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Getty ImagesMillions of people in the UK face travel disruption this bank holiday weekend, contending with busy roads, a rail strike and engineering works.There is likely to be significant disruption on the rail network on CrossCountry routes from Aberdeen to Cornwall because of a strike by the RMT union over pay, safety and staffing. The weather is looking to be mostly dry across the three-day weekend, with large crowds expected at festivals being held across the country.Meanwhile, ferry passengers at the Port of Dover on Friday faced queuing times of almost two hours.Ferry operator DFDS said at 13:00 on Friday…

Fidji Simo is wrapping up her first week at OpenAI, where she is expected to oversee most of the company’s roughly 3,000 employees.To investors and partners, OpenAI leaders have been describing the former Instacart CEO as the kind of steady hand the company needs. Her mandate is clear: turn a chaotic, unprofitable startup into a disciplined, publicly traded tech giant. On paper, she seems well-suited. She lived through Facebook’s hyper-growth era in the early 2010s, helped take Instacart public, and knows the advertising industry inside and out — experience that will be valuable once ads arrive in ChatGPT.Simo’s arrival also…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. The new season is finally here! The 2025-26 NCAA season officially kicks off with its first big weekend of games starting on Saturday, Aug. 23. The begins starts with Iowa State vs. Kansas State at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland, with a start time of 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT on ESPN. For a complete college football schedule, click here. The NCAA college football games broadcast live across ABC, ACC Network, Big Ten Network, CBS, CBS Sports Network, The…

Ellie Kildunne scores a “beautiful” try for England against USA during the opening game of the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup.

“Kaboom” is not the sound you want a rocket ship to make, as a rule. Yet that’s the problem facing the private aerospace company SpaceX and its leader, Elon Musk. Instead of going to space, their newest rocket ship keeps going kaboom.The last three flights of Starship, a two-stage, 400-foot tall behemoth, ended in fiery disaster—what Musk has sometimes jokingly called a “rapid unplanned disassembly.” In January and again in March the launch vehicle’s Super Heavy booster stage made it back to a massive, pincer-equipped gantry, but Starship’s upper stage didn’t. In May the booster exploded just before splashdown, and…

Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines have announced their long-anticipated rewards program. But is it any good?Since the merger between Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines was announced in 2023, one of the biggest outstanding questions has been how the two carriers would marry their frequent flyer programs. The world now has the answer–and it’s not all bad news.On August 20, both airlines announced the launch of Atmos Rewards. By October 1, 2025, Atmos will replace both Alaska’s Mileage Plan and Hawaiian’s HawaiianMiles as the united loyalty program, promising new ways to earn points and elite status, along with new credit card perks. Although…

Prime Minister Mark Carney says most Canadian goods will be exempted from US tariffs while some sectoral duties remain.Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said that his country will drop retaliatory tariffs in tandem with tariff exemptions offered by the United States, as the two ease away from their costly trade war.Speaking to reporters on Friday, Carney said that the US clarified that it will not impose tariffs on Canadian goods that comply with the US-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement. Some tariffs on sectors such as steel, aluminium, and cars will remain in place.“In this context and consistent with Canada’s commitment…

Canada will drop its counter-tariffs on some American goods in the coming days, Mark Carney has said, as the country’s prime minister looks to end a protracted trade war with longtime ally the United States.From 1 September, the Canadian government will remove some levies on US goods that comply with the North American free-trade pact, a move meant to “match” how the White House treated Canadian goods. Levies on steel, aluminum and autos will remain in place.The announcement comes one day after Carney and Donald Trump spoke on the phone.In recent months, the US has upended global trade as it…

Back to school is always a great time to pick up a deal on a new laptop for the upcoming semester, and the Asus CX15 Chromebook is available at Walmart for $159. It may not be the fanciest option, but it has a sizable screen and a full keyboard with a numpad, all for less than the cost of a new textbook. If you’re just looking for a no-frills Chromebook for occasional web-based work and a slightly larger display, this is a great deal.Photograph: Luke LarsenWhen it comes to performance, the CX15 isn’t terribly exciting, with an Intel Celeron N4500…

If Tom Ripley lived in LA in 2018 and was really into lo-fi bedroom pop, he might look something like the main character of Lurker. The debut feature from Alex Russell, The Bear and Beef writer-producer, is an elegantly creepy thriller about one super-fan’s scheme to become close to his musical idol, transposing author Patricia Highsmith’s “two-man theme” into a murkier grey territory, with parasitic attachment giving way to co-dependence that blooms into something that looks like a twisted kind of love.The lurker of the title is Matthew (Théodore Pellerin), an isolated twentysomething who lives with his grandma and works…