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Champions League – Why do Premier League teams dominate?

Champions League – Why do Premier League teams dominate?

✨ Read this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The last and only time five Premier League teams qualified for the knockout stages was in 2017, when Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham all qualified.However, only two of those teams - Liverpool and Manchester City - managed to progress past the round of 16, while the Reds reached the final after eliminating City in the quarter-finals.With five Premier League teams occupying the top eight places in the league stage this season, thus avoiding the possibility of facing each other in the last…
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GitHub – lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid

GitHub – lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid

✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Diagrams are essential for AI-assisted programming. When you're working with an AI coding assistant, being able to visualize data flows, state machines, and system architecture—directly in your terminal or chat interface—makes complex concepts instantly graspable. Mermaid is the de facto standard for text-based diagrams. It's brilliant. But the default renderer has problems: Aesthetics — Might be personal preference, but wished they looked more professional Complex theming — Customizing colors requires wrestling with CSS classes No terminal output — Can't render to ASCII for CLI tools…
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WATCH: Coons and Rubio disagree on whether Congress should be consulted before ousting Maduro

WATCH: Coons and Rubio disagree on whether Congress should be consulted before ousting Maduro

🔥 Check out this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Chris Coons,Donald Trump news,marco rubio,nicolas maduro,venezuela 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said the Trump administration failed to properly consult with Congress in the months before the dramatic U.S. military raid that ousted President Nicolas Maduro. Watch the clip in the player above. “The administration has been launching strike after strike against drug smuggling boats,” Coons said, referring to a series of boat strikes near Venezuela that have so far killed at least 126 people over the course of nearly five months. He added…
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Strongroom Review – The hard-hitting thriller is a great 1960s British crime picture | film

Strongroom Review – The hard-hitting thriller is a great 1960s British crime picture | film

🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Thrillers,Crime films,UK news,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: VErnon Sewell's excellent British crime thriller from 1962, co-written by veteran screenwriter Richard Harris, is now being re-released. It's a powerful black-and-white suspense thriller, leading to a thrillingly bleak final shot. It is, in fact, a B-movie, one of the tentpole features that once constituted a complete evening's entertainment: a cheap and cheerful genre, which, though often terrible, occasionally frees talented people to create great, unheralded works, and whose importance to the history of cinema has been demonstrated by the…
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Microsoft took in $7.6 billion from OpenAI last quarter

Microsoft took in $7.6 billion from OpenAI last quarter

✨ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Enterprise,Microsoft,OpenAI 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI may be very tense, but because OpenAI is seeing unprecedented revenue growth, Microsoft, one of its major investors, is benefiting greatly. When the software giant reported its latest quarterly earnings on Wednesday, it dropped this rather large nugget: Its net income rose by $7.6 billion from its investment in OpenAI. OpenAI reportedly has a 20% revenue sharing agreement with Microsoft (although neither company has ever confirmed this publicly). Bloomberg reported that the software giant has invested more than $13…
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Paris Saint-Germain 1-1 Newcastle: Howe’s side proved they can mix it up with the European champions

Paris Saint-Germain 1-1 Newcastle: Howe’s side proved they can mix it up with the European champions

🚀 Explore this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: However, it seemed as if history was about to repeat itself at some point.The match had not started long ago when Paris Saint-Germain were awarded a controversial penalty after a Video Assistant Referee (VAR) review after the ball bounced off Bradley Barkola's arm and then struck Luis Maele's hand inside the penalty area.This brought back memories of when Newcastle defender Tino Liveramento was penalized for an unintentional handball on the same field in 2023.Kylian Mbappé took full advantage on the night, but this time, Pope…
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Antonio Conte: The Italian coach faces more suffering in the Champions League after Napoli’s exit

Antonio Conte: The Italian coach faces more suffering in the Champions League after Napoli’s exit

🚀 Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The result in Napoli could be hugely significant for Rosenior whose appointment in place of Enzo Maresca was not welcomed with open arms.Rosenior's lack of elite experience - having moved from sister club Strasbourg after spells with Derby County and Hull City in the Championship - saw some dub him the 'yes man'.He also faced the wrath of fans who shouted anti-royalty chants questioning BlueCo's ambition.Rosenior has insisted from the start that his response must be results.He has achieved an impressive run of results…
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Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In

Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In

🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: “[Nvidia CEO] Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI” — Headline from Gizmodo - - — Guys, enough is enough. Bullying is a serious issue, and it’s time for me to speak out. There’s an extremely hurtful narrative going around that my product, a revolutionary new technology that exists to scam the elderly and make you distrust anything you see online, is harmful to society. This slander is totally unwarranted, and I would really appreciate it if everyone would stop…
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WATCH: Sen. Paul presses Rubio to explain why ousting Maduro is not an act of war

WATCH: Sen. Paul presses Rubio to explain why ousting Maduro is not an act of war

💥 Explore this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,marco rubio,nicolas maduro,rand paul,venezuela 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., pressed Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a congressional hearing Wednesday on why the U.S. ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro should not be considered an act of war. Watch the clip in the player above. He added: "If a foreign country bombed our air defense missiles, captured and removed our president, and besieged our country, would that be considered an act of war?" Paul asked. “We do not believe this operation comes…
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Review of David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God by Peter Ormerod – The Making of a Modern Saint | Autobiography books

Review of David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God by Peter Ormerod – The Making of a Modern Saint | Autobiography books

💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Biography books,David Bowie,Books,Pop and rock,Culture,Music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: It has become popular among fans to say that everything went wrong in the world after Bowie's death in 2016. This also misses the point: rather than being one of the last avatars of the liberal order that collapsed around our ears, Bowie foreshadowed the chaos that took its place.In his last years, he believed that we had entered a region of chaos and fragmentation. This is what allowed him to be so prescient about the Internet—not…
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