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Some of HBO Max and Peacock’s best-known movie properties drop those streaming services just a couple of months after launch. The eight installments of Harry Potter all series will come out of HBO Max in late August, just three months after they hit the WarnerMedia streaming service, which premiered on …
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LAS VEGAS – A Nevada company that started in 1973 with a single hotel-casino in Reno announced Monday that it has completed a $ 17.3 billion purchase of Caesars Entertainment Corp. and will take the company’s iconic name in the future as the largest casino owner in the world. Eldorado …
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Brazilian Citizenship Minister Onyx Lorenzoni announced that he had tested positive for Covid-19 a few hours before Milton Ribeiro, Minister of Education, revealed that he was also infected. In a series of tweets, Lorenzoni wrote that he was examined after he started showing symptoms last Friday. He said he had …
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NEW YORK – Major League Baseball has doubled the isolated camera angles available for video review from 12 to 24 and has arranged for high-speed streaming cameras to stream directly to the new playback operations center and stadium video rooms. As part of the changes announced Monday, the time each …
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