beyond Inc’s chief financial officer fell to his death from New York’s Tribeca skyscraper known as the “Jenga” tower on Friday afternoon, police said, just days after a lawsuit alleged he was involved in a “pump and dump” scheme. Gustavo Arnal, 52, joined Bed Bath & Beyond in 2020. He previously worked as CFO for cosmetics brand Avon in London and had a 20-year stint with Procter & Gamble, according to his LinkedIn profile. On Friday at… Source link

I recently interviewed Andrew Young, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, at his home in Atlanta. Among other items, I wanted to speak with Young about public and private partnerships and building coalitions with Democrats and Republicans as well as whites and Blacks, which he excelled at when he was the mayor of Atlanta (and as a Congressman). However, while I had time with Young — who at 90 years old is one of the last surviving lions of the civil rights movement — I had to ask… Source link

Olivia Newton-John was candid about her thoughts on death and the afterlife. The Grease actress and singer, who died Monday at the age of 73, spoke about her mortality on the A Life of Greatness podcast a year before her death. Newton-John battled breast cancer for 30 years. Asked in the February 2021 conversation if she had contemplated her own death, she replied, “I have quite a few times,” adding it was “sooner than I would have wanted,” having first been diagnosed in 1992 and then… Source link

Always trust what you see on Facebook, right? RIP Stadia? More like Stadia’s ripping some troll a new one. Between the ardent fans of Google’s cloud gaming platform and the cynics who just want to see a Goliath admit defeat, there’s no shortage of The Discourse™ happening around it. Of course, there’s talk and then there’s rumor mongering: this week, two random posts from one user in a Stadia fan group on Facebook proclaiming the imminent death of Stadia had gotten some… Source link

Ivana Trump was 73. (Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images) A day after Ivana Trump‘s death was announced by her ex-husband and former President Donald Trump, New York City’s chief medical examiner has ruled that the the socialite died accidentally of blunt impact injuries to her torso as the result of a fall. After responding to a call about a woman in cardiac arrest, paramedics discovered the 73-year-old at the bottom of staircase at her home on New York’s Upper East Side, and she died on… Source link

What will happen with Warren Buffett’s billions when he dies? Some of it might go to every kid on the planet. So reports the Wall Street Journal in a recent investigation of the future of Buffett’s fortune, which is worth $96.8 billion at the time of this article’s publication. In 2006, the Berkshire Hathaway CEO pledged to give away 85% of his stock in the company to charity, designating the majority of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Four years later, he vowed to… Source link