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Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Reveals Key Marvel Characters and Easter Eggs
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Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Reveals Key Marvel Characters and Easter Eggs

The second season of 'Daredevil: Born Again' is generating buzz with the reveal of key Marvel characters and numerous Easter eggs, including discussions about Jessica Jones' powers and the father of her daughter. Showrunners are delving into the show's connections to the wider MCU and Netflix's Defenders universe.

Philippine Senate Urged to Finalize Flood Control Scam Probe
Politicsinquirerphilstar6d ago2 sources

Philippine Senate Urged to Finalize Flood Control Scam Probe

The Philippine Senate is being urged to finalize its investigation into an alleged flood control scam, with calls for accountability upon the return of key figures. Concerns have been raised that personal ties are stalling the probe, prompting the Ombudsman to request SALNs from House members.

"Heated Rivalry" Season 2 Teased as More Serious and Dangerous
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"Heated Rivalry" Season 2 Teased as More Serious and Dangerous

Showrunners and creators of "Heated Rivalry" have teased that the upcoming second season will delve into "much more serious territory" with increased danger and significant character changes. The new season is expected to move beyond previous themes, focusing on a more mature and impactful storyline.

Runner's Diarrhea: Causes and Prevention
Healthhelsingin-sanomat8d ago

Runner's Diarrhea: Causes and Prevention

A doctor explains that oxygen deprivation combined with impact can make runners prone to gastrointestinal symptoms, including the sudden urge to defecate during a run. The article suggests strategies to manage or prevent this common issue.

Ten Ways to Enhance Your Running Experience
Healthmorgunbladid11d ago

Ten Ways to Enhance Your Running Experience

An article provides ten tips for runners to get more out of their workouts, highlighting running as a popular, accessible, and effective way to improve physical and mental health.

Financesydney-morning-herald23d ago

ASX Runners of the Week Highlighted

The Sydney Morning Herald has identified Cassius, Cauldron, Janus, and Omega Oil & Gas as top-performing stocks on the ASX for the week.

Who will win and who should win at the 2026 Oscars
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Who will win and who should win at the 2026 Oscars

Michael B. Jordan in "Sinners." Warner Bros. The Oscars air on ABC and stream on Hulu Sunday at 7pm ET. "One Battle After Another" and "Sinners" are the frontrunners in the major categories. Here…

Miami is not the next Silicon Valley. It's something much weirder.
BusinessBusiness Insider2mo ago

Miami is not the next Silicon Valley. It's something much weirder.

