• Disney advances plan to inject $1.9 billion into ‘the happiest place on Earth’

    It would be the biggest expansion of Disney’s Southern California theme parks in decades.

  • The Sun has settled 1,600 claims and paid out £1 billion to keep cases out of court

    The Sun has settled 1,600 claims and paid out £1 billion to keep cases out of court, it has been revealed.

  • Khronos Group releases OpenXR 1.1 spec for cross-platform XR development

    The Khronos Group, an open consortium dedicated to tech standards, announced the OpenXR 1.1 specification.

  • DOJ Recovers $1.4 Billion in Pandemic Aid Fraud, Just $299 Billion to Go

    We will never know how much pandemic aid fraud was committed. There were just too many trillions of dollars, and too many programs run by incompetent fools to get any kind of accurate accounting.

  • Oregon Powerball player wins $1.3 billion jackpot, beating odds of 1 in 292 million

    The $1.326 billion prize ranks as the eighth largest in U.S. lottery history and came after 41 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner.

  • $1.3 billion Powerball draw delayed

    Millions taking part in the eighth-largest Powerball drawing in U.S. history will have to wait a little longer to find out if they've struck it rich. The $1.3 billion Powerball drawing was delayed on Saturday night after the Multi-State Lottery Association said a single jurisdiction had yet to wrap up its normal pre-draw security procedures."Powerball game rules require that every single ticket sold nationwide be checked and verified against two different computer systems before the winning...

  • Feud: Capote Vs The Swans on Disney+ is cracking TV

    Capote Vs The Swans is a heightened take on cultural moment though it may infuriate those who prefer Capote’s talents as a writer

  • Second developer beta of visionOS 1.2 has arrived

    Owners of the Apple Vision Pro can now test out the second developer build of the visionOS 1.2 operating system. visionOS The second build of visionOS 1.2 surfaces after the first one, which arrived on April 2. The new build is build number 21O5565d, replacing the first beta, build number 21O5555e. It is still unclear exactly what Apple has changed in the new beta cycle, but release notes mention changes were made to fix an issue with FaceTime call synchronization and notification...

  • Nagarro hits $1 billion revenue mark in FY23

    Munich-based digital products engineering company Nagarro crossed the $1 billion revenue mark in financial year 2023 based on year-end currency rates, growing 9.4% year-on-year on a constant currency basis.Revenue increased from about $908 million in 2022. The company follows a January to December financial year.Listed independently on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2020, when its revenue was $516 million at year-end exchange rates, Nagarro has more than doubled its revenue in the past three...

  • Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) Shares Down 0.1%

    Shares of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS – Get Free Report) dropped 0.1% on Monday . The stock traded as low as $113.81 and last traded at $113.95. Approximately 2,448,308 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 80% from the average daily volume of 12,200,182 shares. The stock had previously closed at $114.01. […]

  • Apple has to face $1 billion lawsuit in court in the UK

    Apple has tried and failed to have a lawsuit in the UK dismissed, one that's valued at nearly $1 billion, brought against the company by 1,500 UK-based developers. A UK court ruled earlier today that the suit can be brought, and will thus proceed to trial - although this step will most likely only take place next year. The suit alleges that Apple charged the developers in question unfair commission fees of up to 30% on purchases of apps and other content. The plaintiffs say Apple is abusing...

  • Feds send $1.2M for transit development study

    (The Center Square) — The federal government has awarded a $1.2 million grant to a three-county planning council in the Charleston area to study transit-oriented development tied to a bus rapid transit line slated to open in five years. The Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments will use the federal tax dollars for the third phase of a TOD study. The study will focus on implementing affordable housing strategies along the proposed 21.3-mile-long Lowcountry Rapid...