France 6-40 England Visitors score six tries in final World Cup warm-up match England stormed to a 16th consecutive win over France in their final warm-up match before the World Cup kicks off in two weeks. After a close-run Six Nations finale in April England’s 40-6 win in Mont-de-Marsan was...
‘Irreparable loss’: Two Japanese boxers on same card die from brain injuries
Hiromasa Urakawa passes days after Shigetoshi Kotari died Pair had been injured in fights at same event in Tokyo on 2 August Two Japanese boxers have died days after suffering brain injuries in separate fights on the same card, boxing associations and media reports said. Shigetoshi Kotari died on Friday...
Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, dies aged 97
Nasa hails Lovell for saving 1970 moon mission from ‘potential tragedy’ and safely returning crew to Earth James “Jim” Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died on Thursday in Lake...
Pfizer Covid vaccine for young children may not be renewed by FDA
Email obtained by Guardian says Pfizer was told approval may not be granted, meaning Moderna may have to fill gap Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for young children may not be renewed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this fall, prompting Moderna to fill possible gaps in supply, according to...
Community Shield buildup to Liverpool v Crystal Palace and more – matchday live
News and discussion as we count down to the action Get in touch | Check out the day’s upcoming fixtures Chris Powell departed Sheffield Wednesday this summer after being an assistant to former head coach Danny Röhl. And the man often dubbed the nicest guy in football has now let...
Hackers are hiding malware in SVG images via fake Facebook posts
As more countries require age verification for adult websites, some smaller sites are resorting to hidden malware schemes to boost their popularity on social media platforms like Facebook. Researchers at Malwarebytes recently discovered that these schemes often use a type of image file called Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), which can......
Backlash over “horrible” GPT-5 forces OpenAI to restore older ChatGPT models, double rate limit
OpenAI officially launched GPT-5 on Thursday, with Pro subscribers and enterprise clients getting the more powerful GPT-5 Pro. The company said the new model beats competitors from the likes of Google DeepMind and Anthropic in certain benchmarks, but a lot of people have not shared Altman's enthusiasm. Read Entire Article
Microsoft to retire popular Lens app, fold scanning into Copilot
Originally known as Office Lens, the free app quickly gained traction as a way to convert documents, notes, and whiteboard sketches into digital formats using your phone's camera. Over time, Microsoft expanded its capabilities, enabling users to create PDFs as well as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files, and to perform......
Maglev trains’ tunnel boom problem may finally have a fix
The Guardian reports that researchers have developed a new method to reduce the "tunnel boom" effect that occurs when high-speed trains exit tunnels. The technology could soon prove essential, as next-generation maglev trains approach speeds exceeding 600 mph. Read Entire Article
Astronomers spot black hole 36 billion times the mass of the Sun
Scientists from the University of Portsmouth and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil collaborated on the study, which was published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Read Entire Article