An emotional Nick Kyrgios has spoken of his struggles to discover his best form after ending a three-year title drought with victory in the Citi Open final in Washington. The Australian took just 81 minutes to defeat Japanese giant-killer Yoshihito Nishioka 6-4, 6-3 in Sunday’s final to claim his first ATP Tour title since winning at the same event in 2019.
The 27-year-old then backed up his win by claiming the doubles title alongside American Jack Sock – his third doubles success of the year. Shortly after lifting the men’s singles trophy, Kyrgios combined with Sock to defeat Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek 7-5, 6-4.
The sensational week in the American capital continues a career-best year for Kyrgios after reaching his first career grand slam final at Wimbledon, where he lost Novak Djokovic.
Despite not earning any rankings points at Wimbledon due to the ATP’s objection to a ban on Russian and Belarusian players, Kyrgios’s win in Washington lifts him to 37th on the world rankings. Ahead of big events in Montreal and Cincinnati, it means Kyrgios is closing in on an all-important seeding for the US Open starting on 29 August in New York.
“To see where I was at last year to now, it’s just an incredible transformation,” Kyrgios said in a post-match interview. “I just came out with great energy. I knew that I had experience on my side today. I love this court, I’ve played so many good matches here, so I’m just really happy with myself.
“I’ve been in some really dark places. Just to be able to turn it around … there are so many people who have helped me get there, but myself, I’ve shown some serious strength to just continue and persevere and get through all those times and be able to still perform and win tournaments like this one.”
Kyrgios’s serve was imperious throughout the tournament, getting through 64 matches in the tournament without being broken once. The 27-year-old fired down 12 aces in Sunday’s final against Nishioka, also hitting 32 winners in a confident display to secure his seventh career title.
Having won the doubles title in Atlanta last week with fellow Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis, Kyrgios then went back-to-back partnering Sock in a straight-sets win over Dodig and Krajicek. As in his singles win, Kyrgios and Sock held serve throughout the final, winning 95 per cent of points on their first serve in the 79-minute victory.
The federal government has announced $13 million in funding for a new large-scale composting facility in Canberra.
Key points:
The facility will divert 50,000 tonnes of food and garden waste from landfill annually
A new materials recovery center will also be built to improve the quality of recycled products
A recycling advocate says education is key to composting success
The facility will be built in Hume and will process food and garden waste collected from household green bins across the city.
City Services Minister Chris Steel said the new facility was an essential part of the food organics and garden organics (FOGO) rollout in the ACT.
“It will turn around 50,000 tonnes of food and organic waste into valuable compost for use in the agriculture and viticulture of our region, and gardens,” he said.
“This is incredibly important for climate change, this is our third largest source of emissions.”
‘True circular process’
FOGO collection and processing is expected to cut the ACT’s waste emissions by 30 per cent. (ABC News: Harry Frost)
About 5,000 households in Belconnen, Bruce, Cook and Macquarie are currently trialling a FOGO collection system.
Mr Steel said that service would be expanded to include all ACT households once the new facility was up and running.
“This is going to be a fantastic story,” he said.
“This is Canberrans’ food waste that will be turned into compost, so that we can return those nutrients—which are otherwise going to landfill—to the soil to improve our soil and then grow our food again.
“So, it will be a true circular process.”
It’s not yet known what items will and won’t be allowed in the new FOGO processing stream. (ABC News: Harry Frost)
Mr Steel said a new $23 million recycling facility would also be built in Hume.
“We were partnering with [the federal government] to upgrade the existing facility to process our plastic, aluminium, paper and cardboard products, as well as glass,” he said.
“But as we’ve progressed through the design process, we’ve now come to the conclusion that it would be better for us to build a new state-of-the-art materials recovery facility adjacent to the existing site.”
He said the government would now go through a procurement process and he hoped both facilities would be operational within 18 months, though he noted the unpredictably of the current construction market.
