BOSTON — Tyrese Maxey has fond memories of the Sixers’ first game this year without Joel Embiid. Asked Monday morning before filming at TD Garden about the team’s recent work on small-ball lineups, Maxey recalled an Oct. 28 road win over the Raptors. He scored a career-high 44 points that night. “I wouldn’t even say … Read more
The Flames have fired coach Darryl Sutter after his second stint with the organization, Calgary announced Monday. Here’s what you need to know: Sutter’s dismissal comes after the team failed to reach the playoffs this season and finished at 37-28-17. He had a two-year extension valued at around $4 million a year that was supposed … Read more
BOSTON — The Bruins hired Jim Montgomery in part because of his ability to spot the sun’s rays on the darkest days. On Sunday morning, the first-year coach reframed a 3-1 lead in a failed series into a chance for his shocked players to pursue their Game 7 childhood dreams. “It’s the first time we’ve … Read more
This video always shows a view of a person’s cerebral cortex. Pink areas have above average activity; blue areas have below average activity. Jerry Tang and Alexander Huth hide caption toggle caption Jerry Tang and Alexander Huth This video always shows a view of a person’s cerebral cortex. Pink areas have above average activity; blue … Read more
Two lattice layers, characterized by intra-lattice connectivity interactions (electrical conductivity), are interdependent via dependency interactions (thermal heating) denoted by the red beams. Credit: Figure created by Shahar Melion inspired by a Maya Zakai figure New findings allow experimental studies to control and further develop the multi-scale phenomena of complex interrelated materials. Bar-Ilan University researchers Havlin … Read more
Think about the words swirling around in your head: that tasteless joke you wisely kept to yourself at dinner; your unspoken impression of your best friend’s new partner. Now imagine that someone could listen. On Monday, scientists at the University of Texas at Austin took another step in that direction. In a study published in … Read more
HI broadcast as a function of LSR radial velocity and galactic longitude. Colored dots are HMSFR masers with parallax measurements: Norma Arm (orange), Sagittarius Arm (cyan), Carina Arm (green), Local Arm (blue), Perseus Arm (magenta) and Outer Arm (red). White dots indicate spurs or springs for which arm assignment is unclear. The HI broadcast comes … Read more
TESS phase-bent light curves after photometric variability subtraction for TOI-2095b (top left) and TOI-2095c (top right). Credit: Murgas et al, 2023 Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered two “super-Earth” exoplanets orbiting a nearby M dwarf star known as TOI-2095 . New alien worlds have short orbital periods … Read more
A prominent artificial intelligence researcher known as the ‘Godfather of AI’ has quit his job at Google – and says he now partly regrets his job advancing the burgeoning technology because of the risks it weighs on society. Dr. Geoffrey Hinton is a renowned computer scientist who is widely credited with laying the foundations of … Read more
Intel has confirmed that it will use new branding for its Meteor Lake “Core” processors and beyond and will provide details soon. Intel confirms new branding for Meteor Lake processors and beyond: “Core Ultra” to replace “Core i” series? Yesterday, an Intel Meteor Lake processor named Core Ultra 5 1003H was spotted in the Ashes … Read more
The world is becoming increasingly complex, placing greater and greater demands on human cognitive abilities. How convenient it would be if we could simply increase our intelligence! This has happened (of course!) to a number of science fiction writers, as have the potential complications that could arise from it. Concentration of camps by Thomas M. … Read more
Want to know what I think of every pick made in the fourth round of the 2023 NFL Draft? You can follow below throughout the day on Saturday as I grade all the picks from round 4 as well as the other three rounds below. Be sure to refresh this page throughout the night for … Read more