I was born during my parents’ sea voyage around the world, and always wanted to make the trip myself. They divorced when I was six, and I grew up living with my dad in the shipyard in the Netherlands where he worked. I started planning my trip around the world at the age of eight…
When Yang “Sunny” Lu asked OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 to calculate 1-plus-1 a few years ago, the chatbot, not surprisingly, told her the answer was 2. But when Lu told the bot that her professor said 1-plus-1 equals 3, the bot quickly acquiesced, remarking: “I’m sorry for my mistake. Your professor is right,” recalls Lu, a computer…
Sabrina Ionescu reflects on Liberty’s historic WNBA Championship Win Sabrina Ionescu shares the thrill and emotion of leading New York Liberty to a WNBA Championship victory. The New York Liberty have acquired guard Natasha Cloud from the Connecticut Sun in exchange for the No. 7 overall selection in this year’s WNBA draft and the Liberty’s…
A giant impact 3.8 billion years ago sent a curtain of rock flying away from a point near the moon’s south pole. When that curtain fell, its rocks plunged up to 3.5 kilometers into the lunar surface with energies 130 times greater than the global inventory of nuclear weapons, new calculations show. And that’s how…
This is a developing story and will be updated as we learn more. This year’s hot destination is the moon. Two landers built by private companies have just touched down on the moon within a week of each other. One landed softly and safely — a first for any private spacecraft — while the other…
Chiefs’ hope for a three-peat stay alive after AFC Championship win vs. Bills The Kansas City Chiefs are heading to New Orleans for their third straight Super Bowl appearance. Sports Pulse Join the 21st Century, NFL. The NFL has desperately needed electronic spotting for years now. Now, after the AFC Championship turned on an egregious…