Education key to FOGO success
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Zero Waste Evolution chair Mia Swainson discusses the new Canberra composting facility.
Zero Waste Evolution chair Mia Swainson welcomed the funding injection and said a simple, targeted education program would be essential ahead of the FOGO facility coming online.
“The key is bringing Canberrans on the journey, making sure that people know what can go into the processing and what can’t,” she said.
“Depending on the technology, there’ll be different food and garden waste from around the house that can go in and some that can’t.
“So, keeping that contamination level down low will be really key to success.”
Ms Swainson said success would require a new way of thinking about waste for many Canberrans.
“Globally the trend is for… all of the organic waste to be recycled and reprocessed,” she said.
“Yes, it’s a bit of a change and a cultural shift, but, overtime people get used to it and it’s just how we build our lives.”
National Park Service rangers found more human remains at the drought-hit Lake Mead National Recreation Area to the east of Las Vegas over the weekend.
Why it matters: It’s fourth such discovery in the nation’s largest reservoir by volume since May as a megadrought sinks Lake Mead’s water levels to the lowest since 1937, per AP.
Details: “National Park Service rangers received an emergency call reporting the discovery of human skeletal remains at Swim Beach in Lake Mead National Recreation Area,” Nevada, on Saturday morning, according to an NPS statement.
Park rangers worked to recover the remains with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s dive team, the NPS said.
The Clark County Medical Examiner is investigating the cause of death.
Driving the news: The Southwest is in the grip of a megadrought lasting more than two decades and studies show it’s more severe than any in at least 1,200 years, which is being driven in large part by climate change, Axios’ Andrew Freedman notes.
The big pictures: Lake Mead spans Nevada and Arizona and is part of the vast Colorado River basin that provides water for agriculture and human consumption to seven states, while also generating electricity at the massive Hoover Dam.
Go deeper: New Colorado River drought discovery shows how bad things can get
A young Melbourne couple have been roasted online after “impulse buying” a $1.5 million East Brunswick terrace at auction.
But the agent who sold the property has now spoken out, saying the backlash from “keyboard warriors” is unfair and that the sale has been misrepresented.
Property website Domain published an article on Saturday about the young buyers of 110 Barkly Street, which sold under the hammer after the couple pipped another bidder for just $500.
Darcy and Tessa, who declined to give their last names, ultimately paid $1,500,500 for the deceased estate, which went to auction with a price guide of $1.3 million to $1.43 million.
“To be honest we weren’t really looking, we were just looking casually and this one popped up,” Tessa told Domain.
Darcy added, “There’s a bit of concern around with what housing prices are doing but this one really stood out to us, and it turned out we got it.”
The couple said they planned to fix up the terrace and rent it out in the short term before moving in later and doing further renovation.
Darcy said while interest rate rises were “certainly something to consider”, the couple were “in a good position with renting it out at this point”.
“From our point of view we can pass that on to the rental market,” he said.
The article went viral on Reddit after a user on the Melbourne forum posted a screenshot of the headline.
“I guess I don’t feel so bad about impulse buying a Snickers at the Coles checkout now,” they wrote.
“I mean we’ve all been there, right? Just wandering down the street to get coffee or something, you’ve got $1.5 million burning a hole in your pocket and you stumble across an auction – damn it! Did I really just buy a house again? Man my wife is going to give me a hard time about this when I get back.”
One person replied, “I genuinely know two people who have done this. One whilst driving past on the way to visit a friend (investment property in Footscray), and the other whose husband came home and announced he’d bought a new family home. WTF.”
Another wrote, “Joke’s on them, be at least $500,000 less in about six months.”
Ray White Glenroy auctioneer Stefan Stella told news.com.au on Monday he felt the reaction from “keyboard warriors” online had been “pretty harsh”.
“As much as it said they weren’t really looking, they did see it on the first open, came multiple times – they were there three times,” he said.
