FIFA President Gianni Infantino scraps controversial World Cup investment plan: the hour's strongest signal

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FIFA President Gianni Infantino scraps controversial World Cup investment plan

FIFA President Gianni Infantino was met with unprecedented backlash following his proposal for the structural reform of the World Cup. Under pressure, he announced that he was withdrawing his plan to sell part of the tournament to private investors.

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UKMTO reports two tanker incidents off Oman as Kuwait says it intercepts Iranian drones

In the first incident, a tanker was struck by an unknown projectile about 11 nautical miles northeast of Oman's Lima. Later the master of a tanker reported seeing a large splash and an explosion.

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The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake

In much of the world, owning a lakeside home is desirable. But in the Dutch town of Loosdrecht, residents live within the lake itself, with houses on their own impossibly skinny islands: The unique geography is of course manmade, the result of peat mining.

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Chinese Autonomous Buses are Spreading Around the World

S. was the dominant industrial power. We enjoyed conveniences and luxuries not readily available in other parts of the world, from air conditioning to appliances to cutting-edge vehicles.

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Luxury Furniture, or ID Student Project?

In furniture design, there's sometimes an aesthetic and conceptual overlap between high-end minimalist luxury designs and an ID student project. This Fagiolo lounge chair is one of those.

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Meet Fusion Forward Competition Juror Michelle Lee, Partner at IDEO San Francisco

As a Partner and Executive Managing Director at IDEO San Francisco , Michelle Lee leads multidisciplinary teams of researchers, designers, and engineers across sectors ranging from healthcare and workplace culture to responsible digital design and the circular economy.

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Roof Racks That Automatically Lift and Lower the Load For You

These powered arms eliminate the single biggest hassle of a roof rack: The loading and unloading. They're made by multiple Chinese manufacturers you've never heard of, like Sionto and Kayjay.

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Sánchez condemns ‘selfish’ reaction of some EU countries to Ceuta border crisis as death toll rises – Europe live

In letter to Brussels, Spanish PM hits out at ‘polarising and illegal’ reaction after tens of thousands of people crossed from Morocco to Spanish enclave As a reminder of the EU countries that have issued strong warnings or rebukes over the events in Ceuta, my colleagues Sam…

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The Dartmouth Workshop: The $7,500 investment that gave birth to AI (2/2)

Some 70 years before the current frenzy of record-breaking fundraising by modern AI giants such as OpenAI and Anthropic, the Rockefeller Foundation made what may have been the first investment in the history of AI.

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Why are Kurdish groups in Iraq being attacked amid the US-Iran flare-up?

Why are Kurdish groups in Iraq being attacked amid the US-Iran flare-up? Submitted by Alex MacDonald on Thu, 07/30/2026 - 13:16 Dozens of Iranian Kurds have been killed following Israeli reports of a planned operation to overthrow the government Female Kurdish Peshmerga fighters…

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There’s a Secret, Unwritten Rule Everyone’s Supposed to Follow in Elevators. Disobey It and You’ll Unleash Hell.

If you’re in an elevator with a child, never—and I mean never—push the buttons yourself.

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Hardcore tech execs are meeting their match: the limits of the human body

Tech is in its hardcore era. Where does that leave execs like Lilian Weng and Fidji Simo, who have said they are too sick to work as intensely as they'd like?