A retirement village Scooby gang of heroes take on a horrific creature in a series that is funny, tender, wise – and executive produced by the Duffer Brothers I’m sure this isn’t the intended takeaway from The Boroughs, a supernatural murder-mystery set in a New Mexico retirement community, but I am transfixed by what is on offer to the ageing demographic across the pond. It’s like watching an epi...
A retirement village Scooby gang of heroes take on a horrific creature in a series that is funny, tender, wise – and executive produced by the Duffer Brothers I’m sure this isn’t the intended takeaway from The Boroughs, a supernatural murder-mystery set in a New Mexico retirement community, but I am transfixed by what is on offer to the ageing demographic across the pond. It’s like watching an episode of The White Lotus and vowing in your next life to come back as an affluent white American, but more realistic. God willing, we’ll all get old – and with a bit of careful planning, maybe we could stretch to a berth in one of the villages that a country with the space to house them provides for a reasonable sum? Protagonist Sam Cooper (Alfred Molina) doesn’t know how lucky he is, any viewer native to these cramped isles might think, as his daughter and son-in-law drop him off at his new home in The Boroughs. There he will find like-aged neighbours, multiple shops, sports and exercise classes, a community centre and numerous other facilities, including a lavishly appointed care home (The Manor) for if and when the time comes. A skittering monster extracting a modicum of body fluids from you every now and again seems a small price to pay. But we’ll get to that. Continue reading...
What exactly is the Enhanced Games? A controversial new sports event that allows athletes to take performance enhancing drugs that are outlawed in official competitions – and also offers huge prizes to participate and “break” world records. When is it happening? This Sunday, 24 May, at a specially built 2,500-seater arena at Resorts World in Las Vegas. As things stand, 42 athletes will compete in ...
What exactly is the Enhanced Games? A controversial new sports event that allows athletes to take performance enhancing drugs that are outlawed in official competitions – and also offers huge prizes to participate and “break” world records. When is it happening? This Sunday, 24 May, at a specially built 2,500-seater arena at Resorts World in Las Vegas. As things stand, 42 athletes will compete in the following events: Swimming: 50m and 100m freestyle, 50m and 100m butterfly. Track & field: 100m. Weightlifting: snatch, clean & jerk. Strongman: deadlift. There will then be a post-event show from the Killers. View image in fullscreen The Killers will play a show after the Enhanced Games, which takes place in the band’s home city of Las Vegas. Photograph: Jim Dyson/Getty Images How many stars are involved? More than a dozen Olympic swimmers have signed up, including Britain’s Ben Proud, who won a silver medal in 50m freestyle at the Paris Games; Ukraine’s Andriy Govorov, who holds the world record for the 50m butterfly; and the Australian former 100m freestyle world champion James Magnussen. In track and field, the biggest name by far is the 2022 world 100m champion, Fred Kerley of the United States, whose personal best is 9.76sec. Two other British athletes are competing: the 100m sprinter Reece Prescod, whose personal best is 9.93sec, and the swimmer Emily Barclay. What banned substances are athletes allowed to take? The Enhanced Games says that only drugs approved by America’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can be taken. They include the following – which, it is important to note, are all outlawed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada): Testosterone and anabolics such as methenolone and nandrolone. Hormones and growth factors, such as human growth hormone and EPO. Metabolic modulators, such as meldonium, and stimulants, including Adderall. The Enhanced Games says that 37 of its 42 athletes have been involved in an International Review Board (IRB) trial in Abu Dha...
Arsenal have done it. Finally. After 22 years, they are champions of England once again. Manchester City’s 1-1 draw at Bournemouth on Tuesday night means Arsenal hold an unassailable lead at the top of the Premier League with one game remaining. It’s their 14th top-flight crown overall, their fourth Premier League title, and their first since the Invincibles campaign of 2003-04. The defining numbe...
