The NFL has closed its review of wide receiver Stefon Diggs after determining there was insufficient evidence of a personal conduct policy violation, a league official told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Read Full Story →As a precursor to this week's mandatory minicamp, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens took his physical Monday at The Star, according to a source.
Read article →Yassine El Idrissi’s drama “Halima” has entered the Golden Goblet Awards Main Competition at the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival, where it celebrated its world premiere ahead of a press conference. The selec...
Read article →CEO Elon Musk said Sunday that the company "might be able to reach approximately" $1 trillion revenue in 2030."
Read article →Carvana has bought seven new vehicle franchises since last year that primarily sell Stellantis' Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram brands.
Read article →Washington and Tehran announced a memorandum of understanding had been reached over the weekend.
Read article →One of the stars of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s latest entry in its “Spider-Man” franchise has little spoken dialogue, but may end up stealing a few scenes. Samsung’s Galaxy phones are used by character Ned Leeds (p...
Read article →With the deadline Aug. 3, here's which front offices could make -- or break -- their future this trade season.
Read article →The union's primary spokesperson the last time MLB lost games to a labor fight sees signs of trouble ahead.
Read article →The Sokal Affair was a 1996 academic hoax engineered by NYU physics professor Alan Sokal, who submitted a deliberately nonsensical paper to the cultural studies journal Social Text. Titled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," the article mixed real scientific terminology with fabricated claims — including the assertion that quantum gravity renders objective reality a social construct — designed to flatter the journal's postmodernist editorial slant. Social Text published the paper without subjecting it to peer review by a physicist. Sokal revealed the hoax in Lingua Franca three weeks later, igniting a fierce debate about academic rigor, the influence of postmodern philosophy on the humanities, and the standards of peer review in cultural studies journals. The affair became one of the most discussed episodes in late-20th-century academic history and continues to be cited in debates about scholarly standards.
Read Full Story →Santa Cruz County has pursued an active approach to reducing food-waste-related greenhouse gas emissions, implementing mandatory organic waste collection programs driven in part by California's SB 1383 legislation, which took effect in January 2022 and requires all residents to separate food scraps from regular trash. Since the program's launch, the county's composting initiative has diverted tens of thousands of tons of organic material from the Buena Vista Landfill, sharply cutting methane released from decomposing food waste.
Read article →The emergence of generative AI tools in 2023 prompted rapid adoption — and exploitation — on dark web forums, where cybercriminals began circulating cracked versions of legitimate large language models alongside purpose-built malicious alternatives. Two of the most prominent, WormGPT and FraudGPT, appeared on dark web marketplaces in July 2023, offering subscribers AI-powered capabilities for generating phishing emails, writing malware, and creating fraudulent content with no built-in safety guardrails.
Read article →Amazon Web Services entered the generative AI competition in April 2023 with the announcement of Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed cloud service giving businesses access to high-performance foundation models from leading AI companies including Anthropic, AI21 Labs, Cohere, and Stability AI. The launch also introduced Amazon's own large language models under the Titan brand, designed for tasks such as text summarization, content generation, and conversational search.
Read article →Sony unveiled Project Q at its PlayStation Showcase event in May 2023, revealing a new handheld device designed exclusively for streaming PS5 games via Remote Play over Wi-Fi. The device features an 8-inch 1080p HD screen and incorporates all of the DualSense controller's signature features, including haptic feedback and adaptive triggers, making it feel like a standard PS5 controller with a screen built in.
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