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After an exhilarating two weeks of first-round play filled with Game 7s and series sweeps, the second round of the 2025 NBA playoffs will get underway.The No. 1 Cleveland Cavaliers, after a dominating regular season, swept the Orlando Magic in the first round and became the first team in the East to claim a spot in the conference semifinals. On Sunday, the Cavaliers will take on Tyrese Haliburton and the Indiana Pacers after they knocked out the Milwaukee Bucks from the playoffs for the second season in a row.From the play-in tournament to the NBA Finals, ESPN has you covered…

Spotify generates the vast bulk of its income from ads and subscriptions, but for the past few years the music-streaming giant has also been quietly building out a developer tooling business. Backstage, a project it open-sourced in 2020, has been adopted by more than 2 million developers across 3,400 organizations, including Airbnb, LinkedIn, Twilio, and American Airlines. Backstage helps companies build customized “internal developer portals” (IDPs), bringing order to their infrastructure chaos by combining all their tooling, apps, data, services, APIs, and documents in a single interface. Want to monitor Kubernetes, view cloud costs, or check your CI/CD status? Enter…

بزيّهم الملوّن الذي يعود لعصر النهضة وخوذاتهم المزينة بالريش، وقف أفراد الحرس السويسري على أهبة الاستعداد خلال جنازة البابا فرانشيسكو، في مشهد جمع بين الانضباط العسكري والرمزية التاريخية. ففي جنازة رسمية مهيبة، ودّع الفاتيكان والآلاف من المشيعين البابا فرانشيسكو الذي توفي عن عمر يناهز 88 عاما إثر سكتة دماغية، حيث شارك الحرس السويسري بدور تقليدي ورمزي محوري، إلى جانب وحدات الشرطة الإيطالية المتخصصة والجيش، ضمن خطة أمنية موسعة شهدتها العاصمة الإيطالية روما ومدينة الفاتيكان. Who are the Swiss Guards standing watch over Pope Francis lying in state? For over 500 years, Swiss soldiers have protected the Pope. Originally recruited for…

The second round of the 2025 NBA playoffs is underway, with eight teams going head-to-head for a chance to move one step closer to their championship hopes.Sunday kicks off with the No. 1 seed Cleveland Cavaliers taking on the No. 4 seed Indiana Pacers after the Cavs swept the Miami Heat in the first round. Monday, the Eastern Conference showdowns continue as the defending champion No. 2 seed Boston Celtics host the No. 3 seed New York Knicks.After an exciting seven-game series, the Denver Nuggets will move on to face the No. 1 seed Oklahoma City Thunder. The No. 6…

Fresh from disrupting the energy and banking sectors, Octopus and Revolut have turned their sights to the UK’s mobile telecoms market.Both groups are looking to break into mobile operations, in a move that could pose a threat to the industry’s incumbents, dominated by four — and soon to be three — players.Revolut announced plans on Wednesday to launch a comprehensive mobile phone plan in the UK and Germany as part of its “superapp”, where a variety of products can be cross-sold in addition to core banking services. It already offers an eSIM that customers can use for overseas roaming, which…

Shotgun Cop Man is a strange platformer. You play as a square man with a round, bald head who’s chasing Satan to arrest him. At the beginning of each of the game’s nine worlds, Satan gives you the middle finger. And you don’t just use guns for fighting, but for traversal as well.You start each world with two guns: a rapid-fire but weak pistol and a more powerful shotgun that only has three blasts. When you’re on the ground, your ammo constantly refills, meaning you essentially have infinite ammo. But when you’re in the air, if you run out of…

أكد المفاوض الياباني بشأن الرسوم الجمركية الأميركية، ريوسي أكازاوا بعد محادثات جديدة في الموضوع، أن أي اتفاق مع الولايات المتحدة يستلزم بالضرورة مراجعة شاملة للتدابير المتصلة بالرسوم الجمركية. وتواجه اليابان الحليف الوثيق لواشنطن والمصدر الرئيسي للاستثمارات الأجنبية في الولايات المتحدة، منذ بداية أبريل/نيسان الماضي، على غرار بلدان أخرى، رسوما جمركية أميركية بنسبة 10%، فضلا عن رسوم إضافية بنسبة 25% على السيارات والصلب. وتمثل السيارات نحو 30% من الصادرات اليابانية إلى الولايات المتحدة. ريوسي أكازاوا يسعى إلى اتفاق شامل بشأن الرسوم الجمركية الأميركية (رويترز) تهديد وتواجه اليابان أيضا تهديدا بفرض رسوم إضافية بنسبة 24% على كل صادراتها، وفق مبدأ “المعاملة بالمثل”.…

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Anyone who thought fatherhood might slow down Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen would have been bitterly disappointed on Saturday as the Dutchman romped to another exceptional pole position.After a messy sprint race earlier in the day, Verstappen put things right on Saturday afternoon, snatching pole away from McLaren’s Lando Norris by 0.065 seconds at the circuit that loops around the Hard Rock Stadium. Business as usual for the four-time world champion.With the tantalizing prospect of rain — where Verstappen’s exceptional talent inches closer to superhero territory — a second win of the season does not…

When Donald Trump announced this week that American children will have to make do with fewer toys at Christmas, unflattering comparisons were drawn to noted figures from history.“It sounded like Marie Antoinette saying ‘let them eat cake’,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster.Economists and businessmen have been warning for weeks that the president’s 145 per cent tariff on China will raise prices for ordinary Americans. The White House has consistently pushed back on that narrative.But on Wednesday the mask slipped. Trump said China had made a “trillion dollars . . . selling us stuff, [and] much of it we don’t need”.He said people had…

I have received many, many Star Wars gifts over the years. I spent the first Christmas day that I can remember flying Luke and his X-wing around the house. I met Darth Vader (David Prowse) when I was 6. I can still feel the shiver of fear as he strode through the double doors, reaching over the crowd to shake hands with me as my dad held me up. I never questioned why the Dark Lord of the Sith was in Woolworth’s.When I became a dad, I had a fresh excuse to visit that galaxy far, far away and buy…