“In my opinion they were probably always going to get it. The underbidder only saw it in the last week. I think what they may have meant was they weren’t actively looking and religiously out there every Saturday, that’s potentially the message they were trying to get across.”
It comes after the Reserve Bank hiked interest rates for the fourth month in a row last week.
The 50 basis-point increase at the central bank’s August meeting brings the official cash rate to 1.85 per cent, up from the record low 0.1 per cent it was up until May.
Already, the rise in interest rates has pushed house prices down in most major cities as borrowers stare down the barrel of higher monthly payments.
PropTrack’s Home Price Index shows a national decline of 1.66 per cent in prices since March, but some regions have seen much sharper falls.
“As repayments become more expensive with rising interest rates, housing affordability will decline, prices pushing further down,” PropTrack senior economist Eleanor Creagh said.
Andy Lee, 41, reveals the real reason he is yet to pop the question to his girlfriend of seven years Rebecca Harding
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He’s been criticized for failing to propose to his model girlfriend Rebecca Harding after seven years together.
And on Monday, Andy Lee revealed the real reason he is yet to get down on one knee.
When quizzed by a potential engagement on KIIS FM’s the Kyle and Jackie O Show, the 41-year-old comedian comically said: ‘I’m just waiting for Bec to do it.’
Andy Lee, 41, revealed the real reason he is yet to pop the question to his girlfriend of seven years Rebecca Harding during a radio interview on Monday
The radio and TV star joked that he gets ‘so upset’ every time the couple go away and Bec fails to ask for his hand in marriage.
Host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson went on to question if Bec actually would actually do it.
When quizzed by a potential engagement on KIIS FM’s the Kyle and Jackie O Show, the 41-year-old comedian comically said: ‘I’m just waiting for Bec to do it’
‘She might do it,’ Andy said, before saying he wouldn’t like it if she was the one to ask because ‘he is a little bit old school in that regard.’
He went on to say that Bec was ‘pretty old school’ too, meaning she would wait for him to get on bended knee and propose.
The Hundred host then confessed he loves to trick the paparazzi by getting on his knee and pretending to propose when he would spot them.
The radio and TV star joked that he gets ‘so upset’ every time the couple go away and Bec fails to ask for his hand in marriage
Andy was recently trolled following the couple’s holiday in Greece last month.
Fans flooded his Instagram comments section asking why the radio star is taking so long to make the brunette beauty his wife.
‘You need to put a ring on her,’ one person wrote. ‘Bend the knee,’ another said.
Andy was recently trolled following the couple’s holiday in Greece last month. Fans flooded his Instagram comments section of him asking why the radio star is taking so long to make the brunette beauty his wife
‘Andy is soo going to propose to Bec on this trip,’ another one commented. ‘Where’s the ring?,’ one asked.
‘Time to put a ring on it Andy,’ another said.
Andy has previously stated his intention to marry Bec.
The couple famously met at a cafe where Bec was waitressing before Andy slipped her his contact details.
Andy and Rebecca have been dating on and off for almost eight years and are often the subject of engagement rumors
The career-best season of Nick Kyrgios has continued, with the Australian claiming his first ATP Tour title in three years at the Citi Open in Washington.
Kyrgios took just 81 minutes to defeat Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka 6-4, 6-3 in Sunday’s final (Monday AEST), firing down 12 aces in the straight sets to win over the world No.96.
Nick Kyrgios lies on court after his victory in the final.Credit:AP
The 27-year-old also recorded 32 winners in the triumph as he completed the tournament having held serve 64 times without being broken.
It’s Kyrgios’ seventh ATP Tour title and first since he won at Washington in 2019.
“It’s just very emotional for me,” he said in a post-match interview.
“To see where I was at last year to now, it’s just an incredible transformation. I just came out with great energy. I knew that I had experience on my side today. I love this court, I’ve played so many good matches here, so I’m just really happy with myself.
“I’ve been in some really dark places. Just to be able to turn it around… There are so many people who have helped me get there, but myself, I’ve shown some serious strength to just continue and persevere and get through all those times and be able to still perform and win tournaments like this one.”
