Notre-Dame rises again… in Lego
Arnaud Gaudillat, a history teacher in France, recalled breaking down in tears as he watched television coverage of the flames that devastated Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2019. “We couldn’t do anything but watch it burn,” he said. Now, five years later, as hundreds of architects, engineers and metalworkers race to finish rebuilding the cathedral’s roof coverings…
Borussia Dortmund proves that anything is possible
A lonely man and his records Cristiano Ronaldo’s social media output, if we’re all completely honest with ourselves, peaked in 2017, when he asked us – as a species – the most penetrating question of all: have you ever related steel to steel? ‘steel? ‘ecology? Because you should know, he did. Of course he did….
How the Reds’ Joey Votto became a social media star
The outburst, which Votto and Jim Day, the reporter on the sidelines of the Reds broadcasts, had been reenacting for weeks – even on the team plane, which confused quite a few members of the Reds staff – has gone viral: one of the funniest characters of baseball had acted again. Votto, 40, who didn’t…
The new ChatGPT offers a lesson in AI hype
The bot then spawned an even bigger Waldo. Subbarao Kambhampati, a professor and AI researcher at Arizona State University, also put the chatbot through some testing and said he didn’t notice any notable improvements in reasoning compared to the latest version. He presented ChatGPT with a puzzle involving blocks: The answer is that it is…
Israel advances in the center of Rafah in the offensive in southern Gaza
The Israeli military said Friday that its forces advanced into central Rafah, pushing even deeper into the southern city of Gaza, despite international backlash and pressure from allies to scale back the latest offensive. Israeli commandos, supported by tanks and artillery, were operating in central Rafah, the Israeli army said in a statement, without specifying…