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I've been to Gamescom six times - here's what excited me this year - Published Gamescom is the largest in-person gaming event in the world, and this year it lived up to expectations with big games on show from The Witcher 3's new expansion, to Alien: Isolation 2. Last year over 3

Cameron beats Mayer to become unified light-middleweight champion - Published Chantelle Cameron produced one of the finest displays of her career to beat Mikaela Mayer and add the WBA and WBC light-middleweight titles to her WBO belt. An engrossing encounter was narrowly won by t

Fery beaten by Buse in Winston-Salem final - Published Arthur Fery missed out on his first ATP Tour title with a straight-set defeat by Ignacio Buse in the final of the Winston-Salem Open. Fery, who was the talk of Wimbledon as he reached the semi-finals of his home major in July

£300m spent, bottom of the table... but Spurs boss De Zerbi 'not angry' - Published Tottenham manager Roberto de Zerbi said he was "not angry" and there was "no panic" after his side's second loss in two games left them bottom of the Premier League – but it was a depressingly fam

We all share a 15-acre Georgian mansion for the price of a two-bed house - Published Dreams of living in a Georgian manor house with 15 acres of grounds would usually be associated with a big lottery win. But for the residents of Dol-llys Hall on the outskirts of Llanidloes, Powy

Cisco this week announced that its Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA is expanding to rack-scale infrastructure built around Supermicro liquid-cooled and air-cooled systems. NVIDIA Cloud Partner Reference Architecture compliance anchors the design, joined by Cisco Validated Infrastruc

When I interviewed Dolly Parton in 2015, the woman famous for her relentless optimism surprised me by talking candidly about a period when she had struggled with depression. "I was having some personal problems and beginning to feel a little guilty about my success," the trailbla

C. K. E. Those aren't initials or Greek life letters. They're some of the terms that economists, corporate leaders and politicians are using as they attempt to define the U.S. current economic moment. Since the recovery from the pandemic, economists have largely viewed the econom

Man City open talks with Liverpool over Gakpo - Published Manchester City have opened talks with Liverpool about signing attacker Cody Gakpo. The Netherlands forward's future is set to become one of the key storylines heading into the final three days of the transfer window. The

At least 37 dead and hundreds evacuated after strike on Kyiv weapons depot - Published Thirty-seven people have died and almost 400 have been evacuated after a Russian drone strike hit a depot storing weapons for Ukraine's military near a residential area on the outskirts of Kyiv

Silicon Valley's technology leaders have long dreamed of making the world a better place. But now more than ever, Americans say they're living in a tech-induced nightmare. The rapid rise of artificial intelligence giants like OpenAI and Anthropic has exacerbated a deep malaise to

Silicon Valley's technology leaders have long dreamed of making the world a better place. But now more than ever, Americans say they're living in a tech-induced nightmare. The rapid rise of artificial intelligence giants like OpenAI and Anthropic has exacerbated a deep malaise to

Normandy veteran who lied about age to enlist dies - Published A World War Two veteran who fought in the Normandy campaign after lying about his age has died aged 101, a charity has said. Born in London in 1925, Donald Turrell was just 17 when he enlisted, having forged a letter

Decision to curtail play at Lord's 'a joke' - Hussain - Published The decision to abandon play an hour before scheduled at the end of the third day of England's second Test against Pakistan was called "a joke" by Nasser Hussain. On a Saturday badly affected by persistent showers

Norway's new king remembers 'my dear father' in first speech - Published King Haakon VIII of Norway has paid warm tribute to his late father, Harald V, in his first speech to the nation since taking the throne. "Thank you for being such a good dad," he said in an at-times emotion

OpenAI announced late Friday that it is ending developers' access to its models on Cursor, following the acquisition of the AI coding startup by Elon Musk's SpaceX earlier this month. Cursor CEO Michael Truell said, in a post on the SpaceX-owned social network X Friday night: "Op

OpenAI announced late Friday that it is ending developers' access to its models on Cursor, following the acquisition of the AI coding startup by Elon Musk's SpaceX earlier this month. Cursor CEO Michael Truell said, in a post on the SpaceX-owned social network X Friday night: "Op

'Supporters aren't always wrong' - Moyes on Everton fans' anger - Published "Supporters aren't always wrong" was David Moyes' reaction to Everton fans voicing their opposition to the potential sale of teenage midfielder Harrison Armstrong during the 1-1 draw at Bournemouth. BBC S

Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and numerous other music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging the AI lab conducted a “brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works.” The lawsuit, whic

Man dies after train hits van on crossing - Published A man has died after a train hit a van on a railway line. The incident happened on a crossing in Burscough, West Lancashire, just after 15:00 BST. British Transport Police (BTP) said a man who was in the van died at the scene,

The News Consumer sentiment among Republicans and independents is “starting to fade” ahead of the midterm elections, The Conference Board Chief Economist Dana Peterson told Semafor. The Conference Board said last week that its overall consumer confidence index had dropped to its

The National Park Service is backing the location and scale of President Donald Trump's proposed 250-foot Triumphal Arch, despite finding that it would adversely affect historic properties and sightlines around Washington. "The selected action, a Triumphal Arch, continues this hi

The News JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — The Federal Reserve has so far “been a little too quiet” about the Treasury Department’s campaign to bring down yields by buying back more long-term debt, former Kansas City Fed President Tom Hoenig told Semafor. “What they’re trying to do is not ide

The Trump administration is considering a land swap that could exchange a small piece of Yosemite National Park, or an interest in it, to a private developer seeking a new access road, the Interior Department and the company's lawyer confirmed. The National Park Service has been

Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for “tens of thousands” copyrighted works. The companies are asking for up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,000 for each instance

At TechBBQ in Copenhagen, the conversation among investors, founders, and operators from across Europe wasn’t just about what to build with AI, but who should control it. No matter where you were during the annual Nordic conference, from onstage to cocktail hours and after-partie

It used to be that Vijay Pande was better known in academic circles than investor circles. That changed pretty abruptly a dozen years ago, when Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz — who’d spent their firm’s first five years explicitly avoiding healthcare and life sciences — decided

Cleverly quits shadow cabinet to run for London mayor - Published Conservative MP Sir James Cleverly has said he is resigning from the shadow cabinet to run for London mayor. "I am putting myself forward to be the Conservative candidate for mayor of London, because our capital ne

Hollywood’s finest — the people accustomed to massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets — are now betting on something much smaller: microdramas. Microdramas are short, scripted series designed to be watched on phones. Episodes typically run just a few minutes, and often

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act. California’s legislature has

Murder investigation after man found dead and child seriously injured - Published A murder investigation has been launched after a man was found dead alongside a seriously injured child in County Tyrone on Saturday morning. A male has been arrested on suspicion of murder and atte