(Alamy/PA)A strike at The New York Times could affect its US election converge and staff want you to stop playing Wordle and Connections to help them. It has since remained an important mainstay of The New York Times website and seems to have paved the way for more puzzle games, such as Connections and Strands. In addition, it has asked regular readers to ‘honour the digital picket line’ and not engage with Wordle or any of The New York Times’ games. Voting has already begun and without its tech staff, The New York Times’ coverage of the most important event of the year will be badly affected. (New York Times Tech Guild)Email gamecentral@metro.co.uk, leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter.
Source:The Times
November 05, 2024 13:37 UTC
Fabiana Lacerca-AllenChief Compliance Officer , CiplaM. Fabiana Lacerca-Allen has over 30 years of experience in legal and compliance roles, working for leading American companies such as Aimmune, Elan, Mylan, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Microsoft, Merck, and AT&T. She has extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry in leadership roles in charge of legal and compliance teams. Fabiana has established policies and oversight on key areas of compliance affecting international markets, and she has been able to positively impact the perception of compliance, creating compliance training programs and relevant standard operating procedures and has been involved in validating and aiding due diligence in the compliance industry, frequently being requested as speaker and participant in forums. Ms. Lacerca-Allen was invited to join the Gioja Research Institute while she was a student researching on environmental law. Today, Aimmune is working to fulfill the 2011 shared vision of developing a peanut allergy treatment and making it available to allergists for patients worldwide.
Source:The Guardian
November 05, 2024 13:09 UTC
Britain’s Conservative Party made history last weekend, becoming the country’s first major party to elect a Black woman as leader. And yet this milestone was reached not by a party of the progressive center-left but by Britain’s oldest and most traditional conservative political force. After all, the Conservatives have broken glass ceilings before, picking all three of Britain’s female prime ministers, as well as its first leader who wasn’t white, Rishi Sunak. Now 44, Ms. Badenoch was born in London and raised in Nigeria, returning to Britain when she was 16. In her first parliamentary speech, in 2017, she declared, “To all intents and purposes, I am a first-generation immigrant.”
Source:The Times
November 05, 2024 13:01 UTC
The trend for building beautiful arcades so shoppers could stay dry and sheltered began in the early 1800s in Paris. Here are our favourites, along with some lovely places to stay nearby. Details B&B doubles from £170AdvertisementMorgan Arcade, CardiffThe Morgan Aracade in Cardiff is the city’s best-looking NAOMI LLEWELLYNCardiff has more Edwardian and Victorian arcades than any other city. Details B&B doubles from £95The Argyll Arcade, GlasgowThe 19th-century Argyll Arcade was the site of one of the UK’s first tearooms ALAMYThis elegant Victorian arcade dates back to the 1820s and has a beautiful cast-iron hammerbeam roof. Details B&B doubles from £200Have we missed your favourite shopping arcade?
Source:The Times
November 05, 2024 12:42 UTC
More infoRuben Amorim’s bottom line for this season is to ensure Manchester United qualify for Europe via any tactical means necessary, says Dimitar Berbatov. They are six points off fifth, the guaranteed automatic Europa League qualification spot, but can finish lower and still qualify for Europe. Should the winners of the FA Cup and League Cup finish in a Champions League place, the respective prizes of Europa League and Europa Conference League qualification get passed down to the next positions in the table - namely sixth and seventh. However, the former United striker is intrigued to see how the new boss will set up his team given the players he has at his disposal. “The players might not be 100% suited because they won’t be, they’re not his players, they’re not the squad he’s built.
Source:Express
November 05, 2024 12:36 UTC
No smoker wants to harm other people, but with second-hand smoke they unintentionally do. Some people are especially vulnerable to tobacco chemicals: children, pregnant women, people with common pre-existing but usually invisible health conditions like asthma, diabetes or coronary heart disease. This led to rapid improvements in health including around 1,200 fewer heart attack admissions and many fewer asthma admissions in children in the first year alone. The tobacco industry drives health inequality, harms the economy through ill health including during the working age and causes a burden on the NHS - far outweighing the tax receipts. Ensuring a smoke-free generation, protecting families and vulnerable people from involuntary second-hand smoke and preventing some of the tricks used to market cigarettes and vapes to children will have substantial long-term benefits to the health of the public.
Source:The Times
November 05, 2024 12:03 UTC
Britain’s Conservative Party made history last weekend, becoming the country’s first major party to elect a Black woman as leader. And yet this milestone was reached not by a party of the progressive center-left but by Britain’s oldest and most traditional conservative political force. “I’m glad because it shows that my country and my party are actually places where it doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like,” the new leader, Kemi Badenoch, told the BBC on Sunday. After all, the Conservatives have broken glass ceilings before, picking all three of Britain’s female prime ministers, as well as its first leader who wasn’t white, Rishi Sunak. Now 44, Ms. Badenoch was born in London and raised in Nigeria, returning to Britain when she was 16.
