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Here are the complete F1 results from the second free practice session (FP2) at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, the 22nd round of the F1 2025 season. McLaren driver and F1 2025 championship leader Lando ...

Lando Norris was fastest in second practice for the Las Vegas Grand Prix as track maintenance issues curtailed running. The Briton led Kimi Antonelli and Charles Leclerc, though qualifying simulations ...

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America’s grand strategy is in turmoil. Over the past decade, power shifts, territorial disputes, and the faltering of international institutions have fueled an increasingly heated debate about what ...

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In the build-up to the release of Zootopia 2, co-director Jared Bush has come out to invalidate a popular theory regarding the film’s main villain that has been circulating on the internet for some ...

Google’s latest Gemini 2.5 update has quietly introduced something that could reshape how artificial intelligence interacts with the web: the Computer Use model. Unlike traditional chatbots that ...

Google is now letting developers preview the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model behind Project Mariner and agentic features in AI Mode. This “specialized model” can interact with graphical user interfaces, ...