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Bed Bath & Beyond shares tank after billionaire Ryan Cohen dumps stake
Bed Bath & Beyond’s stock price cratered this week, leaving many investors who lapped up shares of the struggling home goods retailer to choking losses.
But at least two investors have walked away with millions in gains after selling their stake in the company before the bottom fell out. One is Ryan Cohen, the billionaire founder of online pet food company Chewy, while the other — and more surprisingly — is a college student at the University of Southern California.
Cohen sold his entire 7.7 million shares Tuesday, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. In doing so, he notched a tidy $178 million in profit, Barron’s reported. Cohen bought and sold his shares through his investment firm RC Ventures.
Bed Bath & Beyond didn’t respond to a request for comment Friday.
Bed Bath & Beyond was one of a handful of so-called meme stocks, including video game retailer Gamestop, that retail investors embraced last year in defiance of Wall Street players that had largely written off the companies. As a result, Bed Bath & Beyond’s stock price grew from $3.70 a share at the start of the pandemic in March 2020 to about $30 each in June 2021.
The company’s stocks saw another surge this year, thanks largely to Cohen himself and a fresh army of meme stock investors.
But Friday, Bed Bath and Beyond’s stock price fell nearly 41% to close at $11.03 on the day after being as high as $28 earlier this week. Most of that decline came after investors noticed that Cohen sold his shares, said Ihor Dusaniwsky, managing director of predictive analytics at S3 Partners.
Bed Bath & Beyond’s stock price had held its own this year, and then “all of a sudden the flag bearer for the rise up and kind of left,” Dusaniwsky said. “He deflated the balloon.”
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Bed Bath & Beyond has become the center of conversation on WallStreetBets, a Reddit page where meme stock investors talk strategy. In the posts, some users are reacting to Cohen’s sale while others are urging their fellow investors to stay the course and hold onto their shares.
“It hasn’t returned to its pre-meme (price) lows,” Dusaniwsky said. “It’s the ones that hold it until it’s back down there who will be the ones who are sorry they didn’t sell earlier.”
Before losing air, Bed Bath & Beyond shares also generated a hefty return for Jake Freeman, the Financial Times reported. A regulatory filing shows that the economics and math major at USC bought about 5 million shares of the company in July and then sold them on Wednesday, earning a $110 million profit.
Freeman told the Financial Times he bought his shares at $5.50 each and that the price started to rise soon thereafter.
“I certainly did not expect such a vicious rally upwards,” Freeman, 20, told the newspaper. “I thought this was going to be a six-months-plus play.”
Freeman didn’t respond to a request for comment Friday. He told the Financial Times that he got the money for his Bed Bath & Beyond investment from friends and family.
AbbVie dumps an early-stage drug in $225M Alzheimer’s alliance with Alector – Endpoints News
In the depths of frigid, snowy Chicago winters, it’s wise and life-saving to wear plenty of layers when stepping outside. In a cold, bear market that has shuttered nearly every chance at entering, public biotechs are also trying to add on layers in the form of follow-on financings, because having a ticker means always being outside.
Padding the reserves with more capital is an uphill battle in a market littered with biotechs trading below cash, a slew of negative trial results and a relatively stagnant M&A path. Yet, some biotechs have been able to secure mittens, scarves and even parkas in this environment. Three more announced plans Thursday night and before Nasdaq turned on the lights Friday morning.
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Storm dumps snow that shuts down highway for 500 miles and prompts tornado warnings and watches in several states
By Tuesday evening there were tornado watches or warnings covering parts of Texas, Iowa and Minnesota.
One apparent tornado struck in Central Texas. Temple Fire Rescue Chief Mitch Randles said a twister hit south Bell County, near the city of Salado.
“Reports of trees down and damaged homes,” he told CNN in an email.
Forecasters also said there was a possibility of up to 3 feet of snow in the northern Plains. One storm prompted the closure of an interstate through North Dakota and Montana.
After dumping the first-ever measurable snowfall in April on Monday in Portland, Oregon, the storm system’s severe threat broadened Tuesday.
A Level 4 out of 5 “moderate” risk for severe weather is expected for about 800,000 people across parts of Iowa, with Sioux City, Ames, Mason City and Fort Dodge in the bull’s-eye where the biggest storms are likely to develop, according to the Storm Prediction Center.
