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jili 6 Ruben Amorim will not be turning to Sir Alex Ferguson for advice as he looks to find a way to guide Manchester United out of the shadow of Pep Guardiola ’s Manchester City . Amorim is yet to meet the most successful manager in the history of the club - and the 39-year-old has made it clear that he won’t be reopening the door to the dressing room that was closed on Ferguson last month when he was told to keep his distance from United’s players. The Portuguese insists he must be his own man when it comes to the task of bringing back the kind of glory days that United last enjoyed under the Scot before he retired 11 years ago. Amorim accepts that Guardiola’s decision to sign a contract extension that will keep him at the Etihad until the summer of 2027 makes his job much harder than it might have been. But while Ferguson once leaned on the guidance of Sir Matt Busby before making his own history at Old Trafford, the new man made it clear that he wants the past to stay exactly where it is. Asked if he had met the 13-time Premier League winner, Amorim revealed: “No, not yet. I didn’t have that opportunity. It’s hard to copy someone, so I have to be me. “This is a club that needs and has to win, so we have to show that to our players. But it’s a different time. I cannot be the same guy that Sir Alex Ferguson was. “It’s a different time and I have to have a different approach - but I can also be demanding with a different approach and that is my focus.” United haven’t been Premier League champions since Ferguson retired in 2013. They are also yet to finish above their nearest rivals over the same period - and when Amorim looked at the current table on his first day on the job he would have seen the Blues eight points better off despite being enveloped in the worst crisis of Guardiola’s eight-year reign. The Portuguese added to City’s woes by whipping them 4-1 in the Champions League earlier this month in one of his final acts as coach of Sporting Lisbon. Amorim said: “I think it (Guardiola signing a new contract) is a problem for everyone here. “But we have so much to do ourselves that we can't focus on anyone else. We just have to focus on our club, improving our club and not focusing on the other clubs - so let's focus on Manchester United. “It's amazing, if you can beat that team (City) then it's a good sign but, like I said, let's focus on Manchester United.” Amorim’s first game as United manager takes him to Ipswich Town and a battle of wits with Kieran McKenna, the young Irishman who was courted by United in the summer. He is ready to launch himself onto a steep learning curve - but he is aware that results will be of the essence if he wants to buy himself the time that will enable him to live up to the legacy Ferguson created over more than 26 years. Amorim added: “It’s so much harder to come to a team in the middle of a season because you have to know the players during the games. You’re talking about no national-team periods to work with the players, so it’s just about games. “If you are winning, it’s a lot of fun having a lot of games and trying to make some changes tactically. But if you’re losing, you don’t have the time in training to work out everything you want to work. “I think where we can improve a team is in training. This is the most important aspect, but it is really hard to do it using video or in recovery training. We will find ways to try to cope.” Join our new WhatsApp community and receive your daily dose of Mirror Football content. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice.

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Canadian companies excited about AI but slow to adopt it: AI tech leaders TORONTO — The co-founders of two of Canada's top artificial intelligence firms say companies in the country are buzzing with excitement around the technology but turning that enthusiasm into products and tools takes too long. Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press Nov 26, 2024 12:50 PM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Nick Frosst, co-founder of Cohere, is shown at the AI company's offices in Toronto on Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young TORONTO — The co-founders of two of Canada's top artificial intelligence firms say companies in the country are buzzing with excitement around the technology but turning that enthusiasm into products and tools takes too long. Nick Frosst, co-founder of Toronto-based enterprise AI business Cohere, says the pipeline to get AI from an idea to implementation is lengthy. "A lot of the times when I start to deal with a Canadian company, they say, 'We've got to get an AI strategy. We've got to build AI,'" Frosst said at the University of Waterloo's Tech Horizons Executive Forum in Toronto on Tuesday. "Then, it takes a long time to get from some high-level room that says we need this thing to an actual implementation that's sitting in production, saving their employees time or ... delighting their users." Nicole Janssen, the co-founder of Edmonton-based AI firm AltaML, has had a similar experience. She estimates it takes 18 months for companies reaching out to her business to commit to using AI and then another 18 months to start doing something with it. "Then people get tired of this thing that's not giving them a return on the investment and it falls to the wayside," she said. Tech leaders have long lamented the slow rate of adoption for their products in Canada, especially when compared to the U.S. Some have blamed the pace on a lack of funding, while others have said it's a matter of culture. Frosst said it's hard to narrow down what's hampering the rate of adoption. Culture could be part of it, but he said, "I want to be clear that I don't necessarily think that cultural thing is bad." "Some of the things that I really like about Canada is that we're slow and a little conscientious," he said. "But it also has downsides and one of the downsides is five quarters of real GDP per capita decrease." Those GDP declines have sparked a discussion about whether Canada is facing a crisis in productivity because it is lagging behind the U.S. and many other Nordic nations. Frosst estimates large language models — the underpinning of AI, which use massive data sets to recognize, translate, predict or generate text and other content — could make a big dent in Canada's productivity woes. He said LLMs alone will "augment" about 20 per cent of knowledge-based jobs, which include teachers, doctors, financial analysts and marketing consultants. But to ensure LLMs and AI are "an absolutely massive opportunity" for Canada, Frosst said the country must not squander the foundations that have been laid for it. Canada, for example, has long been known as a hotbed of AI innovation because of its focus