Lord’s will finally host a women’s Test in 142 years since. Photo: AFP LONDON: Lord’s will finally host a women’s Test, 142 years since staging its first such men’s match, when England face India in a four-day game at the ‘Home of Cricket’ starting Friday. “It just boggles my mind that it is just the…
Meta publicly launched a new version of Muse Spark on Thursday, a multimodal AI model designed for agentic coding that aims to compete with similar products offered by OpenAI and Anthropic. Spark 1.1, the first version of which was announced in April, can engage in multistep reasoning and handle complex processes, manage digital workflows, and…
Trading volume for Solana has fallen to 2026 lows as record negative sentiment raises the possibility of a surprise market reversal. Solana’s recovery appears to have lost momentum after it shed over 6% in the past week. As it currently trades near $77, it is facing its most negative market sentiment of 2026. In fact,…
Toronto is under a yellow warning for severe thunderstorms on Thursday afternoon, with predictions suggesting as much as 50 millimetres of rain could fall. Just after 3 p.m., Environment Canada issued an updated yellow warning spanning Etobicoke to downtown Toronto. Get breaking National news Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens…
45,000 vehicles are still registered under the names of their previous owners. The Karachi Traffic Police plans to introduce new rules that will allow only rickshaws equipped with meters to operate in the city. Speaking at the Karachi Press Club, DIG Traffic Karachi Pir Muhammad Shah said the department is also working to remove ching-chi…
Czech Republic’s Linda Noskova celebrates after winning her semi final match against Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk on July 9, 2026. — Reuters LONDON: Linda Noskova swept into her first Wimbledon final with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Marta Kostyuk on Thursday, setting up an all-Czech title match against Karolina Muchova. Noskova took just 79 minutes to…
Datalab’s Lift is a focused document extraction tool with a specific promise: give it a PDF or image plus a JSON Schema, and it returns schema-shaped JSON directly. Instead of converting a document to Markdown first and then asking another model to extract fields, Lift reads rendered page images and attempts to emit the final…
Several publicly traded Bitcoin miners have enjoyed sharp stock re-ratings after pivoting towards AI infrastructure, but investors are increasingly questioning whether insiders and major shareholders capitalized on the rally before the sector cooled, raising fresh governance concerns, according to Blocksbridge Consulting. In its latest Miner Weekly newsletterBlocksbridge said the AI ​​narrative helped lift valuations for…
A 68-year-old has died while taking part in a special forces-style endurance event on South Wales’ highest peak, Pen y Fan, according to police. Emergency services were called to Pen y Fan in the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park on Saturday, the BBC reports. The man was taking part in the 24 km Fan Dance event…
The El Nino weather pattern picked up strength over the past month and is highly likely to “rank among the largest” ever recorded when it peaks between October and December, US forecasters said Thursday. El Nino warms surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, triggering worldwide changes in winds, atmospheric pressure and…
