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Joe DeMartinoMay 2, 2025, 01:29 PM ETClose General Editor Joined ESPN in 2006 Massachusetts native, Northwestern graduateOn Friday, legendary San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich transitioned from head coach of the team to a front office role. While he was making good progress in his recovery from a November 2024 stroke, the day-to-day grind of coaching an NBA franchise became too much for him.He’ll be succeeded by Mitch Johnson, who led the team to a 31-45 record after taking over for Popovich for the remainder of last season. Johnson has his work cut out for him — Popovich won five…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.British troops preparing for a future war with Russia are fighting a formidable adversary closer to home — safety and data protection rules that are hampering training for drone warfare.Soldiers have been prevented from flying drones over their comrades or using signal-jamming equipment while training on Salisbury Plain, two MPs who witnessed a recent exercise told the Financial Times. Ministry of Defence guidelines prevent drones weighing more than 250g — about the weight of a cucumber — from being flown over the heads…
Next week, Google will begin allowing kids under 13 who have parent-managed Google accounts to use its Gemini chatbot, according to The New York Times. The Times reports that Gemini will be available to kids whose parents use Family Link, a Google service that enables families to opt into various Google services for their child. A Google spokesperson told the publication that Gemini has specific guardrails for younger users, and that the company won’t use that data to train its AI. As The Times notes, chatbot makers are racing to capture younger audiences as the AI race heats up. That’s despite the…
2/5/2025-|آخر تحديث: 2/5/202511:06 م (توقيت مكة)أفاد مراسل الجزيرة بأن محكمة تونسية قضت بالحكم على رئيس الحكومة التونسية الأسبق ونائب رئيس حزب النهضة علي العريض بالسجن 34 عاما في ما يعرف بقضية التسفير. وقالت هيئة الدفاع عن علي العريض إن موكلها القابع بالسجن في تونس منذ 2022 خضع لمحاكمة عن بعد دون حضور أي من المتهمين. وكان حزب حركة النهضة نفى في بيان اتهامه بالإرهاب، ووصف القرار ضد العريض بأنه هجوم سياسي على أحد خصوم الرئيس قيس سعيّد “للتغطية على الفشل الذريع في الانتخابات”، وطالب بإطلاق سراح العريض. يشار إلى أن العريض تقلد منصب رئيس الحكومة ووزير الداخلية في فترة حكم…
Pep Guardiola has told ESPN that while he does not know if he will retire from coaching when he leaves Manchester City, he is “sure” he is going to take a break from management.The 54-year-old’s nine-year City reign is comfortably the longest coaching spell of his career — he spent four years at Barcelona and three in charge of Bayern Munich — and he signed a two-year contract extension in November that is set to keep him at the Etihad Stadium until 2027. His contract was due to expire at the end of this season.Guardiola has delivered unprecedented success since…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The US Department of Justice said it will seek to force Google parent Alphabet to sell key parts of its digital advertising business, which was found to constitute an illegal monopoly.The DoJ on Friday told a federal judge that divestments of Google’s ad exchange and publisher ad server businesses are the only way to break its dominance. The former is the largest marketplace for bidding for online ad space and the latter is the technology online publishers use to list and sell…
Apple and Anthropic are teaming up to build a “vibe-coding” software platform that will use generative AI to write, edit, and test code for programmers, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The iPhone maker is planning to roll out the software internally, according to Bloomberg, but hasn’t decided if it will launch it publicly. The system is a new version of Apple’s programming software, Xcode, and relies on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model, according to the report. To accelerate its AI efforts, Apple seems to be tapping a network of partners. OpenAI’s ChatGPT already helps power the company’s Apple Intelligence features, and Google’s…
القدس المحتلة- في ظل استمرار الحرب على قطاع غزة وتداعياتها السياسية والعسكرية، برزت في إسرائيل خلافات حادة بين المستوى السياسي والعسكري حول أولويات هذه الحرب، خصوصا فيما يتعلق بمصير المحتجزين الإسرائيليين في قبضة حركة حماس، وهو ما وسع من نطاق الجدل داخل المجتمع الإسرائيلي وأثار تساؤلات جدية بشأن جدوى الإستراتيجية المتبعة. وفي الوقت الذي صرح فيه رئيس الوزراء الإسرائيلي بنيامين نتنياهو، الخميس، بأن “إعادة المخطوفين هدف مهم جدا، لكن الهدف الأسمى هو الانتصار على أعدائنا”، خرج الجيش الإسرائيلي، اليوم الجمعة، بموقف مغاير، حيث أكد أن “المهمة العليا التي نضطلع بها هي واجبنا الأخلاقي في إعادة المخطوفين، تليها مهمة هزيمة حماس”،…
Ryan O’HanlonMay 2, 2025, 06:00 AM ETCloseRyan O’Hanlon is a staff writer for ESPN.com. He’s also the author of “Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution.”I still think about him all the time, and I was thinking about him again last weekend. You might remember him, too, since I wrote about him a couple of years ago.Back in 2015 or ’16, I was playing in a rec league soccer game on a Thursday night in Los Angeles. There were very few — if any — other former collegiate soccer players in this league, so I always clocked the handful…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldDonald Trump has called for $163bn in cuts to federal spending in a sweeping budget proposal that guts programmes his administration deems “woke”, “wasteful” or “weaponised against ordinary working Americans”.In a budget blueprint submitted to Congress on Friday, the US president pressed for non-defence spending to be slashed by 22.6 per cent to the lowest level since 2017 alongside a sharp increase in the defence budget. Trump’s plan would slash billions of dollars previously spent on foreign aid, healthcare, education…