on AI research and talent development. Much of that work has happened through the Vector Institute and Mila, AI organizations based in Toronto and Montreal, respectively, which AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio are deeply involved in. Cohere has received funding from Hinton, who recently won a Nobel prize, and Frosst was one of his proteges. "Some of the best minds are still here, some of the best institutes ... are here, but we have fallen behind in adoption," Frosst said. At the same time, every other nation is gaining ground. "It's kind of table stakes at this stage," he said. "America is doing it, the whole world is figuring out how to increase productivity with large language models, and although that technology came from here, we've been a little delayed in adopting it." To reverse the problem, Janssen urged business leaders to get moving — and quickly. "Don't ask the question, 'What am I going do with AI?' but, 'What am I going to do with AI by the end of the year?'" she said. "Because if we don't get started, we are going to fall behind and our productivity challenges are going to be so much more." This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 26, 2024. Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press See a typo/mistake? Have a story/tip? This has been shared 0 times 0 Shares Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Get your daily Victoria news briefing Email Sign Up More Science News Surveillance tech advances by Biden could aid in Trump's promised crackdown on immigration Nov 26, 2024 1:16 PM Biden administration to loan $6.6B to EV maker Rivian to build Georgia factory that automaker paused Nov 26, 2024 11:40 AM Surveillance tech advances by Biden could aid in Trump's promised crackdown on immigration Nov 26, 2024 10:45 AMWILMINGTON, Del. -- Attorneys for Fox Corp. asked a Delaware judge Friday to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit seeking to hold current and former company officials personally liable for the financial fallout stemming from Fox News reports regarding alleged vote rigging in the 2020 election. Five New York City public employee pension funds, along with Oregon’s public employee retirement fund, allege that former chairman Rupert Murdoch and other Fox Corp. leaders deliberately turned a blind eye to liability risks posed by reporting false claims of vote rigging by election technology companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic USA. Smartmatic is suing Fox News for defamation in New York, alleging damages of $2.7 billion. It recently settled a lawsuit in the District of Columbia against One America News Network, another conservative outlet, over reports of vote fraud. Dominion also filed several defamation lawsuits against those who spread conspiracy theories blaming its election equipment for Donald Trump’s loss in 2020. Last year, Fox News settled a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion in Delaware for $787 million. The shareholder plaintiffs also allege that Fox corporate leaders ignored “red flags” about liability arising from a 2017 report suggesting that Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer, may have been killed because he had leaked Democratic party emails to Wikileaks during the 2016 presidential campaign. Rich, 27, was shot in 2016 in Washington, D.C., in what authorities have said was an attempted robbery. Fox News retracted the Seth Rich story a week after its initial broadcast, but Rich’s parents sued the network for falsely portraying their son as a criminal and traitor. Fox News settled the lawsuit in 2020 for “millions of dollars,” shortly before program hosts Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity were to be deposed, according to the shareholder lawsuit. Joel Friedlander, an attorney for the institutional shareholders, argued that Fox officials waited until the company’s reporting about Rich became a national scandal before addressing the issue. Similarly, according to the shareholders, corporate officials, including Rupert Murdoch and his son, CEO Lachlan Murdoch, allowed Fox News to continue broadcasting false narratives about the 2020 election, despite internal communications suggesting that they knew there was no evidence to support the conspiracy theories. “The Murdochs could have minimized future monetary exposure, but they chose not to,” Friedlander said. Instead, he argued, they engaged in “bad-faith decision making” with other defendants in a profit-driven effort to retain viewers and remain in Trump’s good graces. “Decisions were made at the highest level to promote pro-Trump conspiracy theories without editorial control,” Friedlander said. Defense attorneys argue that the case should be dismissed because the plaintiffs filed their lawsuit without first demanding that the Fox Corp. board take action, as required under Delaware law. They say the plaintiffs also failed to demonstrate that a pre-suit demand on the Fox board would have been futile because at least half of the directors face a substantial likelihood of liability or are not independent of someone who does. Beyond the “demand futility” issue, defense attorneys also argue that allegations that Fox officials breached their fiduciary duties fail to meet the pleading standards under Delaware and therefore should be dismissed. Defense attorney William Savitt argued, for example, that neither the Rich settlement, which he described as “immaterial,” nor the allegedly defamatory statements about Dominion and Smartmatic constitute red flags putting directors on notice about the risk of defamation liability. Nor do they demonstrate that directors acted in bad faith or that Fox “utterly failed” to implement and monitor a system to report and mitigate legal risks, including defamation liability risk, according to the defendants. Savitt noted that the Rich article was promptly retracted, and that the settlement included no admission of liability. The Dominion and Smartmatic statements, meanwhile, gave rise themselves to the currently liability issues and therefore can not serve as red flags about future liability risks, according to the defendants. “A ‘red flag’ must be what the term commonly implies — warning of a risk of a liability-causing event that allows the directors to take action to avert the event, not notice that a liability-causing event has already occurred,” defense attorneys wrote in their motion to dismiss. Defense attorneys also say there are no factual allegations to support claims that Fox officials condoned illegal conduct in pursuit of corporate profits, or that they deliberately ignored their oversight responsibilities. They note that a “bad outcome” is not sufficient to demonstrate “bad faith.” Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster is expected to rule within 90 days.

