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Storm episode! I personally rank those in between quarantine and hostage episodes.
Sword fighting in the woods of Toronto!
GROOT. The second part is at 9:58, so… that’s inconvenient.
HBO hasn’t released any info about the finale of the second season yet—but let’s hope they pull it out somehow.
MAURICIO POCHETTINO was mercifully jeered having gone from a saint to sinner.
But it was just music to the ears of the Tottenham manager.
The taunts from his old Southampton supporters sparked his own fans to chant Pochettino's name at the final whistle. It was a moment not lost on Pochettino.
The Argentine has some doubters at White Hart Lane and another Europa League campaign, the same scenario as last season, beckons.
But he is slowly but surely winning the hearts and minds of those who see progress being made.
"I heard that for the first time and that means a lot for me and I appreciate it so much the support," said Pochettino.
"I am very happy for that because we are starting in our relationship from the beginning and that was very good to hear from them.
"It is very good because you can feel the warmth and the people start to appreciate you and that is very important. I'm a very emotional person and it was very important."
The end of the season cannot come quick enough for Spurs.
His jaded side are not going through the motions, as this comeback point proved, but they have have loftier ambitions than what they are heading for.
The holy grail of the Champions League remains the target.
Instead it looks increasingly likely they will instead face further toil in the Europa League and for Pochettino, that is a competition he could do without.
"We need to accept that this is the game but personally my idea is very tough to play the Premier League, both cups and play the Europa League," said Pochettino.
"It's because Thursday night is very difficult to recover the players for Sunday, sometimes 1am or 3am.
"And the process, the physiological process to recover the players, you kill yourself."
Graziano Pelle twice put Southampton ahead here in either half only for Spurs to respond.
Erik Lamela, via his arm, bundled home the leveller before Nacer Chadli netted in the 70th minute to salvage the draw the visitors did not merit. Southampton will know this was a chance missed.
They have seen their Champions League hopes fade in recent months but Europa League football is still in the pipeline.
Tottenham might not want anything to do with the second tier competition but the same cannot be said of Southampton.
Saints defender Toby Alderweireld said: "It would be very special. The desire is big and every week we give 100 per cent to win and to try to achieve that. It will be amazing."
Southampton (4-2-3-1): Davis 6; Clyne 7, Yoshida 6, Fonte 6, Bertrand 6; Alderweireld 6, Schneiderlin 6 (Reed 90); Ward-Prowse 7 (Long 61,6), Davis 6 (Elia 81), Mane 6; Pelle 8. Booked: Davis. Goals: Pelle 29, 65. NEXT UP: Sunderland (a), Sat PL.
The criminal court trying the double murder of Giorgos Hadjigeorgiou, 60, and his wife Dina Sergiou, 59, last April visited the scene of the crime in Strovolos on Wednesday.
The crime scene walk-through was conducted in the presence of two of the four defendants – the main suspect of the case Loizos Tzionis, 33, and his 22-year-old friend Marios Hadjixenophontos – who were accompanied by a heavy police force.
The remaining two defendants, 21-year-old Sarah Shams and Tzionis’ 23-year-old half-brother, Lefteris Solomou, were also taken to the scene but remained in police vehicles.
The procedure, which was conducted in the presence of the defendants’ lawyers, was led by one of the case investigators, police sergeant Savvas Sammoutis, who walked the court through scenes in the home of the murdered couple and in two adjacent apartment buildings.
The court on Wednesday accepted the request on behalf of a representative of the prosecution to carry out a walk-through of the crime scene. The same request had already been made by Tzionis’ lawyer, while the lawyers of the remaining defendants did not object.
The prosecution lawyer had told the court that it was in the court’s interest to obtain a better understanding of the details of the case, noting that the presence of Tzionis and Hadjixenophontos would be essential to the walk-through procedure.
The lawyers of Shams and Solomou requested that their clients should not partake in the procedure, citing psychological and emotional distress.
The lawyer of Hadjixenophontos also attempted to keep the defendant from taking part in the walk-through, claiming that the 22-year-old was at the scene only because of threats of violence made by Tzionis, which had traumatised him.
The court finally decided that the particular details of the case justified the need for a walk-through and ordered that all four defendants be present even though Shams and Solomou were allowed to remain in police vehicles during the walk-through.
The trial is set to continue on 30 January, at 9am.
The suspects are accused of killing Giorgos Hadjigeorgiou, 60, and his wife Dina Sergiou, 59, in what appeared to be a botched robbery on the night of April 18-19.
The couple were found in their bedroom stabbed multiple times.
All four have pled not guilty to the seven charges against them.
Tzionis initially admitted all charges except that of burglary but later changed his plea.
The couple’s son, 15, was inside the house at the time but the perpetrators didn’t hurt him. Their target appeared to be a safe the 33-year-old had spotted in 2012 while doing some work at the house on Zalongou Street in the suburb of Strovolos.
The perpetrators got away with nothing as the safe Tzionis had anticipated finding had been removed.
The benchmarks point to the possibility of an impending Amazon tablet with a 2,560x1,600 resolution.
