Comcast has announced new technology for ultra-low lag Internet on its Xfinity service. According to the company’s release, users of select products and software from its partners will experience less delay in situations with bi-directional traffic. The first wave of supported applications include select games from Valve’s Steam platform, from NVIDIA, select apps on mixed…
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European Central Bank cuts interest rates by 0.25 percentage points The European Central Bank has cut its key interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 2.75% in an effort to stimulate growth in the struggling eurozone economy. The rate-setting governing council has now cut interest rates five times since the start of summer 2024. The…
Lots of people like the idea of grooming dogs for a living. Some survey sought to identify the most popular jobs to which British workers would like to switch in the coming 12 months, and dog grooming came out top. I can see – or at least used to see – the attraction. Pooch parlours…
Figure skaters aboard American Airlines flight that crashed in DC Russian skaters and coaches Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the crashed flight returning from Kansas. Ilia Malinin, the reigning world and national champion in men’s figure skating, signaled that he was not aboard the plane that fatally collided with a military helicopter over…
Jurors have acquitted a man diagnosed with “sexsomnia” of rape. On Thursday, Timothy Malcolm Rowland, 40, was found not guilty of having non-consensual sex with a woman at his Sydney apartment on 26 August 2022, after the pair spent a night out together. The 40-year-old told the seven-day jury trial he was experiencing an episode…