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Serena Williams Is Coming Back to Tennis at 44, Returning to the Sport She Dominated for Decades

Serena Williams Is Coming Back to Tennis at 44, Returning to the Sport She Dominated for Decades

Published by Sam Flores

PARIS (AP) — Serena Williams is coming back to professional tennis at the age of 44, returning to the sport she dominated for two decades before famously “evolving” away from the daily grind of competition. First up for the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion is the doubles tournament at Queen’s Club. But Wimbledon and the U.S. Open could be next. “It seems like she’s trying to work her way up maybe to the U.S. Open, and those fans would be so ready to see her back on a singles court there,” former No. 1 Lindsay Davenport said at the French Open after the WTA Tour announced Monday that Williams has accepted a wild-card invitation to play doubles at next week’s grass-court tournament in London. Williams won seven Wimbledon titles and six at the U.S. Open before stepping away from the game in 2022. In doubles, she won six titles at Wimbledon and two at the U.S. Open — all with her older sister Venus Williams. “She’s a legend. It’s inspiring to see,” top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka …

Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist dominated by debut novelists as judges name books that ‘profoundly moved us’

Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist dominated by debut novelists as judges name books that ‘profoundly moved us’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The shortlist for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction has been revealed – and four of the six novels to have made the cut are debut works. Addie E Citchens and Virginia Evans are nominated for their respective works, Dominion and The Correspondent, while Marcia Hutchinson has been recognised for The Mercy Step and Rozie Kelly for Kingfisher. The foursome are joined on the shortlist by two established American novelists – Susan Choi, who is nominated for her sixth book, Flashlight, and Lily King, whose seventh book Heart the Lover follows a university love triangle that is reignited years later. This year’s judging panel is being chaired by the former prime minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, who has hailed all of the shortlisted authors for penning novels that “intrigued and profoundly moved” the judges. The nominees for this year’s Women’s Prize …

Just three companies dominated the 9B in VC investments last month

Just three companies dominated the $189B in VC investments last month

Published by skeptic

AI continues to dominate the venture world, per a new Crunchbase report. A record $189 billion of global venture capital flowed to startups in February, according to the report. AI startups overall raised $171 billion, or 90% of the capital raised last month. It’s a stunning number that feels like only the start.  That record spending was more than three times the global VC spend in January and was dominated by mammoth funding rounds from just three companies: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo. OpenAI’s latest $110 billion raise led the pack. It was one of the largest private rounds ever raised and valued the company at $730 billion. Its rival Anthropic nabbed a $30 billion Series G at a $380 billion valuation. Lastly, Waymo raised $16 billion at a valuation of $126 billion. These three companies alone were responsible for 83% of the venture dollars raised last month. The amount raised by just OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo last month was one-third of the total $425 billion venture spend in 2025, according to Crunchbase. Source link

Intel will start making GPUs, a market dominated by Nvidia 

Intel will start making GPUs, a market dominated by Nvidia 

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As Intel continues to try to turn itself around, its CEO promised that the company will start producing a new type of chip, one that has been made very popular by rival Nvidia. At the Cisco AI Summit on Tuesday, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced that the company will start producing graphics processing units (GPUs). These are more specialized processors, compared to the CPUs Intel traditionally produces, and are used for gaming and tasks like training artificial intelligence models. TechCrunch reached out to Intel for more information. The project will be overseen by Kevork Kechichian, the executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s data center group, according to reporting from Reuters. Kechichian was hired in September among a slew of new engineer-focused hires. Intel also hired Eric Demers for the effort in January. Demers was previously at Qualcomm for more than 13 years, most recently serving as a senior vice president of engineering. This initiative seems to be in relatively early stages as Tan said the company plans to develop its strategy around customer …

‘Sinners’ dominated, and other takeaways : NPR

‘Sinners’ dominated, and other takeaways : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

The 2026 Oscars nominations were announced Thursday morning. Sinners received a record number of nods. Clockwise from top left: Michael B. Jordan in Sinners, Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent, Brad Pitt in F1 and Teyana Taylor in One Battle After Another. Warner Bros. Pictures; NEON; Scott Garfield/Warner Bros. Pictures/Apple Original Films; Warner Bros. Pictures hide caption toggle caption Warner Bros. Pictures; NEON; Scott Garfield/Warner Bros. Pictures/Apple Original Films; Warner Bros. Pictures Oscar nominations are out, kicking off seven weeks of conversations about what the Academy got right (and wrong) today and predictions about what voters might still get wrong during the awards on March 15. Here’s what struck me when the lists were announced this morning. Sinners dominated, followed by One Battle After Another  Before this year, no movie had ever gotten more than 14 Oscar nominations. Three films — All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land — shared the top spot. This year, Ryan Coogler’s brilliant vampire story Sinners bested that by two, landing 16 nominations. If it had been 15, you could …

Ilia Malinin has dominated figure skating for years. All that’s left is an Olympic gold.

Ilia Malinin has dominated figure skating for years. All that’s left is an Olympic gold.

Published by Sam Flores

Ilia Malinin, a 21-year-old from Fairfax, Virginia, has won virtually every major figure skating competition over the past three years. As he approaches the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, set to begin next month, the question in the figure skating community isn’t whether he will win gold — but how much will he win by. Malinin has finished first in the last four U.S. championships, the last three Grand Prix Finals and the last two world championships. The only accolade missing from his increasingly long résumé is an Olympic gold medal. So does he feel pressure knowing he’s expected not only to win in Italy, but win decisively? “Of course, there’s going to be a lot of pressure,” Malinin told NBC News, “especially because it’s my first Olympics, and it’s going to be just something that I’ll have to look into. But I’m just really excited, and I’m not really thinking about it right now. I like to take things one step at a time, so most of the time, I’m just going through every single …

Golden Globes 2026: Timothee Chalamet beats DiCaprio on night dominated by One Battle After Another and Adolescence

Golden Globes 2026: Timothee Chalamet beats DiCaprio on night dominated by One Battle After Another and Adolescence

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Teyana Taylor set the tone at the 2026 Golden Globes. While accepting an award for her supporting performance as Perfidia Beverly Hills in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, Taylor immediately thought of her two young daughters. “My babies are upstairs watching!” she exclaimed. “Y’all better be off those damn phones and watching me right now!” That moment foreshadowed many of the major themes of the night, not least the dominance of Anderson’s revolutionary caper. One Battle After Another took home the night’s penultimate prize for Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), while Paul Thomas Anderson won his first-ever Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Screenplay. His lauded film, called a “ferocious masterpiece” by The Independent’s critic, now looks a clear frontrunner for the Oscars in March. That’s not to say the film had things all its own way. …

Cloud-9: Astronomers spot a gas-rich cloud dominated by dark matter that contains no stars

Cloud-9: Astronomers spot a gas-rich cloud dominated by dark matter that contains no stars

Published by Jenni Sidey

Astronomers using the NASA and European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope have identified what appears to be a long-predicted but never before confirmed cosmic object: a gas-rich cloud dominated by dark matter that contains no stars. The object, known as Cloud-9, sits near the spiral galaxy Messier 94 and offers rare, direct evidence of a “failed galaxy,” a structure that began forming billions of years ago but never completed the process. The research was led by Alejandro Benitez-Llambay of Milano-Bicocca University in Milan, Italy, with major contributions from scientists at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. The findings were published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters and combine deep optical observations from Hubble with earlier radio detections from some of the world’s most powerful ground-based telescopes. “This is a tale of a failed galaxy,” Benitez-Llambay said. “In science, we usually learn more from the failures than from the successes. In this case, seeing no stars is what proves the theory right. It tells us that we have found in the local Universe a primordial building …