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35 Years Since Maradona’s Goal Of The Century
It was 35 years ago today that Diego Maradona taught England to play, and the date did not go unnoticed in Argentina, where his compatriots remembered his “goal of the century” with a nationwide celebration of cheers and applause. Maradona scored twice against England in a 2-1 win in the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup, the second of which was a solo goal often classed as the greatest goal ever scored. To remember the feat, Argentines took to their windows, balconies, and gardens to shout “Gooooooooool!” at precisely 16:09, the exact moment the ball hit the net at the Aztec Stadium on June 22, 1986.
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Amazon’s Billionaire Founder Jeff Bezos To Fly To Space In July
Amazon’s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos said he and his brother Mark will fly on the first crewed space flight from his rocket company Blue Origin. “Ever since I was five years old, I’ve dreamed of traveling to space. On July 20th, I will take that journey with my brother,” Bezos, who is one of the richest people in the world, said in an Instagram post. Bezos, who is due to step down as Amazon’s chief on 5 July, will join the winner of an auction for a seat on the first space flight from Blue Origin.
Carnage At The Tour de France
A roadside spectator showing-off a banner to the TV cameras caused chaos on stage one of the Tour de France, stepping into the road and causing a shocking pile-up. Cycling’s showpiece rolled out of Brest on Saturday to begin three weeks of racing, but the race’s familiar first-week chaos reared its head with 45km to go. As the peloton wound its way through the narrow Brittany back roads, the Jumbo-Visma team were organised together on the right-hand-side of the road. The message on the reckless spectator’s banner read ‘allez opi omi’, which is a greeting to grandparents in French.
Google Testing A Feature That Lets Users Know When It Doesn’t Have A Reliable Answer
Google is finally admitting it isn’t all-knowing: the search-engine giant is testing a feature that will notify users if results are unreliable or ‘changing quickly.’ It’s part of Google’s ongoing efforts to battle misinformation and conspiracy theories, especially in the wake of the contentious 2020 US presidential election and COVID-19 pandemic. The company has used the Google News Initiative to strengthen reliable outlets and ‘collaborate with journalists and entrepreneurs to help build the future of media.’ Now it’s working to give users additional context about breaking topics although, according to Engadget, the notice is only showing up in a small percentage of searches.
Our understanding of human evolution could be ‘reshaped’ by the identification of a new ancient human that may replace Neanderthals as our closest relative. Experts led from China’s Hebei GEO University came to this conclusion after re-analysing the so-called ‘Harbin cranium’, which was unearthed back in the 1930s. First thought from Homo heidelbergensis, the team now think the near-perfectly preserved skull instead represents an example of Homo longi — the ‘Dragon Man’. Held in Hebei GEO’s geoscience museum, the skull — the largest of all Homo species — was found in the Songhua River, near Harbin, in China’s Heilongjiang province.
Norwegian Inventors’ Offshore Stacks Wind Turbines Taller Than The Eiffel Tower
A Norwegian team has developed a massive offshore wind turbine that he claims can power a town of 80,000 homes. The Windcatcher is as big in size as it is in innovation, though: for developer Asbjørn Nes’s design to work, the wind-power generator has to be longer than the 963 feet of the Queen Elizabeth 2 and taller than the Eiffel Tower, which is just about a thousand feet from base to tip. The turbines familiar to most people are Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWT), essentially massive poles with a vast rotating blade attached.
