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Diamondbacks’ Ketel Marte extends his postseason-record hitting streak to 19 games

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:48:09 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Ketel Marte extended his postseason-record hitting streak to 19 games with a lined single in the sixth inning off Jon Gray in Game 3 of the World Series on Monday night.The Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman walked in his first plate appearance and flied out to left in his second, but he followed with a line drive in the sixth that deflected off the glove of Texas Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien and into right-center field.Marte broke the postseason record with a two-run single in Saturday’s Game 2, pushing his streak to 18 games. His two-out hit was part of a three-run eighth, sending him past Derek Jeter and Hank Bauer of the New York Yankees and Boston’s Manny Ramirez for the longest streak.Jeter’s run came in 1998-99, while Bauer’s was in the World Series from 1956-58. Ramirez had his streak in 2003-04.Marte’s streak started with a three-hit game in an 11-8 wild-card win over Colorado in 2017, then with three more when the Diamondbacks were swept in th...

Cartagena, Gallese lead Orlando City over Nashville 1-0 in series opener

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:48:09 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Wilder Cartagena scored his second career goal in his first playoff appearance and Pedro Gallese notched his first postseason clean sheet as Orlando City opened its series against Nashville SC with a 1-0 victory on Monday night.Orlando City (19-7-9), the second seed in the Eastern Conference, got the only goal it would need when Cartagena took a pass from César Araújo and scored in the 41st minute, giving Orlando City a 1-0 lead at halftime. Gallese finished with three saves in his fourth postseason start.Cartagena, who has made 24 starts and 25 appearances this season, scored his first and only regular-season goal in a 3-1 victory over the Chicago Fire on Aug. 20. Gallese allowed six goals in three playoff starts from 2020-22. Joe Willis totaled four saves for Nashville (13-12-10).Orlando City and No. 7 seed Nashville are squaring off for the third straight postseason. Nashville posted a 3-1 victory at home in a 2021 first-round match and Orlando City won on pe...

Apple presentó sus modelos de iMac y MacBook Pro más rápidos hasta el momento

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:48:09 GMT

(CNN) — La línea MacBook Pro de Apple y las coloridas computadoras iMac ahora son aún más rápidas.En un evento transmitido en vivo el lunes por la noche, la compañía presentó su familia de procesadores personalizados de próxima generación (M3, M3 Pro y M3 Pro) en sus computadoras portátiles MacBook Pro de 14 y 16 pulgadas. También agregará chips M3 a su línea iMac de 24 pulgadas.La MacBook de 14 pulgadas tiene un precio inicial de US$ 1.599; la computadora portátil de 16 pulgadas tendrá un precio inicial de US$ 2.499. El nuevo iMac con motor M3 tiene un precio inicial de US$ 1.299 y comenzará a enviarse la próxima semana.Los chips están construidos con tecnología de 3 nanómetros, que puede admitir gráficos avanzados e inteligencia artificial.“Aportará un nivel completamente nuevo de gráficos a Mac”, dijo un ejecutivo de Apple durante el evento. “Son los chips más avanzados jamás construidos para una computadora personal”.El eslogan del evento (“scary fa...

McCann scores in overtime as Kraken beat Lightning for first time

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:48:09 GMT

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Jared McCann scored a power-play goal 2:53 into overtime, and the Seattle Kraken beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 on Monday night.With Tampa Bay’s Nick Paul in the penalty box for hooking, McCann converted a blast from the left circle for his fifth goal of the season. The Kraken earned their first victory in five tries against the Lightning since entering the NHL in 2021.Brian Dumoulin, Yanni Gourde and Kailer Yamamoto scored in the first period for Seattle. Philipp Grubauer made 33 saves for his first win in five decisions this season.The Lightning trailed 3-1 after one period, but Alex Barre-Boulet got them within one by scoring a power-play goal 3:40 into the second. Brandon Hagel tied it with 5:32 remaining in the third.Yamamoto set up Gourde’s goal at 13:08 of the opening period to give Seattle a 2-0 lead, and then scored a power-play goal at 15:52.Dumoulin had the first goal for the Kraken, who had been 0-4-0 against Tampa Bay since entering the NHL in 2021....