Victory means Kyrgios remains unbeaten since his loss to Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final and lifts him to 37th on the world rankings.
Aug 7 (Reuters) – The Republican nominee for Michigan attorney general led a team that gained unauthorized access to voting equipment while hunting for evidence to support former President Donald Trump’s false election-fraud claims, according to a Reuters analysis of court filings and public records .
The analysis shows that people working with Matthew DePerno – the Trump-endorsed nominee for the state’s top law-enforcement post – examined a vote tabulator from Richfield Township, a conservative stronghold of 3,600 people in northern Michigan’s Roscommon County.
The Richfield security breach is one of four similar incidents being investigated by Michigan’s current attorney general, Democrat Dana Nessel. Under state law, it is a felony to seek or provide unauthorized access to voting equipment.
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DePerno did not respond to a request for comment.
The involvement of a Republican attorney general nominee in a voting-system breach comes amid a national effort by backers of Trump’s fraud falsehoods to win state offices that could prove critical in deciding any future contested elections.
In Arizona last week, three Trump-backed candidates who claim the 2020 election was stolen won Republican primary elections for governor, attorney general and secretary of state, the top official overseeing elections. In Pennsylvania, Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano has vowed to decertify any election he considers fraudulent through his appointed secretary of state. Michigan, Arizona and Pennsylvania are all presidential election battlegrounds.
Trump lavished praise on DePerno before a large audience this weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas. “He’s going to make sure that you are going to have law and order and fair elections,” Trump said, pumping his fist as DePerno stood up in the audience and waved. “That’s an important race.”
Reuters established the connection between Michigan’s DePerno and the Richfield voting-system breach by matching the serial number of the township’s tabulator to a photograph in a publicly released report written by a member of DePerno’s team. The photograph showed a printed record of a vote-tabulator’s activity, which also included a string of ten digits. Reuters confirmed that those numbers matched the serial number of a Richfield vote tabulator through public records obtained from the township. State officials had previously identified Richfield as the site of a voting-equipment security breach.
DePerno had submitted the report as evidence in a failed lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results in a different Michigan county, Antrim. The report claimed that Dominion and ES&S election equipment was vulnerable to hacking and vote-rigging.
Reuters asked an election-security expert to review the materials. Kevin Skoglund, president and chief technologist for the nonpartisan Citizens for Better Elections, an election-security advocacy organization, said the matching numbers indicate that DePerno’s team had access to the Richfield Township tabulator or its data drives.
DePerno led the “Michigan Antrim County Election Lawsuit & Investigation Team,” which included himself, Detroit attorney Stefanie Lambert, private investigator Michael Lynch, and James Penrose, a former analyst for the National Security Agency, according to promotional material for a July 2021 fundraising event in California sponsored by a conservative group that advertised appearances by DePerno’s team members Penrose, who had assisted other prominent Trump allies in their efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, authored the report that Reuters tied to a tabulator involved in the Richfield Township security breach.
Lambert, Lynch and Penrose did not respond to requests for comment.
The previously unreported link to GOP attorney general candidate DePerno and his associates comes as Democratic incumbent Nessel advances her probe, which she launched in February 2022. Nessel is seeking re-election, which would create a conflict of interest if her political opponent became a suspect in her office’s investigation.
The attorney general’s office declined to comment on the specifics of its investigation but said Nessel would “take appropriate steps to remove herself and her department should a conflict arise.”
Those steps include requesting a special prosecutor to look into the election breaches, according to a letter from the attorney general advising the secretary of state of the request. The request was sent to the Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council, an autonomous entity within the attorney general’s office that would decide whether a special prosecutor is warranted.
Nessel’s office started investigating the voting-system security breaches after a request from Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. In a February statement, Benson said that “at least one unnamed third party” had gained access to tabulation machines and data drives from Richfield Township and Roscommon County.
