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X is ending its controversial revenue-sharing program for content creators, which has seen numerous revisions under Elon Musk’s reign. In its place, it’s launching a new Original Content Rewards program on September 8th. To be eligible, creators must have at least 500 verified followers and at least 500,000 Home Timeline impressions from verified users in the last 90 days, among other requirements.Creators will then earn revenue based on “qualified impressions” on “original content.”Qualified impressions are unique impressions from Premium subscribers “on the Home Timeline feed, where at least 50% of the post is visible.” What qualifies as “original content” exactly?…

Bent double at the waist, Martin Curtis combs a stretch of a Dorset beach with the concentration of a man searching for a lost cufflink or wedding ring.The search is meticulous – and with good reason. What he hopes to find could be far more valuable than an errant piece of jewellery. Curtis is searching instead for the telltale spiral of an ammonite, the star-shaped rod of a crinoid or rocks of a particular shape and colour that suggests there is something very special inside. He is hunting fossils.Along Charmouth beach and elsewhere on the Jurassic Coast, families with children,…

FIFA on Saturday condemned “a concerted and ongoing effort by some to undermine” the world game’s governing body and its president Gianni Infantino as the controversy over his now shelved private investment plan rumbles on. Infantino has faced calls to resign and was also subject to allegations from a British newspaper on Friday that he paid off a lover while at European governing body UEFA. “Recent reporting has included unsubstantiated assertions and demonstrably false claims concerning FIFA and its President,” said the FIFA statement. Infantino served as secretary general of European football’s governing body from 2009 to 2016. According to…

Ahead of tonight’s final “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” show, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is speaking out about how producing on Broadway has become “unsustainable.” “I’m gutted that the wonderful Broadway production of ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ is closing today,” Lloyd Webber wrote on Instagram. “I’m immensely proud to have been a part of an incredibly daring production whose cast and creative team broke new ground on Broadway and gave 17 actors their Broadway debut.” He also took the opportunity to call out the larger issues affecting the industry: “Maybe the show’s closing just might be remembered as the moment that caused…

There is a saying in our local parlance that ‘if one man own no spoil, another man own no go better’.? This means that “One man’s loss is another man’s gain.” In 2015, then president of FIFA, Joseph Sepp Blatter was in his fifth term as president of football’s world body when he ran into hot waters of financial scandals. He was investigated for a controversial 2-million Swiss franc payment made to then UEFA president Michel Platini. Both of them were tried and however, cleared of fraud charges by a Swiss federal court. The probe was part of broader racketeering,…

The governorship race in Osun State has narrowed further ahead of the 15 August election after the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Adesina Adeyemi-Doro, withdrew from the contest and endorsed the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Oyebamiji. Punch reported that Mr Adeyemi-Doro announced his decision on Saturday during a programme tagged ‘Osun Youth Interactive Session with Oyebamiji’ organised by the APC Campaign Council in Osogbo The APGA candidate said his decision followed consultations with the leadership and members of his party across the state. He added that consultations resulted in an agreement to support Mr Oyebamiji’s…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Energy sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.A rare solar eclipse next week will pile pressure on Europe’s “tight” power system, as heatwaves have forced nuclear and coal plants to switch off across the continent and low water levels curtail hydropower stations.Power plants have been forced to shut down or reduce production in Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, France, Italy and Poland owing to the heatwave, according to the European Commission. High temperatures have reduced water levels of rivers needed to cool nuclear and coal plants, forcing several of the countries…

As part of a planned data center in Pecos County, Texas, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States, according to The New York Times. The NYT says the plant would burn natural gas and is permitted to release 33 million tons of carbon dioxide per year — more than any other power plant in the U.S. In a statement, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed that the data center will “be powered by new on-site generation that won’t raise electricity costs for Texas families.” (Data centers face growing…

*No, Wike will actualise his boast, will deliver Tinubu – Rufai Oseni By Juliet Umeh The political temperature ahead of the 2027 general election rose another notch this week as comments by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, that Rivers State was already secured for President Bola Tinubu triggered a heated debate on ARISE Television’s The Morning Show. Read Also: Tinubu’s EFCC directive over Osun govt’s account sparks fresh questions over agency’s independence The programme also examined claims by Catholic leaders that the Presidency should pay closer attention to the realities facing Nigerians, with the show’s anchors disagreeing over…

There has been little time to waste following a period of dramatic change at the club.Former head coach Eddie Howe has moved on while key players Alexander Isak, Bruno Guimaraes, Sandro Tonali and Anthony Gordon have all left in the last year.Gallows humour gripped some supporters who made the trip after they adapted a chant which once featured the names of Guimaraes and Isak, who are now with Arsenal and Liverpool.”We’ve got someone in the middle,” they sang. “He knows exactly what we need. [Sven] Botman at the back, someone in attack, Newcastle are going to win the Premier League.”But…