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World Cup 2026: Your FIFA Fan Guide for Team Argentina

Qatar 2022 winners Argentina are on track to become the first team since Brazil in 1962 to successfully defend their World Cup title in what looks set to be the soccer superstar Lionel Messi's swan song on the international stage.

Lining up in Group J alongside Austria, Algeria and Iraq, La Albiceleste got off to the perfect start in the opening match of their title defense, with Messi on hand to score a decisive hat trick in the team's 3-0 win over the Algerians.

How did Argentina qualify?

The reigning world champions breezed through CONMEBOL qualification, becoming the first team to secure its place in this summer's tournament with four matches to spare back in March 2025, winning 12 of its 18 matches.

Who is Argentina's manager?

With two Copa América titles as well as a World Cup win, 48-year-old Lionel Scaloni now stands as Argentina's most successful head coach...

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Runway couldn't fix a bug in its AI video model, so it turned the bug into a feature

Runway spent weeks trying to engineer its way out of a stubborn bug: AI-generated avatars would drift off-center during real-time video generation. The fix wasn't a back-end patch — it was a new front-end feature that just worked around the problem. That's the kind of lesson Ryan

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GM redesigned its engineering workflows around AI agents — and tripled its merged pull requests

Software engineers at General Motors' (GM's) autonomous driving division spend only 15% of their time writing code, according to Rashed Haq, GM's VP of autonomous vehicles, in a recent onstage interview at VB Transform 2026. GM is now using AI agents to accelerate much of

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Tile’s best Bluetooth tracker is down to its lowest price of the year

Sheena Vasani writes about tech news, reviews gadgets, and helps readers save money by highlighting deals and product recommendations for The Verge. Apple’s latest AirTag may seem like the obvious choice if you own an iPhone and are shopping for a Bluetooth tracker, but it’s not the most

Microsoft explains what caused the Xbox outage and how it plans to prevent it from happening again

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Bleak Future: A few hours after recovering from the "great Xbox outage" of July 2026, Microsoft is now trying to assure customers that these kinds of systemic issues will not happen again