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images; Getty Images; Rebecca Zisser/BI Tech's elite are taking their talents to South Beach — again. In January, David Sacks, the venture capitalist and crypto and AI czar, proclaimed that Miami will soon replace New York City as America's financial capital. Stripe's Patrick Collison has been marveling at the city's "boomtown" vibes. With California flirting with a one-time tax on billionaires, said billionaires like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Mark Zuckerberg are buying oceanfront mansions. And on Tuesday, Palantir announced that it's moving its headquarters from Denver to Miami. Is Miami the next Silicon Valley? We've been here before. The pandemic sent waves of coastal workers to the city, turning it into a Zoomtown full of online venture capitalists like Keith Rabois and Delian Asparouhov, bitcoin bull runners, and purveyors of the finest NFTs. Billboards went up in San Francisco featuring a mock tweet from then-Miami mayor Francis Suarez: "Thinking about moving to Miami? DM me." Here's the thing: It's easy to fall for Miami when a big chunk of the workforce is stuck at home and online. Five years later, it's a lot harder to build companies there. "Miami is great three months out of the year," says one prominent venture capitalist who moved to the city during the pandemic but is now returning to an established hub. While the Floridian tax benefits are real, the investor has found that the social scene hollows out in the summer as residents leave, making it "hard to build roots or have reliable friends." More critically for the startup ecosystem, the scene lacked the "hustle" of San Francisco or New York. Silicon Valley practically runs on a conveyor belt from Stanford and Caltech to Y Combinator's Dogpatch offices. The machine turns students into founders, builders into companies, and companies into the next wave of founders. Miami, meanwhile, lacks a major university to pipe in tech talent. Instead, the investor says, the city tends to attract people who have already "made it." Miami and Fort Lauderdale-based startups raised $3 billion in 2025. Bay Area-based startups raised $177 billion. The Miami market, while busy, significantly lags behind the major hubs. Startups in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro raised about $3 billion in 2025, per PitchBook, down from $8.6 billion in 2022, when money and crypto sloshed about. The Bay Area, by contrast, still grabs 52% of the nation's venture funding, with $177 billion in capital pouring in last year. Alligators may be all around in Miami, but unicorns are hard to find. In January, Cast AI, a startup that helps companies cut cloud costs, crossed the $1 billion valuation mark, becoming the region's first homegrown unicorn in years. Before that, Adam Neumann, the ousted WeWork cofounder, debuted his Miami residential real-estate venture, Flow, at a $1 billion valuation in 2022. Even Garry Tan, the Y Combinator president and gadfly who's usually first in line to dunk on San Francisco's politics, has been blunt about where the breeding grounds are best. Tan recently said on X that the accelerator still hasn't opened offices outside the Bay Area because founders are simply more likely to build unicorns there. According to a Business Insider analysis of Crunchbase data, of the at least 97 new unicorns that investors minted in 2025, 43 of them were based in the Bay Area. But those who dismiss the city entirely miss the point. Miami isn't the next San Francisco. It's establishing itself as something else. Patrick Murphy, a former Florida congressman and entrepreneur, says that Miami's tech scene is growing, it's just being built in "reverse order." Silicon Valley, he says, emerged from an if you build it, they will come approach: Engineers built great companies first, which eventually created fortunes that cycled back into the community to fund the next generation of companies. Miami, however, has a more if you come, they will build it tact. It's attracted the "wealth achievers" first — the family offices, private equity names, and already-successful founders who emigrated for lifestyle reasons. Finance heavyweights like Citadel and Thoma Bravo arrived early. Vanguard, one of the world's largest asset managers, is eyeing an expansion in Miami as it targets more Latin American wealth. The city is now importing the machinery that follows them. Legal, accounting, and consulting firms are opening local offices to stay close to clients — and scoop up star talent that no longer needs to live near HQ. This dynamic has established Miami as a "control center" for decision-makers, Murphy argues, but not yet the "factory floor" where the actual work gets done. Murphy says that despite running a successful construction-tech startup, Togal.AI, his engineering team has been offshore from the beginning because the local talent pool simply "didn't exist" when he started in 2019. "If you go to Miami, you're not going to see dozens of engineers at a Starbucks cranking away," he says. "That's not here yet." Still, Miami's flood of wealth is creating demand for startups built on the city's local economy, especially in property tech and fintech, Murphy says. Togal.AI's annual recurring revenue has grown 1,000% over the past two years, Murphy says, and is now raising fresh venture funding in order to hire dozens of new employees this year. Palantir's move immediately became a kind of Rorschach test for Miami's future. "Florida is the new crypto," one user wrote on X. Maya Bakhai, a Fort Lauderdale resident and founder of the early-stage venture firm Spice Capital, tells me that the city will flourish alongside "net new" industries that are still taking shape and where the center of gravity isn't locked in yet. Crypto firms like MoonPay and QuickNode still treat South Florida as a home base, she notes. A new space-tech accelerator backed by the state is trying to persuade founders to stick around by pairing them with funders. Bakhai's bigger bet is that just as New York became the hub for e-commerce, Miami could become the place where creator businesses get built. Research out of the University of Hong Kong found Miami has more top influencers per capita than New York or Los Angeles. And then there's Palantir, the strongest signal flare yet that tech is taking America's Playground seriously. It's hard to know what the data giant's HQ move will mean in practice — Palantir hasn't said how many employees it plans to relocate, or whether it will offer moving packages to lure talent south. The company did not respond to an email request for comment. If Palantir does move a meaningful slice of its workforce, it would give Miami something it's been short on: a marquee tech employer that can recruit and keep technical workers on the ground year-round. On X, Palantir's move immediately became a kind of Rorschach test for Miami's future. ""Florida is the future," cheered Andreessen Horowitz investor Katherine Boyle. Others were less convinced. "Florida is the new crypto," one user wrote. "For the next 20 years, nothing will change, but they will always tell you 'big things are happening in Florida.'" Turning Miami into Silicon Beach is a long game, Bakhai argues. It won't be built by the billionaires buying houses to snowbird in today, she argues, but by the young strivers arriving for their first serious jobs — the entry-level analysts heading to Citadel and the junior lawyers starting at firms like Orrick. For the first time, she says, ambitious graduates can launch careers in Miami instead of treating New York or San Francisco as the default. The payoff, she says, comes years later, when they eventually spin off to start their own companies. Until then, Miami remains largely a playground for the "made it" crowd, waiting in the sun for the builders to come. Melia Russell is a reporter with Business Insider, covering the intersection of law and technology. Read the original article on Business Insider

Humanoid Robot Wins Beijing Half Marathon, Breaks World Record
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Humanoid Robot Wins Beijing Half Marathon, Breaks World Record

A humanoid robot competed in the Beijing Half Marathon, not only winning the race but also setting a new world record by a significant margin, demonstrating rapid advancements in AI and robotics.

