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England ran in 11 tries as they brushed aside the United States 69-7 in front of a record-breaking crowd on Friday to win the opening game of the Women’s Rugby World Cup and emphasise their status as pre-tournament favourites.

Lisa Remillard, who posts daily news explainer videos on TikTok as “The News Girl.”Lisa Remillard Lisa Remillard spent more than 15 years behind the anchor desk, delivering the day’s headlines to viewers in markets from Tallahassee to San Diego. By 2018, she’d left television to co-found a streaming news startup — but her most surprising career turn came two years later, when she traded studio lights and cameras for the snappy, quick-hit rhythm of TikTok and soon found herself talking to the biggest audience of her life. At first, she thought the app was just “kids dancing.” It was a…

It’s hard to find programmers these days who aren’t using AI coding assistants in some capacity, especially to write the repetitive, mundane bits. But those who refused to try the tools when Coinbase bought enterprise licenses for GitHub Copilot and Cursor got promptly fired, CEO Brian Armstrong said this week on John Collison’s podcast “Cheeky Pint.” (Collison is the co-founder and president of the payments company Stripe.) After getting licenses to cover every engineer, some at the cryptocurrency exchange warned Armstrong that adoption would be slow, predicting it would take months to get even half the engineers using AI.  Armstrong…

More like Boo-Katan. Disney+’s The Mandalorian famously got pretty uneven as the series progressed (Grogu is being away to sent to train with Luke Skywalker. Wait-wait, no, he’s not). But one character in the Star Wars drama apparently took a real psychological toll on former Battlestar Galactica star Katee Sackhoff, who first appeared late in the show’s second season as the Mandalorian warrior named Bo-Katan Kryze and then was given a far larger role in season three. Sackhoff had actually been voicing the character for years on Star Wars animated series (such as The Clone Wars and Rebels). But she…

Solar panels in space could cut Europe’s terrestrial renewable energy needs by 80% by 2050, a study has found.Using a detailed computer model of the continent’s future power grid, the researchers found that a system of space-based panels designed by Nasa could reduce the cost of the whole European power system by as much as 15%. It could also cut battery use by more than two-thirds.The study, led by researchers at King’s College London, is the first to assess the possible impact of space solar energy on Europe. The space-based solar power (SBSP) panels that yielded the positive results uses…

The Transportation Security Administration just updated its list of items that aren't permitted in checked bags. Some common beauty products have been added.

A malnourished Palestinian child is examined at a Gaza hospital. A U.N.-backed panel has now declared that famine is underway in northern Gaza and warned it could extend to central and southern Gaza by late September. Eyad Baba/AFP/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Eyad Baba/AFP/via Getty Images After weeks of rising concern about hunger in Gaza, a United Nations-backed panel has declared that famine is underway in northern Gaza, warning that more than half a million people are on the brink of starvation as hunger spreads deeper into the densely populated Palestinian enclave. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification…

Getty ImagesMillions of people in the UK face travel disruption this bank holiday weekend, contending with busy roads, a rail strike and engineering works.There is likely to be significant disruption on the rail network on CrossCountry routes from Aberdeen to Cornwall because of a strike by the RMT union over pay, safety and staffing. The weather is looking to be mostly dry across the three-day weekend, with large crowds expected at festivals being held across the country.Meanwhile, ferry passengers at the Port of Dover on Friday faced queuing times of almost two hours.Ferry operator DFDS said at 13:00 on Friday…

Fidji Simo is wrapping up her first week at OpenAI, where she is expected to oversee most of the company’s roughly 3,000 employees.To investors and partners, OpenAI leaders have been describing the former Instacart CEO as the kind of steady hand the company needs. Her mandate is clear: turn a chaotic, unprofitable startup into a disciplined, publicly traded tech giant. On paper, she seems well-suited. She lived through Facebook’s hyper-growth era in the early 2010s, helped take Instacart public, and knows the advertising industry inside and out — experience that will be valuable once ads arrive in ChatGPT.Simo’s arrival also…