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Jim Rutherford didn’t say much to quell the concerns of Canucks fans on Monday. (Screengrab via Twitter/Sportsnet) To call the Vancouver Canucks discombobulated would be doing a disservice to the dire circumstances Canada’s westernmost team finds itself in. Following a press conference from Canucks President of Hockey Operations Jim Rutherford, it seems like things could get a lot worse from here. Rutherford and the Canucks hosted the all-encompassing presser Monday afternoon to provide… Source link

Matt Reeves and Lizzy Caplan on the set of Cloverfield, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this month. (Photo: Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection) Fifteen years ago, Matt Reeves launched the Cloverfield universe by shepherding the 2008 found-footage monster movie to the big screen. The film’s $175 million global gross ensured that there would be plenty more cinematic universes in Reeves’s future, including the Planet of the Apes-verse and, more recently, the Bat-verse branch of the DC… Source link

BERLIN, Jan 12 (Reuters) – Google (GOOGL.O) and Porsche (P911_p.DE) are in talks over a possible deal to allow Google Apps to be used in Porsche cockpits, German business magazine Manager Magazin reported on Thursday, citing managers from both companies. A focus of the deal would be access to Google Maps, the report added. Spokespeople for Porsche and Google were not immediately available for comment. Porsche Chief Financial Officer Lutz Meschke said at a conference call last October that the… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp.’s Satya Nadella is weighing the company’s biggest-ever startup investment, seeking to give the software giant an advantage against Google in the race to weave advanced artificial intelligence tools into fields like search and apps. Most Read from Bloomberg The company is in discussions to invest as much as $10 billion in OpenAI, the creator of viral AI bot ChatGPT, according to people familiar with its plans. The proposal under consideration calls for… Source link

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Getty Images The company once regarded as the frontrunner for NFL Sunday Ticket has opted to take a Sunday drive, instead. Buried in an item on Puck.news from Dylan Byer and Julia Alexander regarding recent changes at the top of Disney is an NFL bombshell: Apple has bowed out of the bidding for the out-of-market package the DirecTV will relinquish in only 23 days. Here’s the key quote, from Byer: “I’m now told that Apple, once… Source link

Roger Goodell, the National Football League’s commissioner, flew to Sun Valley, Idaho, this summer for Allen & Company’s annual media conference, confident that the N.F.L. was close to announcing its latest blockbuster TV rights deal. “We will probably have some decision by the fall,” he told CNBC at the time. But nearly five months later, the league is still looking for a technology or media company willing to replace DirecTV as the rights holder for Sunday Ticket, which allows fans… Source link

VettaFi financial futurist Dave Nadig appeared on Yahoo! Finance to discuss the recent ETF inflow surge. Global ETF inflows in October surpassed $111 billion, triple what they did in September. “If you look at where that money is actually going, a big chunk of it went to U.S. equities. Over $50 billion flowed in,” Nadig said, noting that where it went inside that was more complicated. “We’re not seeing a ton of money flow into the riskiest of risky ETFs, but we are… Source link

WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) – The Biden administration is privately encouraging Ukraine’s leaders to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia and drop their public refusal to engage in peace talks unless President Vladimir Putin is removed from power, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. The paper quoted unnamed people familiar with the discussions as saying that the request by American officials was not aimed at pushing Ukraine to the negotiating table, but a calculated attempt to… Source link

Negotiations underway to unblock exports of fertilizer from Russia have made “important steps forward,” one of the main United Nations negotiators said on Thursday, while acknowledging that there was still a way to go. Russian grain and fertilizer exports continue to face issues over sanctions imposed after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, despite two agreements signed on Jul. 22 that called for sanctions to spare agriculture-related products and grant safe passage for Ukrainian… Source link