Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a rake through a bed of dark, wet wood chips on his family’s land in Hickman, a tiny town in the state’s agricultural heartland.

Lionel Messi v Mohamed Salah.

Footballing legends. National icons.

Argentina face Egypt in Atlanta on Tuesday (17:00 BST) for a place in the 2026 World Cup quarter-final. It is also a meeting of two of the game's greatest players.

The rise of AI has created an almost insatiable appetite for computing power. Training and running AI systems requires vast numbers of transistors, and engineers are now racing to pack more of them onto every chip. With their existing designs, however, silicon transistors are rapidly running up against physical limits on how small they can get.

Your programmer friend is thrilled — and tired.

If you love soft frosted sugar cookies but don’t love rolling, cutting, and decorating dozens of individual cookies, these sugar cookie bars are the answer. They’re buttery, extra soft, wonderfully chewy, and topped with a thick layer of creamy vanilla buttercream and colorful sprinkles. Best of all, there’s no cookie dough chilling required, making them a quick and easy dessert for birthdays, holidays, and celebrations year-round.

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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has admitted Game Pass has failed to grow as Microsoft had expected, with reports indicating it is tens of millions of subscribers short of previous targets.

Back to the drawing board

Yesterday brought the news that Microsoft were cutting 1600 staff, spinning out four studios, and finding a further 1600 jobs to cut in the year to come. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said in an email to staff that she was "making reductions" and "shifting investment to focus on higher priority projects".Today, we're starting to learn what those cuts mean for the teams that Xbox retained, and the projects they were working on. The most public and immediate of these is Elder Scrolls Online.

For decades, biology textbooks have taught that human hair grows because cells at the base of the follicle divide and push the hair shaft upward. But new research suggests that explanation is incomplete. Scientists have now found evidence that hair growth is driven by a hidden pulling force generated by moving cells inside the follicle.

The Sarajevo Film Festival has introduced a new award: the Prix Cineplexx, given to the best feature in the Open Air Premiere program and chosen by audience members.

Established in partnership with Cineplexx — the leading cinema chain in Southeast Europe — the award has been created to “further strengthen the link between festival recognition and a film’s theatrical life,” underscoring a shared commitment to put movies in theaters.

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You might remember that Dodge leaned heavily on the "banned by NHRA" marketing when it launched the 2018 Challenger Demon. Though its quarter-mile elapsed time (ET) of 9.65 seconds at 140 mph was NHRA certified, the association at the time had certain safety requirements (roll cage, window nets, and the like) for cars that ran 9.99 seconds or quicker and/or exceeded 135 mph, equipment which a Demon — at least in its stock form — did not meet. It was entirely possible to make the car NHRA-compliant through modifications.