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☆ Samsung stock: Shares rise after tech firm reports big jump in profit
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The upbeat outlook from the world’s largest memory chip maker sent its shares 1.8% higher on Tuesday after it reported a more than 10-fold rise in first-quarter operating profit. Operating profit rose to 6.6 trillion won in January to March, up from 640 billion won a year earlier. It was the company’s highest operating profit since the third quarter of 2022. Samsung’s mobile devices business booked a 3.51 trillion won operating profit in the first quarter, down from 3.94 trillion won a year earlier. Rising costs, including increased memory chip prices, dented margins from its flagship Galaxy S24 smartphones launched during the quarter.

Persons: ” Jaejune Kim, Jeff Kim, ” Kim Organizations: Seoul Reuters, Samsung Electronics, Samsung, SK Hynix’s, Nvidia, SK Hynix, AMD, KB Securities, Apple Locations: Seoul, China

☆ Joker: Folie à Deux trailer: Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn makes Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker feel less ‘alone’
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Talk about a “bad romance.”Lady Gaga is making her long-awaited debut as Harley Quinn alongside Joaquin Phoenix’s reprisal of his Oscar-winning Joker in the first trailer for “Joker: Folie à Deux” released on Tuesday. The teaser trailer begins with Phoenix’s cuffed and plain-faced Joker – whose name is Arthur Fleck – being escorted through a facility he’s being held in. “I’m nobody,” Gaga’s Quinn later says, as she is seen miming a gun to her head and pulling the trigger. “I’m not alone anymore.”In DC comic book lore, the Joker and Harley Quinn have often been each other’s love interests, with Quinn introduced as the villain’s therapist in Arkham Asylum. “Joker: Folie à Deux” will premiere in theaters on October 4.

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☆ Brittney Griner re-signs with Phoenix Mercury ahead of Team USA training camp
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Jill Martin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Brittney Griner has re-signed with her longtime WNBA team, the Phoenix Mercury, ahead of this year’s Summer Olympic Games in Paris. Griner also is a two-time Olympic gold medalist for Team USA. Tim Clayton/Corbis/Getty Images/FilePhoenix’s signing of Griner comes the same week that the USA Basketball Women’s National Team will hold a training camp in Cleveland, Ohio. On Thursday, the USA Basketball Women’s National Team announced the 14-athlete April training camp roster, which will be held Wednesday through Friday. When announcing the training camp roster Thursday, USA Basketball said at the time that Clark would attend contingent on Iowa’s progression through the NCAA tournament.

Persons: Brittney Griner, ” Griner, Griner, Tim Clayton, Corbis, Griner –, “, ”, Caitlin Clark, Clark Organizations: CNN, WNBA, Phoenix Mercury, Mercury, Team USA, Griner, Rio, USA Basketball Women’s, Paris, Phoenix, Las Vegas Aces, Team, NCAA Locations: Paris, Russia, United States, Cleveland , Ohio, Clark, Iowa, Cleveland

☆ Nine hours at the most unhinged hole in golf
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Zak Jason | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

But this was Saturday at the 16th hole of Phoenix’s Waste Management Open, also known as the loudest day at the Loudest Hole in Golf, also known as the Greatest Show on Grass. “We’re so back.”In theory, this was a professional golf tournament, one of the oldest on the PGA Tour. Iwas there as an inevitable result of being in all-male group chat, its own black hole of feral manhood. Few were watching golf; most were huddled in circles many yards from the 16th hole, drinking and people-watching. That’s worth the wait.”Inside our box, golf continued to happen, but if the golfers weren’t teeing off, no one was watching the course.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Stephen Curry made a 3-pointer with 0.7 seconds left and the Golden State Warriors beat the Phoenix Suns 113-112 on Saturday night for their sixth victory in seven games. Golden State avoided being swept by the Suns in the season series to get back to .500 for the first time since Dec. 25. The Warriors led 84-82 entering the fourth quarter. Photos You Should See View All 21 ImagesJonathan Kuminga added 21 points for Golden State. The Warriors answered with a spurt by Kuminga – who led Golden State with 13 points at halftime – to take a 59-58 advantage into the break.

