Russia is back in love with the Games and a return to athletes competing under their own flag at LA in two years’ time seems highly likely First came the reverberating cheers. Then a deluge of soft toys lobbed from the stands. But across the face of the brilliant Russian...
Vinícius, Mourinho and treating racism as reputational risk rather than a lived reality | Jonathan Liew
The Brazilian has seen this before, football has seen this before, and yet why does it feel like nothing ever changes? José Mourinho: against provoking opposition fans. José Mourinho: in favour of restrained celebrations. José Mourinho, once of the poke‑in‑the‑eye, sprint‑down‑the‑touchline, accost‑the‑referee-in-the-car-park school of footballing expression: now apparently very big...
Arsenal set up Chelsea showdown in Women’s Champions League with win over Leuven
A hard-fought victory over OH Leuven at Meadow Park sent Arsenal through to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, where they will face Chelsea next month. The visitors tested Renée Slegers’s side when Sára Pusztai cancelled out Alessia Russo’s goal but a penalty from Mariona Caldentey and second from Russo...
Anthony Gordon grabs four as Newcastle hit Qarabag for six in playoff
When the Qarabag manager, Gurban Gurbanov, declared before kick-off that Newcastle possess “a style of play that does not suit us”, there were suggestions that he was playing mind games. Long before half-time it was fully apparent that he had rather understated things. Had this been a boxing match it...
Arsenal suffer new blow in title race after Edozie’s equaliser boosts Wolves
Whichever way you look at it, Arsenal did not produce a performance worthy of champions. No one in red and white will want to remember this freezing cold night at Molineux – but it will live long in the memory of Wolves’ Tom Edozie, whose debut goal was a just...
When curlers need snookers: Team GB fight on at Winter Olympics after day of drama
British sides keep hopes alive with vital wins Team GB women need to beat Italy on Friday These are strained days at the curling arena, where the chances of the two British teams are teetering like a bus full of bullion that’s backed over the lip of a cliff. Both...
Stone, parchment or laser-written glass? Scientists find new way to preserve data
Hard disks and magnetic tape have a limited lifespan, but glass storage developed by Microsoft could last millennia Some cultures used stone, others used parchment. Some even, for a time, used floppy disks. Now scientists have come up with a new way to keep archived data safe that, they say,...
Etching the world’s smallest QR code in ceramic pushes data storage to the nanoscale
A team of researchers at TU Wien recently announced that they have "etched" the smallest QR code ever on a ceramic film. Covering an area of just 1.98 square micrometers, the code is smaller than many bacteria and features pixels only 49 nanometers in size. The researchers' ultimate goal is......
The hidden risk of driving a car that runs on someone else’s code
The value of a modern vehicle no longer lies primarily in mechanical reliability but in software continuity. Increasingly, the difference between "runs" and "doesn't run" depends on whether a remote authentication system or over-the-air patch remains active. From entry-level hatchbacks with app-based keyless entry to luxury EVs with cloud-connected diagnostics,......
Need a fresh start? This Windows 11 ISO download makes clean installs easy
Microsoft's Windows 11 ISO is the most flexible way to install or reinstall the company's latest desktop OS, whether you're setting up a new PC, fixing a broken system, or upgrading without touching the Media Creation Tool. It lets you create a bootable USB, run an in-place upgrade, or install......