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Dean Elgar: The writing was on the wall – LNN

Dean Elgar says he was being “wasted as a person and as a cricketer” due to the lack of Test cricket played by the Proteas.

In a wide-ranging interview with ESPNcricinfothe 36-year-old opening batsman revealed that he had decided in February 2023 – after being replaced as Test captain by Temba Bavuma – that he would retire after the home series against India in December 2023/January 2024.

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Samsung and AMD Collaborate To Advance Network Transformation With vRAN – Samsung Global Newsroom

New collaboration will unlock a wider set of choices for operators to build high-capacity, energy-efficient networks, leveraging Samsung’s vRAN solutions and ecosystem

Samsung Electronics today announced a new collaboration with AMD to advance 5G virtualized RAN (vRAN) for network transformation. This collaboration represents Samsung’s ongoing commitment to enriching vRAN and Open RAN ecosystems to help operators build and modernize mobile networks with unmatched flexibility and optimized performance.

The two companies have completed several rounds of tests at Samsung’s lab to verify high-capacity and telco-grade performance using FDD bands and TDD Massive MIMO wide-bands, while significantly reducing power consumption. In this

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Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid respond to Ronna McDaniel being dropped by NBC after liberal pressure: ‘I’m grateful’

MSNBC anchors Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow reacted happily to the hiring and almost immediate termination of former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel on Tuesday as an NBC News annalyst.

NBCUniversal News Group chairman Cesar Conde sent a memo to staff Tuesday announcing that McDaniel was no longer with the network, after Maddow, Reid and several other network hosts cried foul in on-air rebukes.

“I want to personally apologize to our team members who felt we let them down,” Conde wrote. “While this was a collective recommendation by some members of our leadership team, I approved it and take full responsibility

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The damning verdict of viewers on US cable TV

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Every week the big cable news networks in the US — CNN, Fox News and MSNBC — blast out press releases touting some kind of ratings achievement. These documents are sometimes specific, and often ultra competitive, with each channel trying to claim the title of “most-watched” on cable.

Recently, this obsession with ratings has started to look a bit like musicians playing their violins as the Titanic sinks. Cable television is in long-term decline. Some recent statistics: every day, about

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Empire Energy discusses looming gas shortfalls across Australia


Empire Energy Limited (ASX:EEG) CEO Alex Underwood discusses the implications of gas shortfalls across Australia and possible sources for new supply.

Paul Sanger: I’m Paul Sanger for the Finance News Network, and today I’m talking to Empire Energy (ASX:EEG). Empire Energy, trading under the ASX code “EEG” with a market capitalisation of $135m is a Sydney-based Australian oil and gas company holding 100 per cent owned and operated assets with unconventional targets in the Northern Territory Beetaloo sub-basin, and central trough of the McArthur Basin. Joining me is today is Empire Energy Chief Executive Officer Alex Underwood. Alex, welcome

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Brits teenagers’ kidnapping: Police officer among those arrested – LNN

A police officer is among the suspects who allegedly kidnapped two teenagers from Brits in the North West recently.

Police say the six men are expected to appear in court on tomorrow.

Police spokesperson Brigadier Sabata Mokgwabone said a multi-disciplinary team was tasked with investigating the kidnapping. They made two more arrests on Tuesday. Mokgwabone said the suspects included a police sergeant attached to Letlhabile Detectives.

Bataviya Mohammed (19) and a minor family member were kidnapped on the road near a primary school in Brits on 6 March.

The cousins ​​were found on Monday evening, 25 March, in a house

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USPS mail price hikes driving away more customers than predicted, study finds

The Postal Service has raised mail prices five times since December 2020, when its regulator granted new pricing flexibility — and may soon be asking for a sixth increase that would go into effect this summer.

But a new industry report warns USPS is underestimating how much these rates hikes on its monopoly mail — or “market-dominant” — products are driving away some of its biggest customers.

A report from Keep US Posted — a non-profit group of consumers, non-profits, newspapers, greeting card publishers, magazines, catalogs and small businesses — finds market-dominant revenue in fiscal 2023 fell $1.8 billion short

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‘Tales of’ RPG Series Artist Mutsumi Inomata Dies – News

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The official Twitter account for artist Mutsumi Inomata announced on Monday that Inomata died on March 10. Her family held a private funeral.

The announcement added that Inomata’s death was “sudden,” and she still had the draft for a new illustration that she had only started drawing before she died.

Inomata is perhaps best known for being one of the main character designers for Namco‘s (later Bandai Namco Entertainment) Tales of series of role-playing games, alongside Kousuke Fujishima. The company

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