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Engadget
16 hours ago
- Engadget
Apple is bringing Preview to iPadOS
Preview, macOS's built-in document and image application, is coming to iPadOS 26. Using Apple Pencil Markup, or touch, users will be able to mark up and edit PDFs and images saved in their Files folder, which will be accessible right from the Preview app. The Preview app will also feature AutoFill, allowing users fill out PDF forms from within the app. Apple kicked off WWDC 2025 today where it's expected to announce a slew of new software features across mobile and desktop devices as well as updates to Apple Intelligence and more. Apple Intelligence has been the main focal point at this year's developer conference, along with a top-to-bottom UI redesign that unifies all OS versions in the Apple device lineup. Developing... If you buy something through a link in this article, we may earn commission.
Filipino Times
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Filipino Times
Pia Wurtzbach now uses husband's surname ‘Jauncey'
Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach has officially adopted her husband Jeremy Jauncey's surname, more than a year after they tied the knot. She even went Instagram official by changing her handle to @piajauncey. 'We're the Jaunceys now,' Pia shared in an interview with Preview. 'After a while, I started feeling like 'Pia Wurtzbach' didn't feel right anymore.' She explained that taking on her husband's last name is part of their plan to have a unified family identity. 'One day, when we have kids, I would want them to see that we share the same last name as their dad,' she said. The beauty queen described the move as 'a bit of a traditional move for Jeremy,' but noted, 'it doesn't really bother me.' Jeremy is the founder and CEO of the creative agency Beautiful Destinations, currently based in Dubai. The couple, who first confirmed their relationship in 2020, got married on March 24, 2023.
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
3 Gold Mining Stocks Poised to Outshine Q1 Earnings Estimates
The Zacks Mining – Gold industry is housed within the broader Zacks Basic Materials sector. The Q1 earnings picture for this sector looks glum. Basic Materials is among the Zacks sectors that are expected to see the biggest decline in earnings in the first quarter. Overall earnings for the space are projected to fall 17.8% on 0.7% lower revenues, per the latest Earnings Preview. Gold mining companies' first-quarter results are expected to reflect the benefits of higher gold prices and efforts to boost operating efficiency and reduce costs. We have handpicked a few gold miners, Kinross Gold Corporation KGC, Sandstorm Gold Ltd. SAND and IAMGOLD Corporation IAG, which are set to beat earnings estimates this earnings season. Gold prices are shooting up this year as worries over the global trade war have boosted the safe-haven demand for bullion. Prices of the yellow metal have zoomed roughly 27% year to date, largely attributable to aggressive trade policies, including sweeping new import tariffs announced by President Donald Trump, which have intensified global trade tensions and heightened investor anxiety. Also, central banks worldwide have been accumulating gold reserves, led by risks arising from Trump's policies. Gold prices catapulted to a record high of $3,500 per ounce on April 22 as the U.S. dollar tumbled amid President Trump's criticism of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and call for an immediate reduction in interest rates. Gold prices climbed nearly 19% in the first quarter. Higher prices are expected to have supported the performance of gold miners in the first quarter. On the flip side, higher mining costs, triggered by inflationary pressure on all aspects of input costs, particularly labor, fuel and electricity, are likely to have been a drag. Nevertheless, miners remain committed to whittling down operational costs and capital spending, improving operating efficiency within existing mines, paying down debt, eliminating non-core assets and concentrating on their highest ore-grade assets. Some of these companies have also taken steps to bring down their all-in sustaining costs — the most important cost metric of miners. These actions are expected to support their margins in Q1. Given the large number of players operating in the gold mining space, picking the right stocks is apparently not an easy task. But our proprietary methodology makes it fairly simple. One can trim the list with the combination of a favorable Zacks Rank — Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), 2 (Buy) or 3 (Hold) — and a positive Zacks Earnings ESP. You can uncover the best stocks to buy or sell before they report with our Earnings ESP ESP — the percentage difference between the Most Accurate Estimate and the Zacks Consensus Estimate — is our proprietary methodology for determining stocks that have high chances of delivering earnings surprises in their next announcements. Our research shows that for stocks with this combination, the chance of a positive earnings surprise is as much as 70%. Below we list three gold mining stocks that have the right combination of elements to pull off positive surprises this earnings season:Kinross Gold has an Earnings ESP of +11.07% and a Zacks Rank #2. It is slated to report on May 6. Kinross surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate in three of the trailing four quarters and missed once. It delivered a trailing four-quarter earnings surprise of around 23.7%, on average. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for first-quarter earnings stands at 22 cents. KGC is expected to have gained from higher average realized gold prices. Tasiast and Paracatu mines are expected to have continued their strong production performance, driving overall production, partly masked by higher production costs. (Find the latest EPS estimates and surprises on Zacks Earnings Calendar.) Kinross Gold Corporation price-eps-surprise | Kinross Gold Corporation Quote Sandstorm Gold has an Earnings ESP of +6.67% and carries a Zacks Rank #2. The company is scheduled to report on May 6. