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Watch Eddie Vedder soak up the glory as Pearl Jam’s ‘Alive’ is played during hydration break of USA vs Belgium World Cup match
Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder was filmed relishing the moment as the band’s 1991 song ‘Alive’ played over the stadium PA during a hydration break at the FIFA World Cup match between the USA and Belgium at Seattle Stadium on 6 July 2026. Cameras cut to the hometown musician in the stands, where he raised…
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Former Cowboys defender Marshawn Kneeland, who died by suicide at 24, found to have early stage CTE
Marshawn Kneeland, a former Dallas Cowboys defensive end who died by suicide in November 2025 at the age of 24 following a high-speed police chase, has been posthumously diagnosed with early-stage chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The finding matters because it adds a young NFL player to the growing body of evidence linking repetitive head impacts…
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Meta rolls out Muse Image, its first Superintelligence Labs image model
Meta has launched Muse Image, the first AI image-generation model developed by its Superintelligence Labs division, which now powers the image-making tools across the Meta AI app, Instagram and WhatsApp, with Facebook and Messenger to follow. The model is part of Meta’s new Muse family of AI models, which is replacing the company’s Llama lineup,…
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SCOTUS lets Texas enforce app store law that Big Tech calls “censorship regime”
The US Supreme Court has declined to intervene in a legal challenge to the Texas App Store Accountability Act, allowing the state to enforce its new age-verification rules while litigation continues. The decision matters because it clears the way for a law that requires app stores to verify users’ ages and impose restrictions on under-18s…
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How to find all Elvira’s clues in her Moonlight Peaks treasure hunt
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Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet
Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang has put forward a theory that challenges the assumption that cheaper open source AI models are eroding the business of frontier labs such as Anthropic. In a blog post titled “Everyone is wrong about open source AI in the enterprise,” he argues that expensive frontier models and cheaper open source ones…
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Tech Life
This episode of the BBC World Service programme Tech Life, titled “Too young to scroll?”, examines the question of what age is appropriate for a child to be given a smartphone. It focuses on the town of Greystones in Ireland, where the community has adopted a voluntary agreement to hold off giving children smartphones until…
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Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.
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New Girl Creator To Write Britney Spears Biopic
Universal’s planned biopic based on Britney Spears’s memoir, The Woman In Me, has recruited Liz Meriwether — the creator of the sitcom New Girl — as its screenwriter. The appointment marks the first significant update since 2024, when it emerged that Spears had sold the rights to her memoir and that Marc Platt would produce…