“I keep all the balls after hat-tricks. The lads might be sick of signing them, but keep them coming.” Four-goal Harry Kane enjoyed another record-breaking night for Bayern Munich as they became the first team to score nine goals in a Champions League game. The 31-year-old England captain’s performance in…
Italian icon Salvatore Schillaci, the top scorer at the 1990 World Cup, has died aged 59. Schillaci, better known as ‘Toto’, scored six goals to win the Golden Boot at the 1990 World Cup on home soil. Italy lost in the semi-finals, but Schillaci was also awarded the Golden Ball…
Fast bowler Jofra Archer will play his first one-day international since March 2023 when England face Australia at Trent Bridge on Thursday. The 29-year-old has been carefully managed by England after elbow and back injuries in recent years. Archer has been eased back in, playing exclusively T20 cricket since returning…
TikTok is beginning its case against a law which will ban it in the US unless it is sold by ByteDance, its Chinese parent company. The video sharing app has millions of users worldwide, but has faced questions over the security of data and links to the government in Beijing.…
Research shows 25% of web pages posted between 2013 and 2023 have vanished. A few organisations are racing to save the echoes of the web, but new risks threaten their very existence.…
Microsoft’s chief diversity officer says diversity and investment in the workforce can help fix AI’s bias problems. At the beginning of 2023, Microsoft found itself in a PR firestorm. The company was working to demonstrate its progress in artificial intelligence following a multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. It…
Google has won its challenge against a €1.49bn (£1.26bn) fine from the EU for blocking rival online search advertisers. The bloc accused Google of abusing its market dominance by restricting third-party rivals from displaying search ads between 2006 and 2016. Europe’s second-top court ruled the European Commission – which levied…