Can UCLA get its Big Ten breakthrough? Five things to watch against Rutgers

"Big ball energy."

There's plenty of features on a plane that might have people wondering what exactly they're for.

"I could have lost my arm," Teddy Wittemann, 16, said. "The first thoughts were, ‘Am I going to be able to surf contests again?’" Teddy Wittemann, 16, went to grab his surfboard during a surf sesh in Melbourne Beach when the shark took hold of his left arm.

About 11:30 p.m. Thursday, first responders rushed onto the sand near a Cirque du Soleil Kooza set up on the beach to try and free a person trapped under a silver SUV, according to KABC.

You'll die at the smell of this perfume.

“I can't wait to get up in the morning and go to work because I know I'm going to have such a good time because I know everybody is firing on all cylinders,” the actress gushed.

Conservatives expect a second Trump administration to try a major overhaul of the tax system. But the former president largely just keeps proposing new exemptions.

The Uluburun shipwreck was accidently discovered by a sponge diver in 1982. Following the discovery, excavation of the area took archaeologists a decade to complete.

That’s a moray? Online viewers were flabbergasted over a ghastly-looking sea creature washed up on a beach in California, as depicted in a Reddit post making waves online. “It’s giving me nightmares,” read the post describing the nautical night terror, which washed ashore near Laguna Niguel, SF Gate reported. The accompanying photo showed a slender,...

The judge in Trump's election interference case ordered additional documents about his claim of immunity to be made public before the November elections.

De lograr un triunfo ante el Earthquakes de San José, el LAFC dependerá de lo que suceda con el LA Galaxy en su visita ante el Dynamo de Houston.

Times columnist Glenn Whipp shares his review of Sean Baker's acclaimed new film, "Anora." Plus an interview with the director and another award for Jane Fonda.

Jay Cutler was arrested for DUI and gun possession Thursday evening in Tennessee.

We are recapping “The Real Housewives of Orange County” season 18 episode 15. Jenn Pedranti really used her voice in this episode exploding on Tamra Judge for allegedly doing a background check on her boyfriend Ryan. Plus, Heather questioned why Jenn would be wearing a $2,000 dress to Shannon’s tea party if she has money...

Amazon Prime confirmed Thursday that former NBC and MSNBC host Brian Williams will host a live “non-partisan" election-night special for the platform.

"We're stupid for each other," the actress confessed in an exclusive interview with the Post.

CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch has stepped down and is being replaced by David Joyner amid struggles with rising costs.

'Anybody that tells you they always envisioned this, they're full of it.'

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into the driver-assistance system available in more than 2 million vehicles.

"I went over, asked, 'Are you OK?' But he just kind of grunted. Then he said, 'I used to be in a boy band. That's why I'm so f--ked up,'" the guest claimed.

Score another win for cable television as the streaming platform Hulu had a nightmare situation Thursday night during the Guardians' ALCS Game 3 walk-off win over the Yankees.

In Wednesday’s Future Perfect newsletter, my colleague Dylan Matthews wrote about the case for skepticism about this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics winners. His argument was that while their theories are interesting, there’s plenty of reason to doubt just how correct those theories are. For several other Nobels this year, however, my skepticism runs in the opposite direction. The Physics Nobel was awarded this year to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”  This story was first featured in the Future Perfect newsletter. Sign up here to explore the big, complicated problems the world faces and the most efficient ways to solve them. Sent twice a week. The award unquestionably reflects serious, impressive, world-changing work on their research topics, almost certainly some of the most impactful work out there. The hotly debated question is, well, whether this Nobel Prize in Physics should actually count as physics.  Together, Hopfield and Hinton did much of the foundational work on neural networks, which store new information by changing the weights between neurons. The Nobel committee argues that Hopfield and Hinton’s background in physics provided inspiration for their foundational AI work, and that they reasoned by analogies to molecule interactions and statistical mechanics when developing the early neural networks. That’s cool, but is it physics? Some people aren’t buying it. “Initially, I was happy to see them recognised with such a prestigious award, but once I read further and saw it was for Physics, I was a bit confused,” Andrew Lensen, an artificial intelligence researcher, told Cosmos magazine. “I think it is more accurate to say their methods may have been inspired by physics research.”  “I’m speechless. I like ML [machine learning] and ANN [artificial neural networks] as much as the next person, but hard to see that this is a Physics discovery,” tweeted physicist Jonathan Pritchard. “Guess the Nobel got hit by AI hype.” The resentment over AI stealing the spotlight only intensified when the Chemistry Nobel was announced. It went in part to Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis and his colleague John Jumper for AlphaFold 2, a machine-learning protein-structure predictor.  One of the hardest problems in biology is anticipating the many molecular interactions that influence how a protein printed from a given string of amino acids will fold up. Understanding protein structure better will dramatically speed drug development and foundational research.  AlphaFold, which can cut the time needed to understand protein structure by orders of magnitude, is a huge achievement and very encouraging about the eventual ability of AI models to make major contributions in this field. It’s surely Nobel-worthy — if there were a Nobel in biology. (There isn’t, so Chemistry had to do.) The Chemistry Nobel strikes me as much less of a stretch than the Physics one; inasmuch as it inspired resentful grumbling, I suspect that’s primarily because along with the Physics award, it was starting to look like a trend. “Computer science seemed to be completing its Nobel takeover,” Nature wrote after the Chemistry award was announced. The Nobels were betting on AI, declaring on one of the world’s most prestigious stages that the accomplishments of AI researchers with machine learning constituted serious, respectable, and world-class contributions to the fields that had loosely inspired them. In a world where AI is both an increasingly big deal and where a lot of people find it overhyped and extremely annoying, that’s a fraught statement.  Overhyped is a bad way to think about AI Is AI overhyped? Yes, absolutely. There is a constant barrage of obnoxious, overstated claims about what AI can do. There are people raising absurd sums of money by tacking “AI” on to business models that don’t have much to do with AI at all. Enthusiasm for “AI-based” solutions often exceeds any understanding of how they actually work. But all of that can — and, indeed, does — coexist with AI being genuinely a very big deal. The protein-folding achievements of AlphaFold happened in the context of preexisting contests on better protein-folding prediction, because it was well understood that solving that problem really mattered. Whether or not you have any enthusiasm for chatbots and generative art, the same techniques have brought the world cheap, fast, and effective transcription and translation — making all kinds of research and communication tasks much easier.  And we’re still in the very early days of using the machine learning systems that Hinton and Hopfield first laid out the framework for. I do think some people who position themselves as “against the AI hype” are effectively leaning against the wall of an early 20th-century factory saying, “Have you gotten electricity to solve all your problems yet? No? Hmmm, guess it wasn’t such a big deal.”  It was hard in the early 20th century to anticipate where electricity would take us, but it was in fact quite easy to see that the ability to hand off major chunks of human labor to machines would matter a lot.  Similarly, it is not hard to see that AI is going to matter. So while it’s true that there is an obnoxious and enthusiastic gaggle of clueless investors and dishonest fundraisers eager to tag everything with AI, and while it’s true that companies often systematically overstate how cool their latest models are, it’s not “hype” to see AI as an enormously big deal and one of the leading scientific and intellectual contributions of our day. It’s just accurate.   The Nobel Prize committee may or may not have been trying to ride the hype train — they’re just regular people with the same range of motivations as anyone else — but the work they identified really does matter, and we all live in a world that has been enriched by it.