A new Kindle Fire HD tablet may be on the way, at least according to new benchmarks found online.
Specs from GFXBench specifically point to an Amazon tablet with a 2,560x1,600 pixel display. A further peek reveals a Qualcomm Adreno 330 graphics processor, which almost certainly means the device will be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 chip.
The specs line up with information recently obtained by blog site Boy Genius Report.
Citing intel from "multiple trusted sources," BGR said that Amazon will refresh all three models of its Kindle Fire tablet lineup this fall. The 8.9-inch version of the Fire HD will offer a resolution of 2,560x1,600 pixels and come with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, according to the sources.
Five people died and two were hospitalized after a small plane crashed into a home near Yorba Linda Golf Course in California on Sunday afternoon.
The pilot died, as did four people on the ground, reported KTLA. The Orange County Fire Authority responded to the fire at about 1:45 p.m. Pacific Time. The cause of the crash was not known late Sunday.
Neighbors described seeing the Cessna 414A explode about 100 feet up, then fall in pieces, “raining plane parts from the sky,” neighbor Jared Bocachica told KTLA.
Flaming parts hit one home, catching it on fire, which then spread to a second residence, the Orange County Fire Authority told KTLA.
A local resident tweeted video of billowing black smoke with airplane parts strewn about the street.
The plane, a Cessna 414A, had just taken off from Fullerton Municipal Airport when it went down, Allen Kenitzer of the Federal Aviation Administration told KTLA.
“Local authorities say there are injuries on the ground,” Kenitzer told the station. “The number of people on board the aircraft is not presently known.”.
Imagine watching a classic mystery film or seasons of Lost while using a second-screen app that gives you unofficial insights and conspiracy theories as their plots move along. That’s the promise of Gracenote’s new audio fingerprinting API that allows apps to hear your TV so they can show you content related to the exact moment you’re viewing.
Gracenote is also launching the “eyeQ API” which lets developers draw on local and national TV listings in 28 countries and 30 languages, as well as bonus content. It could let people build a better TV guide experience than the channel by time grid. I’d personally like to see guides sorted by popularity or what your friends are watching. It will demo the APIs at next week’s TV Of Tomorrow conference.
Founded in 1998 and backed by Sequoia, you might know Gracenote from its technology for identifying song and artist names when you put you put a burned CD into iTunes.
Its new “Entourage API” relies on a similar database of audio fingerprints, but for around one million films and television shows. The API takes the television audio pulled in from a user phone, tablet, or computer microphone and matches it against that database to tell the app the current timestamp of the video in progress. Companies like the Syfy channel are already using it to power companion apps like one for its new show Defiance, but I see even bigger potential for independent developers.
It solves a big problem for second-screen app makers who’ve typically had to rely on audio watermarks to sync their apps to video. Watermarks are a crummy system for syncing. First, the content providers need to have watermarked their own videos. Some licensing agreements from the content owners don’t allow any modifications, and it takes work, meaning not everything you see on TV is compatible with watermark-based second screen apps.
Audio fingerprinting also means you don’t need anyone’s permission to build your own TV companion apps. Provide your expert amateur analysis, build companion games, or do whatever you want. Technology is helping the public reclaim what was once purely a top-down broadcast medium and give it their own spin through the second screen.
This summer is going to be one to remember for Morgan Evans: The Australian singer is hitting the road with country legends Rascal Flatts. Evans says that he's particular excited to immerse himself in the superstar group's expertise over the course of the run.
"[I'm really looking forward to] doing it with them, because they've been doing it at that level for so long," Evans tells The Boot, adding that the timing is also great for his single "Day Drunk," an upbeat and fun-loving track that is the perfect fit for a high-energy summer tour.
Evans goes on to say that he wants to learn from Rascal Flatts how to handle being a tour bus on a major run. "I feel like I am starting to get a feel for, you know, what I respect most about an artists," he explains.
The up-and-comer adds that the aspects of the tour that don't take place onstage are just as important. "It's how they carry themselves offstage, and how they look after their people and how their people look after them, and how their people look after the artists that are out on the road with them, too," Evans says.
Though Evans is sure to learn something new touring with the iconic country group, he's already made plenty of friends on the road with the likes of Dan + Shay, Old Dominion and Chris Young.
Rascal Flatts' 2019 Summer Playlist Tour will begin in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 16. The tour's name is a nod to the "playlist" of special guests who will join them. In addition to Evans, Lee Brice, LoCash, Billy Currington, Jordan Davis and Jimmie Allen will each play select dates with Rascal Flatts. Visit RascalFlatts.com for more details.
A senior Russian official on Friday rejected calls for the establishment of a UN tribunal to try those responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine last year.
"We are against it," deputy foreign minister Gennadiy Gatilov was reported by Russian news agencies as saying. "We think it is not timely and counterproductive."
The Netherlands, Malaysia and three other countries want a UN tribunal to investigate the July 2014 crash, which killed all 298 people passengers and crew.
