…IrfanFootball tactics correspondentPublished19 June 2026For the past couple of seasons, many teams looking to dominate the ball have done so in a rigid manner. A very common shape in possession has been the 3-2-2-3 set-up, with a box in midfield - teams such as Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal have moved a full-bac…

…caption, Harry Kane has scored a record 81 goals in 115 games for EnglandByPaul BattisonBBC Sport journalistPublished19 June 2026Harry Kane says singing 'Wonderwall' with fans following England's win over Croatia on Wednesday was one of his "favourite ever moments" in a Three Lions shirt.The England captain scored twic…

…of a quirk of his birth.And the irony is the nation's prized striker is the type of person President Donald Trump says should not be eligible for citizenship under his hardline immigration agenda.As Balogun prepares for their second group game against Australia in Seattle on Friday (20:00 BST), it comes against a backd…

…and Uzbekistan defender Abdukodir Khusanov getting close at 36.5 km/h.Kylian Mbappe, Son Heung-min and Pedro Neto are among the established speedsters trailing behind.For followers of Dutch football, it was hardly a surprise for Bos to top the rankings. For everyone else, it was an introduction to the qualities of one…

…for Durham against Northamptonshire, his third County Championship match of the seasonByMatthew Henry, BBC Sport journalist at Chester-le-Street and Adam Samuel, BBC Look North sports reporterPublished19 June 2026Durham chief executive Tim Bostock says he is "bemused" about doubts around England Test captain Ben Stokes…

…parts of the World Cup advertising campaigns for Nike and Adidas respectivelyBySimon CassonBBC Sport senior journalistPublished19 June 2026The World Cup is all about numbers. Which team has scored the most goals? Who's got enough points to make it to the knockout stages? The same is true in marketing - which brand has…

…keeper EarpsImage source, London City LionessesImage caption, Mary Earps spent two seasons with Paris St-GermainByEmma SandersBBC Sport women's football news reporterPublished19 June 2026Former England goalkeeper Mary Earps has joined London City Lionesses on a two-year deal after leaving Paris St-Germain. The 33-year-…

…Morocco against Brazil last week.The pair are club team mates at Lille and Giroud has personally witnessed Bouaddi's desire to get better day in, day out.This is a midfielder who has attracted interest from clubs across Europe for a reason following his fearless performances in the middle of the park.So his "rise to pr…

…confidence in 32-year-old Stones, who only started five Premier League games last season before leaving Manchester City, means it looks like a straight battle between Konsa and Guehi to line up alongside him.Former England striker Chris Sutton believes Tuchel should actually pair Konsa and Guehi rather than start with…

…source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Coventry City won the Championship last seasonByPaul BattisonBBC Sport journalistPublished19 June 2026Newly promoted Coventry City will travel to champions Arsenal in the first match of the 2026-27 Premier League season.The season's curtain raiser on Friday, 21 August sees the Sky Blu…

…Scotland, Massachusetts. For almost four decades there was a character in the DC Thomson comic called Ball Boy, a wee football-obsessed lad who couldn't kick a can down a street without thinking he'd scored the winner in a World Cup final.Boston has been overtaken by Ball Boys, full-time dreamers and relentless ambassa…

…is that such a dataset - unique because it allows AI to learn from interactive, first-person gameplay - is the perfect base to teach machines deep spatial-temporal reasoning, allowing them to perceive, anticipate, and interact in real time in simulation. That dataset has reportedly attracted the attention of OpenAI, wh…

…by 2 or 3, so you finish the five-question game with a score out of 1,000. (Personally, I think any score over 900 is pretty good, but some sickos are gunning for that perfect score.) Like Wordle, you get a fun little text to copy and paste and send in your group chats. Here's mine from today, for example: www.maptap.g…

…own journey - from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, relationships, and personal growth - Brown wants to help others do the same. Kē offers a slew of features designed to support users, including personalized fitness plans that cater to users' existing workout equipment and schedules, as well as nutrition…

…music on their phones, effortlessly accessing music libraries with over 100 million songs. This technology that we take for granted makes Steve Jobs' early iPod tagline - - sound antiquated. A Back Market ad in the New York City SubwayImage Credits:Tony Fadell (opens in a new window) The postage-stamp-sized iPod Shuffl…

…to Intel's annual revenue. AWS has so far resisted selling its AI chips for a lot of reasons. The biggest is that the money AWS actually makes on its chips is a waterfall effect. Sure, it charges customers directly for the AI tokens those chips process on its cloud, but it also gets to charge for a host of other servic…

…Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, who suggested that dating app users could have personal bots that date other users' bots. It's pretty normal nowadays to say you met your partner online, but "his bot asked my bot out, and our bots hit it off" will never be a socially acceptable meet-cute.

With each new season comes another YC Demo Day. On Tuesday, the Spring 2026 cohort was unveiled, filled with defense tech, robotics, AI infrastructure and developer tools, and of course, AI agents. TechCrunch spoke to eight investors to determine which ones were the hottest companies in this batch - both the ones they…

…shape frontier AI policy." Ball will report directly to Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon. The "small, high-agency team" will focus on "matters pertaining to: catastrophic risk, recursive self-improvement, labor market impact, and the relationship between the frontier labs, governments (particularly the U.S. Federal Go…

…Snap cited the high costs of conducting such work internally as one of the reasons for the spinoff. While technically a separate company, Dotmo will retain its close ties to the Snapchat creator. For one thing, Snap will provide Dotmo with a license to adapt its technology for gaming and interactive entertainment platf…

…be sold to enterprise software company Elastic for up to $85 million, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. Deductive, which was founded in 2023, came out stealth last November when it announced a $7.5 million seed round led by CRV with participation from Databricks Ventures, Thomvest Ventures, and PrimeSet…

…in demand for VPNs tend to follow any kind of platform restriction, regardless of the reason behind it," said Laura Tyrylyte, a privacy advocate at NordVPN. "When access to a tool people rely on is suddenly removed, they look for alternatives fast." Tyrylyte told TechCrunch that the response to Telegram's restriction i…

…China-based staff sit on the wrong side of that wall by design. He argued the only reason ASML could build an EUV machine at all was that 80% of it already existed from decades of prior knowledge, and that solving the one genuinely new problem - generating EUV light itself - took 20 years on its own. His broader point…

…over the servers running their models - typically for political or business-model reasons - and value data sovereignty over the scalability of the public cloud. Carlsten couldn't yet estimate the size of that market and argued that it was fairly nascent, since many companies are still just piloting AI tools. At DCAI, s…

…directive, insisting the illegal sit-at-home directive would continue unless Mr Kanu personally addressed him in Finland, where he was based. Meanwhile, like Mr Kanu, Mr Ekpa was sentenced to six years imprisonment in Finland in 2025, for terrorism related offences. Stay Ahead with Premium Times Follow us on Google New…