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The old adage that “speed kills” is ringing true among the world’s fastest roller coasters that have been closing at an alarming rate — but fortunately for thrill seekers a new coaster king will soon arise in 2025. Kingda Ka at New Jersey’s Six Flags Great Adventure — the reigning champ for speed (128 mph) and height (456 feet) — became the latest of the world’s fastest coasters to fall. ALSO SEE: Six Flags to spend $1 billion on 11 coasters over next 2 years Six Flags announced last week that Kingda Ka would be removed and replaced by a new record-breaking launch coaster in 2026. “Kingda Ka has delivered more than 12 million rides since 2005,” Six Flags said in a statement. “What was cutting edge roller coaster technology 20 years ago has been surpassed by more modern advancements.” Four other coasters on Roller Coaster Database’s world’s fastest list are currently “standing but not operating.” That leaves Red Force (112 mph) at Spain’s Ferrari Land as the reigning world’s fastest coaster. Fury 325 (95 mph) at North Carolina’s Carowinds currently holds the title as America’s fastest coaster . The Superman reverse freefall launch coaster will reclaim the U.S. title it hasn’t held in more than two decades when the Magic Mountain ride eventually returns to operation. The Superman: Escape from Krypton coaster closed for repairs in September, according to Magic Mountain officials. A reopening date has not yet been announced. ALSO SEE: Six Flags Magic Mountain plans 21st roller coaster for 2026 The world title changed hands several times after the new millennium as new speed demons arrived on the scene. Cedar Point’s Top Thrill Dragster grabbed the title of world’s fastest coaster in 2003 with a top speed of 120 mph. Kingda Ka became the king of the world when the top hat-style Intamin Accelerator coaster debuted in 2005. Formula Rossa snatched the world’s fastest crown in 2010, but the coaster has been closed since January to repair the launch system — a process that can take a year or more, according to Screamscape . Ring Racer remains an expensive but worthless white elephant — operating for only a few days when it opened in 2013, but still “standing but not operating” to this day. ALSO SEE: Coaster war brewing between Six Flags Magic Mountain and relatively unknown European rival Ferrari World’s Formula Rossa, Cedar Point’s Top Thrill 2 and Magic Mountain’s Superman are all eventually expected to reopen. Cedar Point closed Top Thrill Dragster for the entire 2022 and 2023 seasons after a metal piece flew off the ride and seriously injured a woman waiting in the attraction queue in August 2021. The rechristened Top Thrill 2 replaced the Intamin hydraulic launch system with a Zamperla electro-magnetic propulsion launch system in May — but the ride only operated for about a week before the park closed the coaster again due to mechanical issues. The world’s fastest coaster list will be reshuffled again in 2025 when Falcon’s Flight debuts at Six Flags Qiddiya City in Saudi Arabia. Falcon’s Flight will become the world’s fastest coaster at a blistering 155 mph — 6 mph faster than Formula Rossa’s top speed of 149 mph. Related Articles

The red-hot New Jersey Devils entered the Thanksgiving week on a roll. Before their Thanksgiving Eve showdown with the St. Louis Blues, they were winners of three straight and five of their last sick. Since our last stock up/stock down , they fell to the Blues 3-0 on home ice, exacted revenge against the Detroit Red Wings 5-4, and lost a barnburner to the Washington Capitals 6-5 before thoroughly handling the New York Rangers 5-1 at Madison Square Garden. The Devils comfortably sit in a playoff position with 36 points and a point percentage of 0.643%. Devils Stock Up/Stock Down Stock Up Jack Hughes Jack Hughes has appeared on our ‘stock up’ quite a bit already this season, and he continues to improve. Already up to 33 points in 28 games, Hughes has eight points in the last three games, including back-to-back three-point nights. His two goals against Igor Shesterkin brought his tally up to nine goals against the talented Russian goalie. When Jack is on the ice, good things tend to happen. He is far and away the team leader in on-ice goal percentage, Corsi and Fenwick percentage, and shots on goal. In addition, Hughes’s dominant campaign has him on pace for 97 points. Jack Hughes doesn't shy away from the bright lights of Broadway. @NJDevils | #NJDevils pic.twitter.com/rYGidaPe59 — NHL Network (@NHLNetwork) December 3, 2024 Stock Down Dawson Mercer Rangers goal aside, Dawson Mercer has been fighting it for long stretches this season. After signing a new contract in the offseason, Mercer has just 14 points this season, in addition to some not-so-great analytics. He has a sub-50% Corsi and Fenwick and is shooting a full goal under expected. On a