Seattle Seahawks 29–13 New England Patriots As it happened: David Lengel’s minute-by-minute report Half-time show review: Bad Bunny’s ode to Boricua joy Revenge is a dish best served cold. Although seeing as the Seattle Seahawks had to wait 11 years to exact theirs on the New England Patriots, their fans...
Winter Olympics briefing: Benjamin Karl brings golden flex on day of high drama
Austrian snowboarder delivered a tribute to his childhood hero, while there was a shocking moment in the downhill Between the icy air and Olympic pressure, you might expect athletes to bundle up at the Milano Cortina Games – but not Benjamin Karl. The Austrian snowboarder, 40 years old and competing...
Team GB dreams of Magic Monday and a hat-trick of Olympic medals
Mia Brookes reaches snowboard Big Air final Britain has contenders in curling and freeski slopestyle High in the Italian Alps, where the thin air and oxygen deprivation often does strange things to the brain, ÂBritish accents have started whispering about the possibility of Magic Monday – and Team GB winning...
Lindsey Vonn’s crash is violent but honest ending to an unprecedented Olympic bid
The gruesome finish to the US star’s comeback, at age 41 and with a ruptured ACL, is a reminder of skiing’s unforgiving nature There was always a version of this story that ended in a single, violent instant. Lindsey Vonn was 13th to push out of the start gate on...
Synthetic opioids may have caused hundreds more UK deaths than thought
Study find nitazenes, which are up to 500 times stronger than heroin, can degrade significantly in portmortem blood samples Deaths caused by a synthetic opioid that is hundreds of times stronger than heroin may have been underestimated by up to a third across the UK, according to research. Nitazenes are...
CISA is ordering US federal agencies to remove outdated routers and firewalls
CISA has ordered all civilian federal agencies to identify and remove "end-of-support" hardware and software that vendors no longer patch or maintain. The new directive, known as Binding Operational Directive 26-02, is part of an aggressive overhaul aimed at closing one of the most persistent security gaps in federal IT:......
Harvard engineers 3D-print soft robots that bend, twist, grasp, and move on command
The method, described in Advanced Materials, replaces the slow, multi-step molding and casting process that traditionally defines soft robotics. Researchers have figured out how to 3D-print structures that twist, curl, or bend exactly as programmed, just by pumping air into their built-in channels. Read Entire Article
KPMG asked its own auditor for a discount, citing AI efficiencies
The negotiations, which took place last year, signal how deeply automation is beginning to influence professional services markets that have long been defined by human labor. For decades, audit pricing has reflected time, expertise, and regulatory complexity. Now, tools powered by machine learning and generative AI are changing that calculus....
Qualcomm may borrow Samsung’s cooling tech for its next Snapdragon flagship
The Heat Pass Block first appeared in Samsung's 2nm Exynos 2600, reportedly delivering a 16 percent improvement in thermal resistance. It's a copper-based layer built directly onto the processor die, providing a direct pathway for heat to dissipate before it can radiate through surrounding components. Read Entire Article
This industrial cooling setup keeps AMD’s $12,000 96-core Threadripper Pro 9995WX cool at 5.3 GHz
Rather than delid the $12,000 workstation chip, the team reverse-engineered its heat spreader to design a replacement from scratch. They borrowed an integrated heat spreader (IHS) through Asus China's general manager Tony Yu and then used older Ryzen Threadripper 1900X chips as test subjects. Read Entire Article