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Quarterback Lamar Jackson remained a contender to earn MVP honors for the third time in his career as he guided his Baltimore Ravens to a dominant 31-2 win over the Houston Texans on Christmas Day. Jackson also broke the record for career rushing yards accumulated by a quarterback previously held by Michael Vick. After the victory, the 27-year-old, who has recorded a total of 6,110 yards on the ground, spoke about making history. “It feels unreal, to be honest with you,” Jackson said, via Jamison Hensley of ESPN. “I’m grateful because that’s a record that’s been there for a long time. Michael Vick is one of my favorite…

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According to Downdetector, it appears that ChatGPT is down for most users in a mass outage. As of press time, more than 15,000 users have reported issues with the chatbot.Does OpenAI Know ChatGPT Is Down?OpenAI acknowledged that ChatGPT was not working on Thursday, with its latest update on December 26, 2024, at 12:06 p.m. PST saying, “We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.”Related: OpenAI Just Released Its Text-to-Video Generator, Sora. Here’s How the New AI Could Impact Small Businesses and Creators.The popular chatbot began glitching Thursday afternoon. At 11 a.m. PST, the company wrote: “We are…

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Rubin Observatory’s commissioning camera (ComCam)Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/H. Stockebrand Sometime in May or June, as the southern hemisphere winter sets in beneath the skies of the Chilean Atacama desert, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will open its dome and the largest digital camera in history will capture its first science-grade image of the cosmos. Under the Atacama’s pristine and stable atmosphere, Rubin will begin a 10-year mission to provide humanity with an extraordinary new vision of the cosmos with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). Twenty-four years in the making, the observatory is a brand new astronomical facility.… Source link

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About 65 million combined viewers watched a pair of NFL games on Netflix on Christmas Day to set streaming records.The matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers scored an average of 24.1 million viewers, and the Baltimore Ravens’ win over the Houston Texans averaged 24.3 million viewers, making the games the most streamed NFL games in U.S. history, according to Nielsen, the NFL said in a statement Thursday.Viewership for Ravens-Texans spiked with the “Beyonce Bowl” — the much-hyped Beyoncé performance at halftime — with more than 27 million viewers, Netflix said Thursday in a statement.The NFL said…

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This year, IEEE Spectrum readers had a keen interest in all things software: What’s going on in the tumultuous world of open-source, why the sheer size of code is causing security vulnerabilities, and how we need to take seriously the energy costs of inefficient code. The ever-growing presence of artificial intelligence also made itself known in the computing world, by introducing an LLM-powered Internet search tool, finding ways around AI’s voracious data appetite in scientific applications, and shifting from coding copilots to fully autonomous coders—something that’s still a work in progress.And if you scroll all the way down to the…

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The heart of the North Atlantic Treaty is Article 5, which contains two major problems. Yes, Article 5 proclaims that an attack on any member of the Alliance will be considered an attack on all. To justify a full NATO response, it is imperative that any member of NATO create some sort of event to claim that Russia has attacked them. This is why rouge member The Netherlands is acting like a rouge state, doing everything it can to create World War III by allowing long-range missiles to be used to attack and kill even civilians in Moscow. The Netherlands…

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Since the 2024 election, ratings at the far left cable news networks CNN and MSNBC are way down. Joy Reid is even looking at a potential pay cut to stay on the air. It’s easy to see why. These networks told their faithful viewers that there was no way Trump could win, right up until they were forced to admit on election night that Trump had not only won, but that he had won big. Their viewers felt betrayed, and a massive number of them simply walked away and have not returned. MSNBC is down more than 50 percent. CNN…

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Singer Britney Spears is crying “tears of joy” to see her two sons again!The “Toxic” singer has had a roller-coaster relationship with her two sons – Sean Preston and Jayden James – that she shares with her ex-husband, Kevin Federline. Although it looks like she might have spent Thanksgiving by herself, the Princess of Pop was “literally in shock” when she spent Christmas with her two boys.Article continues below advertisementBritney Spears Shares Heartwarming Christmas Video With Her SonsOn Christmas Day, the “Oops!… I Did It Again” singer looked happier than she had in ages as she posed for a video…

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South Korea’s intelligence service had previously put the number of killed or wounded North Koreans at 1,000, saying the high casualty rate could be down to an unfamiliar battlefield environment and their lack of capability to counter drone attacks. Pyongyang’s soldiers were also being “utilised as expendable frontline assault units”, lawmaker Lee Seong-kweun said, speaking last week after a briefing by South Korea’s spy agency. “DANGEROUS EXPANSION” North Korea and Russia have strengthened their military ties since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. A landmark defence pact between Pyongyang and Moscow signed in June came into force this month,…

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Main opposition Democratic Party’s bid to suspend acting leader Han Duck-soo plunges country into further uncertainty.South Korea’s legislature is set to vote on the impeachment of its acting president as ongoing turmoil in Asia’s fourth-largest economy sent the won plunging to levels not seen since the 2007-2009 global financial crisis. The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) is pushing to impeach Han Duck-soo, the prime minister, in a vote at the National Assembly on Friday after accusing the acting president of being complicit in an attempted insurrection by suspended President Yoon Suk-yeol. The DP, which holds 170 seats in the 300-member…

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