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank stocks Gold missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate in three of the trailing four quarters while beat once. It delivered a trailing four-quarter negative earnings surprise of around 65.8%, on average. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for SAND's first-quarter earnings is pegged at 5 cents. SAND is expected to have benefited from strong sales and operating margins in the first quarter. Higher selling prices of gold are also likely to have aided Sandstorm Gold's results in the quarter. These are expected to have been partly offset by a higher cost of sales. Sandstorm Gold Ltd price-eps-surprise | Sandstorm Gold Ltd Quote IAMGOLD has an Earnings ESP of +9.69% and a Zacks Rank #3. It is slated to report on May 6. IAMGOLD beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate in three of the trailing four quarters and missed once. It delivered a trailing four-quarter earnings surprise of around 147.6%, on average. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for first-quarter earnings stands at 10 cents. The company is expected to have benefited from strong production volumes and prices in the first quarter. The ramp-up at Cote Gold and continued strong performance at Essakane and Westwood are likely to have aided production. This is likely to have been partly offset by higher costs. Iamgold Corporation price-eps-surprise | Iamgold Corporation Quote Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Kinross Gold Corporation (KGC) : Free Stock Analysis Report Iamgold Corporation (IAG) : Free Stock Analysis Report Sandstorm Gold Ltd (SAND) : Free Stock Analysis Report This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research ( Zacks Investment Research
New York Times
04-03-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Justin Verlander struggled in 2024, but has a history of rebound seasons. Can he do it again?
You've read factlets, tidbits and did-you-knows about how long Justin Verlander has been in the league, and because they're still incredibly fun, you'll keep reading them. For example, on June 7, 2004, the day Verlander was drafted, Barry Bonds' OPS was 1.494. Not only was Verlander a pro baseball player when Bonds was still active, he was in professional baseball when Bonds was at the height of his powers. Advertisement Bonds would slump for the rest of that season, hitting only .357 with 29 home runs and dropping his OPS down to 1.422, but Verlander was just getting started. He's been one of the surest bets in baseball over the last two decades, winning awards and championships and making 526 career starts and counting. Almost every spring, his baseball team could point to him and know with metaphysical certitude that they had one of the best pitchers in baseball. The 'almost' in that last sentence is carrying a lot of weight, though. Almost every spring, but certainly not every spring. To close out our spin through the Giants' projected 2025 rotation (you can find the first four installments here), we can't take the same approach with Verlander because it would just be a rehashing of the post-signing analysis. Instead of that analysis, let's explore the outlier seasons and uncertain spring trainings of Verlander's career. Some may be doubting what the Giants will get from Verlander based on his struggles last season, so we'll revisit when it was reasonable, if not trendy, to doubt him earlier in his career. It was silly to do so, in hindsight, but not everybody thought that at the time. There were years when nobody really knew what they were going to get from him. It's been possible to have doubts about Verlander's upcoming season more often than you think, considering he has a slim but legitimate chance at 300 wins. We'll start at the beginning. Verlander was drafted in 2004, but he didn't sign a contract until after that season. The Tigers actually announced they had 'turned the page' on the idea of signing him, and the easiest way to explain why contract negotiations were so stressful is that he ended up with the third-highest bonus among right-handed starting pitchers drafted in that year's first round. He was the No. 2 pick, but it was Jered Weaver on the cover of the Baseball America Draft Preview issue, and agent Scott Boras got Weaver — the No. 13 pick — $4 million, which was tied for the highest bonus that year. Jeff Niemann was drafted fourth, but he got a bigger bonus than Verlander and more respect from Baseball America in the preseason top-100 list the following year. Advertisement Verlander finished his 2005 minor-league season with absurd numbers (1.29 ERA in 20 starts), but he entered the 2006 season as an unproven rookie with a 7.15 career ERA in the majors. This mattered because the Tigers were an organization that had not had much luck at the top of the draft. A notebook piece about Verlander's possible spring debut came before a note that Matt Anderson, a former No. 1 pick by the Tigers, had signed a minor-league contract with the Rockies. Kyle Sleeth was a No. 3 pick just a year before Verlander, and he missed the entire 2005 season with an injury and would never reach Triple A. The hype around Verlander was real — even Al Kaline said, 'When's the last time we brought up someone like this?' — but a draft pedigree and unbelievable minor-league stats only went so far in Tigers Land. They'd been hurt by young pitchers before. Verlander won the 2006 Rookie of the Year and helped lead the Tigers to a surprising pennant, a remarkable turnaround from the 91-loss season the year before and the 119-loss season in 2002. He'd make his first All-Star Game the following season, and it would be nothing but smooth sailing after that. Completely smooth. The sailing was not completely smooth. In 2008, Verlander led the American League in losses. His walks per nine innings