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Sport

Sportscene highlights

Today at 00:41 AM, via BBC News

Steven Thompson presents highlights from the day’s fixtures in the Scottish Premiership.

Sport

Wafer scores twice as Ireland beat Wales

Yesterday at 22:45 PM, via BBC News

Aoife Wafer scores twice as Ireland beat Wales 33-12 at home to record their second win of the 2026 Women’s Six Nations.

Sport

Udinese want action after Davis claims racist abuse

Yesterday at 22:44 PM, via BBC News

Udinese call on Italian football authorities to act after English striker Keinan Davis says he was subjected to racist abuse during Saturday’s 2-0 Serie A win at Cagliari.

Education

‘It’s about recognising our role in history’: Bradford exhibition to revisit live Somali display

Yesterday at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

At the city’s Great Exhibition of 1904, 57 Somali men, women and children cooked, weaved and danced for visitors

It was, the posters said, a rare chance to see a “little known but interesting people”: a live display of 57 Somali men, women and children who cooked, weaved and danced for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of Edwardians who flocked to Yorkshire to see them.

More than 120...

Science/Tech

Will Maryland’s Utility Bills Increase $1.6B to Support Other States’ Datacenters?

Today at 00:34 AM, via Slashdot

To upgrade its grid for data centers, PJM Interconnection (which serves 13 states) plans to spend $22 billion — and charge nearly $2 billion of that to customers in Maryland, argues Maryland’s Office of People’s Counsel. The money “will be recovered in rates for decades” and “drive up Maryland customer bills by $1.6 billion over the next ten years alone,” they said Friday, announcing an...

Science/Tech

Rush Rescue Mission for NASA’s $500M Space Telescope Passes Key Milestone

Yesterday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

NASA’s $500 million Neil Gehrels Swift space observatory was launched in 2004. But it’s now “at risk of falling back through the atmosphere and burning up without intervention,” reports Spaceflight Now. Fortunately, a mission to prevent that “just passed a notable prelaunch testing milestone.”On Friday, NASA announced that the Link spacecraft, manufactured by Katalyst Space Technologies to...

Science/Tech

The Trump Phone Either Is Or Isn’t Closer To Delivery

Yesterday at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

September 2025? January 2026? Delivery dates keep slipping for the Trump Organization’s “Trump Phone” — a gold-coloured Android smartphone priced at $499 (£370). But in March the Verge spotted signs the phone was moving forward:FCC listings for a smartphone with the trade name “T1” show that it was tested late last year, and granted certification by the FCC in January… [T]he phone was...

Science/Tech

Plant Seeds Do Something Incredible When the Sound of Rain Strikes

Yesterday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Plant seeds can sense the vibrations generated by falling raindrops,” reports ScienceAlert, “and respond by waking from their state of dormancy to welcome the water, new research shows…. to germinate in ‘anticipation’ of the coming deluge.”The finding, discovered by MIT mechanical engineers Nicholas Makris and Cadine Navarro, offers the first direct evidence that seeds and seedlings can sense...

Health

Trump Plans to Fire F.D.A. Commissioner Marty Makary

Friday at 22:40 PM, via New York Times

Dr. Makary has been a supporter of the Make American Healthy Again Movement but made some enemies in the administration over vaping, the abortion pill and rejections of new drugs.