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Image: Getty ImagesIf you want to know what average online folks are trying to learn about, then perhaps the total view counts on Wikipedia might offer us a glimpse into what most people want to learn about. If the top 25 most-viewed Wikipedia articles of 2023 are anything to go by, then people really cared about the rise of AI and the father of the atomic bomb.At the top of the list, as expected, is ChatGPT with a whopping 49.4 million pageviews. OpenAI’s chatbot has been making multiple top lists this year, including…

Hi, this is Pranav Mukul in New Delhi. Last Friday, the Indian Premier League (IPL) kicked off in Ahmedabad, and with it began the peak season for fantasy sports firms like Dream11, My11Circle, Mobile Premier League (MPL), and others. But if the IPL wasn’t enough to keep executives at these companies busy, on Thursday, the government issued the final rules for online gaming. What are the rules? The regulations took a step away from the draft version. They said only a subset of what is so far construed as online gaming –…

EA Sports' FIFA series of football video games remains one of gaming's most lucrative franchises. The company's licensing deals, that have allowed the games to use official club and player names, have fueled the FIFA series to become one of the best-selling sports video game franchises in the world. And while the franchise is set to lose the popular FIFA moniker for the first time after failing to come to an agreement for licensed use of the name with world football's governing body, it is reportedly closing in on a…

The National Women’s Soccer League is in advanced discussions to expand by three teams, according to people familiar with the situation, with two of those teams set to pay around $50 million each in franchise fees that dwarf previous payments required to enter the league.The new teams are set to launch in the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston and Utah. The Bay Area and Boston groups each have agreed to pay about $50 million for a team. Owners in Utah will pay between $2 million and $5 million, an arrangement agreed to a few…

Image Source : FILE Amazon Amazon is reportedly working on a standalone application for watching sports. The move demonstrates the company's commitment towards investing in Prime Video and live sports content on the platform, as per the reports of TechCrunch. ALSO READ: 5 platforms to make hassle-free online payments If released, the standalone application will…

The World Cup is over, so now what?Photo: Julian Finney (Getty Images)For many Americans, soccer is a once-every-four-year thing. We watch the World Cup, the biggest and most important soccer tournament in the world, but once it’s over, it’s over. Then we forget about the sport until the next World Cup. Next time around, though, the 2026 World Cup is here in North America, so maybe you want to prep early and keep that soccer buzz going. So how do you do it? What do you watch? Where do you watch it? We’ve got you…

Manchester United ‘s American owners, the Glazer family, announced on Tuesday that they were exploring the sale of one of the most famous sports teams in the world, setting up a potentially record-breaking auction 17 years after they bought the club. The announcement turned an already busy day for United into a seismic one, after earlier confirming Cristiano Ronaldo would leave the club following an acrimonious breakdown of the relationship between the English Premier League team and one of…

When the World Cup kicks off next month, the two biggest stars in Qatar will be Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, the players who have defined the modern era of the world’s most popular sport and together achieved a level of fame normally reserved for popes and U.S. presidents.The rivalry between a diminutive genius from Argentina and a preening superhero from Portugal has played out over the last 15 years as a tale of opposites, right down to the most important tools of their trade: their cleats. With billions of…

Musk is not going to add “Manchester United owner” to his list of titles.Photo: Britta Pedersen-Pool (Getty Images)Tesla CEO Elon Musk needs to find a new joke to tweet out to his millions of followers. Like, seriously, joking that he’s buying things isn’t funny anymore. Even if he were serious, we all know the world’s richest man can change his mind in the blink of an eye. Just look at Twitter, which according to Musk is 💩.Tech’s most eccentric billionaire randomly tweeted on Tuesday, unprompted, that he was buying the…

Disney+ Hotstar has announced a list of 44 titles that will be released on its platform in August 2022. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law leads the way as the new Marvel series, with Bruce Banner/ Smart Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) now serving as life-coach to his cousin Jennifer Walters/ She-Hulk (Tatiana Maslany). Tim Roth's Abomination and Charlie Cox's Matt Murdock/ Daredevil are back, after cameos in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Spider-Man: No Way Home, respectively. She-Hulk begins August 17 on Disney+ Hotstar. The…