On Tuesday afternoon, the prediction center issued a tornado watch for northeast Nebraska, southeast South Dakota and northwest Iowa. The watch includes Sioux City and is in effect until 10 p.m. CT. In addition to the threat of tornadoes, large hail — up to tennis ball-sized — and wind gusts up to 75 mph are also a concern.
Forecasters had similar worries for 11 counties in northwest Iowa and seven counties in southern Minnesota. The watch ends at 10 p.m. CT.
More than 14 million more people are included in a Level 3 out of 5 “enhanced” risk for severe weather Tuesday, including those in Dallas; Kansas City, Missouri; and Omaha, Nebraska.
Anyone from Houston to Austin, Texas, Oklahoma City, New Orleans and Louisville, Kentucky, also needs to be on the lookout for storms.
In Texas, more than 8 million people were under a tornado watch until 11 p.m. CT. The watch area stretches from Dallas to San Marcos. A couple of tornadoes are possible, along with very large hail up to 2.5 inches in diameter, and wind gusts of 70 mph, according to the prediction center.
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The center said earlier in its forecast: “Scattered severe thunderstorms capable of producing very large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes should occur beginning late Tuesday afternoon and continuing through Tuesday night across a broad portion of the southern/central Plains into the Mississippi Valley. Some of the tornadoes could be strong.”
The storm is intensifying as it moves east and combining with an abundance of moisture from an atmospheric river that’s drawing the moisture from the Gulf of Mexico.
“A potentially volatile severe thunderstorm environment will develop across a broad area of the central/southern Plains into the lower/mid MS Valley by late afternoon,” the prediction center said.
Strong tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds forecast
Temperatures soared Tuesday afternoon in places like Dallas, where the high temperature reached the mid-80s. This makes the atmosphere ripe for storms to develop and become strong.
“Convection that develops in this thermodynamic environment is favored to become supercellular rapidly primarily posing a threat for very large hail (hail from the size of golf balls to baseballs) and damaging wind gusts, though tornadoes are also possible,” the National Weather Service office in Dallas said.
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Strong southerly winds are also making the environment conducive for storm formation. Winds ahead of the storms will blow at 30 to 35 mph, which also makes fire conditions difficult just west of the severe risk area.
In places a little farther north, there is still a little uncertainty about when exactly the storms will start firing up.
“The current concern will be how quickly storms develop along the frontal boundary as it advances east into the late evening and overnight hours,” said the weather service office in Kansas City.
Storms are forecast to begin around 9 p.m. CT (10 p.m. ET) but could rev up as late as 11 p.m. CT, posing a dangerous scenario of nocturnal storms.
“Night time storms, regardless of the hazard, wind, tornado, hail, pose significant challenges to warning the public,” the Kansas City weather service office said.
“Ensure you have multiple ways to get warning information, specifically ones that will wake you up, such as NOAA Weather Radio and Weather Apps; which means keeping your phone ringer on tonight.”
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Severe threat continues Wednesday
The storms will push east Wednesday, again posing a Level 4 out of 5 “moderate” risk of severe weather for more than 4.5 million people. The moderate risk includes Memphis, Tennessee; Evansville, Indiana; and Jonesboro, Arkansas.
A large Level 3 out of 5 “enhanced” risk surrounds the moderate risk, stretching from northern Louisiana to northern Indiana. Places like Indianapolis, Nashville, Louisville and St. Louis are all in this zone. Other cities like Chicago, New Orleans, Dallas and Detroit also will remain under the threat of storms Wednesday.
“Damaging winds, some of which could be significant, several tornadoes (some strong), and large to very large hail will likely occur,” the prediction center said in its forecast discussion.
Wind gusts of more than 75 mph are possible as well, which could lead to downed trees and numerous power outages.
By Thursday, the storms push east with a much drier, more pleasant air mass behind them.
Late season blizzard slams parts of the US
The storm system will bring quite a different setup to parts of the northern Plains, with blizzard warnings up for portions of the Dakotas and Montana. Whiteout conditions will make travel nearly impossible in some places.
