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Inside 2026 World Cup's tech, where even the ball needs to be charged

The 2026 FIFA World Cup across Canada, Mexico and the United States is the most tech-driven tournament in football history, with all 104 matches using semi-automated offside technology that tracks players in real time and alerts officials to potential offsides. Video Assistant Referee systems are also being expanded to review more situations, while the official match ball contains an embedded sensor that records every touch and transmits live data for analysis. In today's newsletter, you'll also find the latest milestone from China's low-Earth orbit internet project, the Qianfan Constellation, Apple's latest AI ambitions unveiled at its Worldwide Developers Conference, and the first physics results from China's Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory, the so-called "ghost particle" detector.

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