Author: Shekari Philemon

Amazon Web Services confirmed Tuesday that drone strikes had damaged three of its data center facilities in the Middle East, triggering widespread service disruptions that the company warned could take an extended period to resolve. It was the first time the company publicly acknowledged that its physical infrastructure had been directly struck in the ongoing regional conflict. Two facilities in the United Arab Emirates sustained direct hits, while a third site in Bahrain suffered infrastructure damage after a strike landed nearby. The company said customers across the region are experiencing elevated error rates and degraded service availability as a result,…

Apple kicked off a three-day product release stretch on Monday with the arrival of the iPhone 17e, its most accessible smartphone yet, paired with two refreshed iPad Air models. The announcements came ahead of a planned company event on March 4 and signal that Apple is leaning harder into value at a moment when consumers are watching every dollar. The iPhone 17e carries a starting price of 599 dollars with 256 gigabytes of storage, making it 200 dollars cheaper than the base iPhone 17. For shoppers who remember last year’s iPhone 16e, which launched at the same price but shipped…

Charles Barkley has told a lot of gambling stories over the years, and most of them do not end well. Losses in the tens of millions, six-figure setbacks in a single evening, a candid admission that the rush of the game has cost him more than most people will earn in a lifetime. So when a story surfaces about Barkley actually winning big, it tends to stand out. During a television appearance in 2014, Barkley described one of those rare triumphant nights, a blackjack session that ended with him walking away $700,000 richer. By any measure, that is an astonishing…

The military operation was swift and decisive. The economic consequences are proving far less predictable. In the hours following U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran on Saturday, oil markets delivered an uncomfortable signal, with the main American crude benchmark opening Sunday night above $75 per barrel, a jump of more than 10 percent in the first trading session since the attacks took place. The strikes, which resulted in the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, triggered an immediate Iranian response targeting oil tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz. That narrow waterway carries more than 20 percent of…

Long before Michael Jordan became the measuring stick by which every basketball player is judged, he was a supremely talented young guard on a mediocre Bulls team, watching the front office make decisions he did not always agree with. One of those decisions arrived during the 1985 offseason when Chicago acquired George Gervin from the San Antonio Spurs, and Jordan’s response to the news was as unambiguous as it was brief. He was unhappy. He said so himself, and he did not feel the need to elaborate further. Two scorers, one roster and no clear answer The acquisition of Gervin…

There are players who win games and players who elevate everyone around them. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, according to Julius Erving, was both at once. The NBA icon recently made a striking assertion about his longtime rival, suggesting that Abdul-Jabbar’s presence throughout his career was directly responsible for sending somewhere between eight and ten players to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. It is a remarkable claim, and it lands with even more weight coming from someone who spent years competing against Abdul-Jabbar on the sport’s biggest stages. A rivalry born on the grandest stage Erving and Abdul-Jabbar were two of…

A civil rape trial more than five decades in the making is now underway in Santa Monica, California, and the man at the center of it is nowhere to be found. Bill Cosby, once among the most beloved figures in American entertainment, will not appear in court as his accuser seeks justice for an alleged assault she says occurred in 1972. According to legal filings connected to the case, his absence is a deliberate choice rooted in indifference rather than circumstance. Donna Motsinger, now 84 years old, filed the lawsuit against Cosby and has pursued it with a resolve that…

There are moments in Hollywood that feel less like award ceremonies and more like long overdue reckonings. Sunday night at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles delivered one of those moments, when Michael B. Jordan stepped into the spotlight and walked away with the prize for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role at the 2026 Actor Awards. The win came for his transformative work in Sinners, where Jordan took on the remarkable challenge of portraying twin brothers Elijah and Elias Moore, two distinctly drawn characters that demanded emotional range and physical precision in equal measure. The…

They have spent years perfecting the art of saying nothing. But sometimes, it only takes one person in the right mood at the wrong moment to change everything. That moment arrived on March 1 at the 2026 Actor Awards, when Zendaya’s longtime stylist stepped onto a red carpet and casually upended one of Hollywood’s best-kept secrets. The claim was simple and stunning. According to the stylist, the wedding between Zendaya and Tom Holland has already taken place. No fanfare, no announcement, no coordinated media moment. Just two people who apparently decided to do things entirely on their own terms. The…

Few things fuel celebrity gossip quite like a desert sunset shared between two of the world’s most recognized names. Kim Kardashian and Lewis Hamilton are once again at the center of swirling romance rumors after the pair were reportedly spotted together in the American Southwest, reigniting a storyline that has quietly been building for months. Footage reportedly captured the two walking side by side near Lake Powell over the weekend, heading toward a parked black SUV after taking in the views of the Arizona landscape. The moment was unscripted and unhurried, the kind that tends to say more than any…