HBO's Primal Praised for Effective Retcon
Culturescreen-rant7d ago

HBO's Primal Praised for Effective Retcon

An article highlights how the HBO sci-fi fantasy series 'Primal' successfully implemented a retcon, demonstrating how this often controversial narrative device can work effectively in television.

Micheál Martin Leadership Challenge Fades in Fianna Fáil
Politicsirish-independent8d ago

Micheál Martin Leadership Challenge Fades in Fianna Fáil

Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin faced a potential leadership challenge within his Fianna Fáil party, with discussions about possible replacements. However, senior party figures have since rallied behind him, suggesting the threat of a heave has faded for now.

Trail Running Boom in China Attracts Urban Enthusiasts
Culturechannel-news-asia15d ago

Trail Running Boom in China Attracts Urban Enthusiasts

China is experiencing a significant boom in trail running, with the number of annual events increasing dramatically since 2014. Urban runners are increasingly drawn to the sport for its challenges and as an escape.

Federal Judge Halts Trump's White House Ballroom Project, Citing Need for Congressional Approval
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Federal Judge Halts Trump's White House Ballroom Project, Citing Need for Congressional Approval

A U.S. federal judge has temporarily blocked President Trump's White House ballroom project, stating that Congress must authorize the construction before it can proceed. The ruling, which suspends the $400 million endeavor, represents a significant setback for the Department of Justice, with the judge specifying that the President is not the 'owner' of the White House, requiring Congressional consent for the project.

Running to make butter? ‘Butter run’ challenge churns up social media
CultureKorea Herald1mo ago

Running to make butter? ‘Butter run’ challenge churns up social media

What if a morning jog could also produce a batch of homemade butter? That playful idea is behind the “Butter run,” an unusual running challenge that has been spreading across TikTok and Instagram in recent weeks. Blending fitness with a kitchen experiment, the trend began in overseas running communities and is now catching the attention of runners in South Korea as well. The concept is simple. Participants pour heavy cream into a small bottle, zip-top bag or sealed container, tuck it into a runn

What does Iran's supreme leader do?
WorldFrance 241mo ago

What does Iran's supreme leader do?

Following the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli strikes against Iran, a council of 88 Shiite clerics are set to appoint a new supreme leader. The long-running favourite is the late supreme leader's son, but he faces reservations: the supreme leadership was never supposed to become a family dynasty like the Shahs. But what does the supreme leader actually do?

Kaduna police neutralise bandits, arrest gunrunners, recover weapons and drugs
Politicsvanguard-ng2mo ago

Kaduna police neutralise bandits, arrest gunrunners, recover weapons and drugs

The Kaduna State Police Command has recorded significant successes in its ongoing operations against banditry, gunrunning, kidnapping, and other violent crimes, arresting several suspects and recovering illegal firearms and hard drugs over the past two weeks. The post Kaduna police neutralise bandits, arrest gunrunners, recover weapons and drugs appeared first on Vanguard News.

Paraw Regatta: Asia’s oldest sailing event opens in Iloilo
Cultureinquirer2mo ago

Paraw Regatta: Asia’s oldest sailing event opens in Iloilo

ILOILO CITY — The 53rd Iloilo Paraw Regatta Festival, recognized as Asia’s oldest traditional sailing event, officially opened Sunday, Feb. 22, drawing early-morning runners, churchgoers and coastal communities to Arevalo for the start of a week-long maritime celebration. Carrying this year’s theme, ‘Sailing Forward, Guided by Tradition,’ the 53rd edition of the festival moved ahead

The Guardian's Photos of the Day
CultureThe Guardian1d ago

The Guardian's Photos of the Day

The Guardian's picture editors have selected a collection of photographs from around the world, featuring diverse subjects such as wild horses, marathon runners, and a robotic dog.

