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Innovation

Apple Watch Series 12: price, release date and the new health sensors explained

Series 12 starts at $399, is on preorder now and reaches stores on September 18. Its new sensors check your heart rate every five seconds and feed a daily readiness score — useful context, not a diagnosis.

Footballers on a floodlit pitch in a small stadium veiled in smoke; illustrative photo, not from the Ballon d'Or or any nominee's match

Sport

Ballon d'Or 2026 nominees: the full 30-man shortlist, ceremony date and how the vote works

France Football and UEFA named 30 men on September 8, and the winner is revealed at the London Palladium on October 26. Ten nominees play for Paris Saint-Germain, while Spain's World Cup winners and Lamine Yamal shape the debate.

A footballer's legs and boots beside a bouncing ball on a stadium pitch; illustrative photo that does not show Lamine Yamal

Sport

Lamine Yamal becomes Barcelona's youngest captain at 19: the record, the match and what it means

Raphinha handed Lamine Yamal the armband in the 71st minute against Feyenoord, and five minutes later the 19-year-old scored. Bojan Krkić had held the record since 2010, and Yamal is now part of Barcelona's five-man captaincy group.

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Business

Spider-Man: Brand New Day box office: $2.4 billion and six weekends at No. 1, explained

Sony's fourth Spider-Man film with Tom Holland has passed $2.4 billion worldwide and spent six straight weekends at No. 1 in North America. Here is what the totals mean, which records are next and why the summer set a revenue record.

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Business

The Odyssey box office: how Christopher Nolan's epic passed $1.6 billion

Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer has taken about $1.63 billion worldwide, more than $1 billion of it outside North America. Here is what the totals mean, which records it holds and why a non-franchise epic at this scale matters to studios.

A person in a white theatrical mask and a dark suit reaching into a server rack wired with blue network cables; staged stock photo, not CrowdStrike or NVIDIA equipment

AI

AI cybersecurity in 2026: what CrowdStrike SafeMind and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Cyber mean for defenders

Security vendors now build attacker and defender AI models and keep the strongest behind trusted-access gates. What CrowdStrike, NVIDIA and OpenAI announced, which numbers are vendor claims and what security teams should check.

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Business

Hotel and guest house websites: room types, rates and the booking engine handover

A hotel website sells something the guest cannot touch before arrival. Here are the eight jobs a generic company site never has to do: room pages, rates, the booking engine handover, photography, languages, directions, cancellation terms and mobile.

A bright studio meeting room: a woman in a red jumper stands pointing at a wall of printed campaign photographs of a red bottle and portraits, three colleagues sit at a wooden table with a laptop showing charts, and a fourth man in a black cap stands by the window with arms folded, beside a camera on a tripod and printed layouts on the table

Marketing

Business Instagram account management: what profile design and a content system actually include

“Run our Instagram” is really two purchases: a one-off profile design and a monthly content system. What each contains, who is responsible for what, what you have to supply yourself, and what remains yours if you stop.

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Design

Video production for a business: shooting new footage, cutting the archive, and the volume you can sustain

Before you commission video production for a business, decide what has to be filmed and what can be cut from footage you already own. What one shoot day yields, what the client supplies, how long an edit takes, and how rights limit reuse.

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Business

Turnkey website: what the price actually covers and where the extra invoices hide

“Turnkey” describes a feeling of completeness, not an agreed scope of work. Here is which lines usually sit outside the quote, how to move scope into contract language, and what to ask a contractor before signing anything.

International product team reviewing languages, payments and privacy states around a large world map

World News

Ready on the home page, broken at the checkout: what to test before you sell abroad

A website can be translated, fast and handsome and still lose its first order from abroad. This guide walks through the places where it breaks, from payment methods and tax to address forms and withdrawal rights, and ends with a test order per market.

Founder and specialist mapping scope, revisions and delivery costs with transparent notes

Business

The cheap quote trap: how to compare digital service prices without paying twice

A low quote is usually a short description of the work. This guide shows how to make suppliers describe the same job, which lines go missing most often and how to compare prices without paying for the same work twice.

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