Police say armed man killed himself instead of carrying out apparent plan to attack amusement park

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:48:09 GMT

DENVER (AP) — A heavily armed man killed himself rather than carry out an apparent plan to shoot up a mountaintop amusement park in Colorado, his body discovered in a bathroom next to words scrawled on the wall, “I am not a killer,” authorities said Monday.Diego Barajas Medina, 20, was found dead in a women’s bathroom at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park by a maintenance crew on Saturday morning, before the park opened to the public. He died of a self-inflected gunshot wound to the head, Garfield County Coroner Robert Glassmire said.Medina apparently entered the park while it was closed, armed with an AR-style rifle, a semi-automatic handgun and explosives and was wearing body armor and tactical clothing, similar to what a police SWAT team member might wear, authorities said. A message saying, “I am not a killer, I just want to get into the caves,” was written on a wall of the bathroom where Medina’s body was found lying on the floor, Garfield County Sheriff Lou Vallario s...

Denver 911 testing new video stream to see emergencies live

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:48:09 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver's testing a new technology that would allow 911 operators to see emergencies live. Callers can stream live video from their cell phones and send it directly to emergency call takers.“Cell phones have always been a bit of a challenge for 911," said Andrew Dameron, who oversees Denver's emergency communication department. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox That challenge may be made easier for 911 dispatchers because of new video technology."The vast majority, probably close to 80% of 911 calls, come through on a cell phone," Dameron said. "Having accurate, reliable location information is the most important thing that we can ask for. Having tools like this to provide that, it’s absolutely a game changer."The Carbyne 911 emergency live video stream program is demonstrated on a cell phone. (KDVR)911 video stream pilot up and running in DenverThe pilot program, created by the company Carbyne, has been up and running since June.In ...

Downed powerline in SWMD burns down shed, affecting nearby home

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:48:09 GMT

A downed power line sparked a fire at a shed in Southwest Miami-Dade, where flames spread to a nearby home.The fire happened just off Bird Road at 59th Avenue.The shed was destroyed and one wall of the house was left charred.Officials reported that no one was hurt.

Westminster’s most gruesome rivalries

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:48:09 GMT

LONDON — There are bad spirits lurking in Westminster this All Hallows’ Eve.More out of control than Frankenstein’s monster … more intense than the age-old battle between vampires and werewolves … and more un-killable than a swarm of flesh-eating zombies, these are the bitter rivalries that just can’t be doused in holy water and seen off.Emerge from your crypt and join POLITICO as we reel off the Westminster feuds haunting British politics. Reader discretion … advised. Rishi Sunak and Boris JohnsonDan Kitwood-WPA Pool/Getty ImagesBehold a tale of true horror! There is serious bad blood between these former Downing Street neighbors.Boris Johnson and his supporters continue to feel a deep sense of betrayal after nerdy ex-Chancellor Sunak quit Johnson’s government and eventually took his crown.You don’t usually get on-the-record warfare between a sitting and a former prime minister, but their disdain for each other has burs...

US isn’t ready for a war of great powers

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:48:09 GMT

Andrew A. Michta is senior fellow and director of the Scowcroft Strategy Initiative at the Atlantic Council of the United States.United States President Joe Biden’s recent Oval Office address marked a key moment in the deepening competition between America and its allies on the one hand, and the axis of dictatorships coalescing around Russia, China, Iran and North Korea on the other.The speech effectively merged the war in Ukraine and the wider war brewing in the Middle East into two theaters of the same conflict. And should Hezbollah now also attack, it will present the U.S. and its allies with a significantly expanded theater, straining military resources yet again.At the same time, Taiwan seems even more likely to emerge as a third sphere of conflict in the next few years — or perhaps even sooner. And Beijing has been boosting its military at scale — the People’s Liberation Army Navy is already numerically greater than the U.S. Navy, while its land forces and nuclear forces are g...

How Matt Clifford became Britain’s most powerful tech adviser

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:48:09 GMT

BRUSSELS — On a warm overcast afternoon in late September, Brussels’ digerati streamed into a cramped event space, just moments from the headquarters of the European Commission, to listen to the U.K.’s man of the hour. Blonde and natty in a crisp white shirt and slim-fit navy suit, Matt Clifford — the British Prime Minister’s official representative for this week’s AI Safety Summit — ambled to the lectern with the smiling ease of someone who has delivered dozens of impromptu speeches. The event, invitation-only and held under the Chatham House Rule, was just one leg of Clifford’s globetrotting, which has taken him from London to Washington and Beijing. These days, as he told POLITICO, he “can sleep anytime, anywhere.”Clifford has been weaving across the planet to talk to top policymakers and tech barons about this week’s Bletchley Park summit, which will focus on severe risks like AI-aided cyberattacks and weapon design, and on which Rishi Sunak has pinned his hopes for a ...