Jake Rollow, a spokesperson for the secretary of state, said the office does not believe DePerno’s team had legal approval to access ES&S voting equipment. Rollow declined to comment further on the attorney general’s investigation but emphasized its importance. “To ensure Michigan’s elections are secure in the future, there must be consequences now for the people who illegally accessed the state’s voting machines,” he said.
ES&S did not respond to requests for comment.
SEIZING ON A GLITCH
Voting and vote-counting equipment is subject to strict chain-of-custody requirements to ensure accuracy and guard against fraud. Access to tabulators is tightly restricted, and any machine compromised by an unauthorized person is typically taken out of commission.
The four cases being investigated by Nessel are among at least 17 incidents identified by Reuters nationwide in which Trump supporters gained or attempted to gain unauthorized access to voting equipment. Michigan accounts for 11 of them, reflecting how conspiracy theorists sought to capitalize on an error in the initial reporting of 2020 results in Antrim County to allege widespread fraud in the state, without evidence.
A state review of the Antrim County incident found that a failure to properly update software caused a computer glitch that resulted in county officials initially reporting Joe Biden as the winner of the reliably Republican county. The officials quickly acknowledged and corrected the mistake, and Trump’s victory was affirmed by a hand tally of every vote cast.
DePerno seized on the confusion, filing a lawsuit making the unfounded claim that tabulators made by Colorado-based Dominion Voting Systems had been rigged to flip votes from Trump to Biden in Antrim County.
“No evidence of machine fraud or manipulation in the 2020 election has ever been presented in Michigan or any other state, and courts in Michigan and elsewhere have dismissed such claims as baseless,” Dominion spokesman Tony Fratto said.
In early December 2020, 13th Circuit Court Judge Kevin Elsenheimer granted DePerno’s legal team permission to take forensic images of Antrim County voting equipment to search for evidence of election fraud. The court order was limited to Antrim, where only Dominion equipment was used. The order did not extend to other jurisdictions or machines made by other voting-system providers.
Yet DePerno’s team submitted two reports in April 2021 to the court that revealed they had also examined equipment made by Election Systems & Software (ES&S).
The report written by Penrose, dated April 9, contained a photograph of a “summary tape” with information about a tabulator’s activity on election night, such as when results were submitted to the county. Among other things, the tape showed a sequence of figures: 0317350497.
That is the serial number for one of two ES&S DS200 tabulators Richfield Township used during the 2020 vote, according to copies of documents obtained by Reuters through a public-records request.
Skoglund, the election-security specialist consulted by Reuters, said the matching numbers indicate that the report’s author had access to either Richfield’s tabulator or a data drive containing the results and other information on the machine.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that the Penrose photograph is output from that same DS200 — that he had physical hands-on access,” Skoglund told Reuters.
A second person familiar with the workings of ES&S voting equipment examined the records obtained by Reuters and concurred that the tabulator tape shown in the Penrose report matches the machine with the same serial number.
MORE MACHINES
The Penrose report was part of a series of submissions from DePerno’s team that failed to convince Judge Elsenheimer. At an April 12, 2021 hearing, the judge shut down DePerno’s attempt to subpoena several Michigan counties for access to election data and equipment.
DePerno gave an interview later the same day to two right-wing websites, Gateway Pundit and 100 Percent Fed Up. DePerno said that Penrose had examined an ES&S machine. I added that the team had also looked at Dominion equipment “outside of Antrim County.” The attorney said he didn’t consider Elsenheimer’s ruling a dead-end.
“Maybe there will be some county somewhere that decides to come forward and cooperate. That would be nice,” DePerno told the websites.
In reality, DePerno’s associates had already taken possession of voting machines from local officials in Richfield Township in Roscommon County and Lake Township in Missaukee County, according to police records and text messages acquired through public records requests.