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LeBron James joined yet another exclusive club, and he’ll have plenty of familiar faces alongside him at the NBA All-Star Game. James is an All-Star — and an All-Star starter — for the 20th time, with the league unveiling the results of this season’s starter balloting on Thursday night. Durant is a 14-time selection now, one of only 11 players in NBA history to be picked that many times. Tatum set an All-Star Game record last season, scoring 55 points in Salt Lake City on the way to MVP honors. This year’s All-Star Game goes back to the traditional East-vs.-West format, which was utilized in the first 66 NBA midseason classics.

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“It is a privilege to select the team that will help us toward the goal of once again standing atop the Olympic podium. If he plays and the U.S. wins, Durant would be the first men’s player with four basketball golds. “I will play in the Olympics,” Durant adamantly said last fall at Phoenix’s media day. The other 28 players on the list are headlined by a pair who may make their Olympic debuts — Embiid and Curry among them. Players not in the pool aren’t exactly ineligible to make the Olympic team; while it is a long shot, it has happened before.

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☆ Equinix Raises Debt Abroad to Clip Interest Costs
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Kristin Broughton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Equinix’s Great Oaks campus in San Jose, Calif. In the third quarter, the company sold bonds worth 300 million Swiss francs at a rate of 2.875%. Photo: EquinixU.S. data-center operator Equinix is raising debt in foreign countries in an effort to save on interest costs. Redwood City, Calif.-based Equinix, a real-estate investment trust that runs 251 data centers worldwide, is taking advantage of differences in interest rates between countries by issuing debt where rates are lower than in the U.S. Last year, the company sold bonds for the first time in Switzerland and returned to Japan to raise debt. And it remains on the hunt for other low-yield jurisdictions, even as the Federal Reserve pencils in rate cuts for later this year, says Chief Financial Officer Keith Taylor .

Persons: Keith Taylor Organizations: Oaks Locations: San Jose, Calif, Redwood City, U.S, Switzerland, Japan

SEATTLE (AP) — While he’s had one big game after another, Rome Odunze can see not all is right with the offense for No. "I think we need to clean a lot of things up,” Odunze said. But it was also the second straight game and third in the past six that the Huskies were held under 25 points. He threw for a season-low 162 yards against Oregon State and had only 204 yards passing against Washington State. He caught two TDs and made the critical grab on the final third down to clinch the win at Oregon State.

Persons: he’s, Odunze, ” Odunze, “, you’ll, Michael Penix Jr, Ryan Grubb, Kalen DeBoer, we’ve, ” Penix, Penix, ” Grubb, It’s, ___ Organizations: SEATTLE, Oregon, Huskies, Ducks, Washington State, Apple, Washington, Oregon State, AP Locations: Rome, Washington

☆ ‘Napoleon’ Review: Ridley Scott’s Caricature of a Conqueror
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Kyle Smith | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Joaquin Phoenix Photo: AppleTV+Joaquin Phoenix finds Napoleon morose, anguished, petulant and a bit childlike, which reminds me that although I enjoyed his morose, anguished, petulant and a bit childlike performance as the Joker, his decision to play Jesus Christ as morose, anguished, petulant and a bit childlike, in 2019’s little-seen “ Mary Magdalene ,” felt a bit off. Mr. Phoenix even appeared morose, etc. (Being 49, Mr. Phoenix is too old for all but the final moments.) Most of the movie is a vaguely comical swipe at Napoleon in domestic life—an awkward lover, a jealous husband, an inveterate complainer, and in sum an annoying twerp. Mr. Phoenix’s Napoleon could never have commanded so much as a squadron of the Salvation Army, and though the movie is sprinkled with a few reasonably hearty battle scenes, overall it’s something like Mr. Scott’s Waterloo.

