Tech

How to watch Brazil vs Morocco with a VPN

A Virtual Private Network (VPN), such as ExpressVPN, creates a secure, encrypted connection and can let you watch from a country where the match is being broadcast, bypassing blackout restrictions. Today's game between Brazil and Morocco will kick-off at 13 Jun 2026, 23:00. To use a VPN:

Sports

Tiger Woods leaves rehab nearly 3 months after DUI arrest

Tiger Woods has left a rehabilitation center in Switzerland and returned to the United States on his private plane Friday, nearly three months after his arrest on DUI charges. He was photographed arriving at a private airport in Jupiter, Florida, where he disembarked his jet, passed through customs and returned

Tech

Even a fantasy game like Skyrim won't let me be a trillionaire

The news that Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire made me wonder whether any videogame lets you amass that kind of wealth. I booted up Skyrim and tried a cheat: I typed the console command player.additem 0000000f 1000000000000, carefully counting the zeros as I went.

Crypto

Bitcoin Miners Reveal New 'Long-Term Buying Opportunities' at $61,000

Bitcoin miners are under renewed pressure as on-chain data points to a miner “capitulation” phase that some traders view as a buy signal. Pseudonymous trader Killa posted on X that miners were “capitulating,” calling it a signal that has historically marked the perfect time to accumulate and writing, “There isn&

Culture

Blood Message preview shows action on par with God of War

Blood Message, developed by 24 Entertainment Lin'an and published by NetEase, is a single-player, story-driven action game set in 9th-century China. The game follows messenger Pei Changguan as he travels 1,000 miles through enemy territory to deliver a message to the Tang capital, and a Summer Game

Sports

How to watch USA vs Paraguay in the 2026 World Cup

Group D opens on 12 June when the USA face Paraguay at Los Angeles' SoFi Stadium. Kick-off is 9pm Eastern Time — 2am in the UK and 11am AEST. The sides are long-standing rivals dating back to 1930; the US, led by Mauricio Pochettino, beat Paraguay 2-1 in November, and

Tech

Insignia 32-inch Fire TV falls to $70, nearly half off

Not everyone needs a wall-spanning 4K or 8K set in every room. For watching from bed before falling asleep, streaming during a home workout or treadmill session, or catching up on videos while you work in the garage, a modest TV that simply does its job is often ideal. Amazon’

Culture

Spielberg's Disclosure Day Has a Stark Line About Empathy

Steven Spielberg has given cinema some of its most memorable quotes, from "You're gonna need a bigger boat" to "Life finds a way." Disclosure Day adds a new, more somber entry. Forty-nine years after Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Roy Neary'

Culture

Near-Perfect British Sci‑Fi Comedy 'Timewasters' Almost Got a U.S. Remake

Timewasters takes a different tack on time travel. Created by Daniel Lawrence Taylor and broadcast on ITV2 from 2017 to 2019, the two-season British comedy follows four struggling musicians from South London who discover a time-traveling lift in their building. Stranded first in 1926, they spend their adventures trying to

Sports

Barcelona linked with Colorado Rapids defender Lucas Herrington

Lucas Herrington, 18, has emerged as a defensive standout for the Colorado Rapids this season. His rise has attracted interest from abroad, with La Liga champions Barcelona among the clubs linked. Herrington has one goal and one assist in 15 league appearances and is already regarded as one of MLS&

Culture

Ronnie Schell, ‘America's Slowest Rising Comedian,’ dead at 94

Ronnie Schell, who played Pvt. Duke Slater on the 1960s sitcom Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., died Friday. He was 94 and died of natural causes at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Publicist Harlan Boll, who spoke to Schell’s son Gregory, said Schell had been hospitalized after a

Business

Microsoft seeks to accelerate development on Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Halo

Microsoft is considering concentrating more resources on its largest game franchises while also weighing structural changes for the Xbox division, including options such as a spin-off, making it a wholly owned subsidiary, or forming a joint venture with other partners. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma’s plan to boost spending on

Culture

Hairpin bends and bears: readers' favourite European road trips

Readers shared road trips across Europe, from Romania’s mountain highways to island loops and coastal fjords. Contributions ranged from wild northern coasts to themed routes through Bavaria and lonely stretches of Iceland’s ring road. One reader recalled driving Romania’s Transfăgărășan, a route of hairpin bends and climbs

