Ben Stokes: England captain to miss early rounds of County Championship season with Durham as he recovers from injury | Cricket News

England captain Ben Stokes will play no part in the early stages of the County Championship season with Durham as he continues to recover from a hamstring injury. Stokes is making strong progress from the issue he sustained bowling on the Test tour of New Zealand late last year – his second hamstring tear in … Read more

Transgender people are less than 1% of the US population. Yet they’re a political lightning rod – The Mercury News

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and JESSE BEDAYN | Associated Press On the campaign trail, Donald Trump used contentiousness around transgender people’s access to sports and bathrooms to fire up conservative voters and sway undecideds. And in his first months back in office, Trump has pushed the issue further, erasing mention of transgender people on government websites … Read more

BNB Chain catches memecoin wave as Solana wipes out

BNB Chain, the EVM-compatible network tied to cryptocurrency exchange Binance, is experiencing a resurgence in the decentralized finance (DeFi) and memecoin spaces just as some of its rivals face an identity crisis. For most of 2024 and into early 2025, Solana dominated the retail DeFi narrative. It became the network of choice for memecoins tied … Read more

Steve Jobs’ famous ‘third device’ may not have much time left

When Steve Jobs first introduced the iPad, he called it “a third category of device.” One that would do certain things better than a laptop or smartphone. But what happens when foldable iPhones can operate as both smartphone and iPad equivalents? Does that “third device” disappear? Justifying the iPad’s existence Apple’s first foldable iPhone has … Read more

Can Controversy and Censorship Ever Be Good for Artists and Their Art?

Anti-porn protesters outside the Hamilton County Courthouse in protesting a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition. Bettmann Archive “There is no such thing as bad publicity,” circus owner Phineas T. Barnum supposedly said, and perhaps that is true. “When Piss Christ became a national issue 36 years ago, I was an unknown artist,” said photographer Andres Serrano, referring … Read more