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How to Bet on Sports: A Beginner’s Guide (2026)

How to Bet on Sports: A Beginner’s Guide (2026)

Published by Sam Flores

There’s more to betting on sports than beginners might think. Finding a winning bet is just one element and it’s equally as important for punters to understand how odds work, staking plans and what happens when you combine selections if they want long-term success on betting sites and at high-street bookies. The Standard’s betting team have unpacked how to bet on sports, covering odds, bet types and staking, without relying on hot tips or bookmaker rankings. Understanding these basics matters, and this guide is designed to help new bettors get to grips with them. Understanding odds and stakes Betting odds show the potential return from a successful wager. They are commonly displayed as fractional or decimal odds. Fractional odds show the potential profit compared with your stake. For example, at 5/1, a £10 bet would make £50 profit if successful, with your £10 stake returned for a total payout of £60. Decimal odds show the total return, including your original stake. At 6.00, a £10 bet would return £60 if it wins, meaning £50 is …

Krafton doubles down on India with another 0M bet beyond gaming

Krafton doubles down on India with another $250M bet beyond gaming

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Krafton, the South Korean gaming company behind titles including PUBG and Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), plans to invest another $250 million in India over the next three to four years as it pushes beyond gaming into AI, robotics, and deep tech. Announced Friday, the new commitment will take Krafton’s total planned investment in India to more than $500 million, including the over $250 million it had already invested in the country since 2021. The funds also come in addition to Krafton’s commitment to a $670 million India-focused growth fund it unveiled with South Korean internet conglomerate Naver and investor Mirae Asset in December 2025. At the time, Krafton said it would contribute around $137 million at the fund’s first close. The new $250 million pledge is separate from the growth fund, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. India has become a key market for Krafton, giving the gaming publisher access to the world’s most populous country, with more than a billion internet subscribers and over 700 million smartphone users. Krafton initially built its India business around …

Magna increases bet on battery swapping in India with M for Yuma

Magna increases bet on battery swapping in India with $35M for Yuma

Published by Miika Tikkanen

While battery swapping has struggled to take off in much of the world, Canadian auto parts giant Magna International believes the model could work at scale in India, where millions of two- and three-wheelers and a fast-growing delivery economy create a different set of economics. And it’s placing that bet on Yuma Energy, a Bengaluru-based firm that operates a battery-swapping network for electric two- and three-wheelers. Yuma, which spun out of Indian mobility startup Yulu in early 2023, has completed more than 60 million swaps to date and now has about 100,000 batteries deployed across its network. Magna is now investing another $35 million in Yuma, increasing the auto supplier’s stake from the 51% it took when the joint venture was formed, Yuma managing director Muthu Subramanian said in an interview. As a result, Yulu’s 49% stake will be diluted. Subramanian declined to disclose the new ownership split. Yulu and Yuma are Magna’s only startup investments in India, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. In 2022, Magna committed a combined $77 million to the two businesses, …

The People Who Bet Big on MAGA’s Future—And Lost

The People Who Bet Big on MAGA’s Future—And Lost

Published by Sam Flores

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. When Donald Trump returned to the White House in 2025, he was nursing grudges and claiming a mandate. The institutions he saw as his enemies—in politics, business, and education—faced a dilemma about how to respond. A few concluded that they should resist the president’s demands of fealty and collaboration. Another group tried appeasement, seeking accommodation that would allow them to otherwise operate as usual. And some looked at the landscape and concluded that something fundamental had shifted in American politics. They saw the MAGA movement as a lasting change, and decided that their best move was to make their own radical shift to adjust. As I wrote last week, predictions of a Trump-driven realignment of the electorate now look extremely shaky. The groups that he was able to attract to the Republican ticket two years ago—young voters, especially men; …

