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Shohei Ohtani is no Pete Rose. At least not yet.For one thing, as accomplished as Ohtani is at baseball, his career 684 hits pale in comparison with Rose’s 4,256, the most of any major league player. More pertinent to the news cycle is that Ohtani hasn’t been accused of betting on baseball, or betting at all. Rose famously was banned from baseball for life in 1989 by then-Commissioner Bartlett Giamatti (yes, Paul’s dad), whose investigation concluded that Rose had bet on major league games as a player and as a…

Xiaomi posted a 51% rise in quarterly profit as higher smartphone sales after the pandemic offset expenses for its first electric car launching next week. Xiaomi posted a 51% rise in quarterly profit as higher smartphone sales after the pandemic offset expenses for its first electric car launching next week. 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 content, the hyperlink to the primary source is…

Film-makers Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy have a restless creativity and alertness to ideas which continues to be uniquely valuable. Now they have made a vivid, intense, true-crime drama about the inner life of the late Rose Dugdale, the wealthy English heiress and debutante who was radicalised at Oxford, joined the IRA and in the early 70s was involved in an art theft from a stately home in the Irish republic – and also helped drop homemade bombs from a stolen helicopter on to a police station.Baltimore should really…

Nigeria’s crude oil production rose in February, data from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has shown. Oil production from the 12 members of the organisation, OPEC, averaged 26.57 million barrels per day (mb/d) in February 2024, higher by 203 thousand barrels per day (tb/d) month-on-month, OPEC said in its Monthly Oil Market Report released Tuesday. “According to secondary sources, total OPEC-12 crude oil production averaged 26.57 mb/d in February 2024, 203 tb/d higher, month-on-month.…

Mary Beard is everybody’s favourite poster girl. A classics don from Cambridge, Beard is revered for rescuing Roman history from a dusty discipline, elevating it to a primer on personality and power. Beard is erudite and entertaining; she writes expansively on ancient Rome – everything from laughter to shoes to sex in the swimming pool.A good place to start reading Mary Beard is It’s a Don’s Life. This memoir began as a blog on her life as a don (a lecturer) in Cambridge. I found it zippy and sparkly; it talks about…

The big Oscars 2024 night is now just a few hours away. The world will witness the celebration of the best in cinema under a roof in Los Angeles. The 96th Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, bringing together international movie industry giants for one of the most significant awards nights on March 11 (IST). Ahead of the big night, the Pre-Oscars party got several celebrities under one roof to celebrate the year that was 2023. Blackpink`s Rose surprised fans with her stunning appearance…

In 1958, 17-year-old Rose Dugdale was one of 1,400 young women who curtseyed before Queen Elizabeth II in the most prestigious event of the summer’s debutante season. It was the last time that the well-bred daughters of the most aristocratic and affluent families in the country would be presented to the monarch in a ritual that dated back 200 years. Princess Margaret, with characteristic hauteur, would later say: “We had to put a stop to it. Every tart in London was getting in.”For the fiercely independent Dugdale, being…

A night filled with glitz and glamour! Oscars 2024 is finally here. In just a few hours, the world will witness cinematic masterpieces bagging one of the most prestigious awards, and the pre-parties have already begun. Celebrities ranging from Hailey Bieber to Jonathan Bailey, Blackpink ROSÉ , Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Garcelle Beauvais, Paris Hilton, and Zoë Kravitz were spotted gracing various pre-Oscars parties, including those hosted by the Creative Artists Agency, the Saint Laurent x Vanity Fair x…

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Canalys Q4 2023 smartphone chip shipments: MediaTek rose 21% YoY to 117M, Apple rose 7% YoY to 78M, Qualcomm rose 1% YoY to 69M; Samsung dropped 48% YoY to 13M — Google Pixel is coming off of its best-selling year to date, but according to one report, Google shipped fewer Tensor chips in Q4 2023. Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Canalys Q4 2023 smartphone chip shipments: MediaTek rose 21% YoY to 117M, Apple rose 7% YoY to 78M, Qualcomm rose 1% YoY to 69M; Samsung dropped 48% YoY…

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: NPCI data: UPI transactions processed by Paytm fell 14% to $19.9B from January 2024 after RBI curbs, while PhonePe rose nearly 7% and Google GPay rose almost 6% — - Paytm loses usage even before any disruption to its systems — Services of Walmart, Google capitalize on Paytm's troubles Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: NPCI data: UPI transactions processed by Paytm fell 14% to $19.9B from January 2024 after RBI curbs, while PhonePe rose nearly 7% and Google…