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Respected journalist David Ornstein has named the ‘leading contender’ to replace Ruben Amorim at Manchester United on an interim basis until the summer. Man Utd have started their search for a replacement for Amorim, who was sacked by the Premier League giants on Monday morning. It has emerged that the club are looking to appoint an interim manager until the summer, at which point a more established name will take over as Amorim’s permanent successor. This opens the door for a club legend to take over at Old Trafford for a few months, with current interim manager Darren Fletcher among…
The Chinese micromobility company Navee has some wild new stuff at CES 2026. The lineup is headlined by the UT5 Ultra X, a dual-motor e-scooter with an advertised top speed of 43 mph. And who among us isn’t in the market for an auto-following golf cart and a seaplane?The flagship UT5 Ultra X is a sleek-looking e-scooter with a pair of 2,400W motors. Navee says it can reach a top speed of 43 mph and has a max range of 87 miles. (However, in the world of e-scooters, it’s safe to expect the real-world range to be around half of…
Doug LaMalfa, a Republican Congressman from California, has died unexpectedly at age 65, colleagues announced on Tuesday.President Donald Trump offered a tribute to LaMalfa, saying he wanted “to express our tremendous sorrow at the loss of a great member – a great, great, great member”.The congressman’s cause of death was not immediately clear. LaMalfa was a former rice farmer elected to congress in 2013. He focused on water and agriculture issues during his tenure. His death shaved an already-thin Republican majority in the US House of Representatives to just a few seats, following the resignation on Monday of former Trump…
Nick Triggle, Jim Reed, Dom Hughes and Michelle RobertsGetty ImagesThe long-awaited independent report into how well or badly the government handled the Covid pandemic has been published. Chairwoman of the inquiry, former judge Baroness Hallett, said the UK’s response could be summarised as “too little, too late”.The report looks at whether lockdowns were timely and reasonable, and what impact rule-breaking at the heart of government had on public confidence.Here are some of the main findings. Lockdown could have been avoided completelyThe report says lockdown could have been avoided if steps such as social distancing and isolating those with symptoms along…
According to reports, Liverpool are showing ‘renewed urgency’ to sign Crystal Palace star Marc Guehi ‘right now’, while Harvey Elliott could leave. Liverpool will surely rue missing out on Guehi in the summer as centre-back has been a problem position for head coach Arne Slot this season. The England international was their top centre-back target ahead of this season, and he was available for a cut-price fee due to his contract situation as he nears the end of his Palace deal, though a transfer collapsed on deadline day. The Reds agreed to pay around £35m for Guehi, though Crystal Palace…
Image: Nvidia Nvidia stole the CES spotlight this week with a platform designed to redefine how the world builds and runs AI. On Jan. 5, the chipmaker pulled back the curtain on Vera Rubin, a new AI computing platform designed to power the world’s largest and most demanding AI systems at far lower cost. According to Nvidia, the Rubin platform is powered by six tightly integrated chips that together function as a single AI supercomputer. These include the NVIDIA Vera CPU, NVIDIA Rubin GPU, NVLink 6 switch, ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, BlueField-4 DPU, and Spectrum-6 Ethernet switch. Nvidia says this “extreme codesign” approach…
The privacy of electronic communications will face new risks in 2026, as the UK and other governments push for greater capabilities to harvest and analyse more data on private citizens, and to make it harder to protect communications with end-to-end encryption. Over the next 12 months we can expect more pressure from the UK and Europe to restrict the unencumbered use of end-to-end encrypted email and messaging services such as Signal, WhatsApp and many others. In the 1990s, the US government tried and ultimately failed to persuade telecommunications companies to install a device known as the Clipper chip to…
Eric Migicovsky has been thinking a lot about friction. Specifically, he’s been thinking about how too much friction in the way of using a device can put people off wearing it altogether. The founder of Pebble is here at CES 2026 with a few new devices from the company he recently started to bring back the beloved smartwatch brand, including the Pebble Round 2 and the Index 01. That second one is a simple ring with a button on it that you push down to talk to Pebble’s AI whenever you want it to help you remember something.In the sea…
Alice Cuddy,reporting from Cúcuta, on the Colombia-Venezuela borderandVanessa Buschschlüter,Latin America editor, BBC News OnlineReutersPolice guarded the National Assembly where Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in MondayAt least 14 members of the press were detained in Venezuela on Monday as they were covering the aftermath of the seizure of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro by US forces. The union representing media workers in Venezuela said all but one of those detained were employed by foreign news organisations and were released later on Monday, with one reporter deported. Foreign news media have long faced restrictions in Venezuela, with very few being granted visas to…
Lora Jones,Business reporterandBecky Morton,Political reporter AFP via Getty ImagesRachel Reeves is preparing to deliver her second Budget, against a backdrop of disappointing productivity in the economy and expected tax rises.It has been a turbulent year for the chancellor who, before Labour won power in the 2024 general election, had promised to bring economic stability.Reeves was born in south-east London in 1979, just months before Margaret Thatcher became prime minister at a time of immense social and economic change.She has previously told the BBC her mother would tick off items on a bank statement against receipts while sitting at the kitchen…