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Barcelona concludes an agreement to continue hosting Formula 1 races until 2032

Barcelona concludes an agreement to continue hosting Formula 1 races until 2032

🚀 Check out this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Barcelona will continue to host Formula 1 races until 2032 after reaching an agreement that means it will alternate with the Belgian Grand Prix.While the Circuit de Catalunya has been replaced as host of the Spanish Grand Prix by the Madring, it remains on the calendar for 2026 and the renamed Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix will be held in June.The circuit's future as a Formula 1 circuit was in doubt, but it will also host races in 2028, 2030 and 2032.The races in Barcelona will…
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Serie A: BBC Alba coverage evokes memories Gazzetta Football Italia delights fans

Serie A: BBC Alba coverage evokes memories Gazzetta Football Italia delights fans

🚀 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: “I'm 42, so I loved the Channel 4 program and wanted it to be a nod to that,” said Neil Patterson, the BBC's director of commercial, rights and business affairs.“The BBC had extensive music deals with a company called BMG, and the title track was included in that, so it was pretty straightforward."I'm on good terms with the head of sport at Channel 4, so it was a courtesy to call them to let them know what we were planning. They were really happy…
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Good news, UK Discord users, we’re part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection “experiment”

Good news, UK Discord users, we’re part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection “experiment”

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Discord have belatedly confirmed that they're working with Persona, an identity detection firm backed by a fund directed by Palantir chairman Peter Thiel, as part of Discord's new global age verification system rollout. The collaboration is described as an "experiment" involving people in the UK specifically, whereby Persona will store user information on their servers for up to seven days. (more…)
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It’s Presidents’ Day. Here’s what’s open and closed

It’s Presidents’ Day. Here’s what’s open and closed

✨ Check out this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: holidays,national parks,Presidents Day 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Government offices, the stock market and schools are closed on Monday in observance of Presidents' Day, but most major retailers are open. When in doubt, call ahead or search for more specific schedules online for stores in your area. Read more: How Presidents' Day went from reverence to retail Here's a summary of what's open and closed on Presidents Day 2026. Government offices Federal and state government offices are closed. Courts and most schools were also closed. The holiday's…
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‘It was terrifying’: Folk singer Olivia Chaney on how a song that mirrors her Bronte love triangle ended up in Wuthering Heights | music

‘It was terrifying’: Folk singer Olivia Chaney on how a song that mirrors her Bronte love triangle ended up in Wuthering Heights | music

🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Folk music,Wuthering Heights,Film 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: AAn hour into Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights , Margot Robbie, donning a gauzy wedding dress, glides desperately across swamps toward the man her character feels she must marry. A lone English female voice seems to accompany her, high and pure against the droning of the organ, singing about a woman wandering alone, and a man who left Earth “for seven years,” before his eventual return.Long before Emerald Fennell found Olivia Chaney's version of the 19th-century song "Dark Eyed Sailor" on…
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What does this weekend’s drama tell us about the Premier League title race?

What does this weekend’s drama tell us about the Premier League title race?

🚀 Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: David is a Celtic fan: "Great, this result shows that Celtic have not given up on winning the title this season. Let's hope the players respond for the rest of the season. There are big games to come."Supporter of hearts Mike: "Unfortunately, our three leading players, Aggio, Chesnokov and Kapoor, were all left off in the 45 minutes each played. We really miss Cammy and Shanks. Rangers is a different team to the one we have beaten twice already this season. We are playing with…
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iOS 27 ‘Rave’ Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life

iOS 27 ‘Rave’ Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life

✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Apple's iOS 27 update will prioritize cleaning up the operating system's internals, with engineers making changes that could result in better battery life, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The effort is said to be similar to what Apple did with its Snow Leopard Mac update years ago, and will involve removing old code, rewriting existing features, and subtly upgrading apps to improve their performance. The result should hopefully be a "snappier, more responsive" OS, says Gurman. Apple is also reportedly planning some interface tweaks, but…
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2026 Winter Olympics: Dave Riding finished 17th in the slalom at the final games

2026 Winter Olympics: Dave Riding finished 17th in the slalom at the final games

🚀 Read this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: When asked about Riding as a child, his mother, father and grandparents said the same thing: He never stopped.But there had to be competition.“If two snails were going up a wall, he would bet that one of them would go up first,” his grandmother Muriel told Ski Sunday.He participated in all kinds of sports but it was not until he was eight that he started skiing, not in the mountains, but on the dry slope of the Pendle Ski Club.It became his playground. He didn't…
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The British Museum removes the word “Palestine” from some exhibits British Museum

The British Museum removes the word “Palestine” from some exhibits British Museum

🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: British Museum,Palestine,Judaism,History,Middle East and north Africa,UK news,London,Museums,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The British Museum has removed the word "Palestine" from some of its exhibits, saying the term has been used inaccurately and is no longer historically neutral.Maps and information panels in the museum's ancient Middle East galleries referred to the eastern coast of the Mediterranean as Palestine, with some people described as being of "Palestinian origin."British Lawyers for Israel (UKLIF), a voluntary group of lawyers, recently raised concerns about references to “Palestine” in shows covering the ancient…
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Flapping Airplanes on the future of AI: ‘We want to try really radically different things’

Flapping Airplanes on the future of AI: ‘We want to try really radically different things’

🔥 Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Equity podcast,Flapping Airplanes ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: There’s been a bunch of exciting research-focused AI labs popping up in recent months, and Flapping Airplanes is one of the most interesting. Propelled by its young and curious founders, Flapping Airplanes is focused on finding less data-hungry ways to train AI. It’s a potential game-changer for the economics and capabilities of AI models — and with $180 million in seed funding, they’ll have plenty of runway to figure it out. Last week, I spoke with the lab’s three co-founders — brothers Ben…
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