We may earn a commission if you buy something from any affiliate links on our site. .The proposed European Super League (ESL) is football for the Vine generation: condensed down to its most marketable essence, chopped into bite-size chunks for social media, bookended by adverts for betting companies, or telecoms providers in emerging markets.Twelve of Europe’s wealthiest teams have announced their intention to form a breakaway continental competition, to run on weekday nights alongside the domestic season, with 15 founder clubs guaranteed a seat at the top table every season, regardless of...…We may earn a commission if you buy something from any affiliate links on our site. .The proposed European Super League (ESL) is football for the Vine generation: condensed down to its most marketable essence, chopped into bite-size chunks for social media, bookended by adverts for betting companies, or telecoms providers in emerging markets.Twelve of Europe’s wealthiest teams have announced their intention to form a breakaway continental competition, to run on weekday nights alongside the domestic season, with 15 founder clubs guaranteed a seat at the top table every season, regardless of...WW…

We may earn a commission if you buy something from any affiliate links on our site. .There’s a long-running line of children’s books where you provide the kid’s details – name, age, favourite hobbies – and they all get mail-merged into the narrative, making the youngster the central character in their own story and providing the illusion of personalisation at a low cost. Ready Player Two, the sequel to the hugely popular Ready Player One, offers a similar experience.Like its predecessor, it’s a tedious slog through arcane pop culture references – The Silmarillion, the music of Prince, the...…We may earn a commission if you buy something from any affiliate links on our site. .There’s a long-running line of children’s books where you provide the kid’s details – name, age, favourite hobbies – and they all get mail-merged into the narrative, making the youngster the central character in their own story and providing the illusion of personalisation at a low cost. Ready Player Two, the sequel to the hugely popular Ready Player One, offers a similar experience.Like its predecessor, it’s a tedious slog through arcane pop culture references – The Silmarillion, the music of Prince, the...WW…

We may earn a commission if you buy something from any affiliate links on our site. .On June 4, 2019, Sergio Boixo gathered his colleagues on Google’s quantum research team together for an urgent meeting. The group, split across two sites in southern California, had spent the better part of a decade trying to build a working – a revolutionary type of device that works according to the laws of quantum mechanics.For months, Google had been inching closer to a milestone known as quantum supremacy – the point at which a quantum computer can accomplish something beyond even the world’s best...…We may earn a commission if you buy something from any affiliate links on our site. .On June 4, 2019, Sergio Boixo gathered his colleagues on Google’s quantum research team together for an urgent meeting. The group, split across two sites in southern California, had spent the better part of a decade trying to build a working – a revolutionary type of device that works according to the laws of quantum mechanics.For months, Google had been inching closer to a milestone known as quantum supremacy – the point at which a quantum computer can accomplish something beyond even the world’s best...WW…