Author: KnowledgeHippo

Sports leagues of all shapes and sizes have been involved in gambling in the six years since the Supreme Court struck down a law that restricted betting on games in Nevada. Brushing aside decades of resistance, the professional leagues have taken millions of dollars from casinos and sportsbooks that spend heavily to attract new customers. Formerly no-go zones like Las Vegas are now a free-for-all. the National Football League even held the Super Bowl there last month.But in a nod to the zero-tolerance policies they once championed in court, the leagues continue to assert that their priority when dealing with…

Joni Mitchell’s music has quietly returned to Spotify, more than two years after she followed Neil Young in protest at what she called “lies” about Covid-19 vaccines being spread on the streaming platform.There has been no official announcement of Mitchell’s decision, but on Thursday fans on social media began to excitedly note the reappearance of some of her albums on Spotify. By Friday morning, most if not all of Mitchell’s original albums had returned, including such classics as “Blue” (1971), “Court and Spark” (1974) and “Mingus” (1979).Representatives for the singer-songwriter, her labels and Spotify either did not respond or had…

Los Angeles, for drivers, has never been for the faint of heart. A country where most people can’t fathom life without wheels offers a daily parade of frustrations: congestion, accidents, construction, road rage, fatigue.Every transplant has a story of learning to adapt.”You get into a rhythm of matching everyone else’s energy,” said Tamara Siemering, 30, an actress who moved from Sacramento a year ago. The difference in car culture here, he said, is wild.”It feels very self-centered,” he said. “Everybody’s like, ‘I’ve got somewhere to be, out of my way.’ There’s not a lot of cooperative driving – there’s a…

While it’s not known what kind of cancer Princess Catherine has, oncologists say what she described in her public statement released Friday — cancer discovered during another procedure, in this case a “major abdominal surgery” – it’s very common. .”Unfortunately, so much of the cancer we diagnose is unexpected,” said Dr. Elena Ratner, a gynecologic oncologist at Yale Cancer Center, who has diagnosed many patients with ovarian, uterine, and endometrial cancers.Without speculating about Catherine’s procedure, Dr. Ratner described situations in which women would undergo surgery for endometriosis, a condition in which tissue similar to the lining of the uterus is…

This month, Airbnb announced that, starting April 30, the company will ban the use of surveillance cameras in its rentals. The news was welcomed by those concerned about privacy.“Cameras are both creepy and threatening,” said Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, which has campaigned to ban cameras from Airbnbs by 2022. “People are afraid to take pictures of their privates. moments without consent and the ability for owners to monitor their activities within a rental.”For many travelers, Airbnb’s new policy has raised some fundamental questions: What were the cameras doing there in the first…

Catherine, Princess of Wales, has been diagnosed with cancer and has started chemotherapy, she announced in a video on Friday, in which she described the last two months as “incredibly hard for our whole family”.Her diagnosis follows that of King Charles III, who announced his own cancer diagnosis and treatment in early February. It comes after a period of intense uncertainty over the health of Catherine, who underwent abdominal surgery in January and has largely disappeared from public view as she tries to recover.Like the king, Catherine, 42, did not specify what kind of cancer she has, but asked the…

Good morning. It’s Friday. We’ll see why this season was a first for women’s college basketball in New York. We’ll also learn how LaGuardia Community College will spend a $116.2 million grant from a foundation run by Alexandra Cohen, whose billionaire husband bought the New York Mets in 2020.This was the first season that the Columbia University women’s basketball team reached the NCAA Division I tournament.The New York University women’s team, undefeated in 31 games, also reached the postseason, making it the first year the two colleges have done so at the same time — Columbia in Division I, at-large…

There seems to be little to worry investors right now.The S&P 500 is on track for its best week of the year so far, up more than 2%. That added to gains that have lifted the benchmark more than 10 percent this year, marking a string of record highs.Other major indexes, such as the Dow Jones industrial average and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite, recently traded at or near record highs, as did individual companies as diverse as Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase and Walmart. Shares of social networking company Reddit jumped nearly 50% in their first day of trading on Thursday, a…

General Motors announced Friday that it has stopped sharing details about how people drive its cars with two data brokers who have created risk profiles for the insurance industry.The decision followed a New York Times report this month that GM had, for years, shared data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the insurance industry. Drivers signed up — some unknowingly, they said — to OnStar Smart Driver, a feature in GM’s internet-connected cars that collected data about how the car was driven and promised feedback and digital signals for good driving.Some drivers said their insurance rates had increased…

Automaker Stellantis is recalling hundreds of thousands of vehicles — specifically Dodge Chargers and Chrysler 300s designed from 2018 to 2021 — citing side airbags that could rupture and deploy, according to documents released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.The documents say the airbags on both sides may have defectively inflated, putting passengers at risk of projectiles flying into the vehicles. No injuries have been reported.Chrysler and Dodge are two of the many car brands in the Stellantis portfolio. The total number of Dodge Chargers being recalled is 217,802, while for Chrysler, that number is 67,180. Stellantis estimated in…