2+ hour, 1+ min ago   (478+ words) Olympic athletes have come out in force to condemn a sports betting advert featuring actor Sydney Sweeney in various states of undress. The campaign, for US sports prediction market company Novig, depicts Sweeney in minimal to no clothing while she…...

6+ hour, 36+ min ago   (1274+ words) Lance Hammer, an American film-maker of great rigour, has made just two features in nearly two decades. His first, Ballast, set in the Mississippi Delta, won the directing award at Sundance in 2008 and was widely regarded as one of the…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (701+ words) Some workplaces are more territorial than others. In newsrooms, for example, most reporters guard their own “beats” jealously and give toe-treaders short shrift. I suspect we are a special case, but even so, the majority of organisations have a pretty…...

18+ hour, 21+ min ago   (551+ words) Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a call from the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, to “slow the pace” of artificial intelligence development after he warned that an AI swarm could otherwise become capable of “taking over the entire…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (272+ words) To answer this question, we need to understand the benefits of the economic activity enabled by the industry in question. The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment commissioned a study by KPMG to that very end. The study contains a…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (388+ words) I heard some terrific news the other day: “The happiest men over 40 are 25lbs overweight.” So said Prof Arthur Brooks of the John F Kennedy school of government at Harvard University in the United States, more commonly known as the Harvard…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (541+ words) My name is Nisha, and I’m originally from Chennai, India. I moved to Dublin five years ago to pursue a master’s in accounting and financial management at UCD. Since joining EY, I’ve completed all my ACA exams on the first…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (523+ words) “To me personally, Woman Unknown is about the female body as a battleground,” she said from the podium. “At the same time, the film tells the tale of women who are invisible, unseen and voiceless.” The award from a jury…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1759+ words) It is the last day of Ellen Curran’s summer internship at Deloitte when she logs on to a Microsoft Teams meeting to speak to The Irish Times. The meeting is scheduled for 2pm, so there is only a few hours left…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (438+ words) A jet-powered attack drone nearly struck Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s aeroplane on Tuesday, according to a Ukrainian official flying with the president. Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre told public broadcaster NRK that Zelenskiy’s “plane was almost hit by a drone as…...