For months, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has boasted of a plan to spread artificial intelligence across its services, allowing billions of people to use chatbots in everything from Facebook to its VR-powered goggles. That vision is becoming a reality. Zuckerberg announced Thursday that the company will integrate the latest version of its conversational chatbot, Meta […]
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Manchester City won the men’s FA Cup final in 2023 FA Cup replays will be scrapped from the first round onwards in the 2024-25 competition. All rounds of the Emirates FA Cup will also be played on weekends, including the fifth round which has been played in midweek for the past five seasons. The changes […]
Image source, Getty Images By Jennifer Clarke BBC News A spring Covid booster is being offered to those most at risk from the virus across the UK. Some pharmacies have also started selling the jab privately. Who can have a spring Covid booster? Fewer people are entitled to a spring booster than were offered a […]
Starmer calls for police investigation into Mark Menzies allegations Keir Starmer has called for the police to launch an inquiry into some of the allegations made by a Times story that has led to Mark Menzies MP being suspended from the Conservative party. Asked for his response to the report, Starmer told broadcasters: There are […]
More on the suspension of sub-postmasters now. Despite prosecutions stopping in 2014, sub-postmasters continued to be suspended. When asked about his role in this, Williams says he was asked for “advice” and “support” on the cases, but the team that handled these was contract advisors, not his team. Beer, counsel to the inquiry, asks him […]
Follow The Athletic’s Olympics coverage here. In 100 days, Paris will host the most famous sporting jamboree on the planet: the summer Olympic Games. There will be action across 32 sports watched by millions of visitors, as well as an unprecedented opening ceremony set to take place on the River Seine, which runs through the […]
MUNICH — Bayern Munich manager Thomas Tuchel said his team’s Champions League experience would give them an advantage over Arsenal, and he was right. Bayern advanced to the semifinals with a 1-0 win secured through Joshua Kimmich’s 63rd-minute header, the crowning moment of a well-executed game plan that nullified the Gunners to the extent that […]
Abderrazak Hamdallah was part of Morocco’s squad at the 2022 World Cup The Saudi Arabian Football Federation is to review its spectator code of conduct after a supporter appeared to whip an Al-Ittihad player. The incident took place at the end of Al-Ittihad’s defeat by Al-Hilal in the Saudi Super Cup in Abu Dhabi. Footage […]
Paris 2024 chief Tony Estanguet says the Games will be protected by an “unprecedented” security operation, and that preparations are “in good shape”. But with 100 days until the start of the Olympics, he said organisers will “keep some humility, because we know in this kind of event anything can happen in the last stretch”. […]