“Snow accumulations of up to 36 inches are possible in parts of north central North Dakota, with widespread wind gusts up to 50 mph across the area,” said the National Weather Service office in Bismarck, North Dakota.
More than 500 miles of interstate are closed in Montana and North Dakota. Interstate 94 is closed from Billings, Montana, to Jamestown, North Dakota, according to the Montana Department of Transportation and the North Dakota Highway Patrol.
“We do get blizzards in April, but one of this intensity is quite rare,” Jeff Schild, meteorologist for the weather service office in Bismarck, told CNN early Tuesday. “The last one of note for this level of intensity was April 4-7 in 1997.”
Much of the region is in drought conditions, so the snowfall will be beneficial, Schild said. “Right now we are only sitting at 34.3 inches of snow for the year,” he said.
Bismarck could even break records for the most snow in a multiday event.
There’s still uncertainty about where the heaviest bands of snow will set up, but regardless, there will be widespread, impressive snowfall rates, the Bismarck forecast office said in its forecast discussion.
“Snow will become heavy across much of the west and central, with snow rates of over 1″ per hour likely to be sustained through much of today,” it said. “The falling snow with strong winds will lead to whiteout conditions, especially with the enhanced snowfall rates.”
The snow will end by Thursday, and very cold temperatures will follow.
“Overnight lows will drop into the teens in western North Dakota, and with the strong winds, wind chills will be in the single digits above to below zero, quite chilly for mid April,” said the Bismarck weather service office.
As high temperatures only make it into the 20s on Friday — about 30 degrees below normal — this region could break low maximum temperature records.
CNN’s Taylor Ward and Amy Simonson contributed to this report.
DirecTV Dumps OAN, Leaving It With No Major TV Distributor
Former president Donald Trump, known for his gluttonous diet of TV news, is going to have trouble finding one of his favorite far-right channels, One America News Network, in a few months.
Satellite TV provider DirecTV, OAN’s largest distributor, said it was dumping the news network on Friday, Bloomberg reported. DirecTV’s decision is a huge blow to OAN, which is not available on any other major U.S. TV provider, but it’s not exactly a shock. OAN basically sued its way onto DirecTV in 2017 and has come under increased scrutiny since then for spewing lies, promoting conspiracy theories, and fomenting violence.
DirecTV confirmed that it was dropping OAN, part of Herring Networks, in a statement to Gizmodo on Friday. In addition to OAN, Herring Networks also owns the lifestyle and entertainment channel A Wealth of Entertainment, or AWE, which is targeted to the ultra-rich.
“We informed Herring Networks that, following a routine internal review, we do not plan to enter into a new contract when our current agreement expires,” a DirecTV spokesperson said in an email.
Both channels will disappear from the provider’s offerings in early April when its contract ends, according to Bloomberg.
DirecTV’s announcement is the latest move in the strange and suspicious saga between AT&T and OAN. To start off, DirecTV is partly owned by AT&T, which purportedly gave Herring Networks buckets of money to create OAN. Moreover, a Reuters investigation from last October indicates that Herring Networks could be in serious financial trouble in light of DirecTV’s decision. The network’s lawyer said in 2020 that if OAN’s contract was not renewed by DirecTV, “the company would go out of business tomorrow.”
Gizmodo reached out to OAN on Saturday for comment on DirecTV’s decision but did not hear a response by the time of publication. We’ll update this article if someone gets back to us.
Once April comes along, OAN is going to be hard to find on TV. It was never picked up by the other three major providers in the U.S.: Comcast, Charter Communications, or Dish Network. On its website, OAN tells viewers they can watch on a KlowdTV for $4.99 or $9.99 per month, as well as on Verizon FiOS, CenturyLink PRISM, GCI, and Vidgo.
Besides Verizon FiOS, I have never heard of the other providers and would probably think they were spam or full of malware if I didn’t write this article. (If they are not spam or malware, my apologies).
Media Matters, a progressive U.S. media research and information center, told Gizmodo in a statement that DirecTV made the responsible decision in dropping OAN, calling the network “a cauldron of misinformation and extremism.”
“Now that OAN’s anchor distributor has dropped them, Verizon FiOS (OAN’s second major distributor) should follow suit,” Media Matters president Angelo Carusone said. “And certainly no other cable provider should pick them up.”
