Vasek Pospisil, a former Wimbledon men’s doubles champion, will retire from tennis after playing in the Masters 1000 tournament in Toronto next week. “Eighteen years of professional tennis. Looking forward to playing in front of you one last time in Toronto,” the 35-year-old Pospisil posted on social media on Monday. The Canadian paired with Jack…
Telecom service provider (TSP), Vodafone Idea (Vi), is giving special offers to a select few customers with its Rs. 199 and Rs. 179 prepaid recharge plans, as per a report. With the Rs. 199 prepaid plan, customers can allegedly avail 1GB of extra data per day, over the 2GB of data the company offers for…
Al Hilal is to skip the 2025-26 Saudi Super Cup, set for next month, amid its hectic schedule. Al Hilal finished the recent Saudi Pro League season second behind champion Al-Ittihad in late May, having been knocked out of the King’s Cup quarterfinals and AFC Champions League elite semis. The Riyadh-based club then headed to…
A new Ghost Recon game is in development at Ubisoft, the company’s executives confirmed at the annual general meeting this month. The developer has not officially announced a new Ghost Recon title, but has said in the past that several unannounced projects from its popular franchises are in the works. Ubisoft has not released a…
Young Indian bowlers such as N. Sree Charani and Kranti Goud have eased into the rigours of international cricket seamlessly in the absence of other senior bowlers, feels all-rounder Sneh Rana. India has been without its premier seamers Renuka Singh Thakur and Pooja Vastrakar on the tour of England wherein both Sree Charani and Kranti…
Meta announced that it will not be signing the European Union’s (EU) Code of Practice for general-purpose artificial intelligence (GPAI) models last week. Earlier this month, the European Commission said that it has received the final version of GPAI Code of Practice, a voluntary tool aimed at helping the industry comply with the AI Act’s…
County Championship side Yorkshire announced the signing of Pakistan’s Imam-ul-Haq as a replacement for Ruturaj Gaikwad for the remainder of the season. The Indian middle-order batter had opted out of the final part of the County Championship, citing “personal reasons”. Yorkshire County Cricket Club is delighted to announce the signing of Pakistan international Imam Ul-Haq for the…
Asus Vivobook 14 (X1407QA) was launched in India on Monday with a Snapdragon X processor and a Hexagon neural processing unit (NPU) with 45 TOPS performance for artificial intelligence (AI) tasks. Additionally, the new Asus Vivobook sports a 14-inch display with full-HD+ (1,920×1,200 pixels) resolution, 16:10 aspect ratio, and 60Hz of refresh rate. The laptop…
Mohammed Siraj has bowled relentlessly in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy without ever complaining of workload. Having featured in all three Tests so far, he has claimed 13 wickets—the most by an Indian bowler in the series—in 109 overs. As he gears up for the fourth Test at Old Trafford, Siraj believes that it’s playing for the…
Two NASA satellites are scheduled to be launched into low-Earth orbit in a mission designed to do nothing less than study magnetic storms that imperil the Earth’s atmosphere, communication, and orbital systems. Travelling together in sun-synchronous orbit, the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) will keep watch over Earth’s polar cusps — a…