DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models | TechCrunch — DesignArena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.
Japan’s Finance Chief Pledges Bold Action for Weak Yen as Needed — Japan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama’s warnings and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s backing of the Bank of Japan to run policy “successfully” only briefly helped the yen as it continued to hover close to i
The Cost Of Becoming | Shruti Rajvanshi | TEDxMRIS Charmwood Youth — Why the person who achieves the dream is never the person who dreamt it. An exploration of how ambition transforms identity, and why the greatest price of success isn’t failure or sacrifice, it’s becoming…
Vingegaard out for rest of season with Tour injury — Team Visma rider Jonas Vingegaard will miss the rest of season to continue his recovery from a broken collarbone sustained in July's Tour de France.
AI could put people off tech jobs and hurt the economy, warns Raspberry Pi boss — Eben Upton warns against claims that Artificial Intelligence will destroy vast numbers of computing roles over the coming years.
FIFA World Cup 2026: Day 31 — Al Jazeera’s Basel Ghazoghli has your #FIFAworldcup26 day 31 recap, as England and Argentina reach the semi-finals.
PSA: Setting different default languages in different Mac apps - 9to5Mac — I today discovered a feature tucked away in the System Settings app that I never knew existed: you can set...
How Dybantsa, Young and Davis have the Wizards thinking playoffs — Will the trio be the difference that takes Washington from last place in the East to a competitive contender?
Democratic Schadenfreude and the Latino Vote — Trump’s once strong approval rating among Latinos has collapsed, but Democrats can’t count on their support.
Best Sony deal: Save $105.04 on the black Sony ULT Wear headphones at Amazon — Save big on one of our favorite noise-canceling headphones.
Meta just released a brand-new Facebook Seller app for iPhone - 9to5Mac — Meta has launched a brand-new iPhone app officially called Seller, a Facebook app. The new Meta app is specifically for...
The weakest channel — Universality isn’t designed into things. It’s selected by surviving constraints — and often, people are the constraint.
What to do if you're unhappy with your grades — Your full guide to this year's GCSE exams in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Best Prime Day trading card deals 2026: Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, One Piece, and more — The best time to stock up on your collection.
Sources: Yankees acquire Luis Garcia Jr. in trade with Nationals — Luis Garcia Jr., who is hitting .283 with 23 homers, has been traded from the Nationals to the Yankees in exchange for four right-handed pitchers, sources told ESPN.
Robots are about to overtake armed soldiers as the deciders of war — Uncrewed ground vehicles have already been tested for defending the front line by the Ukrainian military. Despite their limitations, these remotely controlled robots could be the deciding factor in many conflict
Why do camping tents have that weird reflective strip on the rain fly — and why does it actually matter at night? 🏕️ Found the breakdown with diagrams.
Trump announces deal to end war in Iran. And, how to stay safe in deadly heat — Trump says a deal has been reached to end the war between the U.S. and Iran. Plus, this is what extreme temperatures do to the human body — and how you can keep yourself safe.
‘Hearing’ Review: Vietnamese Slow-Burn Is a Feast for the Senses — Locarno: The second feature from writer/director Lê Bảo makes you enjoy the silence, even if its characters don’t.
Miguel Condemns Racist Attacks On His Family — Last year, Miguel released his fifth album, Caos. On Friday (Aug. 28), the R&B star took to social media to call out the “racism, harassment, stalking, invasions of privacy, and false allegations” his family has been facing…
Singapore Exchange Eyes Single-Stock ETFs, Tie-ups for Growth — Singapore Exchange Ltd. is exploring offering a broader suite of exchange-traded funds and stepping up partnerships across markets as it seeks to bolster its position as Southeast Asia’s key multi-asset exchange.
Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3 billion Airtable deal | live — MILAN, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Bending Spoons has agreed to buy Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the U.S. software firm at $1.285 billion, the companies said on Tuesday, marking the Italian…
Education: A Platform for Change or Conformity? | Dean Proffitt | TEDxWAIS Hangzhou Youth — This talk explores the dual role of education: as a force for personal and social change, and as a mechanism for conformity. The speaker opens with a thought experiment about two extreme w
Burnham to visit Kyiv on first foreign trip and reaffirm UK support for Ukraine — It comes after Moscow warned of "consequences" over the reported use of British drones by Ukraine.
Palestine football fans honour Egyptian coach Hossam Hassan — Palestine football fans honour Egyptian coach Hossam Hassan
What's new to streaming this week? (July 10, 2026) — What’s new on Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, and more? We've got you covered.
Mexico set up potential England last-16 tie after win over 10-man Ecuador — Mexico cruise into the last 16 of the World Cup with a comfortable victory over Ecuador in a weather-delayed contest at the Azteca Stadium.
watched a guy at the campsite spend 20 minutes getting his tent stakes level — turns out he was using his phone's compass instead of a level app 💀 the whole thing was slightly crooked the entire trip
Most people overpay for their phone plan – Tello Mobile maxes out at $25/month - 9to5Mac — The US has some of the most expensive mobile phone plans in the world, and many people are paying $60...