Arsenal have done it. Finally. After 22 years, they are champions of England once again. Manchester City’s 1-1 draw at Bournemouth on Tuesday night means Arsenal hold an unassailable lead at the top of the Premier League with one game remaining. It’s their 14th top-flight crown overall, their fourth Premier League title, and their first since the Invincibles campaign of 2003-04. The defining number for that team was zero. Zero defeats across an entire league season. But what numbers best define this Arsenal side? Here are 10 that tell the story of their title-winning campaign. A defining characteristic of Arsenal under Mikel Arteta has been their dominance from set pieces. It has always been a focus of their play, but it has been particularly pronounced this campaign. They have scored 28 of their 68 league goals from dead-ball situations, three more than any other side. They have been most dangerous from corners, scoring 18 goals from them in 2025-26, which is a new Premier League record. It says a lot about the direction of the Premier League that the record – overtaking the 16 scored by Oldham Athletic in 1992-93 – has been broken twice this season. First by Arsenal, who have the outright record, and then by Tottenham, who have scored 17 goals from corners this season. Arsenal’s effectiveness from corners has, at times, been used as a stick with which to beat them. Critics say their reliance on set pieces makes their football predictable and overly functional. There may be some truth to that perception, but elite sides have long understood the value of marginal gains. Arsenal have simply become better than everyone else at exploiting them. With his clean sheet against Burnley on Monday night, David Raya moved on to 19 shutouts for the season. That drew him level with the most ever recorded by an Arsenal goalkeeper in a Premier League campaign, matching David Seaman’s totals from 1993-94 and 1998-99. If he manages another one on the final day against Crystal Palace...
When her sibling died in an accident the singer-songwriter sought comfort in music. But after finding that the most celebrated records about loss were angry, loud and male, she set about creating something very different In the months after her sister’s death, singer-songwriter Liz Lawrence couldn’t even listen to music, let alone play it. “I was very much, ‘That’s in the past and I don’t know wha...
When her sibling died in an accident the singer-songwriter sought comfort in music. But after finding that the most celebrated records about loss were angry, loud and male, she set about creating something very different In the months after her sister’s death, singer-songwriter Liz Lawrence couldn’t even listen to music, let alone play it. “I was very much, ‘That’s in the past and I don’t know what’s going to be asked of me now,’” she says. “I didn’t think about my work. I wasn’t interested. I didn’t have any appetite for it.” After slowly gravitating back to music via female vocalists such as Lisa O’Neill, Adrianne Lenker and Joanna Newsom, and as the time afforded to grieving was squeezed out by a life still ongoing, Lawrence realised she needed songs that allowed her to return to that “space of contemplation, reflection and sadness”. She quickly searched out a Reddit thread of the best grief albums of all time, only to find a lengthy list of very specific rock and metal records chiefly made by men. “I was just looking for open and frank sadness,” she says, as opposed to the anger broiling within the suggested albums. That plain-speaking despair permeates Lawrence’s beautiful fifth album, Vespers, an unvarnished tribute to elder sister Jessie, who died suddenly in 2024 following an accident while on holiday with her partner and two small children in Ireland. Continue reading...
Pensioners vote and young people don’t, so the truism goes. That’s no longer any reason to avoid dealing with the triple lock Nothing makes you feel more like a de-developing nation than being reprimanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Rachel Reeves can take solace in trace amounts from the fact that the IMF advised her only to “ stay the course ” on spending limits – whatever energy or...
Pensioners vote and young people don’t, so the truism goes. That’s no longer any reason to avoid dealing with the triple lock Nothing makes you feel more like a de-developing nation than being reprimanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Rachel Reeves can take solace in trace amounts from the fact that the IMF advised her only to “ stay the course ” on spending limits – whatever energy or inflation crises are down the line, she shouldn’t cave to demands for government support. Basically, “when the facts change, do not change your mind” – the opposite of the economists’ classic, but then, haven’t we all had enough of classics? It’s a milder rebuke than the one delivered to the then chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, in 2022, about which the BBC’s economics editor, Faisal Islam, admitted “ even I was taken aback ”, creating a ripple effect: other, lesser economy-watchers were taken aback at the abackness that had taken the unflappable Islam. But it still has a sting in its tail, enjoining Reeves to keep her focus on “controlling the rising welfare bill, as well as delivering further efficiency measures in public services, while protecting the most vulnerable”. Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
The prosecution: Deirdre double quotation mark What gets to me is that whenever I get the mop out, instead of helping, Martin criticises me My husband of five years, Martin, and I have different views on how to best keep our floors clean. We have a cat and a dog so naturally the floors get dirty. There’s hair, dust and whatever gets walked in from outside. Vacuuming helps, but it doesn’t actually ...
