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Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for ~$500M in an all-cash deal, following its $1.38B purchase of Vimeo and a pending acquisition of AOL (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/12/02/bending-spoons-to-acquire-eventbrite-in-500m-all-cash-deal/

Bending Spoons to acquire Eventbrite in $500M all-cash deal
Bending Spoons is acquiring the global event management platform Eventbrite in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $500 million. Eventbrite would become the latest major global brand to join the Bending Spoons portfolio. Last month, the company announced a definitive agreement to acquire AOL, pending customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Bending Spoons also recently completed its $1.38 billion acquisition of Vimeo. “For two decades, Eventbrite has stood at the…

Effects of automotive microphone frequency response characteristics and noise conditions on speech and ASR quality -- an experimental evaluation
Michele Buccoli, Yu Du, Jacob Soendergaard, Simone Shawn Cazzaniga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09236

Effects of automotive microphone frequency response characteristics and noise conditions on speech and ASR quality -- an experimental evaluation
Upon choosing microphones for automotive hands-free communication or Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) applications, OEMs typically specify wideband, super wideband or even fullband requirements following established standard recommendations (e.g., ITU-P.1110, ITU-P.1120). In practice, it is often challenging to achieve the preferred bandwidth for an automotive microphone when considering limitations and constraints on microphone placement inside the cabin, and the automotive grade environment…

Direct observation of the X-ray counterpart of the H{\alpha} filaments and of the sloshing spiral in the Perseus galaxy cluster
Adrien Picquenot, Fabio Acero, Valeria Olivares, Michela Negro, Gabriel W. Pratt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09559

Direct observation of the X-ray counterpart of the Hα filaments and of the sloshing spiral in the Perseus galaxy cluster
Deep Chandra observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster have allowed for the discovery of X-ray counterparts to the Hα filamentary structures and of a sloshing spiral. However, both components are extremely faint, and their study is largely hindered by the volume-filling hot intracluster medium (ICM). Using the Poisson General Morphological Component Analysis (pGMCA) algorithm, a blind source separation method adapted for Poissonian statistics, we were able to extract detailed, clean morpholog…

Ultrathin bismuth-yttrium iron garnet films with tunable and compensated magnetic anisotropy
Hanchen Wang, William Legrand, Davit Petrosyan, Min-Gu Kang, Emir Karad\v{z}a, Hiroki Matsumoto, Richard Schlitz, Michaela Lammel, Myriam H. Aguirre, Pietro Gambardella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07465

Ultrathin bismuth-yttrium iron garnet films with tunable and compensated magnetic anisotropy
We report on the epitaxial growth of nm-thick films of bismuth-substituted yttrium iron garnet (BiYIG) by high-temperature off-axis radio-frequency magnetron sputtering. We demonstrate accurate control of the magnetic properties by tuning of the sputtering parameters and epitaxial strain on various (111)-oriented garnet substrates. BiYIG films with up to -0.80\% lattice mismatch with the substrate remain fully strained up to 60~nm-thick, maintaining a high crystalline quality. Transmission elec…

Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Following the Separation of Discovery Global for a Total Enterprise Value of $82.7 Billion (Equity Value of $72.0 Billion) (About Netflix)
https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p57#a251205p57

RIP
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/movies/tatsuya-nakadai-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U8.thAO.bom850YiVRtC&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=a…

Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese Star Known for ‘Ran’ and Other Classics, Dies at 92
He was a fixture of postwar Japanese cinema, appearing in films by Akira Kurosawa and other leading directors of that era.

Spectrometry of Captured Highly Charged Ions Produced Following Antiproton Annihilations
F. P. Gustafsson, M. Volponi, J. Zielinski, A. Asare, I. Hwang, S. Alfaro Campos, M. Auzins, D. Bhanushali, A. Bhartia, M. Berghold, R. S. Brusa, K. Calik, A. Camper, R. Caravita, F. Castelli, G. Cerchiari, S. Chandran, A. Chehaimi, S. Choudapurkar, R. Ciury{\l}o, P. Conte, G. Consolati, M. Doser, R. Ferguson, M. Germann, A. Giszczak, L. T. Gl\"oggler, {\L}. Graczykowski, M. Grosbart, F. Guati…

Spectrometry of Captured Highly Charged Ions Produced Following Antiproton Annihilations
We report the first capture and time-of-flight spectrometry of highly charged ions produced following antiproton annihilations in a Penning-Malmberg trap. At the AEgIS experiment, we employed a multi-step nested-trap technique to isolate ions from antiproton annihilations with ultra-low-density helium and argon gas. The capture and identification of highly-charged argon ions in charge-states up to $Ar^{5+}$ demonstrates a new method for in-trap synthesis. This work establishes a clear path towa…

Disney and Penn Entertainment agree to end ESPN Bet on December 1, after failing to capture significant market share; they signed a 10-year, $2B deal in 2023 (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Filing: Musk and X agree to settle a lawsuit by Twitter's ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, and others over $128M in unpaid severance (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/796239/elon-musk-x-128-milli…

Elon Musk will settle $128 million Twitter execs lawsuit
Elon Musk has agreed to settle with Twitter’s former top executives, after they sued the billionaire over more than $128 million in unpaid severance.

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