Seven's For The Win

The New Zealand Men’s Seven’s side has won the silver medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
New Zealand were beaten Fiji 27-12 in a pulsating final at Tokyo Stadium in Chofu.
Fiji led 19-12 at half time after a blistering start saw them score two tries in the first 3 minutes. However, New Zealand came back towards the end of the first half with a try right on half time.
In the second half New Zealand pressed hard and dominated possession early on. However, Fiji sealed the game with a superb try with 90 seconds remaining. The final act of the game was a penalty for Fiji to seal a monumental win for the Pacific nation.
Fiji become the first rugby team to win back to back Rugby Seven titles at the Olympics.
The result was New Zealand’s third medal at the Tokyo Games.

Netflix has confirmed that it will be entering into the gaming market.

Netflix shared details of their plans in a letter to investors saying: “The time is right to learn more about how our members value games.”

These games would appear alongside the regular things they make, like TV shows and films.

There are still no details on what types of games will be available yet.

Netflix announced that their biggest competition was the game Fortnite in 2019.

Netflix has previously made TV programmes that have an interactive story feature, called “choose-your-own-adventure”, where viewers can replay and choose the outcomes to various situations the characters face.

 

A new batch of Covid-19 vaccines has arrived in New Zealand, two days ahead of schedule.
The consignment of 150,000 doses was flown into Auckland Airport yesterday afternoon.
The vaccines have had to travel into New Zealand and kept at ultra-low temperatures to ensure that they are safe and effective.
New Zealand Covid Minster, Chris Hipkins, said the early arrival meant New Zealand would not run out of vaccine. We were scheduled to do so on Wednesday if the shipment had not arrived.
Hipkins said one million doses were arriving this month which meant the vaccination programme could start being ramped up.
The roll out plan has the general population in group 4 start getting the vaccine from late July. An online booking system will be online from 28 July and those over 60 will be invited to book from that date.

Oldest Person In The World

The Guinness World Records confirmed Emilio Flores Marquez from Puerto Rico as the oldest living person in the world. Marquez is official 112 years and 326 days old. He was born on August 8, 1908, in Carolina, Puerto Rico. This breaks the previous record held by Romania’s Dumitru Comănescu, who died at the age of 111 years 219 days. According to the Guinness World Records website, Marquez is the second oldest of 11 children born to Alberto Flores Melendez and Margarita Márquez-Garcia. He married for 75 years before his wife died in 2010. They had four children, two of whom are still alive and well. He currently lives with the two children, Tirsa and “Millito,” who take care of him in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.

Social media platform TikTok has removed 7 million children’s accounts.
The accounts were believed to belong to people under-13 years of age. At the moment users have to be 13 and over, the people behind the viral video platform say they’re working on making the social media platform everyone.
The app says the accounts it deleted make up less than 1% of the app’s users across the world.
Lots of children and young people are big fans of the social media app TikTok. It’s provided a fun way for people all over the world to create and watch content.
It’s the first time the platform has published figures like this. It says it hopes the detail about under-age users will “help the industry push forward when it comes to transparency and accountability around user safety”.

A grocery store has broken a Guinness World Record by preparing and then serving 13,000 pancakes.
Hy-Vee assembled a team of 13 chefs and then last week, at the chain’s store in Blue Springs, they spent 7 hours, 16 minutes cooking up 13,000 pancakes.
A Guinness judge was on hand to verify that the serving of pancakes. They broke the old record of 12,716, which was set in Russia in 2017.
The pancakes were donated to Harvesters-The Community Food Network, a regional food bank serving the greater Kansas City area in both Missouri and Kansas.

The world’s largest Rubik’s cube has been unveiled in Hong Kong.
The functioning Rubik’s cube measures 2.5 metres on each side.
The amazing toy was built in the Nina Mall in Hong Kong by a company specializing in toy creation.
The previous record-holder, created by British puzzle maker Tony Fisher, measured 2 metres on each side.

Nano-chameleons are believed to be the world’s smallest reptiles.
Known as Brookesia nana, these tiny reptiles measure only 22-29 millimetres from tip to tail. They are so small they could fit on your nail.
That’s about the same size as a sunflower seed!
German scientists discovered two of the animals in Madagascar and published their findings in a journal called Scientific Reports in January.
They say it’s the smallest of 11,500 reptile species discovered on the planet so far.
Prior to this, the smallest known reptile in the world was Brookesia micra, a very similar species discovered in 2012.