Starting second and finishing fifth may not sound like a great result, but Max Verstappen fought tooth and nail to achieve that in a Red Bull that appeared no match for the machinery ahead of him.
Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli expressed his pride and satisfaction after a hard-fought run to victory in the Miami Grand Prix â becoming the first driver in F1 history to win his first three races from his first three pole positions.
Kimi Antonelli has claimed his third consecutive victory of the season at the Miami Grand Prix, holding off McLaren's Lando Norris in an eventful race.
Group release joint statement over pay concerns
Players also call for greater say in tennis schedule
A group of the worldâs top 20 male and female players, including Novak Djokovic, Jannik Sinner, Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff, have released a joint statement expressing their disappointment at the level of prize money on offer at the French Open later this month.
The top players have been in dispute with all four grand slams for more than a year, as they feel they are given an insufficient share of each tournamentâs increasing revenues, while they are also calling for enhanced welfare and pension provisions and a greater say in determining the schedule.
Continue reading...The directorâs immersive Southbank Centre takeover has vim and ardour in spades, if not complete coherence
You Are Here is an undertaking on an impressive scale: a self-styled âepic, one-off pop-cultural spectacularâ involving immersive theatre, dance, music and a âcast of hundredsâ, all directed by Danny Boyle. It takes up a hefty chunk of the Southbank Centre and sets itself a similarly hefty task: âreimagining some of the most vivid and influential youth and social movements that have driven culture forward since 1951â, the year of the Festival of Britain, when the Royal Festival Hall opened for business.
âSome ofâ turns out to be the operative phrase: thereâs an awful lot going on, but even so, the sheer enormity of its subject means a degree of selectivity is necessary. Its take on British pop culture takes a noticeably dancefloor-centric view. Thereâs more about rave than the 60s pop explosion that really shifted the UK out of the postwar doldrums the You Are Here audience first encounters (you wander through an authentically eerie evocation of smog-bound London, its inhabitants literally grey), while New Romantics and Britpop are hard to spot, and the hippy counterculture of the late 60s and early 70s gets very short shrift indeed, unless you count the repurposing of some old west London graffiti that may have been the handiwork of âalternative societyâ collective the Albion Free State (âTHE TIGERS OF WRATH ARE WISER THAN THE HORSES OF INSTRUCTIONâ).
Continue reading...Club making contingency plans should Guardiola decide to leave
City visit Everton on Monday trailing leaders Arsenal by six points
Pep Guardiola has said he remains as motivated as ever after almost a decade managing Manchester City as he chases a seventh Premier League title. His comments come amid a backdrop of the club making contingency plans to replace the Spaniard if he decides to leave in the summer. Guardiola has a further year remaining on his contract but City have made Enzo Maresca a leading candidate to take over as head coach, should a change be required.
Guardiola is focused on his first visit to Hill Dickinson Stadium on Monday to face Everton, aiming to close the six-point gap on Arsenal. The Gunners have played twice since Cityâs last league match, defeating Newcastle and Fulham.
Continue reading...Chinese player leads 10-7 after opening two sessions
Murphy seeking second title 21 years after first win
With celebrities aplenty in Âattendance and a protester bursting on to the Âhallowed Crucible floor, at one stage on Sunday there threatened to be more Âheadlines off the baize than on it during the opening half of snookerâs two-day extravaganza to crown its world champion.
But by Sunday evening and as the halfway point of the final between Shaun Murphy and Wu Yize approached, both Âcompetitors ensured all the talk will be about what is to follow on Monday afternoon and Âevening inside one of sportâs most famous buildings.
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A 1999 press release bragged "Jeeves" answered 92.3 million questions in just three months. "In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions," remembers the New York Times — whether it was Britney Spears or tamagotchis:
We asked, and he answered: Jeeves, the digital butler of information, the online valet who led us into the depths of cyberspace. Now, like so many other relics of yesterday's internet, Jeeves — and his home, Ask.com — are no more. After almost 30 years, the question-and-answer service and former search engine shuttered on Friday. "To you — the millions of users who turned to us for answers in a rapidly changing world — thank you for your endless curiosity, your loyalty, and your trust," the company said in a notice posted on its now-defunct website...
Created in Berkeley, Calif., in the days of the dot-com gold rush, Ask Jeeves first appeared on computer screens in 1996.... Their mascot, Jeeves, was modeled on the clever English butler character from the famed P.G. Wodehouse book series. Its search function was simple — type in a question, get an answer. But the quality of its responses was uneven, and the website was quickly eclipsed by Google and Yahoo as the world's go-to search engines.