The prosecution: Deirdre double quotation mark What gets to me is that whenever I get the mop out, instead of helping, Martin criticises me My husband of five years, Martin, and I have different views on how to best keep our floors clean. We have a cat and a dog so naturally the floors get dirty. There’s hair, dust and whatever gets walked in from outside. Vacuuming helps, but it doesn’t actually clean the floor – it just removes the visible bits. At some point, you need to wash the floor with a mop. I mop once a week. I don’t enjoy it, but I watched my mother do it every week growing up and it feels like a basic point of hygiene. What frustrates me is that Martin treats this like an optional extra, or something silly that doesn’t work. We split chores and he does the cooking, but mopping has somehow become a running joke, because he’s decided it doesn’t work. His main argument is that mopping just spreads dirty water around. Sure, if you do it badly – if you don’t wring the mop or replace the water regularly – it can be inefficient, but that’s not what I’m doing. I wring out the mop, I go over the floor evenly, and it makes such a difference. double quotation mark He says he doesn’t want to get involved, but he does get involved – from the sofa We have sparkling floors, which I love – even if it’s only for 10 minutes because of the animals. What really gets to me is that whenever I get the mop out, instead of helping, Martin criticises me. He explains why it’s ineffective or how it should be done differently, but he won’t do it himself. When he did, he tipped a whole bucket of water on the floor and mopped it up, saying that was more efficient. But he just made a mess. He says vacuuming is enough. I’ve suggested we invest in a fancy bucket that keeps the clean and dirty water separate, but he says he doesn’t want to get involved. The thing is, he does get involved – from the sofa. Don’t dismiss the entire chore if you can’t do it yourself. This isn’t about loving o...
“Clarck Ntambwe originally turned to boxing and went to the gym to learn how to fight so she could kill the guys that murdered her dad,” Matthew Leutwyler says of the young woman whose life story provided the basis for the powerful and moving feature film he wrote and directed against the backdrop of tragic conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Fight Like a Girl is also inspired by the...
“Clarck Ntambwe originally turned to boxing and went to the gym to learn how to fight so she could kill the guys that murdered her dad,” Matthew Leutwyler says of the young woman whose life story provided the basis for the powerful and moving feature film he wrote and directed against the backdrop of tragic conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Fight Like a Girl is also inspired by the memory of Leutwyler’s close friend Balezi “Kibomango” Bagunda, a former child soldier turned boxing champion who trained women to fight in the ring. Ntambwe became one of Kibomango’s star fighters at the women’s boxing club he founded in Goma – the city where the trainer was gunned down soon after the movie was completed. Kibomango was killed by M23 rebels while he was helping Leutwyler evacuate 41 children from a village under attack in eastern Congo. Leutwyler, an American director who has lived in Africa for the past 13 years, was at the gym, filming a documentary about Kibomango’s life, when Ntambwe arrived with retribution in her heart. “We have this in the documentary because, when we found out why Clarck wanted to learn how to fight, we sat her down and said: ‘You cannot join the gym if that’s the case. That’s not what we do,’” Leutwyler says. “So it took a while before Clarck was any good at boxing.” The film charts the true story of how boxing helped Ntambwe piece together the broken strands of her life. She drew on her deepest reserves of resilience and, guided by Kibomango, reached the final of the African Boxing Championships. Ntambwe makes an impressive acting debut in the movie, playing the part of Aisha, the most serious fighter in the gym who helps the new girl. She now lives in Seattle and, Ntambwe confirms her initial motivation. “Yes it is true,” she says as she switches between her functional English and Swahili. “At first, when I do boxing, it really was to get revenge on the people who killed my dad. In the gym they could see the anger. But my grandpa...
Technology Innovation: The lab provides a dedicated space for AI partners to experiment with next-gen solutions across the entire networking stack – driving emerging standards forward with pioneering approaches to new protocols, switching silicon, congestion control, real-time telemetry, and automation. The AI Networking Innovation Lab provides an environment where emerging commercial technologies...
Technology Innovation: The lab provides a dedicated space for AI partners to experiment with next-gen solutions across the entire networking stack – driving emerging standards forward with pioneering approaches to new protocols, switching silicon, congestion control, real-time telemetry, and automation. The AI Networking Innovation Lab provides an environment where emerging commercial technologies can be developed and validated. Within the lab, Nokia brings together advanced AI networking protocols, cutting-edge switching silicon and hardware platforms, and new architectural concepts designed specifically for AI-driven data centers. These technologies are tested and accelerated in close collaboration with a global ecosystem of partners. AI workloads are fundamentally changing how data center networks must operate. The performance, scale, and precision required to support large-scale AI training and distributed, real-time inference place unprecedented demands on networking infrastructure. To address these challenges, Nokia is adopting a new approach to how technologies are integrated, tested, and deployed from the ground up for the AI era. Sunnyvale, USA – Nokia today announced the launch of its AI Networking Innovation Lab, a new center designed to drive co-innovation with AI and cloud partners and accelerate the development of next-generation networking technologies for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. Located within Nokia’s Sunnyvale, California facility, the lab serves as an innovation hub where Nokia will work across advanced AI networking technologies, architectures and ecosystems with a variety of partners to help shape the future of data center networking. Lab serves as a testing ground for Nokia Validated Designs and a co-innovation hub with global AI and cloud partners—validating real-world scenarios, integrating commercial technologies, and advancing next-gen networking solutions to deliver much of the foundational infrastructure that organizat...
