Author: Max Smith

New Hampshire House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would ban transgender women and girls from participating in girls' school sports teams, making the state the first state in the Northeast to adopt such a measure. I decided. New Hampshire's Republican-controlled House approved House Bill 1205 on a mostly party-line vote Thursday. The bill, titled the Women's Sports Fairness Act, is currently in the state's Republican-led Senate, where it is expected to pass. House Republicans on Thursday said the bill would require interscholastic, intercollegiate and intracollegiate sports teams to designate participation based on a player's sex assigned at birth,…

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Burnt rubber and gunshots aren't the most pleasant smells, but they may be the most common smells in action games. At least this is true for GameScent. GameScent is a new device that aims to make gaming more immersive by adding scent to the equation.GameScent, which went out of service late last month with little fanfare and some guffaws, uses an adapter and an app on your phone to capture audio while you play. Those audio cues are then fed into the company's “revolutionary AI,” which triggers specific smells.This is a hexagonal device that is compatible with most consoles, PCs,…

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For Brian Rolup, the National Football League's chief media and business officer, the new sports streaming service from Disney's ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery is something of a shocker. Rolup spoke Thursday at the Washington Post Live Futurist Summit, commenting on plans for a sports streaming bundle from Disney, Fox and WBD that is expected to debut in the fall of 2024. The joint venture will pool ESPN+ and each company's linear TV networks. Broadcast sports programs. Pricing has not been announced. “They're positioning this as the ultimate sports bundle, but it's missing more than half of NFL football,”…

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Hamilton, Bermuda, March 21, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NT Butterfield & Son Bank (“Butterfield”) (NYSE: NTB | BSX: NTB.BH) releases first quarter 2024 financial results after the New York Stock Exchange closes on Tuesday. To do. , April 23, 2024.Earnings Conference Call: Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 10:00 a.m. Eastern TimeDial-in information: +1 (844) 855 9501 (toll-free US) or +1 (412) 858 4603 (international)Conference ID: butterfield groupLive audio webcast: A live audio webcast of this call can be accessed from Butterfield's Investor Relations page on Butterfield's website at https://www.butterfieldgroup.com/investor-relations/events-presentations.Replay: An audio replay of the call will be available for viewing at https://www.butterfieldgroup.com/investor-relations/events-presentations for 12…

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New report predicts the biggest cybersecurity threats of 2024, and this year could see an evolution in phishing strategies, a focus on the software supply chain, and exploitation of more widely used enterprise software such as MOVEit It points out that there is.The report was released on Thursday recorded futureanalyzes cybersecurity threat trends in 2023 and predicts how they will spread through 2024.”We predict that at least one ransomware group will be able to successfully compromise hundreds of targets by exploiting vulnerabilities in third-party file transfer solutions, especially for enterprises,” he said. recorded futureMaggie Coleman.If this sounds familiar, you're right.…

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SAG-AFTRA is trying to avoid another strike, but the actors union still has a lot of bones to grind with video game companies in their latest contract negotiations. One of SAG-AFTRA's key challenges will be getting gaming companies to agree to protections for the use of generative AI, something the union fought hard in negotiations with TV and film studios last year. That was one of the biggest problems. But the video game giant is unlikely to give in, and SAG-AFTRA is likely to enact a work stoppage again, this time focusing on actors who play voice-over roles in games.…

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March 21, 2024, 3:06 PM ETLeicester City could face a point deduction on Thursday after the Premier League referred the club to an independent committee for allegedly breaching the league's profit and sustainability regulations.The Premier League said in a statement that Leicester, who were relegated to the Championship last season, had not submitted audited financial reports.- Stream on ESPN+: La Liga, Bundesliga and more (US)”The alleged breaches relate to the evaluation period at the end of the 2022-23 season, during which the club was a member of the Premier League,” the statement said.“The proceedings will be carried out according to…

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Opponents of online sports betting in Florida on Thursday lost their latest battle against the state's agreement with the Seminole Tribe to allow gambling. The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that opponents filed the wrong type of petition to challenge an agreement between the Seminole Tribe of Florida and Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration. The deal would rake in hundreds of millions of dollars for both tribes and state governments from online sports betting and other forms of gambling. The decision is the latest setback for West Flagler Associates and Bonita Fort Myers Corp., which operate racetracks and poker rooms in…

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