Claudia Lin, an online dating detective in the age of AI, is hunting once again through a dark cybersphere of tech systems in “The Rivals,” the second novel in a new mystery series by Jane Pek. Pek, who introduced Claudia in her 2022 debut book, “The Verifiers,” has given the mystery genre fresh trappings —…
New Sporting Lisbon manager Joao Pereira led his side to a dominant first win Reported Man United target Viktor Gyokeres also contributed to the goalfest Will Ruben Amorim be Man United’s saviour? LISTEN NOW: It’s All Kicking Off! Available wherever you get your podcasts. Episodes every Monday and Thursday By YASEEN ZAMAN Published: 19:59 EST,…
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Building the current crop of artificial intelligence chatbots has relied on specialized computer chips pioneered by Nvidia, which cornered the market and made itself the poster child of the AI boom. But the same qualities that make those graphics processor chips, or GPUs, so effective at creating powerful AI systems from…
World Rugby’s new chairman, Brett Robinson, has outlined his urgent mission to tackle the sport’s acute financial crisis, after narrowly winning the vote to succeed Sir Bill Beaumont. The former Australia flanker became the first elected figurehead of the global governing body from the southern hemisphere, by edging out ex-France captain Abdelatif Benazzi 27-25 in…
Edu Gaspar (right) alongside Mikel Arteta and Executive Vice-Chair Tim Lewis (Picture: Getty Images) Arsenal sporting director Edu is to leave in a huge blow for the Gunners, set to join Evangelos Marinakis’ group of clubs which includes Nottingham Forest. The Brazilian rejoined the club he used to play for from 2001-05 in 2019 as…
CLEMSON — There’s no way to sugarcoat it: Clemson may miss the College Football Playoff. Louisville (6-3, 4-2 ACC) upset the No. 8 Tigers (6-2, 5-1 ACC) on Saturday at Memorial Stadium, winning 33-21. Entering Saturday, the Tigers had won 22 consecutive home night games since 2013, the nation’s second-longest active streak. Despite coming off an…
The college volleyball season was further plunged into the debate over transgender athletes this week as video emerged of San Jose State University’s Blaire Fleming sending a ferocious spike off an opponent’s face. Fleming, a redshirt senior who is reportedly transgender, has been cited as the reason four schools have forfeited matches against San Jose…
Season 2 of Tulsa King brings more excitement to rural Oklahoma as Dwight ‘The General’ Manfredi, portrayed by Sylvester Stallone, continues to build his criminal empire. After being betrayed by his old mafia family in the first season, Dwight finds himself more confident than ever in running his operations alone. His 25-year prison sentence might…
For most observers, it was proof of sport’s ability, if only for a fleeting moment, to bring people together – even when they live on opposite sides of one of the world’s most heavily armed borders. But one of the most celebrated images of the Paris Olympics – a selfie taken by medal-winning table tennis…