Culture

Ocarina of Time remake faces music and voice-acting challenge

Most attention around the Ocarina of Time remake has focused on art style and design: how a modern, graphically rich treatment will look and which visual tradition it will follow. The trailer offers a partial answer, favoring a glossy, richly textured, CG-animated movie look, while questions about movement, camera and

Tech

Are Facebook and Instagram down? What to know about the Meta outage

Widespread outages began Friday morning, affecting Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. Problems across Meta-owned apps started at 10:15 am ET, and Meta has not yet explained what is causing the disruption. Downdetector shows more than 80,000 reports of problems with Facebook, while Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp also have

Tech

Solo dev's Steam success with Erenshor fulfilled lifelong dream

Brian "Burgee" of Burgee Media turned an idea into Erenshor, a single-player RPG meant to feel like a classical MMO with simulated players and guilds. A year after its Steam early access launch, the game has 1,941 Steam user reviews averaging 94% positive and just over 80,

Culture

I Hate What Stranger Than Heaven Is Doing With Tupac

The developers at Yakuza studio Ryu Ga Gotoku have repeatedly explained why Tupac appears in their next game, Stranger Than Heaven: it was Snoop Dogg’s idea, Tupac’s family and rights holders were involved, and no generative AI was used for his voice or likeness. In a Game Informer

Culture

The Long Drop review – Denise Mina’s whisky-soaked tale of triple murder

On the bare brick wall backing Jen McGinley’s set – half courtroom, half saloon – there is a faded poster of The Searchers. The whisky-swilling hard men who haunt the clubs and dives of The Long Drop imagine themselves as cowboys: double dealers and grandstanders, full of bluff and bluster; sometimes

Culture

Chris Sanders Confirmed to Direct Live-Action 'Lilo & Stitch 2'

Disney is moving forward with development on a live-action Lilo & Stitch 2, the sequel to the 2025 Lilo & Stitch remake. Chris Sanders will direct the sequel, taking over the job from Dean Fleischer Camp. Sanders is best known for co-directing and co-writing the original animated Lilo & Stitch

Culture

Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner?

An action-hero quiz asks readers to choose between five legends — Rambo, James Bond, Indiana Jones, John McClane and Ethan Hunt — and promises to reveal which one would be the best partner in a crisis. Five different approaches to surviving danger are offered: style, muscle, charm, luck or an improbably intricate

Sports

Cyle Larin rescues Canada with late equaliser in 1-1 draw

Cyle Larin came off the bench to earn Canada a 1-1 draw with Bosnia and Herzegovina in their 2026 World Cup opener in Toronto. Canada had been the better side for much of the match but fell behind when Lovo Jukic headed in a Sead Kolasinac flick midway through the

Culture

Madison LeCroy backs Kérastase 8H Magic Night Serum for smoother hair

Madison LeCroy shared one of her hair-care secrets on Amazon Live while going through her summer glow-up essentials. When a fan asked about heat protection and treating damaged ends, the Southern Charm star recommended Kérastase Nutritive 8H Magic Night Serum. The product is made for all hair types and is

Tech

Tracing blueprints in Paralives freed me from 25 years of The Sims' grid

Life sim player tradition—or stubbornness—has me trying to build real houses in games, but The Sims' grid-based building never quite matched actual floor plans. Paralives' gridless system uses real-world measurements, which lets me import a real blueprint and trace it directly. One simple trick, which requires

Science

Storm petrels follow crosswinds to find prey

NASA-funded researchers have learned that Mediterranean storm petrels actively seek stiff crosswinds because the gusts carry odors the birds use to navigate toward prey. The birds effectively trade the extra energy needed to fly in a crosswind for the information the wind blows toward them. These sparrow-sized birds routinely undertake

Culture

Berserk returns with chapter Miura wrestled with for 20 years

Berserk is back: chapter 384 released today in Japan’s Young Animal magazine and the team behind the series calls it a milestone Miura had been wrestling with for the better part of two decades. After Kentaro Miura’s passing in 2021, Kouji Mori and the apprentices at Studio Gaga