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PGA Tour logo during the third round of the Travelers Championship on June 24, 2017, at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut.Fred Kfoury | Icon Sportswire | Getty ImagesKey lawmakers on Wednesday invited the officials behind the proposed deal between the PGA Tour and Saudi-backed rival LIV Golf to testify at a Senate subcommittee hearing.Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee's permanent subcommittee on investigations, respectively,…

by KeAi Communications Co. Fluid distributions in heterogeneous-wet rocks with (a) strongly-wet and (b) intermediate-wet conditions. Oil-wet surfaces are depicted as red and water-wet surfaces are dark blue. Oil is orange and water is blue. Credit: Magnetic Resonance Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.mrl.2023.03.010 Reservoir wettability plays a crucial role in determining how oil and water are…

The Reddit apocalypse is nigh. Today, to protest Reddit’s pricing changes to its API, almost every subreddit on the platform has gone dark. A Twitch stream, which is counting the number of subreddits that have changed their permissions to private to protest the changes, counts 7237 out of 7806 subreddits going dark as of the writing of this article. The subreddits that have changed their permissions to private are no longer publicly available, even to those who were previously subscribed to them. The…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSamuel L Jackson has admitted that he can’t remember how he proposed to his wife LaTanya Richardson, because he “was on drugs” at the time. The actors have been together for more than 50 years and married for 42, with their 43rd wedding anniversary arriving in August. Appearing on The Jennifer Hudson Show on Monday (22 May), Pulp Fiction star Jackson was asked how he popped the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSamuel L Jackson has admitted that he can’t remember how he proposed to his wife LaTanya Richardson, because he “was on drugs” at the time. The actors have been together for more than 50 years and married for 42, with their 43rd wedding anniversary arriving in August. Appearing on The Jennifer Hudson Show on Monday (22 May), Pulp Fiction star Jackson was asked how he popped the…

India on Friday proposed to exclude a host of foreign investors including sovereign wealth funds and pensions funds from the purview of the so-called "angel tax", offering the much-needed relief to the startup sector staring at a funding winter.Those entities that face this tax will also have more valuation flexibility while computing this it, according to the draft rules put out by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the apex direct taxes body.Investments by non-resident investors including central banks,…

For more than three years, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has been idly coasting around the Sun while locked in a retirement safe mode,while its successor, the Webb Telescope, took over its cosmic observation duties. An upcoming servicing mission, however, could give the old telescope a new purpose: protecting Earth from dangerous asteroids.Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their ViewThis week, Washington-based company Rhea Space Activity announced that it has been selected to develop…

Xcel Energy is seeking a $312 million increase in revenue in an electric rate case, but the state agency that represents the public wants regulators to instead cut the utility’s revenue by $26.6 million and block it from recovering millions of dollars of investments for transmission projects. If approved, Xcel Energy’s rate request would raise residential monthly rates an average of 8.2% and monthly rates for small businesses an average of 7.7%. Xcel, Colorado’s largest electric utility, says the increase would pay for…

On April 28, Felipe Neto, a Brazilian YouTuber with more than 45 million followers, was angry. He had just received a message from YouTube warning him about PL2630, a bill in Brazil’s National Congress dubbed the “Fake News Law” that would regulate online platforms. Influencers like Neto, the company said, could be forced to take down content to avoid lawsuits, and the government might be able to control parts of YouTube’s platform.To Neto, that warning was itself fake news. He felt that the message, and a similar post on…

We love what you’re doing, but don’t count on getting the additional billions of dollars you’ve been promised. That was the message this week from Congress to the director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) after two key spending panels took up the agency’s request for a 19% budget hike, or an additional $1.4 billion, in 2024. Republicans in the House of Representatives, which they control, lectured NSF’s Sethuraman Panchanathan on the importance of…