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VAR official says hand gesture was ‘involuntary, subconscious twitch’

Yesterday at 23:52 PM, via BBC News

Video assistant referee Shaun Evans has denied “intentionally” making a hand gesture “to communicate a message, affiliation, game or belief of any kind” and claimed it was a “an involuntary, subconscious twitch” that he was “unaware” of.

Business

Fox to buy Roku streaming firm in $22bn deal

Yesterday at 14:43 PM, via BBC News

The move is seen as a bet that combining streaming with its news and sport offering will leave Fox in a strong position as TV audiences move online.

Sport

Lukaku’s instant impact for Belgium’s equaliser

Yesterday at 22:50 PM, via BBC News

Romelu Lukaku has an instant impact for Belgium as he plays a key part in their equalising goal against Egypt in Seattle, just 22 seconds after coming off the bench.

Education

Malawi: Exploits University Graduates Over 1,200 Students

Yesterday at 18:34 PM, via AllAfrica

[Nyasa Times] Exploits University on Saturday conferred degrees and diplomas on more than 1,200 students in various disciplines during its latest graduation ceremony, marking another milestone in the institution’s growth and contribution to Malawi’s higher education sector.

Lifestyle

Jazz Icon Abdullah Ibrahim dies

Yesterday at 19:25 PM, via The South African

91-year-old Cape Town-born jazz icon Abdullah Ibrahim was famous for songs like ‘Mannenburg’.

Science/Tech

Google Chrome’s Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers

Yesterday at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

Google is removing Chrome’s last remaining workarounds for Manifest V2 extensions, effectively ending support for legacy ad blockers such as the original uBlock Origin. 9to5Google reports: CyberNews points out a Chromium commit that removes support for the “kExtensionManifestV2Disabled” flag, which is referred to as “dead code” seeing as Chrome no longer supports Manifest V2 extensions. This...

Science/Tech

Users Cry Foul After AMD Stripped Memory Crypto From Its Consumer CPUs

Yesterday at 22:02 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A decade ago, AMD added a protection to its high-end CPUs to protect them against cold boot attacks and other types of physical exploits that siphon sensitive data out of the connected memory chips. Short for Transparent Secure Memory Encryption, TSME encrypts the entire contents stored in memory, making the data useless to physical...

Health

How Does One Brain Speak Two Languages?

Yesterday at 19:45 PM, via New York Times

A new study of bilingual speakers suggests that a single “grammatical engine” in the brain can power multiple languages at once.