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Our guide to everything you need to know as the Betfred Super League’s Magic Weekend heads back to Newcastle for 2025, with all six matches exclusively live on Sky Sports…What is Magic Weekend?First held in 2007, Magic Weekend sees all 12 Super League clubs descend on a single venue to play an entire round of fixtures over two days. Taking place on the weekend of May 3 and 4 this year, there will be three fixtures played on each day, one after the other. That’s right, fans will be treated to three matches back-to-back on both Saturday AND Sunday.The format…
Sunday’s Barclays Women’s Championship title decider between Birmingham City and London City Lionesses will be shown live on Sky Sports.The final-day fixture will mark the first live game from the women’s second-tier to be broadcast by the UK’s leading investor in women’s sport. The match on Sky Sports will be covered by six cameras capturing every moment of an exciting season finale. Coverage begins at 2:10pm on Sky Sports Football and Sky Sports+, with kick-off at 2:15pm, 15 minutes later than originally scheduled to follow the WSL Manchester derby as part of a women’s football double-header on Sky Sports.With a…
Sunday’s Barclays Women’s Championship title decider between Birmingham City and London City Lionesses will be shown live on Sky Sports.The final-day fixture will mark the first live game from the women’s second-tier to be broadcast by the UK’s leading investor in women’s sport. The match on Sky Sports will be covered by six cameras capturing every moment of an exciting season finale. Coverage begins at 2:10pm on Sky Sports Football and Sky Sports+, with kick-off at 2:15pm, 15 minutes later than originally scheduled to follow the WSL Manchester derby as part of a women’s football double-header on Sky Sports.With a…
Britain’s Jack Draper is through to the Madrid Open fourth round after Matteo Berrettini retired injured, on a day fellow Britons Cam Norrie and Jacob Fearnley were knocked out. Draper won the first set against the Italian via a tiebreak 7-6 (7-2), with Berrettini retiring and confirming victory for the British No 1 soon afterwards due to an abdominal injury. “He said his abs were pulling. I’ve had ab injuries in the past, I believe he might have done it in his last match. Credit to him for coming out here and putting on a good first set,” fifth-seed Draper said.”I saw…
Daniel Dubois’ team confronted Oleksandr Usyk about the controversial low blow ruling in their first fight at the press conference to announce their rematch.Dubois and Usyk will rematch at Wembley Stadium on July 19 to unify all four of the major heavyweight world titles. Usyk is looking for another historic achievement against Dubois as he aims to become an undefeated three-time undisputed champion, and a two-time undisputed heavyweight titlist.In May of last year, Usyk, already having been an undisputed champion at cruiserweight, beat Tyson Fury to become the first undisputed titlist in the heavyweight division since Lennox Lewis. Please use…
After integrating Meta AI into WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, Meta is rolling out a stand-alone AI app. Unveiled at Meta’s LlamaCon event on Tuesday, this app allows users to access Meta AI in an app, similar to the ChatGPT app and other AI assistant apps. To win over users, Meta is trying to leverage what makes it different from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic — Meta already has a sense of who you are, what you like, and who you hang out with based on years of data that you’ve likely shared on Facebook or Instagram. Meta’s AI app…
Hong Kong CNN — A Chinese man fighting for the Russian Army claims his superiors locked him in a dark steel-barred pit, with barely enough room to stand, for 21 days. His offense, he said, was a dispute with his commander over lifesaving protective gear. Michael, not his real name, said he joined Russia’s fight against Ukraine to “have a taste for military life abroad” but after a brutal year on the frontlines is now convinced enlisting in Vladimir Putin’s army was “a mistake.” His experience in the pit, where the 29-year-old said he could barely lift his head, killed…
On Tuesday, Meta is hosting its first-ever LlamaCon AI developer conference at its Menlo Park headquarters, where the company will try to pitch developers on building applications with its open Llama AI models. Just a year ago, that wasn’t a hard sell. However, in recent months, Meta has struggled to keep up with both “open” AI labs like DeepSeek and closed commercial competitors such as OpenAI in the rapidly evolving AI race. LlamaCon comes at a critical moment for Meta in its quest to build a sprawling Llama ecosystem. Winning developers over may be as simple as shipping better open…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024.Manuel Orbegozo | ReutersMeta Platforms is launching a stand-alone artificial intelligence app and going head-to-head with ChatGPT maker OpenAI.The new AI assistant offering will run on Meta’s Llama AI model, the company said Tuesday. It includes a Discover feed that shows how others are interacting with the tool and offer prompts.The news confirms previous CNBC reporting from February, citing sources familiar with the matter. Meta’s new app directly competes with other AI platforms such as…
Packages with the logo of Amazon are transported at a packing station of a redistribution center of Amazon in Horn-Bad Meinberg, western Germany, on Dec. 9, 2024.Ina Fassbender | Afp | Getty ImagesAmazon said Tuesday it considered displaying import charges on items sold via its site for ultradiscount items, but that the plan “was never approved and not going to happen.”The move would have affected items sold on Haul, Amazon’s answer to Chinese discount retailer Temu, which offers apparel, home goods and other items priced at $20 or less. Haul, which Amazon launched last year, is separate from its main…