Lynch, the private investigator who worked with DePerno on his Antrim county case, exchanged texts with Lake Township clerk Korinda Winkelmann on March 20, 2021. Lynch asked for help accessing a Dominion device she had provided to him, according to the messages, obtained by Reuters through a public-records requests. Winkelman shared with Lynch an operational manual and a password for the device, while also speculating on how election systems might be rigged.
Lynch had no authorization to examine the machine, and the incident remains under state investigation. Winkelmann did not respond to requests for comment.
Elsenheimer dismissed the Antrim suit in May 2021, a decision that was affirmed this year by the Michigan Court of Appeals. DePerno’s fraud claims have been widely debunked. A Republican-led Michigan Senate committee issued a scathing report in June 2021 that called DePerno’s various allegations “demonstrably false.”
In September 2021, Trump endorsed DePerno as the Republican nominee for Michigan attorney general, praising his pursuit of “fair and accurate elections” and his ongoing effort to “reveal the truth about the Nov. 3 presidential election scam.”
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Aging demographics in developed economies have seen a pandemic-accelerated shrinkage in the pools of available workers, with older workers retiring. In the US (but not Australia) the participation rates for older workers and women have fallen.
With inflation at near double-digit levels in the US (9.1 per cent), Europe (8.6 per cent and rising) and the UK (9.4 per cent) and tracking towards 8 per cent in Australia central bankers are trying to engineer a reduction in demand to bring it more into line with the reduced supply using the only tools available to them – raising interest rates and tightening credit conditions.
Jerome Powell’s US Fed and central banks around the world are desperately trying to rein in soaring inflation. Credit:AP
They are trying to burn off the excessive inflation even if they kill economic growth in the process. When the latest US inflation data is released in the US this Wednesday it is likely to show some moderation in the US headline rate, driven by a recent sharp fall in oil prices.
The oil price, which was above $US120 a barrel only two months ago, is now down to about $US94 a barrel. That’s partly a rational demand-side response to the steep increases in fuel costs but also flows from the slowdown in global economic activity. Other key commodity prices – metals and agricultural – have also failed back after material spikes.
Core inflation in the US, which excludes fuel and food costs, is expected to remain elevated, however, and may even increase. It’s that rate, rather than the headlines rate, that guides central bank reactions.
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The International Monetary Fund last month cut its forecasts for global growth to 3.2 per cent. Last year the global economy grew 6.1 per cent. The war in Ukraine and China’s spluttering, COVID-affected economy, are the major contributors to the contraction in the growth rate.
Rapidly rising interest rates, and a tightening of credit conditions as the key central banks unwind quantitative easing programs that injected about $US12 trillion into the global financial system in response to the pandemic, will also impact growth and threaten the stability of some overly-indebted developing economies.
With the central bankers determined to bring inflation under control, interest rates in developed economies are going to rise a lot further – the US bond market is signaling a federal funds rate of somewhere between 3.5 per cent and 4 per cent by March next year against the current range of 2.25 per cent to 2.5 per cent –and do a lot more damage to economic growth rates.
The US yield curve is now as inverted as it has been in decades, with the difference between the yield on two-year notes (3.25 per cent) and 10-year bonds (2.83 per cent) now about 42 basis points. Investments of the curve – normally bond investors are compensated with higher yields for the risks of holding longer duration securities — have preceded every US recession since the 1970s.
Thus, however robust the underlying conditions in economies like the US or Australia’s, the central bankers are going to choke off any growth and force unemployment to rise to bring the supply-demand equation into a better balance.
It’s difficult to reconcile economies that are creating jobs faster than they can fill them and within which demand for travel, cars and goods is overwhelming supply, with data that suggests the economies are shrinking or slowing.
As renowned markets economist Mohamed El-Erian said to Bloomberg after Friday’s US jobs report, the Fed and its peers are going to have to “somehow break” their economies to bring inflation under control. Perhaps that’s a bit strong, but they are certainly going to have to risk policy over-kill and nasty recessions to tame their inflation rates.
