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Uber said it would buy a majority 85 per cent stake in Turkish food and grocery delivery platform Trendyol Go for $700 million, as the ride-hailing giant looks to tap new growth markets amid signs of saturation in its mainstay North American business.The stake purchase from Turkish e-commerce firm Trendyol Group gives Uber control of a platform that serves customers nationwide, delivering groceries and meals from over 90,000 restaurants and markets through 19,000 couriers.In 2024, Trendyol Go delivered more than 200 million orders and racked up about $2 billion in gross bookings, marking a year-on-year surge of more than 50…

Screenshot of BBC Maestro site featuring the Agatha Christie writing course. Image: BBC Maestro eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Nearly five decades after her death, best-selling crime fiction author Agatha Christie is returning to the spotlight — this time as an artificial intelligence model. The BBC has digitally recreated the legendary novelist to deliver a creative writing course based on her own words and methods. BBC course material sourced from Christie’s archives BBC Maestro, a subscription-based educational streaming platform, features Christie as the…

California Controller Malia M. Cohen wants Congress to change the tax code to cap deferred payments, a change that could ensure the state is owed more money from Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani.Cohen made the request four weeks after the two-way star and the Dodgers agreed to a record $700 million, 10-year contract that contains $680 million in deferred payments due from 2034-43. If Ohtani is not living in California at the time he receives the deferred money, he potentially could avoid what currently is the state’s 13.3 percent income tax and 1.1 percent payroll tax for State Disability…

A man walks through Killian Court at MIT in Cambridge.REUTERS/Brian SnyderMajor U.S. universities have filed a lawsuit seeking to block President Donald Trump’s administration from carrying out steep cuts to federal research funding provided to academic institutions by the National Science Foundation.The lawsuit was filed late on Monday in federal court in Boston by 13 schools including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton University, as well as the Association of American Universities and two other academic trade groups.They took aim at a decision NSF announced on Friday to cap reimbursement for indirect research costs at 15%, an action that…

Grand Theft Auto 6 has dropped a surprise second trailer just days after Rockstar Games said it’s pushing back the game’s much-anticipated release until May 2026. The second trailer provides more details about the game’s storyline, which involves its first-ever female protagonist, Lucia. The roughly 3-minute clip shows her partner, Jason, as he meets her when she’s released from prison. The two are shown engaging in some criminal activities, such as holding up a business while wearing masks and carrying weapons. “Jason and Lucia have always known the deck is stacked against them,” states Rockstar’s description for the second trailer. “But when an…

Recteq makes pellet grills, but those can’t do it all when it comes to backyard cooking. So when the company sought to create an alternative for gas grillers, without making an actual gas grill, it needed to do something radically different.With its newly launched X-Fire Pro, Recteq may have done that. The company says that its Dual Mode Cooking combines the best of wood pellets and gas, offering a temperature range between 225 and 1,250 degrees Fahrenheit. But it wasn’t just about getting to that high level of heat. For Recteq, harmonizing the dual capabilities with an intuitive design was…

Jade Cargill, Naomi and Bianca Belair were back in tag team action on Friday Night SmackDown as they took on Blair Davenport alongside The Unholy Union’s Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn.

Washington — House GOP leaders stressed early this week that the budget package central to President Trump’s agenda remains on track even as they acknowledged a delay that comes amid simmering disagreements in the Republican conference that have threatened to stunt progress on reconciliation.”It just made sense for us to push pause for a week to make sure that we do this right,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said Tuesday at his weekly news conference. The committee work on budget reconciliation officially kicked off last week, as a number of panels considered their portions of the major package, which…

Samsung announced a new P2P payment method for Samsung Wallet users this morning, with one feature in particular catching our eye. The announcement highlights two Galaxy phones tapping each other to send money with NFC, and while that’s cool enough, the feature we’re stoked on is when one user doesn’t have a digital wallet. Using a Visa or Mastercard debit card’s NFC chip, you can utilize the same tap-to-pay feature like you would at a merchant. Features such as this help make it stand apart from others like Venmo. Samsung Wallet uses NFC technology to connect to the recipient’s debit…

The second round of the NBA Playoffs features a matchup between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Golden State Warriors. Check out everything you need to know about the series:When is Timberwolves vs. Warriors Game 1?The Timberwolves and Warriors will face off on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Minneapolis. Tip off time will be at 9:30 p.m., and the game will be aired on TNT.Did people underestimate the Timberwolves? | First Things First Timberwolves vs. Warriors Series ScheduleBelow is the full schedule for the Timberwolves vs. Warriors playoff series:(6) Minnesota Timberwolves vs. Golden State Warriors* if necessaryHow many times have the…