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A consortium of top industry players have sent an open letter full of alarm to Congress, describing a potential economic and institutional meltdown in Hollywood if Netflix succeeds in its effort to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. The letter was sent via email to members of Congress from both parties on Thursday from an anonymous collective identifying themselves only as “concerned feature film producers.” The group explained it was leaving the letter unsigned “not out of cowardice” but fear of retaliation given Netflix’s considerable market power as a buyer and distributor. Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery declined to comment. One well-placed source…

Eric WoodyardDec 4, 2025, 06:00 AM ETCloseEric Woodyard covers the Detroit Lions for ESPN. He joined ESPN in September 2019 as an NBA reporter dedicated to the Midwest region before switching to his current role in April 2021. The Flint, Mich. native is a graduate of Western Michigan University and has authored/co-authored three books: “Wasted,” “Ethan’s Talent Search” and “All In: The Kelvin Torbert Story”. He is a proud parent of one son, Ethan.DETROIT — Two years later, Dan Campbell still gets upset at the thought of how the Detroit Lions’ game at the Dallas Cowboys ended on the night…

For decades now, it’s been fairly well established that once you turn 40 you should start paying more attention to your body. That’s when women are supposed to start getting mammograms and men are supposed to start paying a bit more attention to their prostates. Over the next decade, you’ll start getting colonoscopies, and from then on out, it feels like a gradual march of doctor’s appointments and tests until your body collapses sometime in your seventies or eighties.But what if modern medicine has the timeline all wrong? What if we’re testing some middle-aged people unnecessarily for diseases they’ll most…

Well, Pipsqueaks, it’s Friday at long last. Huzzah! Just one more push and we’re home free. As always, we have three Pips puzzles to solve courtesy of the New York Times Games section. Let’s not waste any precious time and get right to it!Looking for Thursday’s Pips? Read our guide right here.How To Play PipsIn Pips, you have a grid of multicolored boxes. Each colored area represents a different “condition” that you have to achieve. You have a select number of dominoes that you have to spend filling in the grid. You must use every domino and achieve every condition…

Maria Diaz/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.Virtual assistants will soon be as commonplace as smartphones — in many parts of the world, they already are. Most smartphones have a built-in assistant powered by artificial intelligence (AI), whether it’s Siri in iPhones or Google Assistant (now Gemini) in Android phones. Inside our homes, though, Amazon Alexa has become the most popular virtual assistant in the US and around the world, as a widely adopted virtual assistant. Users from various countries outside the US keep Echo devices in their homes with Alexa set to different languages.Also: Your Amazon driver may soon…

Elephant seals don’t forget their enemies. We learn about the great beasts’ big beefs and why they matter.

It has given some in middle age dubious hope that they have their finger on the cultural pulse. Meanwhile, some younger users have been told their listening habits suggest they are well into retirement.Spotify has confected a wave of intrigue over what our musical preferences suggest about our vintage, with its “your listening age” feature causing delight and consternation.The gimmick is a new addition to the streaming service’s annual Wrapped feature, which uses the swaths of listening data it collects to deliver personalised insights into a user’s year in sound.Many users found they had jumped generations in their musical habits.…

The scourge of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) is global. While their consumption is particularly high in the west, forming more than half the average diet in the UK and the US, for example, UPFs are replacing fresh food in diets on every continent.This month, the world’s largest review on the health threats of UPFs was published in the Lancet. It warned that such foods are exposing millions of people to long-term harm, and called for urgent action. Earlier this year Unicef revealed that more children around the world were obese than underweight for the first time, as junk food overwhelms diets,…

With some of the most reliable snow in Colorado and a mountain famous for its long, groomed runs and wide-open terrain, Vail has earned a reputation that stretches far beyond the Rockies.Built in 1962 by veterans who trained with the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division, Vail was designed for skiing first and everything else second—and that logic still shapes the area. Runs spill directly into town; après bars sit just feet from the lifts; and the sidewalks are heated so you can shuffle around in your ski boots without slipping on ice. Yes, really. Today, Vail is one of the…

Harry LowandStephen West,LondonGetty ImagesLiverpool Street has been named Britain’s busiest station three years runningLondon Liverpool Street has been named as Britain’s busiest station for the third consecutive year.A total of 98 million passengers entered and exited the station until the end of March, up 3.7% on the year before, according to the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).Waterloo, Paddington and Tottenham Court Road were the next most popular stations across the UK. All 10 of the most used stations were in London.The busiest station outside the capital was Birmingham New Street, which was 13th busiest overall, with 36.6million passengers. The…