• These are my top picks for Black Friday-beating laptop deals in Amazon’s Spring sale

    The best laptop deals in Amazon Spring deals prove Black Friday is overrated

  • There’s one week in April that will be the best time to sell a house this year, Realtor.com says. Here’s why

    “The week of April 14–20 is expected to have the ideal balance of housing market conditions that favor home sellers, more so than any other week in the year,” Realtor.com’s economic research analyst said in a report.

  • Derry’s St Mary’s is Ireland’s Choir of the Year!

    The choir celebrated on stage of the magnificent RDs Concert Hall singing a triumphant rendition of ‘The Undertones’ standard, Teenage Kicks. The choir, under the direction of Emma-Jayne Kelly and accompanied by Trevor Burnside won the two- part Youth choir, were placed second in The Alice Yoakley Cup and won the overall Folen’s Publisher Award Cup and £3000 for the "School Choir of the Year 2024". Miss Kelly described the whole experience as “a fantastic day for Derry as Thornhill College also...

  • Light snow Friday, but not heavy snow like earlier this week

    Another light chance of snow arrives late this weekend.

    • TVLine

    Will Trent Casts Will’s Long-Lost Uncle: See Who’s Playing Antonio Miranda (and When He’ll Make His Debut)

    Will Trent is hosting a family reunion. TVLine can confirm that the ABC crime drama has cast TV vet John Ortiz (Promised Land, Messiah, Togetherness) in the recurring role of Will’s uncle, Antonio Miranda. He’ll make his debut in Season 2’s sixth episode, titled “We Are Family,” which airs Tuesday, April 9 (at 8/7c). Per […]

  • Fitbit’s health chatbot will arrive later this year

    Like most other corners of the tech world, Google sees AI powering the next innovations in health technology. The company’s annual The Check Up event expanded on its plans to add a personal health chatbot to the Fitbit app, expand Google Lens for better skin condition searches and use a version of its Gemini chatbot in the medical field. One of the more intriguing of Google’s announcements on Tuesday was more detail about an experimental AI feature for Fitbit users, briefly teased last year....

  • Steve Borthwick begins planning England’s attack on the All Blacks

    Coach to fly to New Zealand for reconnaissance trip on MondayRFU contracts to be finalised to help establish player availabilitySteve Borthwick will fly to New Zealand on Monday for a reconnaissance mission as he begins plotting England’s summer assault on the All Blacks – just 48 hours after the end of their Six Nations campaign.Borthwick travels to New Zealand buoyed by the manner in which ­England finished the tournament – even in defeat against France on ­Saturday night – after his players...

  • The Crumbleys have been convicted. Black parents will likely pay a price, too.

    On Thursday evening, a Michigan jury found James Crumbley guilty of involuntary manslaughter for failing to stop his teenage son Ethan from killing four of his classmates and wounding seven others at Oxford High School in 2021. The verdict follows the conviction of Jennifer Crumbley, Ethan’s mother, on identical charges early last month, making them the first US […]

  • Korea’s Hybe Strikes Ten-Year Deal With Universal Music

    Popular on Variety Hybe, the Korean firm behind K-pop’s BTS, has struck an expanded 10-year deal with Universal Music Group (UMG), providing Hybe’s roster of artists and labels access to UMG’s leading global network. UMG will further collaborate with Hybe’s global superfan platform Weverse, bringing more of a direct connection between UMG artists and their […]

  • Will’s Shocking Death on ‘The Good Wife,’ 10 Years Later

    ‘The Good Wife‘ star Josh Charles and creators Robert and Michelle King recall how they planned the show’s defining tragedy: “The only wall high enough to keep the two lovers apart was death.”

  • It’s like travelling back 700 years: healthy pleasures in rural Andalucía

    A group of seven Moorish villages in southern Spain are the perfect place to recharge – offering mountain air, sparkling springs and any excuse for a partyOn our first morning in Atalbéitar, I walk into the kitchen to make coffee and wonder if I’m feeling the effects of the previous night’s festivities. Then I remember it’s not me; it’s the kitchen floor, which is on a gentle slope. I have to be careful carrying the coffee back to bed as the steps are at different heights, and the doorways are...

  • Sky to Sponsor Irish Men’s Team as Part of Four Year Deal

    Sky Ireland is the new sponsor of the Republic of Ireland’s men’s football team as part of a deal that will see it sponsor both the men’s and women’s team until 2028. The men’s team had been without a shirt sponsor since mobile phone company Three ended its sponsorship in 2019. Sky has been sponsoring […]