shot up to 3.9, and his strikeouts per nine innings dropped to 7.3. His strikeout rate was 35th in baseball, tied with Bronson Arroyo. His adjusted ERA was 69th in baseball, tied with … Bronson Arroyo. Arroyo was a control-and-movement specialist whose value was tied to his ability to eat innings. He was a fine pitcher to have in a rotation, but not the most appealing comparison for a 25-year-old flamethrower. Verlander was also tied with a 42-year-old Greg Maddux in ERA+, just to hammer this point home. Advertisement Check out this end-of-season quote from Jim Leyland, Verlander's manager back then: 'I'm not gonna lie to anybody or beat around the bush … people have to be accountable for (the Tigers' disappointing season). I read one comment where Justin Verlander said, 'Well, I was probably part of the reason.' No, not probably. You were one of the reasons. And I'm not picking on Justin, because he's a horse … but it's not 'probably.' Let's all face up to the music here.' Yikes. While Leyland made the Hall of Fame in part by being very, very direct (NSFW language), that's not the quote a manager typically gives about a future Hall of Famer. It's the quote he gives about a young pitcher whose future is uncertain. So when Verlander came back the next spring, he had something to prove. Not just to the fans, but also to the well-respected baseball lifer in charge of the dugout. Verlander came back in 2009 with his best season to that point, leading the league in wins instead of losses and finishing third in the Cy Young voting. There was smooth sailing for real this time, and it lasted for a few years. (You're expecting me to make some sort of joke here about Pablo Sandoval in the 2012 World Series, but that's a tired gag. Instead I'll point out that Sandoval's bases-clearing triple against Verlander in the first inning of that year's All-Star Game gave the Giants home-field advantage and was a supremely underrated part of the run.) In 2014, when Dan Uggla was about to get his first ring, Verlander seemed impossibly far from his. He threw 206 innings, but he had the worst full season of his career. His 17.8-percent strikeout rate was so low that it was tied with Bartolo Colon, who was 41 and powered by movement, guile and memes. At this point, forget what you know about Verlander now and think about what he looked like back then. Advertisement He'd had five excellent seasons and two deity-level seasons to that point, but he wasn't a Hall of Famer just yet, and he was 31. That was the age that Félix Hernández stopped being effective. It was the age that Dwight Gooden joined the Yankees as a comeback candidate. It was the age Mickey Lolich got his last Cy Young votes, the age Larry Dierker retired, the year Fernando Valenzuela left the majors entirely to pitch a season in Mexico, the … You get the idea. A 31-year-old on a Hall of Fame path can become a cautionary tale without any warning. Verlander's fabled triple-digit velocity was suddenly in the low-90s, with far more fastballs in the upper 80s than upper 90s. His average draft position in fantasy baseball before 2015 was in the toilet, which gives you an idea of the public perception at the time. He was washed. Yesterday's news. Even worse: Verlander started the 2015 season on the IL with a triceps strain, ending his string of Opening Day starts and eventually keeping him below 30 starts in a full season for the first time in his career. He pitched much better in 2015 than the year before, but he wasn't an All-Star for the second consecutive season, which was the first time that had happened. He was sliding into the second phase of his career. Time remains undefeated, and it was the beginning of the end. It was not the beginning of the end. It was the beginning of something even better. Verlander came back in 2016 and had an outstanding season, finishing second in a Cy Young vote that he deserved to win. He was traded to the Astros at the 2017 trade deadline and instantly helped them win a World Series. He made 34 starts in the next two seasons, winning another Cy Young and striking out 300 batters in 2019. If he wasn't the best pitcher in baseball, he was on a very, very, very short list. In 2020, he made one start before blowing out his elbow. It was absolutely brutal news in a year filled with it. Verlander wouldn't be back until 2022, when he was 39. Even if he came back intact, would he be the same pitcher? Would he be effective? Would he even be helpful? He was incredible, with a 1.75 ERA in 28 starts, helping the Astros win another World Series. There are a lot of incredible baseball comeback seasons in the sport's history, and Giants fans got to watch one of the greatest with Buster Posey in 2012. Verlander's 2022 season is up there with any of them. Fewer than 100 pitchers topped 100 innings in their age-39 season. Fewer than 200 pitchers in baseball history have made a single start in their age-39 season at all. To come back from Tommy John and have a sub-2.00 season at any age is absurd. To do it at an age where it's unlikely for a pitcher to still be appearing in games is almost supernatural. Verlander was pretty good in 2023, too, but he slipped far enough in 2024 that the Giants were able to sign him to a one-year deal. The move didn't exactly melt the hot stove. Because, really, how effective can a 42-year-old pitcher be? Advertisement Everything you know about baseball and baseball history suggests Verlander can't possibly do it again. He's been a magician over and over again, pulling an ace-like season out of his sleeve when expectations are at their lowest. At some point, it has to stop. Everything you know about Verlander makes you think he'll keep doing this until a solar flare licks the Earth clean. Another successful and healthy season after last year's would be an unlikely story, but those are his specialty. Time might be undefeated, but you can still get it in a headlock and give it a noogie every so often. Verlander seems to enjoy that sort of bullying more than most.