“Soft landings” are the objective but they are difficult to engineer with the crude tools central bankers have at hand and in economic and geopolitical circumstances that are very different to those they’ve responded to in the past or which predated the pandemic.
Along with the increased geopolitical tensions, the decoupling of major economies and the redesign of global supply chains – the winding back of globalization – are the changes in China and an economy that powered much of the world’s growth in recent decades.
China’s population is ageing, its economy’s cost base has risen and its increasingly assertive geopolitics have generated heightened tensions in its relationships with the West.
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The post-pandemic global economy that eventually emerges will be different to the one that entered 2020, with the increased costs of the new supply chains and with less integration of economies and societies increasing input costs and prices and weighing heavily on growth even as governments that showered their economies with fiscal stimulus in response to the pandemic pursue contractionary policies to repair their finances.
This is a very significant, if rather strange, period in economic history.
It’s been 10 years since Nanoleaf launched its first smart light panels and changed the way we light up our room and – if you get in quick – you can get your hands on the limited edition Ultra Black Shapes Triangles.
The regular Nanoleaf triangles are white, but the company decided on a whole new look for a limited time with the black triangles.
Tech Guide looked at these new Nanoleaf Ultra Black Shapes which were released to celebrate Nanoleaf’s 10th anniversary.
Being black they blend in with a darker wall which makes the lighting effects even more dramatic when it is activated.
The starter kit comes with nine triangular panels ($369.99) and the expansion pack adds three more triangles ($129.99).
Despite the black colour, the Nanoleaf triangles still offer the same color and brightness that you can with the white triangles.
And you can also control them in the same way and apply different patterns and adjust the brightness.
They can also be set so the light changes and moves to the beat of your music.
But because they are a limited edition you really need to get your skates on before they sell out.
These are exactly like the white panels which blazed a path in the smart light market as one of Nanoleaf’s earlier products.
We’ve since seen other Nanoleaf products like the Canvas squares, lightstrips, bulbs, smaller triangles, the Elements with the wood grain panels and, most recently, the Nanoleaf Lines.
The Nanoleaf limited edition Ultra Black Shapes Triangles are available now for a limited time.
Stephen is the Tech Guide editor and one of Australia’s most respected tech journalists. He is a regular on radio and TV talking about the latest tech news, products and trends.
Kim Kardashian reportedly ended her nine-month relationship with Pete Davidson over his “immaturity.”
It’s said the reality TV personality and mum-of four, 41, was also “totally exhausted” by the romance amid “other things going on in her life” including divorce proceedings with rapper Kanye West.
Kardashian was also reported to be struggling with trying to maintain a long-distance romance with Davidson while he was away from the US filming his latest movie in Australia.
A source told Page Six: “Pete is 28 and Kim is 41 – they are just in very different places at the moment.
“Pete is totally spontaneous and impulsive and wants her to fly to New York, or wherever he is on a moment’s notice. But Kim has four kids and it isn’t that easy. She needs to focus on the kids.”
The couple broke up after first being linked in October last year weeks after Kardashian made her hosting debut on Saturday Night Live, where the pair shared a kiss during a sketch.
Romance bloomed for Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian during her appearance on SNL. Credit: Supplied/TheWest
Davidson has been away for months filming his upcoming movie Wizards! in Australia, where Kardashian visited him in July for a getaway in the Daintree Rainforest.
Their split comes after a separate source said the “long distance hasn’t been easy for Kim”.
Kardashian is still entangled in the legal details of her divorce from her third husband Kanye West, 45, with whom she shares children North, nine, Saint, six, Chicago, four, and three-year-old Psalm.
It was reported Kanye’s fifth divorce lawyer has withdrawn from the long-running case.
Davidson’s other celebrity girlfriends including Andie MacDowell’s daughter Margaret Qualley, 27, and supermodel Cindy Crawford’s daughter Kaia Gerber, 20, as well as Ariana Grande, 29, Kate Beckinsale, 49, and 27-year-old Phoebe Dynevor.
