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The Insatiable Ambition of LeBron James

The basketball legend is building a business that includes movies and TV, podcasts and grooming products. It’s all part of his new model for how stars can cash in on their fame. The basketball legend is building a business that includes movies and TV, podcasts and grooming products. It’s all part of his new model for how stars can cash in on their fame. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each…

The Apple Vision Pro: When technology can’t keep up with ambition but offers a glimpse into the future

I'll come clean. I've been writing this now for a few days, on and off, and it's been scrapped and rewritten more than a few times as well. See, the problem isn't the Apple Vision Pro, it's me. I haven't had a chance to spend any time with Apple's first foray into the spatial computing world because I live in the wrong part of the world and those of us outside the United States will have to wait a little while longer before we get to see what all the fuss is about. But I've been watching from afar. Engorging myself with…

Torres: What An Enormous Room review – a confident declaration of rock-star ambition | Music

Beyond making an early case for 2024’s best title, What An Enormous Room finds Torres approaching full rock star mode and making a confident declaration of ambition. “The me of yesterday hadn’t a clue!” she proclaims on the opener to her sixth album over a marching, metallic guitar riff. “Babe, my star’s just on the rise.”The artwork for What An Enormous RoomIt has been a decade since the indie rock musician (real name Mackenzie Scott) released her self-titled debut of hushed, blazingly vulnerable songs. She’s since…

NASA’s Moon Program Faces Delays. Its Ambition Remains Unchanged

The first U.S. crewed moon missions since NASA’s Apollo program in the 1960s and 1970s promise more than flags and footprints: Artemis, the space agency’s ambitious plan for lunar return, envisions regular human voyages to the moon for decades to come. But Artemis will have to wait a bit longer to begin that journey with astronauts because NASA has announced delays for the program’s next major launches.Following a successful uncrewed test flight in late 2022, the agency had planned to launch a crewed lunar flyby mission…

Baftas 2024: Oppenheimer’s passion and ambition stomps over the opposition once again | Baftas 2024

As Samuel Goldwyn apocryphally remarked in 1945: “This A-bomb – it’s dynamite!!” With 13 Bafta nominations, Christopher Nolan’s mighty historical bio-epic Oppenheimer continues its triumphal march through awards season. It stars Cillian Murphy as the wartime inventor of nuclear weaponry J Robert Oppenheimer, galvanised by America’s race to get the bomb before the Nazis, transfixed by the dark ecstasy of the successful Trinity test in the New Mexico desert, then agonised with his postwar burden of guilt and horror. The…

Xiaomi Unveils Its First EV, the SU7, With Ambition to Be China’s Porsche or Tesla

The billionaire co-founder of Thursday, declaring ambitions to become a top global carmaker in 15 to 20 years and compete against Tesla Inc. and Porsche AG. The SU7, which stands for Speed Ultra, rolled onto a stage at the China National Convention Center in Beijing with no drivers visible, ending a presentation by CEO and co-founder Lei Jun in front of thousands of people. Lei spent hours detailing the car's features, which include a range of up to 800 kilometers (500 miles) on a single charge, adjustable spoilers,…

DMV Rapper Q Da Fool is Reclaiming His Career With ‘Art Of Ambition’

This spring, Largo, Maryland, rapper Q Da Fool was prepping his comeback album after a two-year prison stint. But after only two months home, he was arrested for “promoting violence” after dropping a song and going on Instagram Live. He says his probation officer arrested him and told him they were incarcerating him for his own safety. It’s unclear what the exact charge was, but Q served another two months in jail before coming home again and deciding to overhaul his creative approach into what’s become Art of…

China’s WeRide tests autonomous buses in Singapore, accelerates global ambition

After years of aggressive expansion at home, China’s autonomous vehicle upstarts are now setting their gaze on overseas markets. WeRide, in particular, has been on a licensing spree. On Monday, WeRide announced it has obtained two licenses from Singapore that will allow its robobuses to test on public roads on a “larger” scale. The two permits, called M1 and T1 respectively, are granted by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) of Singapore and will enable WeRide’s self-driving buses to test in…

Microsoft sacrificed Xbox Series X sales for ‘long term ambition’ in the cloud

Microsoft has been sacrificing growing its Xbox Series X / S sales numbers since launch as a tradeoff for investment in cloud and gaming content. In an internal email exchange between Xbox chief Phil Spencer and Xbox CFO Tim Stuart in December 2020, the pair discussed the reasons behind lower Xbox console volumes. The email has been revealed as part of the FTC v. Microsoft hearing.Spencer admits that Microsoft had a “yield miss for Scarlett,” the codename for Xbox Series X / S consoles, but that it and the delay to Halo…