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Victor Osimhen signs new Napoli contract with release clause

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Napoli have confirmed that striker Victor Osimhen has signed a new contract with the club running until 2026. The Nigeria international has been heavily linked with a move away from Naples after announcing himself as one of the world's leading forwards during their Scudetto-winning 2022/23 season. He stayed put at Napoli over the summer but contract talks rumbled long into the winter, with his previous deal expiring in 2025. But Napoli have now confirmed Osimhen has signed a new contract running until 2026, but this deal crucially contains a release clause . 90min understands this figure at its lowest is €120m, but various conditions - such as when it is activated - could see that sum increase. Osimhen is beloved at Napoli / MB Media/GettyImages 90min reported in November that Chelsea were ready to test Napoli's resolve with a January bid amid Osimhen's previous contract stand-off. The 24-year-old is the Blues' top striker target, with Brentford's Ivan Toney and...

Why Premier League VAR audio is being released by PGMOL

Alan Gunn, the referee of the 1990 FA Cup final, once said that game's law enforcers "are stage managers, not performers". Following the release of audio between Premier League referees on the pitch and those assisted by video, fans have been given a direct line to the crackling dialogue on the walkie-talkies behind the scenes. For the first time since the introduction of video assistant referees (VAR) ahead of the 2019/20 season, Howard Webb, the chief refereeing officer of the PGMOL (Professional Game Match Officials Limited), ran through the discussion behind decisions made in five Premier League matches on Sky Sports ' Monday Night Football . But why has it taken the best part of four years for the curtain to be tentatively pulled back? Here's everything you need to know about the release of the stage managers' instructions. Why is Premier League VAR audio being released by PGMOL REVEALED! The audio of officials and VARs when a decision to award Newca...

American couple held for ransom in Haiti released nearly a month later

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After being held for ransom for nearly a month in Haiti, Jean Dickens and Abigail Toussaint were released after negotiations with their kidnappers, police told ABC News. After being held for ransom for nearly a month in Haiti, a Florida couple was released Thursday after negotiations with their kidnappers, the Haitian National Police and the couple's family told ABC News. Jean-Dickens Toussaint and Abigail Toussaint, who were visiting relatives in Haiti, were kidnapped on March 18 while Travel ing on a bus from Port-au-Prince, according to their family members. Jean Dickens Toussiant and Abigail Toussaint are shown in this undated photo. Toussaint and Imbert Family "They stopped the bus at a stop and they asked for the Americans on the bus and their escorts to come off the bus and then they took them," Christie Desormes, the couple 's niece, told ABC Affiliate WPLG last month . MORE: American couple being held at ransom in Haiti, family says: 'We told them not t...

Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images

Facebook-owner Meta published an artificial intelligence model on Wednesday that can pick out individual objects from within an image , along with a dataset of image annotations that it said was the largest ever of its kind. The company's research division said in a blog post that its Segment Anything Model, or SAM, could identify objects in images and videos even in cases where it had not encountered those items in its training. Using SAM, objects can be selected by clicking on them or writing text prompts. In one demonstration, writing the word "cat" prompted the tool to draw boxes around each of several cats in a photo. Big tech companies have been trum Pet ing their artificial intelligence breakthroughs since Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot became a sensation in the fall, triggering a wave of investments and a race to dominate the space. Meta has teased several features that deploy the type of generative AI popularized by ChatGP...