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When Tennessee used the No. 1 overall draft pick on quarterback Cam Ward, the plan was for a long-term pairing with head coach Brian Callahan to bring success to the Titans. The marriage didn’t even last a full season with Callahan fired after six games in a move that maybe should have been predictable based on recent history.Over the last decade, nothing has put an NFL coach on the hot seat more than the franchise using a high draft pick on a quarterback.Ward is the fourth straight quarterback picked No. 1 overall to have his coach fired before the end…
OpenAI is printing money right now. The company is pulling in roughly $13 billion in annual revenue, with 70% coming from everyday people paying $20 a month to chat with an AI, according to the Financial Times. That’s pretty wild when you consider ChatGPT has 800 million regular users, but only 5% are actually paying subscribers. Raking in billions though it may be, OpenAI has also committed to spending over $1 trillion over the next decade (yes, trillion). The company has recently locked in deals for more than 26 gigawatts of computing capacity from Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom —…
In a world glued to screens, Aziz Ansari is choosing the analog life.During an appearance on Tuesday’s episode of the “Good Hang with Amy Poehler” podcast, the comedian spoke about his Luddite ways and why he isn’t a fan of ChatGPT.”I don’t have email. I haven’t had email for, like, 10 years. But I have an assistant,” Ansari told podcast host Amy Poehler.And it’s not just his inbox that he’s abandoned.”I have a flip phone. If I get really lost, I’ve got to either ask people or just call my wife and be like ‘Hey.’ I’ve had to do that…
Here’s a simple way to switch up your walking routine: try walking backward.Taking a brisk walk is an exercise rich in simplicity, and it can have impressive mental and physical benefits: stronger bones and muscles, cardiovascular fitness and stress relief, to name a few. But like any workout, hoofing it for your health may feel repetitive and even boring after a while.Backward walking, also known as retro walking or reverse walking, adds variety to an exercise routine. Turning around not only provides a change of view, but also makes different demands on your body.Janet Dufek, a biomechanist and faculty member…
Moms working outside traditional 9-to-5 hours often struggle to find affordable childcare solutions.Parents are waking their kids up before sunrise and leaning on grandparents to get to work on time.One startup is working toward a solution for these workers’ woes.Melinda Turner starts her day at 3:30 a.m., and within 30 minutes, wakes her 8-year-old daughter for school.She packs their bags and by 5 a.m., heads out to drop her child at an in-home day care — one of the few providers in her area that opens before dawn. Turner, a single mother, then drives to her early shift at a…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nian Yang-yi, 34, a barista turned quality control specialist at a coffee trading firm in Taiwan. The following has been translated and edited for length and clarity.I chose to study computer science and information engineering in college because I didn’t like interacting with people.Programming seemed perfect: I could spend all day on a computer, coding and debugging. At the time, I was happy with this choice and imagined my future would follow that path.But life is unexpected. In my third year of college, I had a sports accident that caused a…
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a three-hitter for the first postseason complete game in eight years as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1 on Tuesday night to extend their lead in the National League Championship Series.Teoscar Hernández and Max Muncy each hit a solo homer as the Dodgers left Milwaukee with a 2-0 advantage in the best-of-seven series, which shifts to Los Angeles for Game 3 on Thursday. “It’s really hard to say the pitching can step up any more than what they’ve been doing. But I know from our standpoint offensively there are still some…
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Max Muncy set a franchise record by hitting his 14th career postseason homer in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series against the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night.Muncy’s 412-foot drive over the center-field wall in the sixth inning broke the Dodgers mark he had shared with Justin Turner and Corey Seager. The solo shot off starter Freddy Peralta extended Los Angeles’ lead to 3-1. The Dodgers went on to win 5-1 to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.“It means a lot to me,” Muncy said. “The Dodgers are a franchise…
A South Carolina measles outbreak has grown to 16 people, including five new cases from schools with low vaccination rates, state health officials said Oct. 14.The South Carolina Department of Health first identified the outbreak of the highly contagious viral disease in the state’s Upstate region in early October. A dozen cases have been concentrated in Spartanburg County, where two elementary schools have nearly 140 students quarantining at home because they weren’t vaccinated against measles.Some cases have been related to travel or through close contacts of known cases. Others have no known source, which state health officials said suggests “measles…
(Reuters) -Healthcare conglomerate Kaiser Permanente said on Tuesday that it is facing a labor strike called by the Alliance of Health Care Unions over wages, but has plans in place to continue operations without interruption.The strike that began earlier in the day is scheduled to end at 7 a.m. on October 19, Kaiser Permanente said.The 31,000 members of United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals are among the 46,000 members of the Alliance of Health Care Unions, which will strike Kaiser mainly on the West Coast in California, Hawaii, and Oregon, the union said in a statement on…