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Dabo Swinney, Lincoln Riley, Ryan Day among top-25 college football coaches facing pressure in 2024 season – CBS Sports
CBS Sports capped its 2024 Power Four coach rankings with the release of Wednesday's top 25, highlighting the upper echelon of coaches at the highest level of college football. This year's list features several new names after Nick Saban's retirement and Jim Harbaugh's departure for the NFL left some huge vacancies near the top. Georgia's
Should the WVU/Marshall Football Series Return?
The in-state clash between West Virginia and Marshall has only occurred twelve times on the gridiron with the Mountaineers winning all twelve of those matchups and by an average of 29.8 points per game. The last time "The Coal Bowl" was played was back in 2012 when WVU lit up the scoreboard with a 69-34
Ranking the top 25 Power Four college football coaches entering the 2024 season
The CBS Sports and 247Sports experts have ranked every Power Four coach from 1-68 as the season approaches May 15, 2024 at 12:00 pm ET • 14 min read Hailey Meuchel, CBS Sports We began ranking Power Five -- now Power Four -- college football coaches at CBS Sports in 2015, and for the first
China compiled the most detailed moon atlas ever mapped
Science & Nature On flight day 20 of NASA’s Artemis I mission, Orion’s optical navigation camera looked back at the Moon as the spacecraft...
Goldman Says China Property Sector Needs $2.1T in Aid and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
China’s housing market may need more help from the government (Getty Images) More gloom for China’s property market leads Mingtiandi’s roundup of real estate news from around the region again today as a top US investment bank estimates the sector may need $2.1 trillion in government support. Also in the headlines, HSBC’s Hang Seng Bank
China Opens e-CNY Research Institute, Appoints First Expert Panel
Last updated: April 19, 2024 01:31 EDT | 1 min read The e-CNY Research Institute has been inaugurated to support advancements of China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC). According to a recent report by MPayPass, institute was unveiled at the “2024 Second e-CNY Industry Sustainable Development Seminar” in Suzhou, where industry experts gathered to mark
The Download: how China plans to regulate AI
Plus: Russia is attempting to undermine US support for Ukraine This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Why the Chinese government is sparing AI from harsh regulations—for now The way China regulates its tech industry can seem highly unpredictable.
China Medical University Hospital unveils Microsoft genAI-based medical speech engine
China Medical University Hospital through its AI Center has developed a medical speech AI engine powered by Microsoft. In a statement, the Taiwanese hospital described its Generative Healthcare Intelligent (gHi) system as the Mandarin version of Nuance AI – and possibly the first of its kind in the Chinese language. HOW IT WORKS Built using Microsoft
China Box Office: ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ Has Hollywood’s Best Opening This Year
Legendary Entertainment’s “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” had the best opening in China of any Hollywood film this year. It scored $44.6 million (RMB317 million) in mainland Chinese cinemas between Friday and Sunday, according to data from consultancy firm Artisan Gateway. That was a nearly 70% share of the country’s weekend box office. Nationwide
China unveils ChatGPT-like medical chatbot service
Hong Kong-based Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), one of China's national research institutes, has developed a large language model-based chatbot to assist doctors in making medical diagnoses and treatments. HOW IT WORKS The chatbot, CARES Copilot 1.0, is built based on Meta's Llama 2 LLM. Trained using
Asia Market News: China Data Beats Forecasts with the Nikkei on a Pre-Pivot Rally
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Dabo Swinney, Lincoln Riley, Ryan Day among top-25 college football coaches facing pressure in 2024 season – CBS Sports
CBS Sports capped its 2024 Power Four coach rankings with the release of Wednesday's top 25, highlighting the upper echelon of coaches at the highest level of college football. This year's list features several new names after Nick Saban's retirement and Jim Harbaugh's departure for the NFL left some huge vacancies near the top. Georgia's
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Should the WVU/Marshall Football Series Return?
The in-state clash between West Virginia and Marshall has only occurred twelve times on the gridiron with the Mountaineers winning all twelve of those matchups and by an average of 29.8 points per game. The last time "The Coal Bowl" was played was back in 2012 when WVU lit up the scoreboard with a 69-34
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Ranking the top 25 Power Four college football coaches entering the 2024 season
The CBS Sports and 247Sports experts have ranked every Power Four coach from 1-68 as the season approaches May 15, 2024 at 12:00 pm ET • 14 min read Hailey Meuchel, CBS Sports We began ranking Power Five -- now Power Four -- college football coaches at CBS Sports in 2015, and for the first
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Cannabis and gaming payments startup Aeropay is now offering an alternative to Mastercard and Visa
The key to taking on legacy players in the financial technology industry may be to go where they have not gone before. That’s what Chicago-based Aeropay is doing. The provider of pay-by-bank solutions for businesses started out helping cannabis retailers and gaming companies with their payments and is now entering into Visa and Mastercard’s territory
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VMware’s Workstation Pro virtual machine software is now free for home users
Image: VMware Virtual machines, simulated PCs with their own operating systems running within another computer’s software, are super freakin’ cool. (That’s a technical term, I’m a professional technology writer.) But they’re not easy to set up, especially if you’re a newbie. They just got a lot easier, because VMware made its popular Workstation Pro and