Even though it's been ubiquitous for a number of years at this point, it still feels like generative AI is working on its sales pitch. OpenAI CEO and Elon Musk slapfighter Sam Altman took to X yesterday to offer a new "cool use case" for ChatGPT he recently overheard: "Connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests."

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Lollapalooza’s 2026 lineup stretches far beyond the eight stages scattered throughout Chicago’s Grant Park.

For archaeologists, the Coëby cemetery in Brittany, France, is a gold mine for research. It contains several prehistoric stone monuments and earth mounds. In a new study of two unusually large mounds, scientists may have stumbled upon a rare style of funerary monument.

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Lollapalooza is streaming live on Disney+ and Hulu for the first time this year.

The Hundred men's competition, Lord's

London Spirit 105 all out (92 balls): Bairstow 56 (43); Archer 4-9, Stoinis 3-17

Southern Brave 111-5 (97 balls): Miller 39* (28); Willey 2-28

Southern Brave won by five wickets

A quick, reliable guide for diagnosing the most common CarPlay connection failures.

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Like most features on your iPhone, CarPlay should be straightforward to use once you get it set up. Unfortunately, as with any tech, problems can arise that stop CarPlay from functioning properly. After you get used to the conveniences of Apple's auto software, you can feel stuck in the past when you have to use your phone's display for music and maps instead. And that doesn't even take the safety concerns into account.

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I have lived in Toronto for 30 years and for pretty much all of that time (read: up until about six weeks ago), I believed something that many Canadians grew up learning as fact: Yonge Street is the longest street in the world. But as it turns out, that hasn't been true since 1999. In fact, it's possible that it was never true.

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[This story contains spoilers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day.]

How many of Zendaya‘s characters are going to die onscreen this year? Well, fans are speculating that her Spider-Man: Brand New Day character is also going to be taking an early trip to the grave, only a few months after Euphoria‘s Rue and a couple of weeks after The Odyssey‘s Athena.

Extreme heat now poses a greater threat to global food inflation than geopolitical conflict, according to Oxford Economics.

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A war choked the Strait of Hormuz. A heatwave erased roughly 9 million tonnes from EU and UK grain forecasts. Oxford Economics now expects the weather to add more to 2027 food inflation than the fading war shock. The next inflation problem may begin not at an oil terminal, but in a field that became too hot to produce a harvest.

Benoît Merlo spent ten years preparing his farm in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes for a hotter France: cover crops to hold moisture, rotations to spread risk, seed varieties bred for heat and drought. Then came a June in which the thermometer refused to drop. “With temperatures exceeding 38°C for weeks on end, everything is breaking down,” he said in a statement released by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit. He expects to lose half of some crops, and up to 70 percent of his soya.

Talks to be led by former lawmaker Dinorah Figuera as opposition figure Maria Corina Machado left out of proceedings.

The Venezuelan government and a segment of the opposition are to kick off United States-backed talks aimed at paving the way for eventual elections.