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The National Women’s Soccer League is expanding its streaming footprint.
Roku and the NWSL have signed a deal that will make the Roku Sports Channel the exclusive home for a package of Sunday night games for the rest of the 2026 season and the 2027 campaign. First up is an Aug. 30 match between the Seattle Reign and Houston Dash.
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Dolly Parton knew how loved she was. It wasn’t an accident — it was always part of her plan. Even as a girl, growing up dirt-poor in the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, she planned to grow up into a star everyone would know. The country queen wore the whole story of American music on her shoulders like a coat of many colors. That’s how she became the most universally beloved of American singers, a sequined superstar who also happened to be a ferociously original genius. “I was telling my own stories, speaking my own feelings,” Parton told Rolling Stone in 1975. “I’m a pretty bold person.”
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Wrexham have made three first team signings this summer but are poised to add Jacques Ekomie (left) and Issa Kabore (right) to their ranks
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International buyers have pounced on Ali Asgari’s Iranian drama A Bit of Light ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Venice International Film Festival next month.
Paris- and Berlin-based sales company Salaud Morisset has closed deals for the film for much of year, with sales to France (Haut et Court), Italy (Teodora Film Distribuzione), Spain (La Aventura Cine), Switzerland (Trigon Film), Benelux (September Film Distribution), Bulgaria (Beta Film Ltd.), and Greece (Filmtrade), as well as Brazil (Imovision). The company says it has offers under negotiation for the U.K., Germany, and Central Europe.
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Heiko Claussen is Chief Technologist at Emerson’s Aspen Technology business, leading its AI research and technology strategy.
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As industrial organizations continue to accelerate AI adoption, many are hitting the same wall: More data isn’t translating into more value. Despite years of investment in collecting operational data, much of it remains siloed, taken from narrow operational regimes, misaligned and stripped of context. The problem isn’t a lack of data; it’s a lack of the right data and an understanding of what it all means.
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ByMark Savage
Music correspondent
In 1980, Dolly Parton was filming her first Hollywood movie, 9 To 5, and between scenes she had an idea for the tune that would become the movie's theme song.
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Frederik Gregaard, CEO, Cardano Foundation. Navigating blockchain's impact on global finance & governance.
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Over 2 billion cups of coffee are consumed each day globally. Roughly 80% are grown by 25 million smallholder farmers, mostly in the Global South. Commercial roasters and instant coffee brands claim to trace their beans as proof of origin, ethical sourcing and single-estate quality. Follow the trail, and it is rare to find the exact source of the bean that has been picked, washed, dried, roasted, ground and distilled into your morning ritual.
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The Trump administration has approved two new datacenter chemicals to which exposure can result in “sudden death” and a range of other serious health risks, like cancer, eye corrosion, neurological damage and reproductive harm, a new lawsuit warns.
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A fresh outbreak of mpox in Guinea Bissau – the country’s first – means the virus formerly known as monkey pox is back in the headlines. So what has changed?
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