micro level, he took a costly offensive zone high sticking penalty against Washington that cost them two goals, as well as losing his man on a late second period goal in the same game. If the Devils can get Ranger game Dawson Mercer consistently, it will make head coach Sheldon Keefe ’s life much easier. Let the Mercdawg eat. pic.twitter.com/z7FXu4sYx0 — New Jersey Devils (@NJDevils) December 3, 2024 Stock Up Luke Hughes It’s not for trying, but if Luke Hughes’s shots were finding the back of the net, he would be creeping into Norris trophy talk. Despite missing the first few weeks of the season, Luke Hughes has been a monster this season. His eight assists in 19 games are not indicative of the offense he contributes at both 5v5 and on the power play. However, it’s Luke’s defensive game that has wowed people. He uses his elite skating to cover so much of the ice and take away time and space from the opposition, as shown by his on-ice expected goals against per 60 and on-ice shot attempts per 60. If there was any concern about a sophomore slump, Luke has completely nixed them. #NHL GameScore Impact Card for New Jersey Devils on 2024-11-29: #NJDevils pic.twitter.com/T1UXMlJmNv — HockeyStatCards (@hockeystatcards) November 29, 2024 Stock Down Slow Starts A familiar foe has crept back into the Devils game this year, the dreaded ‘1-0 them’. Before the Ranger game, the Devils had given up the first goal in seven straight games. Luckily, this group was talented enough to fight back and won four out of the seven, but it was an issue nonetheless. Even against the Rangers, despite the early 2-0 lead, the Devils still found themselves getting outshot early and forced to defend. Keefe discussed after the game how he felt they defended too much without the puck for his liking, especially early. The Devils are too good of a team this year to fall back into bad habits from 2023-24. This article first appeared on New Jersey Hockey Now and was syndicated with permission.GENEVA (AP) — World Cup sponsor Bank of America teamed with FIFA for a second time Tuesday, signing for the Club World Cup that still has no broadcast deals just over six months before games start. Bank of America became FIFA’s first global banking partner in August and sealed a separate deal for a second event also being played in the United States, two days before the for the . It features recent European champions Real Madrid, Manchester City and Chelsea. “FIFA is going to take America by storm and we’re going to be right at their side,” the bank’s head of marketing, David Tyrie, said in a telephone interview Tuesday. Bank of America joins 2026 World Cup sponsors Hisense and in separately also backing the club event, and more deals are expected after as the 2034 World Cup host. While games at the next World Cup, co-hosted with Canada and Mexico, will be watched by hundreds of millions globally mostly on free-to-air public networks, the Club World Cup broadcast picture is unclear. FIFA has promised hundreds of millions of dollars in prize money for the 32 clubs to share but is yet to announce any broadcast deals for the month-long tournament. It is expected to land on a streaming service. “You have to think about how you are going to connect with these fans,” Tyrie told the Associated Press from Boston. “TV is one, sure, social media is a big avenue. “The smart marketing capabilities are able to say ‘Hey, we need to tilt this one a little bit more away from TV-type marketing into social-type marketing.’ We have got a pretty decent strategy that we’re putting in place to do activation.” Engaging Bank of America’s customers and 250,000 employees are key to that strategy, Tyrie said. “It’s going to be for our clients, and entertainment, it’s going to be for our employees in creating excitement. All of the above.” The Club World Cup will be played in 12 stadiums across 11 cities, including Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C, and Lumen Field where the hometown Seattle Sounders play three group-stage games. European powers Madrid, Man City and Bayern Munich lead a 12-strong European challenge. Teams qualified by winning continental titles or across four years of those competitions. The exception is Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami, who reserved for a host nation team in October based on regular season record without waiting for the MLS Cup final. LA Galaxy hosts New York Red Bulls playing for that national title Saturday. Messi’s team opens the FIFA tournament June 15 in the Miami Dolphins’ Hard Rock Stadium and will play its three group games in Florida. “The more brand players you bring in, the bigger the following you have got,” Tyrie acknowledged, though adding Messi being involved was “not a make or break for the event.” The Club World Cup final is July 13 at Met Life Stadium near New York, which also will one year later. AP soccer: