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Argentina’s Lionel Messi was supposed to be done years ago. Now, sports science is helping soccer’s biggest stars rewrite the rules of aging.

The video assistant referee system, or VAR, has led to some controversial calls at the 2026 World Cup. Here’s why.

A recent study tracked hundreds of soccer fans until their favorite team reached the final of a tournament. Their stress levels skyrocketed, and their heart rates jumped too.

English and Norwegian players will face off under extreme and dangerous levels of heat stress, scientists say, thanks to a Wet Bulb Index over over 90°F.

An image of Portugal forward Pedro Neto’s cleats at the World Cup has reignited a practice among some soccer players: modifying their cleats to relieve heel discomfort.

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are betting on AI, health tech, and startups. Mohamed Salah is taking a more traditional route beyond football.

Norwegian striker Erling Haaland isn’t just a footballer anymore. He’s become an internet character perpetuated by fans and AI.

Holes in socks have become a curious sight at this year’s World Cup. The reasons why are a weird mix of biomechanics, perception, and player habits.

If you're going to apply for Startup Battlefield Australia, now is the time. Applications close July 6, and once the deadline passes, the opportunity is gone.

Fans’ euphoric reactions to the Mexican national team’s recent victory in the 2026 World Cup caused a series of unusual vibrations that were detected by seismic warning systems.

Penalty kicks are already proving critical to big wins at this year’s World Cup. But the advantage in penalty kicks has more to do with psychological effects than who kicks first.

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FIFA says hydration breaks protect players from heat. They also create new annoying commercial breaks—and fans are calling foul.

How I built an open-source Slack assistant with persistent semantic memory, powered by any LLM and Mem0's managed memory layer — no vector database required. The problem with Slack bots and memory Most AI Slack bots have the memory of a goldfish. Every conversation starts from scratch. You ask it about your sprint goals, it gives a great answer, then three days later you ask a follow-up and it has no idea what you're talking about. You end up re-explaining context constantly. The commercial solution to this is Claude Tag — a Slack integration that maintains genuine conversational continuity. But it's tied to one provider and not open-source. slacktag-oss is our attempt to replicate that experience: a Slack bot with real, semantic, persistent memory that works with any LLM — including ones running entirely on your laptop. What I built A Python Slack bot with: Socket Mode for local dev (no public URL needed), HTTP-ready for prod LangChain to abstract LLM calls across any OpenAI-compatible endpoint Mem0 managed cloud for semantic memory — no Qdrant, no Pinecone, no infra to run Three memory scopes: per-channel, per-thread, per-DM Built-in !clear and !memory commands A clean, extensible architecture you can fork and build on Architecture Before diving into code, here's the full request lifecycle: ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Slack │ │ @mention in channel ──┐ │ │ DM to bot ──┼──► Slack Events API │ │ Thread reply ──┘ │ │ └───────────────────────────────────│─────────────────────────┘ │ (Socket Mode / HTTP) ▼ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ slack-bolt (Python) │ │ bot.py ──► router.py ──► handler.py │ │ │ │ │ ┌───────────────┤ │ │ │ │ │ │ ▼ ▼ │ │ Mem0 Client LangChain │ │ (managed) ChatOpenAI │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-┘ │ ▼ ┌───────────────────────┐ │ Mem0 Managed Cloud │ │ Vector Embeddings │ │ Entity Extraction │ │ Deduplication │ └───────────────────────┘ The ke

Qatar has become the place where FIFA experiments with the next generation of football technology. The results are already visible across this year’s World Cup.

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This year, FIFA is providing an AI agent that any team can use. Is it enough to level the playing field or will future winners be determined by which team can afford the best tools?

This curious phenomenon was documented by the seismometer at the University of Bergen, which recorded slight vibrations whenever the national team scored a goal.

"It is an incredible exhibit and incredible sight."

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