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A sloth thought to be the world's oldest living sloth, who lived in the German city of Krefeld, has died at the age of 54. The two-toed sloth, named Jan, lived at the zoo in the western city of Krefeld near Duesseldorf. The Krefeld zoo said in a statement on Tuesday that Jan died last week. “Some of the keepers had known and cared for him for over 25 years so saying goodbye was extremely difficult,” the statement said. The sloth was born in the wild in 1969. He moved to Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg in 1986 and then spent…
What a great week for the Dodgers!The Los Angeles Dodgers enter a big week holding a slim lead over their National League West rivals, having won five of their six home games against the Seattle Mariners and Tampa Bay Rays at Dodger Stadium to move three games up in the division.The highlight of the week was Shohei Ohtani's spectacular walk-off grand slam on Friday night, joining the 40-40 club. Ohtani's walk-off homer was one of many game-winning and game-winning home runs the Dodgers recorded during an eventful week.Here are the top 10 baseball moments from last week.Honorable mentions: LA Kings…
The Paralympics start tomorrow in Paris, but the sense of euphoria brought to France by the Olympics earlier this month has long since faded. Anne Hidalgo, the Socialist mayor of Paris, may have been a little premature when she declared on August 7 that the success of the Olympics had “shattered the message of the far-right”. Hidalgo said the message was negative and divisive, challenging the commonly progressive view of France as a happy, multicultural country. By far-right she is referring to the more than 10 million people who voted for Marine Le Pen's National Rally in July's parliamentary elections.…
The NFL is a big-spending enterprise, but for the 2024 season it will return to a very primitive system that costs a few dollars to call a first down. After conducting preseason testing of new automated first-down technology that mimics tennis' Hawk-Eye system, the NFL is shelving the project for the 2024 regular season. The technology, maintained at NFL headquarters in New York, debuted this month but drew complaints during live broadcasts that it took too long and slowed down games, in ways reminiscent of soccer's controversial use of VAR, which has frustrated fans for years. The NFL has decided…
Ben Gamel comes into this game on a hitting streak… a three-game hitting streak. You can't expect much more than this. Aaron Nola should make fun of him at the plate. August 27, 2024 • 12:18 ET • 4 min read Tonight marks the second of a three-game series between the Houston Astros and the Philadelphia Phillies, but the Astros' offense struggled to score last night. Ben Gamel had one of Houston's eight hits in the series opener, but I don't expect him to be successful tonight in my Astros vs Phillies predictions, and you'll find out why in my…
Here we go: An operative fed his vacation video to an AI, creating a wild and surreal video of himself transforming while traveling, offering a glimpse into how AI content is becoming its own media type. (Screenshot) ShareThe generative AI revolution is less than two years old, but the debate about AI in Hollywood resembles the debate about automation in Detroit in the 1980s. Sure, robot welders annoyed unions and made for more efficient assembly lines, but the cars they produced didn't change all that much. If you worked in the dreary caverns of a Ford factory back then, you…
Athletic Propulsion Labs (APL) is expanding its sneaker lineup with the release of its latest styles. Dubbed the “Jogger,” the new sneaker is the second offering in the company's new “Future/Vintage” lifestyle shoe category that debuted earlier this year. According to the footwear company, the new sneaker was designed to “embrace early '90s sports culture.” In fact, the jogger's athletic-inspired design pays homage to vintage '90s track culture by combining microfiber, suede, mesh and ribbed jacquard. The silhouette features a sculpted, high-stacked proprietary Futurefoam midsole, a solid rubber segmented Ultract outsole and an extended heel spoiler that accentuates a smooth…
More Footwear NewsAthletic Propulsion Labs (APL) is expanding its sneaker lineup with the release of its latest styles.Dubbed the “Jogger,” the new sneaker is the second offering in the company's new “Future/Vintage” lifestyle shoe category that debuted earlier this year. According to the footwear company, the new sneaker was designed to “embrace early '90s sports culture.”In fact, the jogger's athletic-inspired design pays homage to vintage '90s track culture by combining microfiber, suede, mesh and ribbed jacquard. The silhouette features a sculpted, high-stacked proprietary Futurefoam midsole, a solid rubber segmented Ultract outsole and an extended heel spoiler that accentuates a smooth…
summary One trader made big profits buying and selling DOGS, a new Telegram-related meme coin, but earlier this month another trader lost roughly $900,000 on a Trump-themed meme coin, highlighting the riskiness of the sector. Big Profits The ever-evolving meme coins sector has been one of the highlights of the cryptocurrency industry over the past few months, with new tokens appearing frequently. One of the latest is Dogs (DOGS), an asset associated with the Telegram community that appeared about a week ago. Initially, the meme coin was tradable on select decentralized exchanges, but was soon added to major platforms such…
When you go to the hospital and have your blood tested, the results are compiled into a dataset and compared to other patient results and population data. This allows doctors to compare you (blood, age, gender, health history, scans, etc.) with other patient results and histories to predict, manage and develop new treatments.For centuries, this has been the foundation of scientific research: identify a problem, collect data, look for patterns, and build a model to solve it. The hope is that a type of artificial intelligence (AI) called machine learning, which creates models from data, will be able to do…