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Vintage 1950's TV donated to Heritage Square 'Technology through Time' exhibit
ABILENE, Texas () – Unless you lived through it, the past can be difficult to visualize. The Grace Museum is setting out to tackle that task for future visitors at Abilene Heritage Square through the Technology through Time exhibit. While they are currently curating the collection, it will be housed and proudly displayed next year at Abilene Heritage Square's Spark Science Center. 'In that science center, we will focus on different sciences, and one of those is Technology through Time… Starting with the wheel all the way up to the technology of today,' said Grace Museum Science Center Director Marsha Hammack. Museum staff have been taking donations from the public to fill their technological timeline. One of those spaces will be filled by a vintage Admiral TV set donated by Grace Museum Public Programs Director Kelci Rogers' grandfather, Bruce Campbell. 'It was important to me as a memory. It's made several transitions of location through the years, but I'm the oldest child in the family, and I ended up with it. I've had it in storage, so I think this is a great time to donate it to posterity for others to be able to see how TVs were back then,' Campbell said. Campbell has kept the set in relatively pristine condition throughout the years. It holds a special place in his heart as the device that marked his initiation into the 'TV generation.' 'That was the first TV set I watched TV on in about 1950,' said Campbell. At that time, Abilene had no television stations, but that little hurdle wouldn't stop the Campbell family from tuning in. Campbell said his father had previously owned a radio service and repair shop in Brady, Texas. His father's knowledge of airwaves and electronics enabled him to reach beyond the Key City and connect to the world. 'My dad, an electronics background person, set up a Channel 5 television receiving antenna outside our house on a little short tower. So he could bring in the signal for Channel 5 WBAP television in Fort Worth,' Campbell recalled. Over such a great distance, that signal was not quite as strong as it would be today. Campbell stated that the image was often 'snowy,' and sometimes only audio would come through. Just three years later, KRBC would go live on-air for the first time. He says the signal was much more stable and allowed them to enjoy the local news as well as the talents of 'Dub and Larry' during the KRBC afternoon 'Preview.' 'They had a very limited amount of programming available back at that time, but Dub Bowlus and Larry Fitzgerald were paired up in a little program they did in the afternoons. And they maybe pantomimed records while being all dressed up. And Larry Fitzgerald was ultimately the first regular news person for KRBC television,' shared Campbell. His memories of growing up in that time will be immortalized along with the TV set at Abilene Heritage Square. Visitors to the exhibit will learn not only about the technological aspects of the 1950s but also about the local history that coincided. 'We were looking to perhaps retrofit a current TV in there so that when visitors come in, they can see a black and white TV show. Perhaps 'I Love Lucy' or some of the early years. But we're also so intrigued by the condition that it's in and the parts that are in it. We also want to preserve those so that visitors can see; this is where we've come, from the '40s to current times,' Hammack said. Campbell's granddaughter, Rogers, says she feels excited and lucky to be able to share this piece of her family's story with future generations. 'It's a cool connection to be working here now and get to be a part of preserving something that will be at the Science Center that was also part of my family history… My great-grandmother loved educating people, so I think this is something she would have wanted. To be able to live on in that way, children getting to experience something that's just very integral to who she was,' said Rogers According to details provided by Campbell, this exact television was produced by Admiral in 1950. It is a portable model with a screen size of a little over 12 inches. It sold for around $179.95, equivalent to $2,279 today. Abilene Heritage Square, projected to open in April 2026, will boast exhibits, community spaces, and resources for various fields. The Spark Science Center will serve as a second location for the Grace Museum, hosting interactive educational experiences geared toward Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM). Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