Riccardo Fabbri, Chief Technology Officer of Audiencerate Ltd. Co-founder and former managing partner of Nohup, recognized by the Financial Times among Europe's leading firms in the sector (2021 and 2022) and acquired by the Havas Group in August 2021. Leads the AI-driven phase of Audiencerate's independent Customer Match infrastructure. Postel, the MadTech platform for Italian SMEs powered by Aud...
Riccardo Fabbri, Chief Technology Officer of Audiencerate Ltd. Co-founder and former managing partner of Nohup, recognized by the Financial Times among Europe's leading firms in the sector (2021 and 2022) and acquired by the Havas Group in August 2021. Leads the AI-driven phase of Audiencerate's independent Customer Match infrastructure. Postel, the MadTech platform for Italian SMEs powered by Audiencerate and distributed through the Poste Italiane built on Microsoft Azure, ISV Co-sell certified and MACC-eligible channel (left) and Audiencerate's DMP for media agencies and data providers (right), a Google DV360 Customer Match Partner, ISO 27001 certified. The co-founder and former managing partner of Nohup (acquired by Havas Group in 2021) will lead the development of the artificial intelligence infrastructure that integrates first-party and third-party data, powering the platform delivered with Postel and Microsoft to Italian SMEs and the platform with the DV360 offering for global media agencies. LONDON & MILAN, May 21, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Audiencerate Ltd, one of the few globally certified Google Customer Match Upload Partners and a Microsoft IP Co-sell certified partner with MACC eligibility, today announced the appointment of Riccardo Fabbri as Chief Technology Officer. The appointment marks a phase of dual expansion: the Audiencerate–Postel–Microsoft platform for Italian SMEs, and the Data platform integrated with Google DV360 for Agencies and Data Providers — both evolving toward a model that natively leverages first-party and third-party data through AI and machine learning. A profile built on twenty years of digital transformation Fabbri brings to Audiencerate over two decades of experience in software development and cloud architectures. Co-founder in 2004 of Nohup, a digital consultancy in cloud-native development, he led the company to Financial Times recognition among Europe's leading firms in the sector for two consecutive years (2021 and 2022). In ...
For generations, graduates have been advised to map out their careers: Pick a job, plot the promotions, and know exactly where you want to be in 10 years. But ex-Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg thinks that advice is dangerously outdated. “Don’t script your career when the future is uncertain,” the former chief operating officer of Meta just told graduates at Brandeis University. “You don’t need a 10...
For generations, graduates have been advised to map out their careers: Pick a job, plot the promotions, and know exactly where you want to be in 10 years. But ex-Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg thinks that advice is dangerously outdated. “Don’t script your career when the future is uncertain,” the former chief operating officer of Meta just told graduates at Brandeis University. “You don’t need a 10-year plan. If I had one, I would have missed the internet.” Sandberg, who went on to become one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley, knows firsthand how tempting it is to cling to a rigid plan when the job market looks shaky—as well as what it’s like to enter the working world at a time of huge technological disruption. Having graduated from Harvard in 1991, the internet as we know it barely existed—the World Wide Web had just been invented and wasn’t released to the public until two years later. After leaving school, she worked at the Treasury Department under President Bill Clinton, but when the administration ended, she struggled to find her next job. “There were days—and I’m not being dramatic—when I thought I would never find one,” she added. “When I finally got an offer, I worried that the company might not even survive.” That company was called Google. Of course, it’s since become one of the world’s most valuable businesses: Today, Google has a $4.7 trillion market cap. And Sandberg benefited from being there in the early days, growing its sales team from four people to 4,000, before famously becoming Mark Zuckerberg’s right-hand woman. None of it could have been planned. The technology—and the roles it would create—didn’t exist yet. “I wish someone had told me during those many months of fear, the plan was never the life raft,” she said. The point to Gen Zers is this: In an AI-disrupted job market where the roles today’s graduates are chasing may look completely different (or disappear altogether) within a few years, trying to script their future isn’t jus...
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