Clive Davis Remembered by Erica Campbell at BET Awards 2026

Clive Davis Remembered by Erica Campbell at BET Awards 2026

Published by Daniella Wilson

Clive Davis was honored at the 2026 BET Awards, as Erica Campbell took the stage to perform a medley of “I Love the Lord” set over the ceremony’s In Memoriam segment. The “Shackles” singer noted that the song was one of Davis’ favorites, one that was performed by Whitney Houston and “also written by the maestro, Richard Small.” Le’Andria Johnson joined Campbell in the emotional performance on the song, where Richard Smallwood was also honored. The gospel singer died in late December from complications of kidney failure. Elsewhere, D’Angelo was honored in a special segment introduced by his children. RAYE, Durand Bernarr, Ari Lennox, BJ the Chicago Kid and George Clinton took the stage to honor the “Unshaken” singer, who died in October after a battle with cancer. Davis died on June 22 at 94. The music mogul had recently been hospitalized with an upper respiratory infection and died only six days before the 2026 BET Awards. Davis brought great artists including Janis Joplin, Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen into the spotlight, and worked with a plethora of talent over his six-decade career, …

2026 BET Awards Looks and Arrivals (Photos)

2026 BET Awards Looks and Arrivals (Photos)

Published by Daniella Wilson

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Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish

Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Earlier this week, at TechCrunch’s newest StrictlyVC event in El Segundo, Shinkei Systems founder Saif Khawaja and Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov sat down for a conversation that kept circling back to a question that doesn’t usually come up at a venture event: How do you know if a fish is stressed out? It’s a fair question for Khawaja to field, since his company, Shinkei, has built its entire business around the answer. Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon that fishermen install on their boats. The machine scans each fish with computer vision, identifies the species, and locates the brain. Within seconds of the fish coming out of the water, it pierces the brain and severs the gills, so the fish dies before it can thrash or suffocate. That matters because a slow death floods the meat with stress hormones and lactic acid, which dull flavor and shorten shelf life. The whole thing is an automated, industrial-scale version of ike jime, a centuries-old Japanese technique traditionally performed dockside by trained fishermen at the moment …

After Years of Uncertainty, Galleries Bet on Quality

After Years of Uncertainty, Galleries Bet on Quality

Published by Jenni Sidey

Paris gallerist Jocelyn Wolff is always stressed before Art Basel, he told me over the phone from a café in the French capital earlier this month. In fact, by his calculation, he has suffered 20 years of pre-Basel stress, less from worrying about the vicissitudes of the art market, than from the high participation costs for his small 8th arrondissement gallery. This year, however, he is feeling a bit less anxious than usual, thanks to some fortuitous pre-sales. That bodes well for the flagship Art Basel fair, opening to VIPs at the Swiss city’s Messeplatz on Tuesday. Source link

BET Establishes Its First-Ever Board of Advisors

BET Establishes Its First-Ever Board of Advisors

Published by Daniella Wilson

As BET continues to chart its future beyond the dying realm of cable networks, the brand has formed its first-ever board of advisors featuring a mix of celebrities and executives. The Paramount-owned media group announced on Tuesday that the new board will “serve as a strategic and cultural sounding board” for the brand and help guide it “as BET expands its reach and continues to champion the voices and stories that move culture forward.” In other words, under the new leadership of Paramount Skydance, BET is looking for ways to evolve and grow its audience beyond the TV channel that made it famous. Joining the inaugural board is BET founder Bob Johnson, musician and actress Queen Latifah, musical artist and actor LL Cool J, NFL evp of football operations Troy Vincent, Lazard president Raymond J. McGuire and Paramount chair of TV media George Cheeks. “BET has always been more than a platform. It is a cultural institution with a responsibility to serve, reflect, and advance our community,” BET president Louis Carr said in a statement. …

the runners, riders and which horse to bet on

the runners, riders and which horse to bet on

Published by Sam Flores

The Epsom Derby, with its top prize of £1m, takes place on Saturday at 4pm. The favourite, Benvenuto Cellini, looks a solid bet. He stays, appears to have pace and balance and I cannot see Ryan Moore picking any of the other six Ballydoyle runners over him. If it comes to a dogfight I like Maltese Cross, who has three times been headed and fought back. I see Ancient Egypt running a big race but, at one fifth the odds, those two still do not represent great value. However, if you like Maltese Cross because he keeps winning then you also have to like 66-1 shot Causeway, a lazy type who has won his past four. It is probably worth checking whether he is declared on Wednesday, but it would not be the biggest surprise to me were he to run a big race. My horse-by-horse guide to the 2026 Epsom Derby Action – 16-1 Owner: Mr M Tabor, D. Smith and Mrs John MagnierTrainer: Aidan O’BrienA Ballydoyle Frankel colt who is one win from …