Author: News Desk

Gemini wants to talk. All the time. Google Google I/O 2026 kicked off this week, and to no one’s surprise, it was almost completely about AI.  To start with, Google is rolling out its “intelligent, AI-powered Search box” globally. Instead of just autocompleting your text, it uses AI to anticipate your intent and help you formulate questions. You will be able to use images, video files and entire Chrome tabs as direct search inputs. Its AI Mode, now powered by the new Gemini 3.5 Flash, will still live alongside it, for your follow-up questions/corrections. Google also introduced…

Thomas Tuchel has named his 26-man England squad for the 2026 World Cup, with Harry Kane captaining a group that features Henderson’s record-equalling fourth World Cup appearance and nine players making their first senior tournament bow – while Phil Foden, Cole Palmer and Harry Maguire are among the most high-profile names to miss out. Jude Bellingham and Noni Madueke are included, while Foden and Palmer have been left at home, and Declan Rice, Bellingham and Bukayo Saka will all be at their second World Cup, while nine players will be making their senior tournament debut: James Trafford, Tino Livramento, Nico…

Looking for online classifieds to buy or sell second-hand items, find housing or local services in Spain? Here’s where you can look. Craigslist is a classifieds website with pages for cities all over the world where people advertise everything from jobs and housing to second-hand furniture, people looking to make new connections, items wanted, local services and more. According to Internet data company Similarweb, today Craigslist is still hugely popular and has over 105 million monthly users, making it the 40th most popular website in the United States. The site was very popular with millennials between around 2005-2010 and many…

Members of Congress upset about TMZ’s decision to swarm the U.S. Capitol have Sen. Lindsey Graham to thank. TMZ is known for documenting the foibles and faux pas of celebrities and athletes, often with viral photos and videos. Jacob Wasserman and Charlie Cotton, co-managing editors for TMZ-DC, said they decided to launch the Capitol Hill-focused news site after seeing a photo of Mr. Graham holding a Little Mermaid bubble wand at Walt Disney World during the government shutdown. TMZ had begun a campaign to have the public send in photos of what Washington power brokers were doing while some federal…

A Federal Court judge has quashed a $421,000 invoice issued to an Alberta First Nation councillor that would have kept her from running in the band’s election next month. Fort McMurray First Nation (FMFN) Chief Neil Cheecham and Councillor Christopher Beausoleil sent the invoice to Councillor Samantha Whalen this past January “for repayment of unauthorized compensation improperly paid” to her in 2023. Whalen applied for a judicial review of their decision to send her the bill. “The circumstances and timing surrounding the issuance of the invoice raises serious issues about the validity of the invoice,” Justice Ann Marie McDonald wrote…

JAGGAER ha comenzado a implantar JAI, su asistente de compras impulsado por Inteligencia Artificial, en las plataformas digitales de sus clientes. Entre otros resultados, la empresa destaca la reducción en un 50% de las consultas o solicitudes de asistencia técnica por parte de los clientes que ya disponen de esta tecnología. También se ha logrado un ahorro de tiempo en más de 40 flujos de trabajo gracias a la adopción del nuevo asistente, que se incrementa en un 1.000% cada semana. JAGGAER define JAI como un “colega experto” que siempre está disponible, conoce a la perfección las normas de compras…

“Life is violent and kids are violent, and they like to see works that are ‘bigger’ than themselves in order to grow up”22/05/2026 – CANNES 2026: The French animator discusses taking on that great “Gypsy” legend from possibly the greatest French opera of all time – but with kids in mind(© Milo Laudenbach)Viva Carmen, presented in the Directors’ Fortnight programme of the 79th Cannes International Film Festival, marks the second appearance on the Croisette of director Sébastien Laudenbach, after his previous work Chicken for Linda! (co-created with Chiara Malta) played the ACID section in 2023. We spoke to the French…

Republicans upended plans to pass a partisan bill to fund ICE after party infighting over unrelated issues snarled their progress.

NPR’s Steve Inskeep asks Jeff Flake, a former Republican senator, about this week’s GOP pushback against some of President Trump’s priorities.

Anne Hathaway’s dreams of pop stardom in Mother Mary almost turned into a nightmare. The Oscar winner plays the titular character in the recent A24 psychological thriller, which follows a pop superstar’s fractured relationship with her former BFF and costume designer (played by Michaela Coel) while on the comeback trail. Hathaway, 43, sings and dances in the film, but she admitted she nearly walked off the movie after seeing early footage of herself performing original songs written by Jack Antonoff, Charli XCX and FKA Twigs. “This is really bad… I don’t know that I can ask people to come to…