Gizmodo reached out to Verizon to ask about the future of OAN on Verizon FiOS but has not heard back yet.
Big California storm dumps snow, drenches parched regions
A major storm hitting Northern California is expected to intensify and bring travel headaches and threats of flooding and mudslides after an abnormally warm fall in the U.S. West
SAN FRANCISCO — Winter arrived early in Northern California with wind, rain and snow that was expected to intensify Monday as forecasters warned that mountain passes will probably be closed to traffic and areas burned by wildfires could face rockslides and mudslides following an especially warm and dry fall across the U.S. West.
The multiday storm, a powerful “atmospheric river” weather system that is sucking up moisture from the Pacific Ocean, raised the threat of flooding and was expected to dump more than 8 feet (2.4 meters) of snow on the highest peaks in California and Nevada and drench other parts of the two states before it moves on midweek, forecasters said.
“This is a pretty widespread event,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Anna Wanless in Sacramento. “Most of California, if not all, will see some sort of rain and snow.”
The storm will bring much needed moisture to the broader region that’s been gripped by drought that scientists have said is caused by climate change. The latest U.S. drought monitor shows parts of Montana, Oregon, California, Nevada and Utah are classified as being in exceptional drought, which is the worst category.
Most western U.S. reservoirs that deliver water to states, cities, tribes, farmers and utilities rely on melted snow in the springtime.
This week’s storm is typical for this time of the year but notable because it’s the first big snow that is expected to significantly affect travel with ice and snow on the roads, strong winds and limited visibility, Wanless said.
Drivers on some mountain passes on Sunday had to put chains on their tires and were warned of possible road closures in coming days.
“Travel will be hazardous and is highly discouraged,” the weather service office in Sacramento said on Twitter. Heavy rain could cause minor flooding and rockslides, especially in areas that scarred by wildfires, forecasters said.
Gusts were so strong in and around San Francisco that state transportation officials issued a wind advisory for the Bay Bridge that connects the city with Oakland and warned drivers of campers and trailers to avoid the 4.5-mile (7.2-kilometer) span late Sunday.
South of the San Francisco Bay Area, a 40-mile (64-kilometer) stretch of the iconic Highway 1 in California’s Big Sur area was closed as a precaution until Tuesday. The scenic coastal route frequently experiences damage during wet weather.
Nearby Monterey County residents who live close to burn scars from last year’s Dolan Fire were warned to be prepared to evacuate if rains loosen hillsides and cause debris flows.
In Southern California, the San Bernardino County sheriff’s department issued evacuation warnings for several areas, citing the potential for flooding, and Los Angeles County fire officials urged residents to be aware of the potential for mud flows.
Forecasters said strong winds accompanying the storm could lead to power outages. Karly Hernandez, a spokesperson for Pacific Gas & Electric, said crews and equipment are staged across the state to respond quickly if the power goes out.
The second storm predicted to hit California midweek shortly after the current storm moves on could deliver almost continuous snow in mountainous areas, said Edan Weishahn of the weather service in Reno, which monitors an area straddling the Nevada state line.
Donner Summit, one of the highest points on Interstate 80 and a major commerce commuter route, could face major travel disruptions or road closures, Weishahn said.
The weather follows a November that was unseasonably warm for California.
Vail Resorts’ three Tahoe-area ski resorts opened with limited offerings over the weekend after crews produced artificial snow. Spokeswoman Sara Roston said the resorts are looking forward to more of the real thing.
The Sierra Avalanche Center warned heavy snow and strong winds on top of a weak snowpack could cause large and destructive avalanches.
One man died Saturday in a backcountry area of the Crystal Mountain ski resort in Washington state when he was caught in an avalanche that temporarily buried five others.
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Weber reported from Los Angeles.
Louisiana dumps 224,000 COVID vaccine doses, expiring due to people refusing to take them | Coronavirus Vaccine
Louisiana’s problem of wasted COVID-19 vaccine shots continues to balloon, with about 224,000 doses thrown out across the state as health providers can’t find enough residents willing to roll up their sleeves.
The number of trashed doses has nearly tripled since the end of July, even as Louisiana grappled with a fourth, deadly surge of the coronavirus pandemic during that time that led to increased interest in the vaccines.
