Specialist mentor signed lucrative deal with online firm Board’s strict code prohibits betting across cricket Kevin Pietersen has told the England and Wales Cricket Board he will not promote betting while on duty as England’s specialist mentor. Pietersen signed a lucrative contract as a brand ambassador for an online gambling...
Bradley Barcola’s clinical hat-trick inspires Liverpool to 6-3 rout of Lask
Liverpool cleansed themselves from the stains of defeat by Manchester City at the earliest opportunity. A rampant display in Austria saw Bradley Barcola ignite his Liverpool account with the first hat-trick of his professional career and Andoni Iraola’s team devastate Lask’s big night in the Champions League. The major surprise...
Jackson and Barkley doubles sink feeble Fenerbahce in record Aston Villa win
It may be a bit early for the pantomime season but the Holte End enjoyed acclaiming their heroes and villains as Aston Villa won at home for the first time this season with their biggest victory in European competition. Every touch for Mason Greenwood, playing his first game in England...
Manchester City are suddenly box-office in age of charge-rage and mega defiance | Barney Ronay
This is by far the most interesting this club have ever been and they faced PSG, a kind of twin entity in all this as oil state glove puppets Another day, another note of unreality; another vivid and brilliant spectacle that feels as though it has been whipped together out...
Martínez has drawn back the curtain on Manchester United’s ruinous ownership | Jonathan Liew
Defender may not be blameless in team’s struggles but his criticism goes to the heart of what has gone wrong at the club Heartbreaking: the worst defender you know just made a great point. And no, nobody would describe Lisandro Martínez as the ideal person to scrutinise Manchester United’s indifferent...
Trill seekers: can scientists use AI and tutors to help birds remember lost songs?
When populations fall, fledglings can struggle to learn the right notes to attract mates. But research on how birds communicate offers hope for species’ survival Listening to birdsong is one of life’s great joys, but when researchers heard a particular tune emerging from a tree in a Buenos Aires park,...
Stop making sense: focus on sounds to help learn a language, study suggests
Research shows that the best linguists process unfamiliar foreign speech sounds more like non-speech sounds If you want to get really good at French, Arabic or Hungarian, don’t start with rote learning vocabulary and grammar, focus on how they sound instead, research suggests. A new study of how humans learn...
Is your boss watching you? The rise of AI surveillance at work – podcast
Workers have always been monitored by their bosses, first through output targets, and then via computer software labelled ‘bossware’. But AI is transforming the capabilities of these systems, processing huge volumes of data to provide minute-by-minute accounts of activity, and productivity. To find out more, Ian Sample hears from UK...
Could AI ‘change the stakes’ in the development of bioweapons?
Experts say the technology could help terrorists and nation states with production but that significant hurdles remain In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, MI5, warned that AI had the potential to “change the stakes” on existing and...
Mozilla is betting Europe’s digital sovereignty push can help fund Firefox
Mozilla has just launched a brand-new offering for its European customers. Firefox Enterprise is a version of the open source browser tailored to the specific needs of companies and other enterprise organizations, bundled with additional services designed to strengthen and protect digital sovereignty. For a price, of course. Read Entire...