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☆ For ‘Napoleon,’ Finishing the Hats
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Esther Zuckerman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When the costume designer David Crossman, who specializes in military wear, first knew he would be working on “Napoleon” (in theaters Wednesday), Ridley Scott’s epic starring Joaquin Phoenix, he had a “mini panic” about the hats. It wasn’t that he would have to be recreating Napoleon Bonaparte’s famous headgear, the kind for which collectors pay dearly (one just sold for $2.1 million). He examined objects from a private collection as well as examples of real Napoleon hats in the Musée de l’Armée in Paris. Phoenix’s hats may have been built from bark cloth, but they were true to size. There were three key versions for the character reproduced many times over, Crossman said, as well as a glorious array of hats for various generals, allies, and enemies.

Persons: David Crossman, Napoleon ”, Ridley Scott’s, Joaquin Phoenix, Napoleon, Crossman, “, ” Crossman, ’ ” Crossman, ”, Phoenix Locations: Uganda, l’Armée, Paris

☆ Opinion: No one needed another Napoleon movie, but this one has something unexpected to say
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Napoleon, played by Academy Award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix, is a talented young officer whose military victories quickly vault him into influence and power. The fact that Napoleon can’t live up to his own larger-than-life image is part of what makes Napoleon larger than life. There are obvious differences between Trump and Napoleon — Trump avoided the draft and was not a successful general; Napoleon was never elected and conquered large parts of Europe; Trump’s coup attempt was unsuccessful. “Napoleon” suggests that our fascination with grotesque populist windbags is itself a source of their power. Napoleon might not love this movie, but he’d surely enjoy seeing his face blown up there on the big screen.

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The National Climate Assessment, which comes out every four to five years, was released Tuesday with details that bring climate change's impacts down to a local level. Compared to earlier national assessments, this year’s uses far stronger language and “unequivocally” blames the burning of coal, oil and gas for climate change. In the Midwest, both extreme drought and flooding threaten crops and animal production, which can affect the global food supply. “Climate change is finally moving from an abstract future issue to a present, concrete, relevant issue. Five years ago, when the last assessment was issued, fewer people were experiencing climate change firsthand.

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☆ Victor Wembanyama scores career-high 38 points in San Antonio Spurs win over the Phoenix Suns
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Samuel Joseph | Sam Joseph | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

In the best game of his young NBA career so far, Victor Wembanyama dropped 38 points, to go along with 10 rebounds and two blocks, powering the San Antonio Spurs to a 132-121 victory over the Phoenix Suns. This was the second matchup between the Spurs and the Suns in Arizona this week, with the two sides clashing on Tuesday at the Footprint Center. The Spurs came away with the victory that night too, rallying from 20 points down to win on a last-second shot, although the formula of Thursday’s game was completely different. The Spurs were quick out of the blocks, outscoring the Suns by 19 in the first quarter alone. The Spurs improve to 3-2 while the Suns, who are still without All-Star guard Bradley Beal, drop to 2-3.

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8 Oregon 36-33 on Saturday in another wild chapter to their heated rivalry. Penix needed just two plays to go 53 yards in 33 seconds after Oregon was stopped on foruth-and-3 at the Washington 47 with 2:11 remaining. Nix missed with his next two passes and on the final play of the game Lewis push the kick to the right setting off a wild celebration of purpled-clad fans pouring onto the field. Washington was on the verge of an answer but was stopped on three run plays inside the Oregon 2. But the Ducks were stopped on fourth-and-3 just inside midfield when Nix’s pass for Tez Johnson fell incomplete.

Persons: — Michael Penix Jr, Camden Lewis, Penix, Ja’Lynn Polk, Bo Nix, Nix, Lewis, Jordan James ’, Tybo Rogers, Taki Taimani, Troy Franklin, Nix’s, Tez Johnson Organizations: SEATTLE, Rome Odunze, Washington, Oregon, Ducks, Pacific Northwest, Big, AP Locations: Rome, Oregon, Odunze, Pacific, Washington

“I will play in the Olympics next year,” Durant adamantly said at Phoenix’s media day. Hopefully this will help remind him.”Durant could join six women, all of them Americans, with four Olympic basketball golds. It’s been reasonable to think that USA Basketball will have plenty of experienced options to choose from next year. That pushes the list of realistic candidates for USA Basketball to choose from to about 40 names, at minimum. “I think anytime you’re asked to play for USA Basketball, it’s really hard to say no,” Miami forward and Olympic gold medalist Kevin Love said.