Mark Eydelshteyn and Yura Borisov on their breakout roles in the beloved indie filmmaker's latest.

Sen. Jackie Rosen and Republican candidate Sam Brown went head to head in the Nevada Senate debate on immigration, the economy and biological males competing in women's sports.

President Biden says he told Israel's leader to make the killing of Hamas' leader "an opportunity" for peace in Gaza.

Liam Payne allegedly made a disturbing statement that being in a boy band "f--ked" him up just minutes before his fatal fall.

The Republican presidential candidate has proposed tariffs as high as 20% on all imported goods.

The suspects in Aileen Seiden's murder case — her romantic partners Zach Abell and Christina Aruajo — each claims the other is her killer.

His tenure in pinstripes has been far from smooth sailing, but then October rolls around...

Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce gave a passionate defense of his Cleveland Guardians fandom as questions arose about who he was supporting in the MLB postseason.

The U.S. government's road safety agency is again investigating Tesla's “Full Self-Driving” system.

In his first sit-down interview since his release from Russia, Paul Whelan said being left behind twice in prisoner swaps played with his mind.

The Mets and the Yankees may be crosstown rivals -- but I was able to transcend the bad blood by dressing up as none other than Grimace in enemy territory.

Former President Donald Trump cast doubt on the election results if he loses and falsely questioned Vice President Kamala Harris' racial and ethnic identity during an interview with the "PBD Podcast."

He thought we might be nervous as we met for coffee for the first time. But after much laughter, we realized new adventures awaited us.

Let me start this column with a big warning: Nothing is over until it's over, and you can only read so far into early voting data because it is inherently an incomplete picture of the electorate. That being said, there is a lot--and by a lot I mean a LOT--of good news for former President Donald Trump and Republicans as well as bad news for Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris in the early voting data from around the country so far. The post ELECTION SPECIAL — Boyle: Early Voting Numbers Begin to Flash Warning Signs for Democrats appeared first on Breitbart.

The budget crisis shows Los Angeles is not living within its means. L.A. leaders approve employee raises the city can’t afford and then cut staffing and services while hoping for an economic boom to lift tax revenue.

Roof venting is crucial for preventing ice dams and maintaining energy efficiency.

Peacock's fun, insightful, occasionally scary horror series follows a teen metal band during the height of the satanic panic

John Dickinson's contributions to the Constitution continue to reverberate today.

Campbell also opened up about his role in the new Peacock series Hysteria.

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"Gary and Buster are so on the defense all the time," Hale told Decider. "[This character] was definitely on the offense."

"Our findings highlight the need for more research to understand the development of colon cancer in adults under age 45," one study author said.

MINNEAPOLIS — Forty minutes stand between the Liberty and their first WNBA title in franchise history.  After their stunning 80-77 Game 3 win over the Lynx on Wednesday night on Sabrina Ionescu’s 28-footer, the Liberty can clinch the title in Game 4 on Friday night.  “Knowing that when I left Seattle, I kind of started...

Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" technology under investigation by road safety watchdog after reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions.

The police asked the public to immediately provide any information that could help an ongoing investigation of the reported abduction.

The Steelers' quarterback situation reportedly has some in the building divided.