The US men’s national team met Portugal at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Tuesday evening having spent the days leading up to the match preaching about intensity. Following a 5-2 drubbing at the hands of Belgium on the weekend, players and coaches alike stressed the importance of showing well against Portugal, sixth in Fifa’s world rankings. Instead,…
Thousands of civilian sailors have been stranded for more than a month in waters surrounded by a conflict zone because of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
Most people find quantum mechanics complicated and difficult to grasp. Add information theory—the math behind computing—into the mix, and it’s a real headache. But information theorists Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard argue that quantum information is something we should all be getting used to. It’s simple and beautiful, they contend, and it won’t stay…
Attackers stole a long-lived npm access token belonging to the lead maintainer of axios, the most popular HTTP client library in JavaScript, and used it to publish two poisoned versions that install a cross-platform remote access trojan. The malicious releases target macOS, Windows, and Linux. They were live on the npm registry for roughly three…
England suffered a sobering 1-0 defeat to Japan in their final friendly before Thomas Tuchel announces his squad for the 2026 World Cup. The result ended an incredible defensive run for Jordan Pickford, who conceded for the first time in 922 minutes of international football. Tuchel used the evening to test several tactical theories, including…
2 Chainz and his wife, Kesha Ward a.k.a Pea Epps, sent their daughter Heaven Epps off to prom this past weekend. Ward took to Instagram on Monday to share a series of snapshots of Heaven as she stepped out for Decatur Prom 2026. In one of the photos, the high school senior and her date…
A shortage of affordable housing in the coastal city in South Africa has forced many people to live far outside the city center, while tourists occupy prime real estate.
Team member Ronit Sohanpal works on the high-speed data transmission set up UCL A new speed record has been set for data transmission through an existing, commercially-installed fibre optic cable, with 450 terabits per second – or 450,000,000,000,000 bits per second – being beamed through a pair of cables underneath London’s busy streets. Polina Bayvel…
The 2025-26 UEFA Women’s Champions League returns with quarterfinal action on Wednesday and Thursday. The second legs of the quarterfinals will pit domestic rivals against each other in quarterfinal sequels and set the stage for possible tournament upsets. Arsenal will visit Chelsea with a 3-1 goal advantage in the second leg, while Wolfsburg carry a…
Alec and Hilaria Baldwin’s nine-year-old son landed himself in the hospital while on a recent family holiday after “splitting his head open.” Hilaria, 42, shared photos of Leo lying in a hospital bed as part of an Instagram post, explaining that her family had come to visit her during a work trip before the incident…
