Chet Holmgren hasn’t played a game for the Oklahoma City Thunder since injuring his hip on Nov 10 against the Golden State Warriors. Fortunately for OKC, they also have Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. The 26 year old Kentucky product is averaging a career-best 32 points-per-game, but in the 32 games since Holmgren went down SGA has picked up the slack even more, scoring 33.9 pints while posting 6.1 assists and 2.3 steals-per-contest. On Wednesday night, he showed the NBA his best effort yet, scoring a career-high 54 points in a win over the Utah Jazz to improve to 36-7. Which brings us…
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It was a time when the national character was being forged not among the establishment circles in Boston, Philadelphia and Virginia but out on the frontier, by the wild ones, the uncouth ones. It was the rugged experience of westward expansion, the historian Frederick Jackson Turner declared in 1893, that had given America its vitality, its egalitarianism, its disinterest in high culture and polite manners. The West was settled by a rising tide of hucksterism — the spirit of the circus master P.T. Barnum more than that of the aristocratic novelist Henry James.It was a golden age of braggadocio, of…
News of layoffs has seemed nonstop in January, with CNN, Citigroup, and Microsoft all cutting roles this week alone. Usually, these notices are pretty standard—heavy on the legal wording, and light on the cartoons.But that wasn’t the case at Stripe, a payments software company that laid off 300 employees on Monday. Some employees in the various roles affected (product, operations, engineering) were notified by an illustration of a cartoon duck, Business Insider reports. The dates on the termination notices were also incorrect.Related: ‘We Will Have Job Eliminations’: Starbucks CEO Announces Corporate Layoffs Will Begin Soon The illustration was sent as…
In the Pleistocene Epoch, South America was home to now-extinct animals, including the sabre-toothed cat Smilodon, the giant ground sloth Megatherium and the llama-like MacraucheniaMAURICIO ANTON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Molecular dating has shown that several extinct creatures, such as giant sloths and mammoths, survived in South America much later than previously thought, raising questions about the root causes behind some of Earth’s most recent large animal extinctions. “There is no consensus in the scientific community about the cause or causes that led to the extinction of megafauna in South America,” says Fábio Henrique Cortes Faria at the… Source link
President Donald Trump announced his administration will move to evaluate the creation of a “national digital asset stockpile” — making good on a promise to support the use of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.However, the executive order fell short of creating a strategic bitcoin reserve outright, as some crypto advocates had hoped. The price of bitcoin briefly surged on the news, but fell back to daily lows as traders took stock of the move. The idea of a strategic reserve of digital tokens like bitcoin has long been floated in cryptocurrency circles, but gained traction this summer, when both Trump and Robert…
Two years ago, OpenAI launched the chatbot craze with the release of ChatGPT. Now it hopes to spark interest in a new wave of A.I. technology.On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled a tool called Operator that can go out onto the internet and perform tasks autonomously, like shopping for groceries or booking a restaurant reservation.“It can navigate websites and take actions on websites, much like you and I do,” said OpenAI product and engineering lead Yash Kumar in an interview.Artificial intelligence researchers call this kind of technology an A.I. agent. While chatbots can answer questions, write poems and generate images, agents can…
A U.S. judge on today blocked President Donald Trump’s order limiting birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order that prohibits the Trump administration, at least for now, from enforcing the order, which Trump signed hours after taking office on Monday. The judge remarked: “This is blatantly unconstitutional order.” This was a case brought by the attorneys general of states that love illegals – Arizona, Illinois, Oregon, and Washington state. Trump’s order stated that the federal government does not automatically recognize birthright citizenship for children who are born to illegal immigrants in the United States. Trump’s position…
Credit: Screenshot via Sky News Australia President Donald Trump on Wednesday appeared to suggest his predecessor, Joe Biden, may have left himself vulnerable to investigation or prosecution based on his actions. Speaking with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Trump railed against a slew of pre-emptive pardons issued by Biden in his waning days at the White House. Those pardons ranged from committee members on the January 6th protest panel, to COVID response orchestrator Dr. Anthony Fauci, and even to Gen. Mark Milley, who promised to tell a hostile foreign nation if Trump were going to launch an attack. In the…
Benedict Cumberbatch is opening up about the terrifying experience he faced in 2004 when he was abducted and robbed while traveling in South Africa.This revelation comes less than two years after another terrifying ordeal in May 2023, when a knife-wielding intruder broke into his London home.Benedict Cumberbatch looks back on the chilling encounter from 20 years ago, revealing how it profoundly changed his outlook on life.Article continues below advertisementBenedict Cumberbatch Reflects On Life-Altering Abduction MEGAThe actor revealed he was abducted and robbed by six men while filming the BBC miniseries “To the Ends of the Earth” in South Africa back in…
SINGAPORE: Thousands of users worldwide reported issues with OpenAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT on Thursday (Jan 23). Outage tracking site Downdetector.com received over 550 OpenAI outage reports from users in Singapore at around 7.40pm. Users who accessed the ChatGPT interface were met with a webpage showing the message: “The web server reported a bad gateway error.” In the United States, where its creator OpenAI is headquartered, users reported over 4,000 outages on Downdetector.com at around the same time. On its status page, OpenAI stated at 3.54am Pacific time (7.54pm, Singapore time) that it was investigating an “elevated error rate” for…