The site was bought by InterActive Corp. for more than $1 billion in 2005, and was given an injection of cash to help it compete as a search engine. It rebranded as Ask.com and as part of the reimagining, the site also ditched the character of Jeeves in 2006. Scrappy but inventive, the site was one of the first to introduce hyperlocal map overlays to its searches and incorporate thumbnails of webpages. "They are doing a lot of clever and interesting things," a Google executive noted of Ask.com at the time. Still, Ask.com struggled to compete and returned in 2010 to its bread and butter: question-and-answer style prompts.
Even then, it faltered against newer, crowdsourced iterations like Quora and Google's unyielding march to the internet fore — the platform now dominates search traffic, and the world's general experience of the internet.
A statement at Ask.com ends "by thanking its millions of users, and saying, 'Jeeves' spirit endures'," notes this article from Engadget:
As sad as it is to see a relic of the early Internet days fade into obscurity, we still have Ask Jeeves to thank for why some users still punch in full questions when querying Google. On top of that, Jeeves was built to provide detailed answers in natural language, which could have arguably acted as a precursor to today's AI chatbots like ChatGPT.
"Now, Ask.com joins the Internet graveyard that includes competitors like AltaVista, which shut down in 2013," the article points out. "With Ask.com gone, alongside AIM and AOL dial-up services also sunsetting, we're truly coming to an end of a specific era of the Internet."
And the New York Times argues the memory of Jeeves now rests somewhere between Limewire and Beanie Babies...
We asked, and he answered: Jeeves, the digital butler of information, the online valet who led us into the depths of cyberspace. Now, like so many other relics of yesterday's internet, Jeeves — and his home, Ask.com — are no more. After almost 30 years, the question-and-answer service and former search engine shuttered on Friday. "To you — the millions of users who turned to us for answers in a rapidly changing world — thank you for your endless curiosity, your loyalty, and your trust," the company said in a notice posted on its now-defunct website...
Created in Berkeley, Calif., in the days of the dot-com gold rush, Ask Jeeves first appeared on computer screens in 1996.... Their mascot, Jeeves, was modeled on the clever English butler character from the famed P.G. Wodehouse book series. Its search function was simple — type in a question, get an answer. But the quality of its responses was uneven, and the website was quickly eclipsed by Google and Yahoo as the world's go-to search engines.
The site was bought by InterActive Corp. for more than $1 billion in 2005, and was given an injection of cash to help it compete as a search engine. It rebranded as Ask.com and as part of the reimagining, the site also ditched the character of Jeeves in 2006. Scrappy but inventive, the site was one of the first to introduce hyperlocal map overlays to its searches and incorporate thumbnails of webpages. "They are doing a lot of clever and interesting things," a Google executive noted of Ask.com at the time. Still, Ask.com struggled to compete and returned in 2010 to its bread and butter: question-and-answer style prompts.
Even then, it faltered against newer, crowdsourced iterations like Quora and Google's unyielding march to the internet fore — the platform now dominates search traffic, and the world's general experience of the internet.
A statement at Ask.com ends "by thanking its millions of users, and saying, 'Jeeves' spirit endures'," notes this article from Engadget:
As sad as it is to see a relic of the early Internet days fade into obscurity, we still have Ask Jeeves to thank for why some users still punch in full questions when querying Google. On top of that, Jeeves was built to provide detailed answers in natural language, which could have arguably acted as a precursor to today's AI chatbots like ChatGPT.
"Now, Ask.com joins the Internet graveyard that includes competitors like AltaVista, which shut down in 2013," the article points out. "With Ask.com gone, alongside AIM and AOL dial-up services also sunsetting, we're truly coming to an end of a specific era of the Internet."
And the New York Times argues the memory of Jeeves now rests somewhere between Limewire and Beanie Babies...
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WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR/AFP) - De Verenigde Staten beginnen maandagochtend met een operatie om schepen te begeleiden die vastzitten in de Straat van Hormuz. Dat schrijft de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump op Truth Social.
"Dit proces, 'Project Freedom', gaat maandagochtend van start (Midden-Oosterse tijd). De bedoeling is om mensen, bedrijven en landen te helpen die absoluut niets verkeerd hebben gedaan. Zij zijn slachtoffer van de omstandigheden," aldus Trump, die geen nadere details over de operatie verschafte.
Iran sloot de Straat van Hormuz eind februari in reactie op de aanvallen van de VS en Israël op het land. De Amerikaanse marine blokkeerde daarop Iraanse havens.
'Positieve gesprekken'
Trump schreef in het bericht ook dat "mijn vertegenwoordigers zeer positieve gesprekken voeren met Iran, en dat deze gesprekken kunnen leiden tot iets zeer positiefs voor iedereen".
Eerder zondag reageerden de VS op een Iraans voorstel dat de oorlog binnen dertig dagen tot een einde moet brengen. Teheran bestudeert momenteel de Amerikaanse reactie.