Juventus scored a jaw-dropping overhead goal in the Champions League final

Fox Sports Mario Mandžukić scored one of the most incredible goals you will ever see in a Champions League Final. After Cristiano Ronaldo put Real Madrid up 1-0 early in the match, Juventus equalized in the 27th minute. After a series of volleys came to Mandžukić, the Croatian forward played the ball off his chest and then […]

How France scored a big win against fake news during its recent elections

Much of the liberal western world breathed a huge sigh of relief when centrist Emmanuel Macron defeated far-right extremist Marine Le Pen to become France’s next president earlier this month. But there might have been another victory, less heralded, but one worth celebrating. According to data from NewsWhip, a social news content management platform, it […]

A startup building a plane that will fly from Sydney to LA in seven hours has scored $43 million in Series A funding

Boom Supersonic A startup developing a supersonic airplane that can fly from Sydney to Los Angeles in just over six hours has announced it has secured $ US33 million ($ AU43.3 million) in series A funding. Boom — based in Denver, USA — stated that 8VC, Caffeinated Capital, Palm Drive Ventures, RRE Ventures, Y Combinator’s […]

Barcelona scored 3 goals in the final 7 minutes to complete the most absurd comeback in Champions League history

Laurence Griffiths/Getty FC Barcelona pulled off the single most stunning comeback in UEFA Champions League history on Wednesday, rallying back from a 4-0 first-leg deficit against PSG to win the second leg of their Round of 16 clash 6-1 and advance 6-5 on aggregate. Most stunningly, Barcelona needed — and then scored — three goals in the […]

A little-known startup that has quietly amassed 100,000 Wall Street users just scored a big investment

REUTERS/Toby Melville OpenFin, a startup that helps electronic-trading firms build their desktop applications, has raised $ 15 million in funding. Backers include JPMorgan, the high-speed trading firm DRW, and the venture capital firm Euclid Opportunities. The firm wants to become what iOS and Android are to the mobile application world. You might have heard of […]

A High School Rallied As A Student With Special Needs Scored A Game-Winning Basketball Shot

1. This is Lainy Fredrickson. She’s a 21-year-old special needs student at Norman High School in Norman, Oklahoma. View this image › Courtesy Mona Fredrickson 2. Last Friday, the Norman High girl’s basketball team was playing against their rival Norman North when attendees got to witness something special. In the final moments of the game, […]

A start-up that has been predicting the Fed’s next move just scored $3 million in funding

Thomson Reuters A start-up that has been predicting the Fed’s next move just scored a big win. Prattle, a Missouri-based data provider, said on January 24 that it had raised a $ 3.3 million seed round of financing led by GCM Grosvenor, a Chicago-based global investment and advisory firm with $ 45 billion in assets. “As […]