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When the time comes for defenseman Matthew Schaefer to take the stage at the NHL draft inside the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles this week, the top-ranked prospect won’t be climbing the stairs alone.There’s no doubt in Schaefer’s mind his late mother Jennifer will be accompanying him in spirit. It will stand as a joyous moment for the 17-year-old Erie Otters player celebrating the person who’s been at his side for every step even after she died of cancer some 16 months ago.“I love talking about my mom, because I talk about the happy memories instead of the sad memories,”…
Hello, wellness enthusiasts! My name is Kaitlin Reilly, and I’m here to share the best health tips from around the internet this week.Did your parents make you clean your plate during mealtimes, whether you were hungry or not? Or did you wolf down your food because you grew up with siblings who might eat it all before you had the chance? Did everyone sit down together, or could you eat in front of the TV whenever you pleased? It all makes a difference to your dining habits now, writes Mikaela Conley for Yahoo Life. If you hate sharing food, or…
When you’re Elon Musk, you don’t have to rely on centuries of prevailing human understanding — you can create your own.”We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors,” Musk wrote on X on Friday night.Then, he said he would retrain Grok’s latest model on that new base of knowledge to be free of proverbial waste. “Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data,” he added.Musk has for years endeavored to create products, like the rebranded…
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Kade Anderson made his final start in an LSU uniform on Saturday night, and it was a masterpiece that put the Tigers on the cusp of their second national championship in three years.Anderson pitched a three-hitter and struck out 10 in a 1-0 victory over Coastal Carolina in Game 1 of the College World Series finals, his second straight dominant performance in Omaha.“That’s what we’ve seen all year,” LSU coach Jay Johnson said. “He’s the best pitcher in the country. And did it again tonight. That’s been on the regular every game one of the entire…
Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz and Seattle Mariners reliever Trent Thornton got sick Saturday while playing in the extreme heat that covered much of the United States.De La Cruz vomited on the field with two outs in the fourth inning of Cincinnati’s extra-inning loss at the St. Louis Cardinals. He was checked on by a trainer, and two workers from the grounds crew cleaned up the area.“I actually watched him. He drank a bunch of water. I mean a bunch,” Reds manager Terry Francona said, “and then he went right out and got rid of it.”The 23-year-old De…
Multiple batches of chocolate nonpareils produced by Weaver Nut Company, Inc. and sold across the U.S. have been recalled due to potential undeclared milk allergens, the Food and Drug Administration announced earlier this week.Six lots of semi-sweet chocolate with “Christmas Seeds” colored nonpareils, or small ball-shaped sprinkles, and 15 lots of semi-sweet chocolate with white nonpareils are included in the recall. The FDA said those with an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reactions if they consume the impacted products listed below.Recalled chocolate nonpareils. / Credit: FDARecalled chocolate nonpareils. / Credit: FDA47518…
CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) — Tommy Fleetwood was so locked in on good golf he didn’t realize until after his 7-under 63 that he didn’t miss a fairway in the Travelers Championship. And he certainly wasn’t aware of the stunning blowups behind him by Scottie Scheffler and Justin Thomas.All three started a steamy, hot Saturday tied for the lead, but not for long.Scheffler celebrated his 29th birthday by starting a round with a triple bogey for the first time in his PGA Tour career. All it took was missing the fairway into thick rough, airmailing the green from a front bunker,…
As tech leaders continue to debate the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the job market, one CEO says the technology’s biggest risk may be “deskilling.”In an interview with The Times of London, Arthur Mensch, the CEO of the Paris-based firm Mistral AI, dismissed the idea that AI would lead to huge cuts to white-collar jobs, saying the bigger risk was that people may become progressively lazier as they increasingly rely on the tech to search for information.Speaking to the outlet at the VivaTech conference in Paris earlier this month, Mensch, who cofounded the open-source large language model developer alongside…
Paul Pope has written and drawn some of the most gorgeous comics of the twenty-first century — from “Batman: Year 100,” in which Batman challenges a dystopian surveillance state, to “Battling Boy,” with its adolescent god proving his mettle by fighting giant monsters. But it’s been more than a decade since Pope’s last major comics work, and in a Zoom interview with TechCrunch, he admitted that the intervening years have had their frustrations. At one point, he held up a large stack of drawings and said the public hasn’t seen any of it yet. “Making graphic novels is not like…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — For Rafael Devers, his first home run for San Francisco felt similar to the 215 he hit for Boston — even if this one came against the Red Sox just six days after his surprising trade to the Giants.Devers delighted his new fans in San Francisco when he connected for a two-run homer against his former team on Saturday to help fuel a 3-2 win for the Giants.“Nothing more special than any other home run that I hit,” he said through an interpreter. “I’m just here and happy that I was able to contribute for the…