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Google presenta el Pixel 8, creado para “la era de la inteligencia artificial generativa”

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:42:57 GMT

(CNN) — No hay nada particularmente nuevo en el hardware del Pixel 8, el smartphone de última generación de Google. Es por eso que la compañía ha promocionado con fuerza su nuevo software que incorpora tecnología de inteligencia artificial y que, según la empresa, fue creado específicamente para el “primer teléfono de la era de la IA generativa”.En un evento de prensa en la ciudad de Nueva York, Google presentó los nuevos dispositivos Pixel 8 y Pixel 8 Pro, que en gran medida tienen el mismo aspecto que los del año anterior, aunque con bordes más redondeados. Sin embargo, en su interior, su nuevo chip G3 Tensor desbloquea un mundo impulsado por la IA cuyo objetivo es simplificar la vida del usuario, desde pedirle al dispositivo que resuma artículos de noticias y sitios web hasta usar Google Assistant para atender llamadas telefónicas y retocar fotos para mover o cambiar el tamaño de los objetos.Así es el Pixel Fold, el nuevo teléfono plegable de Google: precios, ca...

Titans now have options with 2 offensive linemen returning to practice

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:42:57 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nicholas Petit-Frere is just happy to be back at practice with his six-game suspension for gambling reduced by two games. Peter Skoronski has been busy downing shakes and smoothies to add weight in recovering from an appendectomy. Both offensive linemen practiced Wednesday for the first time in weeks. Skoronski, Tennessee’s starting left guard, had surgery Sept. 16. Petit-Frere, who rejoined the Titans on Sept. 25, didn’t expect to practice again until the last week of October.”I’ve been working my tail off as much as I can, conditioning, being in my pads, trying to find a way to get as close to being acclimated with the team as I can be,” said Petit-Frere, who started every game as a rookie at right tackle last season. The Titans (2-2) have a roster exemption for Petit-Frere since his suspension began at the NFL’s final roster cut deadline Aug. 29. Coach Mike Vrabel and his staff now have options ahead of their first AFC South game Sunday i...

First leopard cubs born in captivity in Peru climb trees and greet visitors at a Lima zoo

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:42:57 GMT

LIMA, Peru (AP) — The first two leopard cubs born in captivity in Peru began climbing trees inside their cages at a Lima zoo Wednesday in their first appearance before the public.The cubs — a male and a female — walked in circles and showed their small fangs as a zookeeper grabbed them by the neck and took them out of their burrows. Their eyes are large, gray and shiny.The siblings, who are just over 3 months old, have been fed milk until recently, when they tried meat for the first time. The cubs’ parents, Leo and Mali, are 3 years old and were brought to Peru in 2021 from a municipal zoo in Leon, Mexico.“Based on the idea of preserving many species and promoting an adequate, controlled reproduction, we made the decision to give a young couple the opportunity to have offspring,” said Giovanna Yépez, assistant manager of zoology at the Parque de las Leyendas zoo.As visitors marveled at the sight of the cubs as if they were cute kittens, the female cub, looking out for her brot...

Fiscalía de Tamaulipas abre investigación por supuesto homicidio tras el desplome de una iglesia donde murieron 11 personas

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:42:57 GMT

(CNN Español) — La Fiscalía General de Justicia de Tamaulipas, en el noreste de México, abrió una carpeta de investigación por el posible delito de homicidio tras el desplome del techo de una iglesia en el municipio de Ciudad Madero, donde este domingo murieron 11 personas, dijo a CNN una fuente con conocimiento del caso.La carpeta de investigación buscará determinar si hubo omisiones culposas o dolosas en la construcción y el mantenimiento del edificio que causaran que se colapsara, detalló la fuente.Lo que sabemos de la tragedia en iglesia de TamaulipasEn sus indagatorias, la Fiscalía recolectará para su análisis materiales de construcción, pedirá información a otras instituciones sobre el estado del inmueble y recabará testimonios.Hasta ahora, la Fiscalía no ha señalado a ninguna persona o instancia como responsable del hecho.El desplome del techo de la iglesia ocurrió alrededor de las 2:30 p.m. (local) del 1 de octubre, cuando se celebraba en el templo una misa de bautizo ...