The Boeing 777 passenger jet was travelling between Amsterdam and Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down in eastern Ukraine, during some of the worst fighting between government forces and pro-Russian separatists who took up arms against Kiev's pro-Western government a few months earlier.
But Moscow flatly denied it was involved and pointed a finger instead at Ukraine's military.
The five countries of the Joint Investigation Team -- Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine -- met last week in New York to discuss the proposed international tribunal.
Gatilov said the investigation should be completed before any further steps are taken.
"Now we must wait until the end of the investigation rather than adopt hasty resolutions on creating a tribunal," he said, adding that "the issue is very sensitive and serious and must be thoroughly studied."
The inflators can hurl shrapnel into drivers and passengers. At least 23 people have died from the problem worldwide and hundreds have been injured.
The moves, announced Friday by the U.S. government, are part of the largest series of automotive recalls in U.S. history. About 10 million inflators are being recalled in the United States this year, with as many as 70 million to be recalled by the time the whole mess ends late next year.
Takata air bags used the chemical ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion to inflate the bags. But the chemical can deteriorate over time due to high humidity and cycles from hot temperatures to cold. The most dangerous inflators are in areas of the South along the Gulf of Mexico that have high humidity.
Many of the U.S. recalls are limited to specific geographic regions. Owners can check to see if their vehicles have been recalled by going to the NHTSA recall web page and entering their car’s 17-digit vehicle identification number.
In the latest round, Subaru is recalling 826,144 vehicles, including various Forester, Legacy and Outback models from 2010 to 2014.
Mercedes is recalling 288,779 vehicles from model years 2010 to 2017.
Volkswagen is recalling 119,394 vehicles, including Audi and Passat models, from 2015 to 2017.
BMW is recalling 266,044 vehicles from the 2000-04 model years and the 2007-15 model years.
The recalls also include 159,689 vehicles from Daimler Vans spanning model years 2015 to 2017.
Tesla is recalling 68,763 Model S vehicles from 2014 to 2016.
Ferrari is recalling 11,176 vehicles of various models from the 2014 to 2018 model years.
Ford, Honda, Toyota and Fiat Chrysler have already released their 2019 Takata recalls, totaling more than 5 million vehicles.
The recalls forced Takata to seek bankruptcy protection and sell most of its assets to pay for the fixes.
Ticketmaster is the latest online vendor to report a breach that is the result of a third-party widget.
Event ticket retailer Ticketmaster publicly disclosed a data breach at its United Kingdom division on June 27 that involved a subset of its global customer base.
Ticketmaster is downplaying the impact of the incident, noting that less than 5 percent of its global customer base is at risk from the breach. In addition, Ticketmaster specifically stated that customers in North America are not affected.
"On Saturday, June 23, 2018, Ticketmaster UK identified malicious software on a customer support product hosted by Inbenta Technologies, an external third-party supplier to Ticketmaster," Ticketmaster wrote in an advisory. "As soon as we discovered the malicious software, we disabled the Inbenta product across all Ticketmaster websites."
Ticketmaster suspects that customers in the UK who purchased event tickets between February and June 23, 2018, may be affected. Out of an abundance of caution, Ticketmaster is also alerting its international customers who purchased tickets during the same time period.
The Inbenta support product used by Ticketmaster is a chat widget that is embedded on Ticketmaster website pages. Upon learning of the security issue on June 23, Ticketmaster disabled the widget across all its sites. Attackers potentially were able to get access to customer names, addresses and payment details, although it's not clear how attackers were able to compromise the Inbenta widget.
"As a result of Inbenta's product running on Ticketmaster International websites, some of our customers' personal or payment information may have been accessed by an unknown third-party," Ticketmaster stated. "Forensic teams and security experts are working around the clock to understand how the data was compromised."
Ticketmaster isn't the first vendor to be impacted by a chat widget breach in 2018. In April, multiple organizations including Best Buy, Delta and Sears were impacted by a breach at chat widget vendor 7.ai. In contrast with the Ticketmaster incident, which was disclosed within days of the breach, the 7.ai breach was disclosed seven months after the breach occurred.
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires organizations to publicly disclose breaches within 72 hours of discovery. It's likely that GDPR concerns were a factor in Ticketmaster's rapid disclosure. It's not currently known what, if any, consequences Ticketmaster will face related to GDPR compliance as a result of the breach.
While any breach is a cause for concern, the Ticketmaster incident pales in comparison to the breach of rival ticket vendor Ticketfly, which was impacted by a hacker attack at the end of May. In the Ticketfly attack, the company was forced to shut down all of its websites for several days after hackers were able to deface the website and gain access to millions of user accounts.
"In consultation with third-party forensic cybersecurity experts we can now confirm that credit and debit card information was not accessed," Ticketfly wrote in an advisory. "However, information including names, addresses, email addresses and phone numbers connected to approximately 27 million Ticketfly accounts was accessed."
The source of the Ticketfly attack has not yet been publicly disclosed.
Grant Reed’s tumor could have left him feeling sorry for himself while he spent time at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Instead, the 12-year-old Ohio State fan chose to name his tumor “Michigan,” and then he fought to beat it.