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Sport

World Cup quiz: Can you name every host?

Today at 09:15 AM, via BBC News

Countries far and wide have hosted the festival of football since the first tournament in 1930. How many countries can you name?

Education

Bruce Springsteen Opens His Music Center

Today at 05:04 AM, via New York Times

Jon Bon Jovi, Public Enemy and others joined him to ring in the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, a $50 million archive and cultural hub.

Education

Who Should Get an A at Harvard?

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via New York Times

Readers respond to a guest essay about the university’s new 20 percent cap on A grades.

Science/Tech

‘Steve Jobs In Exile’ Remembers the Birth of the Web and ‘Making Unix Taste Sweet’

Today at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

Ars Technica shares some anecdotes from Steve Jobs in Exile, a new book released last month:[Author Geoffrey] Cain reminds us, in stunning detail, that Jobs’ “exile” era at NeXT was not only critical to his evolution as a man and an entrepreneur, but that it mattered for the rest of us, too. The technological innovations that came out of NeXT — notably, the NeXTSTEP OS — continue to live on...

Science/Tech

Scientists Edited Human Embryo Genes. But Questions Remain

Today at 06:41 AM, via Slashdot

“A DNA-editing feat involving editing the genes of early stage embryos was announced this week,” reports the Wall Street Journal. They describe the feat as “a far cry from designer babies, but nevertheless a step in that direction.”Dieter Egli, an associate professor of developmental cell biology at Columbia University and his co-authors, including Nathan Treff of Nucleus Genomics, a New...

Science/Tech

Failing CS Grades Soar At UC Berkeley As Professors See Greater AI Usage

Today at 04:41 AM, via Slashdot

The University of California at Berkeley discovered the percentage of failing grades in multiple CS classes this spring “is significantly higher than past semesters,” reports the campus’s student newspaper. “Instructors point to students’ increased reliance on AI, lack of mathematical preparedness and understaffing as potential contributing factors.”According to [coursework platform]...

Science/Tech

Cheaper EVs Sales are Increasing

Today at 02:40 AM, via Slashdot

Sales have increased for Hyundai’s under-$35,000 IONIQ 5, totalling 18,395 for the first five months of 2026, reports Electrek, “up 16% from the same period last year.” But meanwhile BYD’s overseas sales surpassed 160,000 for the first time last month, “up 80% from May 2025 and 19% from the previous record of 135,098 set in April.”Through the first five months of 2026, BYD sold 616,263 vehicles...

Health

Are you feeling overwhelmed?

Friday at 19:57 PM, via BBC News

Kimberley Wilson gives some tips on how to deal with feeling overwhelmed.