The Hundred Men Competition, Lord’s Manchester Super Giants 138-9 (100 balls): Seifert 67 (45); Living stone 2-14 London Spirit 131-6 (100 balls): Livingstone 69 (40); Atkinson 2-15 Manchester Super Giants won by seven runs Scorekeeper. Table Manchester Super Giants beat London Spirit by seven runs in The Hundred at Lord’s when Liam Livingstone’s powerful innings
A federal judge on Thursday extended the order blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger for an additional 14 days, meaning the deal cannot close before Aug. 18. Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín is scheduled to hold a hearing on August 3 on a request for a preliminary injunction that would block the deal indefinitely. Paramount is requesting additional
Patreon, a platform for creators that pays for their content, is laying off staff. In a publicly shared note addressed to Patreon content creators, CEO Jack Conte announced that the creator economy startup is laying off 93 employees, roughly 20% of its workforce. Conte said in the memo to employees that “the market in which
Chipmaker AMD is taking aim at competitor Nvidia with its latest hardware release: a rack-scale system designed to meet the computing needs of the world’s largest artificial intelligence labs. At the company’s sold-out Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on Thursday, AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su promoted the new AI rack system known
Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk ended a hunger strike after 26 days of fasting in support of youth-led protesters demanding education reforms. In a post on Wangchuk, 59, went on strike to support the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), whose members are also demanding the resignation of India’s education minister. The activist previously said he had lost
David Ellison may have believed that Paramount Skydance could have closed its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by now. The deal was approved by the Justice Department in June (apparently over the objections of staff reviewing it). It has been officially cleared by the EU, and Paramount agreed to the relatively minor concession