Man sentenced to life for killing 17-year-old coworker inside Walgreens

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:42:57 GMT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KXRM) — A 29-year-old man was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of his 17-year-old coworker, Riley Whitelaw.After a jury handed down a guilty verdict Wednesday against Joshua Johnson. After, 4th Judicial District Judge Eric Bentley sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Suspect wanted in attack on Brighton ice cream truck driver The defense stated it intended to file an appeal of conviction and Johnson did not make a statement.Riley Whitelaw's family speaksPrior to sentencing, several people gave impact statements, including Riley's mother, Courtenay Whitelaw, and stepfather. "She's smart, artistic, and loving. Riley has taught me so much as her mom, and I am so grateful to be her mom," Courtenay Whitelaw said. "Never did we think her kindness would get her killed.""I will live for her and carry her for every moment of every day," Courtenay Whitelaw said. "I pray that kindness and love will erase the evilness in t...

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour movie hits a presale record for Cinemark

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:42:57 GMT

New York (CNN) — Taylor Swift’s concert film hasn’t even been released yet and it’s already toppling box-office records.Cinemark, a theater chain with about 500 locations, said that ticket sales for “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” are “setting domestic presale records” with demand “10 times higher” than any other film released through the company. The reaction has “blown everyone away,” Cinemark announced in a press release.Excitement has been building for the 3-hour-long film, which is opening Friday, October 13. An ad for the movie even aired during NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” last weekend, where Swift made an appearance to cheer on her possible boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce.Cinemark is not the first theater chain to experience an increase in sales via Swift: AMC Theaters previously announced that the singer’s Eras Tour concert movie “shattered records for single-day advance ticket sales revenue,” with $26 million sold on the first day th...

‘I’ve always made fun of the rules.’ John Waters has only ever been himself

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:42:57 GMT

(CNN) — “Los Angeles is everything a great American city should be: rich, hilarious, of questionable taste and throbbing with fake glamour,” John Waters once wrote, chronicling a six-hour tour of the city in his 1986 book of musings, “Crackpot.”The filmmaker and author has, over the years, spent a lot of time in the tourist mecca that is Hollywood Boulevard. Now, he’s a bonafide tourist attraction of his own: 77-year-old Waters was recently bestowed with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, an honor which coincided with the opening of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ exhibition “John Waters: Pope of Trash,” a first-of-its-kind tribute and the biggest retrospective of Waters’ work to date. Running until August 2024, it features over 400 artifacts related to a sixty-year career spanning film, television, literature and art.A storyteller and entertainer since his childhood in Lutherville, Maryland, orchestrating violent puppet shows for birthday parties and h...

Celtics introduce Jrue Holiday

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:42:57 GMT

Mattapan nightclub Macumba Latina ordered closed for lapse of judgement on night of shooting

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:42:57 GMT

The Boston Licensing Board says owners at a Mattapan nightclub had a serious lapse of judgment the night a double shooting occurred last month, ordering them to remain closed until it reviews a security and operations plan.The board received the plan outlining security measures Macumba Latina will implement after the Sept. 4 shooting, which left two patrons with non-life threatening injuries, just 10 minutes before its meeting Wednesday, Chairwoman Kathleen Joyce said.Macumba Latina will also be receiving a written warning and be scheduled to appear at the board’s violation hearing on Oct. 24.Club owners Max Fernandes and John Lopes, during a Tuesday hearing, highlighted how they’ve fired two bouncers for letting the alleged shooter – Regan Feliz, 29, of Jamaica Plain – in through a locked backdoor that night.The bouncers had only been on the job for about a year, with one manning the backdoor and the other, stationed by a bathroom, providing backup whenever needed, Fernandes said.O...

Orioles to face Rangers in ALDS after Texas sweeps Tampa Bay in wild-card round

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:42:57 GMT

The Orioles have known for almost a week that they would have home-field advantage in the American League Division Series. Now, they know who’s coming to visit.Baltimore will face the Texas Rangers in the best-of-five ALDS, which begins at 1 p.m. Saturday at Camden Yards. Game 2 and, if necessary, the winner-take-all Game 5 will also be at Oriole Park, but first-pitch times have not yet been announced.After coming short of the AL West title on a tiebreaker with the Houston Astros, the Rangers (90-72) swept the Tampa Bay Rays (99-63) in the best-of-three wild-card series, which finished Wednesday afternoon. The Rays led the Orioles (101-61) in the AL East into late July but never recaptured sole possession of first place as Baltimore won the division for the first time since 2014, winning its most games since 1979.The Orioles and Rangers split their six regular-season meetings, all of which came before the end of May. Baltimore closed its first road trip of the season with a s...