Author: Alex Maschino
new video loaded: Argentine Fans Are Struggling to Afford This World CupArgentine fans have flocked to previous World Cups by the tens of thousands, but the high cost of attending this year’s event is creating a new challenge. Tariq Panja, a global sports correspondent for The New York Times, traveled to Buenos Aires to meet fans who were reckoning with the rising prices, which FIFA said would create income to help fund soccer development around the world.By Tariq Panja, Leila Medina and Sarah PabstMay 6, 2026
France moves aircraft carrier to Red Sea with eye on Hormuz mission
Gilmore Girls alum Scott Patterson is Team No One when it comes to choosing between Rory Gilmore’s love interests on the show. During a recent appearance on Fox 29’s MIKE, Patterson, 67, was asked whether he’s “Team Dean, Jess or Logan,” in reference to Rory’s (played by Alexis Bledel) three boyfriends throughout the show. “Here’s how I answer that question now,” Patterson — who played Luke Danes, diner owner and eventual love interest of Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) — began. “I want to take a practical approach to it. If we sort of game theory out marriage to each one…
The Pittsburgh Penguins lost in the first round of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs to the Philadelphia Flyers in six games. We saw the Flyers make the Penguins look old and slow for the majority of the series. But for a Penguins team that was supposed to be tanking and going for Gavin McKenna, Pittsburgh overachieved. Will Evgeni Malkin be Back, or Will the Pittsburgh Penguins go Another Direction? But there are questions surrounding this roster and what direction GM Kyle Dubas will take. We know previous administrations were hampered by ownership’s vision of winning with Sidney Crosby, Kris Letang,…
As a spate of incidents in the Strait of Hormuz test the ceasefire, an Iranian official says, “We are just getting started”.
Out went what Armstrong calls “pure managers.” In came “player-coaches,” flat hierarchies capped at five layers, and “AI-native pods” that could include one-person teams directing agents that do the work of engineers, designers, and product managers. “We are not just reducing headcount and cutting costs,” Armstrong wrote on X. “We’re fundamentally changing how we operate: rebuilding Coinbase as an intelligence, with humans around the edge aligning it.” Layoffs economywide are relatively low. But inside tech, the AI layoff is the story of 2026. And Armstrong put his finger on something real: The org chart of the American corporation is under…
2026 has been brutal when it comes to our favorite shows getting canceled. Netflix cut ties with Boots two months after the show premiered. Based on Greg Cope White‘s memoir, the scripted series followed Cameron (Miles Heizer) as he joined the U.S. Marine Corps alongside his best friend Ray (Liam Oh) during the 1990s, the era of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy regarding LGBTQ+ service members. Cameron was forced to hide his sexuality while trying to make it through boot camp alongside Slovacek (Kieron Moore), Hicks (Angus O’Brien), Nash (Dominic Goodman), John (Blake Burt), Cody (Brandon Tyler Moore)…
Manchester City suffered a potentially decisive setback in the Premier League title race as they were held to a thrilling 3-3 draw by Everton. City, unbeaten away at Everton since 2017 in Guardiola’s first season in charge, looked to be on course to effectively stay neck and neck with Arsenal when Jeremy Doku gave them the lead in sublime fashion in the 43rd minute. Yet a disastrous 13-minute spell in the second half turned the game in Everton’s favour. First Thierno Barry pounced on an awful backpass from Marc Guehi to level matters, before Jake O’Brien completed the turnaround with…
The last fossil fuel crisis caused incredible amounts of pain for the people of Europe. In 2022, after Russia invaded Ukraine, gas prices skyrocketed, resulting in the costs of energy rising to cripplingly high levels. Every European Union citizen overpaying for their fossil gas and power sent 150 euros ($175) to the United States per year, according to a recent report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA).That pain meant unprecedented profits for fossil fuel companies. In 2023, the world’s oil and gas industry earned a whopping $2.7 trillion, and invested just 4 percent of its…
AI music startup Udio has denied Sony Music Entertainment’s copyright infringement claims while acknowledging that it used audio scraped from YouTube to train its models.In a filing with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday (April 29), which you can read here, Udio answered Sony Music’s amended complaint, which also names Arista Music and Arista Records as plaintiffs.Udio admitted that its models were built by feeding the system with “a vast amount of different kinds of sound recordings” gathered from publicly available sources, from which the models derived “a complex collection of statistical insights…