After keeping Leeds up last season and reaching an FA Cup semi-final, Daniel Farke has good reason to expect further improvement at Elland Road Guardian writers’ predicted position: 12th (NB: this is not necessarily Louise Taylor’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s position: 14th Continue reading...
What is Ebola and why is the outbreak in DRC causing so much concern?
Strain of virus with no vaccine has potential to overrun response impeded by conflict and misinformation Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are losing their battle to contain the country’s deadliest Ebola outbreak. DRC’s health ministry declared an outbreak in Ituri province on 15 May, though sequencing...
Fifa chief sacked after criticism of Infantino’s World Cup sell-off plan
Kevin Lamour said Fifa administration was ‘deceived’ Chief operating officer knew he could lose his job The Fifa chief operating officer, Kevin Lamour, has been sacked after openly criticising Gianni Infantino’s ill-fated plan to sell parts of the World Cup to private investors. In a significant development at the pinnacle...
Interviewing José Mourinho: ego, charisma, talent and his ‘rucksack of pain’
Director Joe Pearlman says he expected Real Madrid manager to ‘try to manipulate us’ in making of Netflix series Even in the hyperreal world of football, there are few characters more compelling, more polarising, or more everything than José Mourinho, the best and worst of public him on full display...
Leaked video shows Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods identifying a book by sight
The macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate includes code and a brief video referencing an unreleased product called B790. The short demonstration video, found by MacRumors, shows a user holding up a book so the AirPods camera can read its title. The camera appears to recognize the text, and the voiceover......
Ferrari’s first electric car sells for a record $40 million at auction
RM Sotheby's sold the first production example of the Ferrari Luce, a customized version of the company's new electric model. The buyer was not identified. The proceeds will go to the Ferrari Foundation's education programs. Read Entire Article
A botched Mastercard update left Australian shoppers unable to pay
An undisclosed number of Australian customers were unable to pay with their cards during Saturday's shopping trips. As reported by ABC, Mastercard quickly identified the cause of the new outage: a scheduled system update that went wrong, triggering declined transactions for a period of several hours. Read Entire Article
Apple will begin assembling Mac Minis at Foxconn’s Houston plant later this year
The line will operate in a new 170,000-square-foot space at the plant, which already makes AI servers for Apple. Foxconn is funding the assembly-line buildout, while Apple has committed to purchasing the products made there. Read Entire Article
Windows is losing a command-line tool that dates back to the Windows 2000 days
Microsoft recently released a new Insider Preview Build of Windows 11, giving unpaid beta testers an early look at features headed to the stable release. Tucked into the changelog for Preview Build 26100.9267/26200.9267 is confirmation that this marks the beginning of the end for WMIC. Read Entire Article
Trump orders Pentagon to scale back joint exercises with South Korea after he says it declined to help denuclearize Iran
Trump orders Pentagon to scale back joint exercises with South Korea after he says it declined to help denuclearize Iran