Win over Ghana could secure top spot in the group ‘We dropped too deep,’ Tuchel says of Croatia opener Thomas Tuchel believes England were given a wake-up call by Croatia and must focus on improving their defensive structure as the World Cup progresses. England will qualify for the knockout stages...
Two-hour storm break fails to stop France as Mbappé and Dembélé prove too good for Iraq
Could France do it on a hot, humid, waterlogged and lightning-threatened night in Pennsylvania? The answer was pretty straightforward. Despite an interruption of more than two hours after a chain of severe thunderstorms disrupted play at Philadelphia Stadium, France brushed past the physical challenge of Iraq, and furthered Kylian Mbappé’s...
Interstellar comet may be oldest object seen in our solar system, scientists say
Observations suggest comet spent billions of years on ‘vast unimaginable trajectories’ around our galaxy An interstellar comet that blazed past the sun last year could be nearly three times older than our solar system and is unlike anything ever before seen in our cosmic back yard, astronomers said on Monday....
Extreme heat: is the UK becoming a 40C country? – podcast
Met Office forecasters have issued a rare red weather warning for England, with temperatures potentially reaching 40C (104F) in some places. Europe is also dealing with a debilitating heatwave, with schools closed, trains cancelled and France even restricting the consumption of alcohol outdoors to take pressure off the emergency services....
Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off
The Wall Street Journal reports that Polymarket paid at least 10 influencers over the past several months to post videos in which they pretended to win hundreds of thousands on fake wagers. The Dow Jones, which publishes the Journal, currently has a data partnership with Polymarket. Read Entire Article
Valve confirms FSR 4 for Steam Machine, AMD releases FSR 4.1 for RDNA 3 GPUs
Screenshots posted on X by YouTuber and XR analyst Brad Lynch appear to show that Valve is already testing support for FSR 4.1 upscaling in the Proton Experimental build for SteamOS. According to a SteamDB entry dated June 22, AMD has added FSR 4.1.1 INT8 DLL files to Steam, suggesting......
The founder of Eidos-Montréal says the game industry has been taken over by spreadsheets and lost its soul
D'Astous in a recent interview said that game development has changed significantly. The modern gaming business somewhat resembles the cyberpunk setting depicted in the Deus Ex series, with a handful of mega-corporations pulling the strings and controlling most of the industry's money. Unfortunately, C-suites are no longer interested in creativity....
Valve’s Steam Machine is here: starts at $1,049 for 512GB or $1,349 for the 2TB version
Under the hood, the Steam Machine packs a semi-custom AMD platform: a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 4 CPU clocked up to 4.86GHz, an RDNA 3 GPU with 28 compute units and 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM running at up to 2.45GHz within a 110W envelope, 16GB of DDR5 system RAM, and either......
Anthropic’s Mythos AI reportedly cracked NSA classified systems in hours, that would explain the ban
"Not in weeks, but in hours" Read Entire Article
China hits back at US sanctions on tech giants, restricting its exports to American defense firms
China has announced sanctions on 10 American defense companies