Watching Netflix’s Cheer is not for the faint of heart. In Greg Whiteley’s six-part documentary series, which built up an enthusiastic fanbase after hitting the streamer in January, the young athletes of Navarro College’s 14-time national championship-winning cheerleading team repeatedly lift, throw and catch flying teammates, many of them already nursing injuries and at risk…
Scientists Who Created Order From Randomness Win Prestigious Mathematics Prize
2020 Abel Prize laureates Hillel Furstenberg (left) and Gregory Margulis (merely)Picture: Dan RezettiScientists Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis like obtained this yr’s Abel Prize, which is perception of as thought of one among many absolute top honors in arithmetic.The scientists obtained the prize “for pioneering using options from likelihood and dynamics in workforce precept, quantity precept and combinatorics,” per the prize quotation. They're going to destroy up an roughly $834,000 sum, awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. “The works of Furstenberg and Margulis like demonstrated the effectiveness of crossing boundaries between separate mathematical disciplines and introduced down the inclined wall between pure and utilized arithmetic,” Hans Munthe-Kaas, chair of the Abel Prize committee, acknowledged in a press…
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AI Is Coming for Your Most Mind-Numbing Office Tasks
In 2018, the New York Foundling, a charity that offers child welfare, adoption, and mental health services, was stuck in cut-and-paste hell.Clinicians and admin staff were spending hours transferring text between different documents and databases to meet varied legal requirements. Arik Hill, the charity’s chief information officer, blames the data entry drudgery for an annual…
ESPN+ will be the home of PGA Tour’s streaming service in 2022
You might end up paying less to stream live golf tourneys in the future. As part of a larger media deal, PGA Tour Live will be included as part of the ESPN+ base package starting in 2022 — it’ll be the only place you can use it in the US, in fact. The service will…
The Feds Ban a Self-Driving Shuttle Fleet From Carrying People
Late Tuesday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration—the federal agency in charge of road safety in the US—took the unusual step of ordering a fleet of self-driving shuttles to stop carrying passengers. The shuttles, from the French company EasyMile, were transporting or preparing to transport riders in 16 US cities. NHTSA’s order allows the vehicles…
‘Sharapova retires with many questions unanswered’
Maria Sharapova won the last of her five Grand Slam titles at the 2014 French OpenA farewell tour – with the chance to perform one final time in Paris, London and New York – would not have been the Maria Sharapova way.No longer competitive, and with a shoulder not fit for purpose, she would have…
Spit Kits, Sperm Donors, and the End of Family Secrets
Alice Collins Plebuch, or Grandma Nerd, as her grandkids call her, is good at solving puzzles. She was among the first wave of computer programmers—when that term meant punching information on cards to be fed into mainframes. She has an analytical mind and is at ease with technology. Years ago, she began digging into her…
How to Upgrade Your Home Wi-Fi and Get Faster Internet
As the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the United States, many people find themselves working or studying from home. Which also means that they are stuck with their home Wi-Fi networks, many of which may not feel up to the task.Some cable companies have increased speeds for low-income customers. Others have suspended broadband data…
Coronavirus: Lombardy region announces stricter measures
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The new measures ban weekly markets, work on building sites and physical activity outdoors The Italian region of Lombardy has introduced stricter measures in a bid to tackle the spread of coronavirus. Under the new rules announced late on Saturday, sport and physical activity outside, even individually, is banned. Using…
NBC’s experimental PGA Tour live stream makes it easier to follow your favorite golfer
The biggest moments in any given golf tournament broadcast can be captured by just a few cameras across a multi-acre course. But the upcoming broadcast of the Players Championship golf tournament on March 12th will let you see all of the moments. If you subscribe to PGA Tour Live through NBC Sports Gold, you’ll be…
A Critical Internet Safeguard Is Running Out of Time
Keeping the internet safe may sometimes feel like a game of Whac-A-Mole, reacting to attacks as they arise, then moving on to the next. In reality, though, it’s an ongoing process that involves not just identifying threats but grabbing and retaining control of the infrastructure behind them. For years a small nonprofit called Shadowserver has…