The latest data provided to The Associated Press by the Louisiana Department of Health showed 223,918 doses of the two-shot Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine have been thrown out.
In August, Gov. John Bel Edwards told state workers that once a coronavirus vaccine received full approval, they would likely face a choice: g…
That’s relatively small compared to the 4.4 million vaccine doses administered around the state. But while waste is not uncommon in mass immunization efforts, the throwing away of doses in the United States comes as millions of people around the globe still are waiting for the opportunity to get inoculated against the COVID-19 illness caused by the coronavirus.
Most of Louisiana’s wasted vaccine doses happened because vials containing the shots were opened, but hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and other providers couldn’t find someone to take the doses, said health department spokesperson Kevin Litten.
More than 21,500 shots simply weren’t used before their expiration dates.
Pfizer says the younger kids should get a third of the dose now given to everyone else.
Another nearly 50,000 doses of Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are set to expire within the next month, but Litten said the state expects to hand out those shots before that.
Louisiana has one of the nation’s lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data that shows only five states have lower immunization rates. More than 2.1 million people in Louisiana — about 46% of the population — are fully vaccinated, according to the health department.
Google Play dumps APKs for the more Google-controlled “Android App Bundle”
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The Android App Bundle logo.
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App Bundles let Google Play servers customize an app for each user.
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A midrange phone user gets the base APK, xhdpi image assets, the ARM v7 code, and the English language.
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Here, a high-end phone gets the xxxhdpi asset bucket, ARM64, and a whopping three languages.
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At Google I/O 2018, Google said APK config splits offered an average of 20 percent space savings, thanks to more targeted languages, image assets, and architectures.
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For more specific app-size savings, Google showed off this chart.
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Config splits only work on Android 5.0 Lollipop and up. So for older devices, full APKs are generated.
Android’s app file format, the APK (Android PacKage), has been with us since the 2008 launch of Android. It’s portable, easy to create since it’s just a structured .zip file, and widely supported by a variety of tools. Windows 11 is even going to support the format as part of its upcoming Android compatibility. Google, though, doesn’t want APKs to be the way to publish an Android app anymore. Google’s Android Developer Blog recaps how, starting in August, new apps being uploaded to the Play Store will need to use the new Android App Bundles (AAB) format to distribute apps. This sounds like just the beginning, and Google says that App Bundles “will replace the APK as the standard publishing format.”
Android App Bundles were introduced to the Android ecosystem in 2018, and I wrote a big section about them in the Android 9 review. The basic sales pitch is that Android devices have plenty of different hardware and language combinations that apps have to support, and shipping all of that code to every individual device is a waste of space. Android supports over 150 languages, four different CPU architectures (ARMv7, ARMv8, x86, and x86_64), and several screen resolution buckets. It’s common to pile all of this into a single APK (though sometimes they are split up by CPU architecture), but doing so means each device gets a lot of code and resources that are irrelevant for its specific combination of CPU, locale, and screen size. While this waste of storage space doesn’t matter much on high-end phones with good Internet connections, it can be a big deal for cheaper, storage-limited devices and in places where speedy Internet is hard to come by.
Google’s solution is the Android App Bundle, which turns Android app distribution from a monolithic, universal APK to a collection of “split APKs” that can be specifically doled out by the Google Play Store for each individual device. As the name suggests, these “Split APKs” aren’t entire apps. They’re parts of an app, each targeting a specific area of change, that combine to form the final app. With App Bundles, if you have a high-resolution, ARMv8 device with a locale set to English with App Bundles, the Play Store will spit out a set of Split APKs that supports only that device type. If your friend has a low-resolution, ARM v7 phone set for English and Hindi, they’ll get another set of APK that supports exactly that. Google Play can generate bespoke APKs for every user, giving them only the code they need and nothing more. Google says the result are apps that are 15 percent smaller than a universal APK.
Developers using App Bundles can even modularize features of an app. This allows the features to only be delivered to devices that support them, or they’re just not included in the initial download and are only available to users as an on-demand download. The same on-demand feature kicks in if a user changes the locale settings.
While the App Bundle system would prefer to send out the fancy, new split APKs, it doesn’t have to. Since it can format apps however it wants, a backward-compatible, monolithic APK can still be generated. That makes the approach universally compatible with all Android phones, no matter how neglected your current device is.