Persons: Kevin Durant, Durant —, —, Durant, ” Durant, Bam Adebayo, he’s, DeMar DeRozan, Devin Booker, Bradley Beal, Jaylen Brown, Donovan Mitchell, Khris Middleton, Julius Randle, Zach LaVine, Aaron Gordon, Fred VanVleet, Brook Lopez, Irving, Draymond Green, ”, LeBron James, he's, Joel Embiid, ” Embiid, “, I’m, that’s, Zion Williamson, Paul George, Kawhi Leonard, Kyle Kuzma, Jimmy Butler, Anthony Davis, ” Brown, Grant Hill, Sean Ford, Steve Kerr, I’ve, Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Teresa Edwards, Lisa Leslie, Tamika Catchings, Sylvia Fowles, Stephen Curry, Atlanta’s Trae Young, you’re, ” Young, It’s, — Durant, Chris Paul, Green, James, it’s, Kevin Love, Brian Mahoney, Dan Gelston, Greg Beacham, Andrew Seligman, Kristie Rieken, Teresa M, Walker, Noah Trister, Brett Martel, Steve Megargee, Kyle Hightower, Beth Harris, Tom Withers, Charles Odum, David Brandt, Pat Graham, ___ Organizations: Olympics, U.S, Dallas, Los Angeles Lakers, Paris Games, USA Basketball, FIBA, World, Team, USA, Paris, men’s, Golden State, Olympic, NBA, AP Sports Locations: France, Cameroon, Paris, Milwaukee, Miami

PHOENIX (AP) — After a summer of extreme heat, Arizona’s most populous city is in the record books again. The National Weather Service said Sunday that the monsoon season this year in the arid Southwest dropped only 0.15 inches (.38 centimeters) of rainfall from June 15 to September 30. Phoenix’s average rainfall during a monsoon season is 2.43 inches (6.1 centimeters). Confirmed heat-associated deaths in Arizona’s most populous county continue to rise in the aftermath of the record summer heat. Scientists predict the numbers will only continue to climb as climate change makes heat waves more frequent, intense and enduring.

Persons: Phoenix Organizations: PHOENIX, National Weather Service Locations: Pacific, Gulf of California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, U.S, Arizona’s, Maricopa County, Maricopa, Phoenix, United States

The focus is shifting to a new front: Synthetic graphite, an element developed in the late 19th century, but only redirected toward EVs in the past decade. Synthetic graphite could account for nearly two-thirds of the EV battery anode market by 2025, estimates Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. "It’s easier to set up a synthetic graphite production facility than it is to commission new mining sites for natural graphite” because producers can take advantage of incentives in last year's U.S. Inflation Reduction Act to build synthetic graphite capacity in the U.S. or Free Trade Agreement partners, she said. Other experts note synthetic graphite is generally higher purity and offers better and more predictable performance than natural graphite. Still, the construction of new production facilities for synthetic graphite, even with federal incentives, requires a staggering investment, said Novonix's Burns.

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☆ Why you have to walk so far to your gate at the airport
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Eduardo Munoz/ReutersTreks at the airport have been getting worse ever since security changes were implemented after the September 11, 2001, attacks. In Newark, Chicago and other cities’ airport terminals, moving walkways have been removed to make room for more shops and restaurants. Some new airport terminals have recently opened without moving walkways. The airport is now building a tunnel to shorten the walk from security to the concourse. So, are people missing flights now because they have to walk so far?

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☆ Phoenix just endured the hottest month for any US city as historic heat streak comes to an end
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Jennifer Gray | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

But the heat is far from over for Phoenix and millions of others across the Central US. Tuesday’s high temperature was 108 degrees in Phoenix, or 2 degrees above average. It wasn’t just high temperatures breaking records: The city also set a new record warm low temperature of 97 degrees during the streak. It's official, this July was the hottest month in Phoenix on record, with an average temperature of 102.7°F. The fear of a surge in heat-related deaths prompted the Maricopa County medical examiner to bring in 10 refrigerated containers last week to handle a possible overflow of bodies.

