• 20-year-old claims gold after strong final run

• Defending champion Jakara Anthony misses podium

Twenty-year old freestyle skier Elizabeth Lemley won a gold medal for Team USA in moguls on Wednesday with two fine runs to surprise the crowds in Livigno at the Winter Games.

Her victory put an end to a bid by Australia’s defending champion, Jakara Anthony, to retain the title she won in Beijing in 2022 after a disastrous final run. Anthony had been a huge favorite to win gold after dominating her sport for a number of years, but finished last of the eight finalists.

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Gen Z fell in love with him on the small screen, but with the release of Emerald Fennell’s steamy new adaptation of Wuthering Heights, the Aussie actor’s star is set to shine even brighter

Jacob Elordi is Heathcliff. The 28-year-old Australian actor has scarcely been out of the headlines since his controversial casting in Emerald Fennell’s imminent adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Now, in the week of the film’s release, he’s being hailed as “the hottest man on the planet”, tipped as a future Oscar winner and household name. Not even mixed early reviews seem to be slowing the momentum.

Truly, these heights must seem wuthering to the boy from Brisbane who fell in love with acting after being cast as The Cat in The Hat. “As soon as I was singing and dancing with the big hat on, I knew that that was what I wanted to do,” Elordi said last December. But who is he, and what’s behind his rapid rise?

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T-Mobile is opening registration today for a beta test of Live Translation, an AI-powered feature that will translate live phone calls into more than 50 languages when it launches this spring.

The feature operates at the network level, so it doesn't require any specific app or device -- beta participants simply dial 87 to activate it on a call. T-Mobile President of Technology and CTO John Saw told The Verge that Live Translation works over VoLTE, VoNR and VoWiFi, meaning it isn't limited to 5G. The only requirement is that a T-Mobile customer must initiate the translation. The beta will be free, though T-Mobile has not said whether the feature will eventually be paywalled.

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Zolang mannen thuis niet écht beschikbaar zijn voor de zorg van kinderen is emancipatie een lege belofte. Vaders mogen hier steviger op worden aangesproken: het mes moet vaker op tafel.

Dalende bezoekersaantallen en onvrede over de koers van de directeur: een aantal medewerkers zegt zich zorgen over de toekomst van het Noordbrabants Museum te maken. De raad van toezicht stelt een onderzoek in.

​Indruk maakt het zeker, het bijzondere driedelige schaatspak van de Italiaanse mannenschaatsploeg. Maar erg snel lijkt het pak niet te zijn: favoriet Davide Ghiotto (32) werd tijdens de trainingsrondjes aan alle kanten voorbijgereden.

Ghiotto wijt zijn gebrek aan snelheid aan het pak dat voor deze Spelen is ontworpen: "Laat ik allereerst zeggen dat Armani een prachtig pak heeft gemaakt, echt, ik zou het zonder twijfel aantrekken naar een restaurant. Maar die wapperende mouwen en stropdas zorgen wel voor veel luchtweerstand als ik snelheid probeer te maken. Hier valt geen medaille mee te winnen."

De Italiaanse equipe twijfelt nog over een alternatief: "We kunnen wel in allerijl net zo'n pak als de concurrentie in laten vliegen, maar het oog wil ook wat, zeker in Italië", aldus Ghiotto.

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European leaders have debated whether to restore dialogue with Russia in recent months amid U.S.-led peace talks on the war in Ukraine.

Curious port filtering and traffic patterns suggest advisories weren’t the earliest warning signals sent

Telcos likely received advance warning about January's critical Telnet vulnerability before its public disclosure, according to threat intelligence biz GreyNoise.…

“We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.”

DirtyGlassEye has added a photo to the pool:

In the past I've already stated that getting shots at Kitaguchi Hongu proved a bit too hard. Case and point, this is only my second post of this location in around 200ish photos already here. The resident torii gate here was a different shade of red then normal, and I intended to roll with that when editing. There was still snow on the ground from the high elevation, and the sky, per usual, was overexposed (I think I had an ND filter on. The usual photo people get here is a compressed zoom shot of the forested walkway to the shrine, but there were already a considerable amount of people here at the place and management put signs in the middle of the walkway. It was easier to line up a shot from the other side facing away from the shrine. The shot's leading line going towards the woods instead of starting there.
Because of the sun's direction here in the morning, half of the image had a light visible quality and the other half had a large amount of shadows, leading me to call this image by it's name. Saving the torii gate from the other layers, I tampered with the woods very carefully to make sure each side of the image reflects it's amount of light better. Aligning this image to be perfectly upright took an embarrassing amount of time, again, I urge to bring a tripod, and activate the precision alignment (that is if you're a canon user, if not, then what the heck are you doing?). It was better from this side because it was much easier to get rid of the signs on the pathway.