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World Cup crypto sponsorships surge as Kraken backs 2026 tournament amid fan token frenzy
Three minutes. That’s all it took for US defender Auston Trusty to find the net against Turkey in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, scoring his first goal for the national team on the sport’s biggest stage. Coach Mauricio Pochettino ran to embrace Trusty on the sidelines, planting a kiss on the defender’s head in a
Netherlands beats Tunisia 3-1 as crypto prediction markets and fan tokens ride World Cup wave
The Netherlands cruised past Tunisia 3-1 on June 25, topping Group F with seven points and booking a round of 32 clash against Morocco in Monterrey on Monday. But the real story for crypto watchers isn’t what happened on the pitch. It’s what happened on-chain. Polymarket, the prediction market platform that has become the de
IBM Unveils Sub-1 Nanometer Chip With 100 Billion Transistors, Extending Moore’s Law
IBM on Thursday unveiled the world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, a research prototype at the 0.7 nanometer node that packs nearly 100 billion transistors onto a chip the size of a fingernail. Key Takeaways IBM’s nanostack chip at the 0.7 nm node packs nearly 100 billion transistors, nearly 2x the density of IBM’s 2021
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Reader letters: Push Windsor MPs, MPPs to help find ways to save Windsor-Detroit tunnel bus
Published Mar 18, 2025 • Last updated Mar 18, 2025 • 2 minute read Transit Windsor bus driver Cliff Pryszlak drives through the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, carrying hockey fans to the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star Why can’t senior governments help save Windsor-Detroit tunnel bus?
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Bernard Keane is the primary reason I maintain a subscription to Crikey. I don’t agree with everything he writes, but he always makes me think and his scathing analysis of the parlous state of our policy debate is usually spot on. On Monday, though, he published a shocker of a piece about the “reckless spending”
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Reader letter: Disappointed deadlines seem earlier for print edition
I believe it was in the late 1980’s the Windsor Star went from being an afternoon paper to a morning edition. My late father who worked at the Star at that time explained with the internet and news being shared on the various cable news channels that by the time the afternoon paper went to
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