Cantador

VAR

Argentina Government Cheers Falling Prices While Utility Bills Soar

Entertainment

On The Margins

An excellent selection of albums for you this month, including some disassembled MPB, unconventional percussive improv, doom-laden goth dramatics, unorthodox field recordings, and some scintillating

Read More »

Money

Sports

Sports

FIFA upgrades SAOT and ball tracking as 2026 match officials given new suite of tech tools

June 3 – The much-loathed delayed offside flag could soon be a thing of the past, with FIFA unveiling a sweeping suite of new officiating technologies set to debut at the 2026 World Cup. The headline upgrade is advanced semi-automated offside detection. A real-time audio alert will notify the assistant referee if a player is more than 10cm offside, allowing them to raise the flag immediately rather than wait for a passage of play to develop. Previous versions tested at the Club World Cup and Intercontinental Cup only triggered alerts at distances greater than 50cm. The final decision remains with the assistant