Mentioned this in passing a few months ago, but wanted to remind you that The Art of Star Wars: Andor is comin — Mentioned this in passing a few months ago, but wanted to remind you that The Art of Star Wars: Andor is coming out in about a week. Looks great.
Celtic drawn against LASK in Champions League play-off — Celtic will play against Austrian champions LASK in the Champions League play-off round as four other Scottish sides await Europa League and Conference League draws.
Apple has reportedly fixed its Hide My Email vulnerability — Apple reportedly fixed the Hide My Email vulnerability that left iCloud+ users' emails not especially hidden.
Circle Gets Street-Low Target as Stablecoin Competition Heats Up — Circle Internet Group Inc. shares have lost more than three-quarters of their value from the highs seen just after their initial public offering last year and as more stablecoins come to market, one analyst is…
The Real Story Behind the 2018 Google Walkout — In 2018, more than 20,000 employees walked out to protest how Google handled allegations of sexual harassment. Here’s how they organized it from inside the company.
Nepal army rescues survivors from hydropower tunnel — Nepal's Prime Minister Secretariat shared footage showing army personnel rescuing people from a hydropower tunnel.
Ford’s $30,000 electric truck: all the news about the company’s big EV re-do — The automaker is betting big on its Universal Electric Vehicle program, starting in 2027 with the release of a $30,000 electric truck.
Who's the Bos? - meet 2026 World Cup's fastest player — Fifa’s sprint data has revealed Australia’s Jordan Bos as the fastest player at World Cup 2026, capping a remarkable rise for the Feyenoord defender
Napoleon Solo holds off Iron Honor to win the Preakness — Napoleon Solo held off Iron Honor down the stretch to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, rebounding from a pair of fifth-place showings for his first victory of the year.
Trump Says US Has ‘Come to a Deal With Canada’ — President Donald Trump declared on Wednesday that the US has reached an agreement with Canada on trade, saying that Canadian representatives “gave us the points we had to have.” Trump spoke with Bloomberg’s Tyler Kendall at the…
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Close race as Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU — Turbulent international affairs have brought the vote forward, but the campaign has focused more on Iceland's vital fishing industry.
‘Escaping Beijing’: Why some young Chinese are quitting the capital — A slowing economy and rising prices are making it harder for young Chinese to thrive in the city.
Codeberg Divides — Codeberg drew a democratic, but suboptimal line.
'Seems Like AI Slop' Button Added to LinkedIn — LinkedIn has added a 'seems like AI slop' button for users who suspect that what they're viewing was generated by a machine.
How to Disable Gemini in Gmail and Google Docs — New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.
Netflix releases a VHS-quality version of Stranger Things' first season — Netflix rolls out a 'VHS' special edition of Stranger Things season 1 and says more seasons could follow if enough people watch it.
Spent three nights camping and realized I've been setting up my tent wrong the entire time. The manual was in the bag the whole time 😅
bought all the fancy camping gear and realized halfway through the trip that the one thing keeping me comfortable was a $12 sleeping pad from walmart while my $300 tent has a broken zipper! 🏕️😤
A giant cake for Venezuelan quake child survivors as death toll passes 5000 — Volunteers made a giant cake to cheer up around 3,000 Venezuelan children displaced by last month's powerful twin quakes
FDA approves landmark pancreatic cancer drug that's shown to improve survival — U.S. health officials have approved a groundbreaking pancreatic cancer drug that offers a new approach to treating the deadly form of cancer, by blocking a protein that fuels tumor growth in the…
Volkswagen Meets Veneer in This Wood-Bodied Beetle — Volkswagen’s Beetle was popular for several reasons. It was affordable, it sipped fuel, and it was easy to service and repair. It also lent itself to customization if the factory proportions, power, or stance weren’t just…
W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring. — Seventy-two years ago this week, the godfather of high fantasy, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, published the first novel in a proposed three-volume epic “largely concerned with hobbits.” Th…
Hedgeye's Wang on Nvidia's $5 billion Funding Plan — Felix Wang, Managing Director of Global Technology at Hedgeye Risk Management, says Nvidia's push to tap Wall Street funding helps extend its growth runway, but could also make future demand more vulnerable to credit market…
Today's Hurdle hints and answers for August 23, 2026 — Everything you need to win.
South Korea FA apologises over ‘sexual services’ allegations — Football association apologises over claims relating to qualifiers for World Cup 2014 and the London 2012 Olympic Games.
spent three nights in a tent and realized i was doing the whole sleeping bag thing backwards the entire time 😅 explains why my shoulders were always freezing
Sheikh Hasina says she will return to Bangladesh in December — Deposed Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says she will return in December.
Flat head syndrome discovered in Iron Age skeletons — Certain sleeping positions can lead to babies developing flattened heads, and an analysis of ancient skulls from Italy reveals that this condition affected people in the 9th century BC
West Ham break EFL record to sign Engels for £22m — West Ham United pay a £22m fee, a new EFL record, to sign Celtic's Belgium international midfielder Arne Engels.
Burnham refuses to rule out tax rises in autumn Budget — Experts have warned that he and Chancellor John Healey will have little room to manoeuvre in their first Budget.