US Navy Seizes Sanctioned Iranian Ship After Blockade Breach Attempt
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US Navy Seizes Sanctioned Iranian Ship After Blockade Breach Attempt

The US Navy seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship suspected of carrying dual-use equipment and attempting to breach a blockade near Iranian ports. The operation involved warnings and shots fired at the vessel, which was reportedly under sanctions.

Vienna City Marathon Draws Thousands of Runners
Worldorf7d ago

Vienna City Marathon Draws Thousands of Runners

Approximately 49,000 running enthusiasts participated in various events surrounding the Vienna City Marathon this weekend. The marathon and half-marathon categories were fully booked earlier than ever before.

Early Emmy Predictions for Lead Actress Categories
Culturevariety9d ago

Early Emmy Predictions for Lead Actress Categories

Early predictions for the upcoming Emmy Awards highlight potential nominees and frontrunners in the Lead Actress categories across Limited/Movie, Comedy, and Drama series. Actresses like Carey Mulligan, Keke Palmer, and Zendaya are among those generating buzz.

Mystery of Disappearing Paintings in Jyväskylä
Cultureyle-uutiset11d ago

Mystery of Disappearing Paintings in Jyväskylä

A mystery has deepened in Jyväskylä as paintings depicting runners have disappeared from the walls of a multi-purpose hall over several years, with no clear indication of when or by whom they were taken.

UN Secretary-General Succession: Favorites Emerge
Worldnzz21d ago

UN Secretary-General Succession: Favorites Emerge

Michelle Bachelet and Rafael Grossi are considered frontrunners to succeed António Guterres as UN Secretary-General. Their visions for a more efficient UN face challenges due to global tensions and the need to avoid alienating veto powers.

Lilla and Nora Zuckerman Confirmed as Writers for 'Scream 8'
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Lilla and Nora Zuckerman Confirmed as Writers for 'Scream 8'

Lilla and Nora Zuckerman, known for their work on 'Poker Face,' have been confirmed to write the script for the eighth installment of the 'Scream' franchise, following 'Scream 7's record-breaking success with over $200 million worldwide.

"Slow Runners" Group Promotes Leisurely Jogging
Culturesvenska-dagbladet1mo ago

"Slow Runners" Group Promotes Leisurely Jogging

A popular running group called "Slow Runners" in Sweden distinguishes itself by focusing on slow-paced jogging. One member, Aleksandra Martinsone, admits she doesn't particularly enjoy running, highlighting the group's relaxed approach.

Top Runners Finish 20th Warsaw Half Marathon
Culturetvn241mo ago

Top Runners Finish 20th Warsaw Half Marathon

The 20th edition of the Warsaw Half Marathon saw 25,000 participants, with the fastest runners reaching the finish line after approximately one hour, completing a route that passed through five districts of the city.

Hunt for Runners
Culture24ur1mo ago

Hunt for Runners

Although the famous, traditional fox hunts were banned in England in 2005, the tradition continues in hunting clubs on the island. And in a rather bizarre way.

‘Bridgerton S04’: Benedict-Sophie’s Cinderella tale and beyond
CultureTimes of India1mo ago

‘Bridgerton S04’: Benedict-Sophie’s Cinderella tale and beyond

Bridgerton Season 4 concludes with Benedict and Sophie's heartwarming Cinderella-esque romance and a surprise wedding. The season explored their love against societal norms, with Benedict embracing his pansexuality. Notably, Daphne and Simon remain absent, with showrunners opting against recasting. A new Lady Whistledown emerges, reigniting the show's signature mystery.

‘The Interrogator’: Dan Dworkin & Jay Beattie Join Stephen Fry Drama Series For Fox As Showrunners
Culturedeadline1mo ago

‘The Interrogator’: Dan Dworkin & Jay Beattie Join Stephen Fry Drama Series For Fox As Showrunners

EXCLUSIVE: Writers-producers Dan Dworkin & Jay Beattie (The Lost Symbol) have boarded Fox’s new drama The Interrogator, starring British actor-comedian Stephen Fry, as executive producers and showrunners. The project, co-produced by Lionsgate Television and Fox Entertainment Studios, was recently picked up with a 12-episode straight-to-series order for the 2026-27 season. The Interrogator centers on former MI6 […]

‘Service first, argue later’, says Marcos amid political differences
Politicsinquirer2mo ago

‘Service first, argue later’, says Marcos amid political differences

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has insisted that his current priority is to address the mounting issues the country is facing, as he sets aside for now forging a possible alliance with the “original” opposition to field front-runners for the 2028 presidential elections. “Differences in politics should never prevent us from working