South Africa winger Cheslin Kolbe has returned to the starting side for the Rugby World Cup final against England in Yokohama on Saturday after he recovered from an ankle injury. Kolbe missed the Springboks’ pool match against Canada with an ankle problem and had to leave the field in the […]
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The rise of the machines drew one step closer to reality today, as researchers announced that the Google DeepMind-powered AlphaStar AI has now achieved Grandmaster ranking with all three races in StarCraft 2. AlphaStar dominated pro StarCraft 2 players in January, but only as a Protoss player, and under more […]
Linda Hamilton says she was initially “terrified” to reprise her role as Sarah Connor in the new “Terminator” film until James Cameron’s emails helped put her at ease. Hamilton says it took her six weeks to decide to return to the role she originated 35 years ago. Her hesitation stemmed […]
The daughter of one of the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash says an apology from Boeing’s chief executive is too little. Zipporah Kuria welcomed US lawmakers questioning Boeing’s chief executive Dennis Muilenburg at the Senate Commerce Committee, but said she found his appearance “infuriating”. Her father, Joseph Waithaka, was […]
The ex-First Lady took to the stage with her older brother Craig Robin at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago on Tuesday, describing the loss of their “patriarchal” father as “traumatic”. The 55-year-old told host Isabel Wilkerson how marrying Barack in 1992 was “bittersweet”. Michelle was asked about her wedding […]
NEW YORK — Soon after calories were posted on fast-food menus, people cut back a little bit on what they ordered. But it didn’t last. Customers at fast-food chains in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas ordered an average of 60 fewer calories per transaction in the weeks after the figures were […]
By Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Leaders from the United States and China encountered a new obstacle in their struggle to end a damaging trade war on Wednesday, when the summit where they were supposed to meet was cancelled because of violent protests. U.S. President […]
To learn more about the mysteries of quantum chromodynamics, we are probing the universe’s densest stars, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein in her latest column source: newscientist.com