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☆ Phoenix’s Month in Hell: 31 Days of Extreme Heat Tests the City
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Jack Healy | More About Jack Healy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Patients with heat stroke and burns from the asphalt are swamping hospitals. Air-conditioners are breaking down at homeless shelters. The medical examiner’s office is deploying trailer-sized coolers to store bodies, for the first time since the early days of Covid. The city smashed through another record last week, racking up the most 115-degree days ever in a calendar year, part of a global heat wave that made July Earth’s hottest month on record. This has been Phoenix’s July in hell — an entire month of merciless heat that has ground down people’s health and patience in the city of 1.6 million, while also straining a regionwide campaign to protect homeless people and older residents who are most vulnerable.

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☆ Sneak peek at NASA aircraft that could transform air travel by the 2030s
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Maureen O'Hare | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The US aerospace behemoths want to build, test and fly an emission-reducing, single-aisle aircraft before the decade is out. We’re trying to validate technology.”The first test flight of this full-scale demonstrator is set to take place in 2028. NASA hopes that one day the technology should serve about half of the commercial market through short- to medium-haul single-aisle aircraft. Airlines largely rely on single-aisle aircraft, which account for nearly half of aviation emissions worldwide, according to NASA. Boeing estimates that the demand for the new single-aisle aircraft will increase by 40,000 planes between 2035 and 2050.

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☆ The Most Essential Worker in a Heat Wave? The A.C. Guy
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Jack Healy | More About Jack Healy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

José Guerrero’s phone buzzes from morning to midnight with sweaty pleas for help: The air-conditioner fan just quit. As Phoenix slogs through a record 20 straight days of 110-degree or higher temperatures, Mr. Guerrero, 33, has emerged as maybe the most essential worker in a town desperate to stay cool: the A.C. repair guy. “We live in a city where you have to have it,” he said. So now, Mr. Guerrero, his two brothers and their father roll out seven days a week, heading for suffocating attics and tar-shingled rooftops across the Valley of the Sun to coax ailing air-conditioners back to life. They fix leaking refrigerant lines, replace burned-out capacitors and try to lower Phoenix’s temperature a few degrees.

Persons: José, Guerrero, ” Organizations: Phoenix Locations: Florida, California

It has been a heat wave that has given pause to many Phoenix residents, even to summer-tested veterans like Shields, who says he's been avoiding news reports about it. By 2050, they estimated, Phoenix residents are expected to see an average of 44 days per year over that temperature. REUTERS/Liliana SalgadoDespite the trend toward more very hot days, Phoenix residents have tended to shrug off the heat, he said. "This is not your typical summer heat." Asphalt temperatures can reach 160 degrees F (71 C) in the summer, the Arizona Humane Society wrote on its blog.

Persons: Michael Shields, Shields, he's, David Hondula, Adam Waltz, Waltz, Liliana Salgado, Zack Taylor, Taylor, Phoenix, It's, Emily Luberto, Cooper Burton, Sharon Bernstein, Rachel Nostrant, Rich McKay, Aurora Ellis, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: National Weather Service, Phoenix, Phoenix Parks, REUTERS, Center, Northern Arizona University, Arizona Humane Society, Thomson Locations: Phoenix, Arizona, Maricopa, Piestewa, Phoenix , Arizona, U.S, Oregon, West Coast, Texas, Alabama, College Park , Maryland, Vegas, Mesa, Flagstaff

It has been a heat wave that has given pause to many Phoenix residents, even to summer-tested veterans like Shields, who says he's been avoiding news reports about it. REUTERS/Liliana Salgado/File PhotoDespite the trend toward more very hot days, Phoenix residents have tended to shrug off the heat, he said. Phoenix is getting some of the worst of it, as the air mass is centered right over the Southwest. "This is not your typical summer heat." Asphalt temperatures can reach 160 degrees F (71 C) in the summer, the Arizona Humane Society wrote on its blog.

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