App bundles versus the non-Google Play ecosystem
Like many new Android features, the change from APKs to Android App Bundles results in a more complex, sophisticated feature set for rolling out apps. But it also gives Google a lot more control over the Android ecosystem. Android App Bundles need to be processed by an app store’s cloud computer in order to be useful. While App Bundles are an open source format, and Google has an open source “bundletool” app that can compile them, some other company would need to build its own infrastructure, pay the server costs to host it in the cloud, and handle the scary app signing requirements (more on that later).
App Bundles being open source allows development tools to more easily support them. But an alternative app store would have to take on so much work and responsibility that it’s doubtful the format will become anything other than the Google Play App Package.
One major security component of APKs is app signing. This is a digital certificate owned by the app developer that certifies it made the app. The app signature is not really relevant on the first install, but for every point after that, the signatures need to match. That means only the owner of the certificate—the original app developer—is able to update that app. No random third party can make an APK called “Google-Pay.apk” that overwrites the real Google Pay app and steal all your bank information.
App Bundles spit out APKs. That means an entire app build system must be hosted in the cloud. That also means hosting each individual developer app signing key in the cloud, effectively transferring the responsibility of an app from the developer to Google. Google calls this “Google Play App Signing,” and the company seriously pinky promises that you still own the app and will still have access to it. But this arrangement feels a bit like transferring the deed to your house to a third party.
Google’s control over the Play Store means it already owned the street and the driveway, but now it has even more control over your app. If Google Play’s roving bands of automated terminator bots target your developer account for some perceived infraction, you’ll have even less recourse.
Android App Bundles place an enormous amount of power and responsibility in the hands of the app-store owner. If the app-store infrastructure gets compromised, a third party could get access to the developer keys and start pushing out malicious updates. If you don’t trust the app store owner, too bad. They own the signing key now and can change your app without your knowledge, if they wanted. A government could compel the app store owner to change your app, too. In the case of Google, the company is probably doing a better job of storage security than most app developers. But again, it’s hard to imagine any non-Google stores adopting this.
Google has made some concessions to alleviate concerns about this. Developers can keep a local copy of the signing key they upload to Google, allowing them to generate valid updates that can be installed over-top of Google Play versions. Developers can also download signed “Distribution APKs” from the Google Play Developer Console, which are old-school universal APKs that can be uploaded to other app stores. If you’re concerned about Google changing your app without your consent, Google says an optional new “code transparency” feature will let developers verify that the hashes on downloaded app code matches what they uploaded.
As of August, App Bundles will be mandatory for new apps. Google says that, for now, “Existing apps are currently exempt” from the app-bundling requirement. We’re going to take the presence of the word “currently” as a big indicator of future plans.
For Google, Android App Bundles are a big deal. At Google I/O 2018, the company said that, if every app switched to bundles, Google would save 10 petabytes of bandwidth per day, which is an incredible number indicating the scale the Play Store operates at. For those of us who don’t care about Google’s bandwidth bills, though, is a potential 15 percent space savings really worth upending the entire APK ecosystem and transferring even more power to the Play Store and Google’s servers?
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‘Bachelor’ finale: Matt James chooses a winner then dumps her
It was the finale “Bachelor” fans were waiting for.
Matt James ended up handing out his final rose and, surprisingly, it went to Rachael Kirkconnell, who has been in the headlines recently after photos of her at an antebellum plantation-themed fraternity formal from 2018 resurfaced.
But during the “After the Rose” ceremony, hosted by Emmanuel Acho, James said that he had broken up with Kirkconnell after the controversy.
“When I questioned our relationship, it was in the context of you not fully understanding my Blackness and what it means to be a Black man in America,” James told Kirkconnell during Monday’s episode. “It broke my heart, because this is the last conversation I thought we’d be having. I didn’t sign up to have this conversation.”
Kirkconnell then apologized, saying she had been “living in ignorance” and “never once asked myself what’s the tradition behind this? What does this represent?”
“I could have easily asked myself those questions. I never took the time to make that connection.”
Host Chris Harrison stepped down as host of “The Bachelor” after defending Kirkconnell. It’s unclear if and when he’ll be back.