Source:The Times
November 05, 2024 11:57 UTC
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have tied with three votes each in the tiny New Hampshire town that traditionally kicks off voting on election day. Since the 1960s, voters in Dixville Notch, close to the Canadian border, have gathered just after midnight to cast their ballots. Votes are then counted and results announced – hours before other states open their polls. According to CNN, four registered Republicans and two undeclared voters took part in the vote just after midnight on Tuesday
Source:The Guardian
November 05, 2024 11:41 UTC
Former NSW Liberal energy minister Matt Kean debated his former Coalition colleagues about the cost of nuclear power in a parliamentary estimates hearing on Monday. Now chair of the Climate Change Authority, Kean debated Nationals senator Ross Cadell over CSIRO analysis which found nuclear was the most expensive form of large-scale energy available
Source:The Guardian
November 05, 2024 11:27 UTC
Mitchell's auction house held the sale last week, featuring more than 700 lots of both modern and vintage tools. A Lincoln Powertec 250c MIG welder (Image: Supplied) Mitchells are now gearing up for their Maritime and Transport Sale, scheduled for Thursday, November 7, starting at 10am. A watercolour painting by Victorian artist William Mackenzie Thomson (Image: Supplied) A 1922 shipwright's shipbuilding manual is also on offer and is expected to fetch between £100 and £200. A 1922 shipwright's shipbuilding manual (Image: Supplied) For those interested in marine equipment, a Vetus Bowthruster 7.5 kgf is expected to sell for between £400 and £800. The auction house will display the lots in the saleroom on Wednesday from 10am to 7pm.
Source:The Times
November 05, 2024 11:07 UTC
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris delivered their closing arguments, holding duelling rallies across the battleground states well into the night, on the last day of campaigning before the US election. Harris was in Pennsylvania, the biggest swing state and crucial to the Democratic campaign. She held the final rally of her campaign at the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Introduced by Oprah Winfrey and Lady Gaga, Harris emphasised her message of hope. Trump struck a darker tone in the same state, with threats to put tariffs on all imports from Mexico unless it stopped people from entering the US.
Source:The Guardian
November 05, 2024 10:43 UTC
How the election works in 100 wordsEach state is worth a number of points known as "electoral college votes" related to the population of the state. California, the most populous US state, has 54 electoral college votes representing its 39 million population. In almost all states, if you win by just one vote, you get all the electoral college votes. There are 538 "points" in total. Most states are predictable - so it could all come down to seven swing states: Pennsylvania (19 electoral votes), Georgia (16), North Carolina (16), Michigan (15), Arizona (11), Wisconsin (10) and Nevada (6).
Source:The Times
November 05, 2024 10:29 UTC
Israeli settlers torched 20 cars during an attack on Palestinian property on the outskirts of Ramallah on Monday, residents said, in one of their boldest raids yet in the area that serves as the Palestinians' seat of government in the occupied West Bank. Around a dozen attackers, masked and carrying petrol bombs, targeted the Al-Bireh area, which adjoins Ramallah, at about 3am, torching the cars in a matter of minutes. The Israeli police and the Shin Bet security agency were investigating after receiving a report that a number of Palestinian cars had been burned
Source:The Guardian
November 05, 2024 10:29 UTC
(You can now subscribe to our(You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channelFormer British Indian home secretary Priti Patel has been chosen by the newly elected Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch as her shadow foreign secretary to join her top team on the Opposition benches in the House of Commons on Tuesday. "Congratulations to Kemi Badenoch on her election as leader of our great Party," posted Patel on X over the weekend after the election result was declared. "Let's all unite behind her to renew and earn back the trust of the British people. "In her first response as the new shadow minister, Trott called the tuition fee rise "a hike in the effective tax graduates have to pay. "With the Tories down to just 121 members of Parliament, Badenoch will have to hand multiple shadow briefs to some of her picks as many senior Tories have declined frontbench jobs as she prepares to chair her first shadow cabinet meeting as Opposition leader.
Source:The Times
November 05, 2024 09:47 UTC
DSIT is also leading a scheme to create a new “digital centre” of government, boosting technology adoption across the public sector. “We are going to change this by experimenting with emerging technology to find new ways to save people time and make their lives easier, as we are doing with Gov.UK Chat. A small, private trial of the Gov.UK chatbot was conducted last year, with nearly 70% of the responses provided by the chatbot classed as helpful, but DSIT said the test also showed that more development was required to meet the high accuracy standards required for guidance on the government website. The Government also confirmed that stringent safety measures and guardrails have been put in place around the chatbot, with experts on AI safety and safeguarding techniques from the UK’s AI Safety Institute consulted on the chatbot’s development. DSIT acknowledged that some inaccurate and erroneous results were likely during the trial, given the emerging nature of generative AI, but said the test would provide information and insights needed to further improve the tool.
Source:The Times
November 05, 2024 09:15 UTC