Curling at the Olympics: How does scoring work, and how heavy are the stones?

Olympic competition begins Wednesday with curling. Here’s a breakdown of the sport’s history, rules and strategy.

Guide to curling at the Winter Olympics: How it works, teams to watch and more

In the U.S., NBC, CNBC and USA Network will have TV coverage, as well as streaming coverage on Peacock for subscribers. In the UK, TNT Sport and the BBC will have live TV coverage and streaming ...

All the Jumps Ilia Malinin Is Expected to Perform at the Olympics

But for Ilia Malinin, the nickname is not just youthful bravado. It’s a statement of fact. The 21-year-old from Virginia, who ...

Linq raises $20M to enable AI assistants to live within messaging apps

After launching as a digital business card that doubled as a lead capture tool for sales teams, Birmingham, Alabama-based Linq pivoted a few times before landing on an idea last year: helping ...

I tried a Claude Code alternative that's local, open source, and completely free - how it works

I was curious if Block's Goose agent, paired with Ollama and the Qwen3-coder model, could really replace Claude Code. Here's how I got started.

NASA used Claude to plot a route for its Perseverance rover on Mars

This past December, Perseverance successfully completed a route through a section of the Jezero crater plotted by Anthropic's ...

Why Do Websites Crash Under High Traffic and How to Prevent Failures

Imagine launching a website that works perfectly in testing, only to watch it struggle or crash the moment real users arrive.
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Java Stream API tutorial: How to create and use Java streams

Get started with Java streams, including how to create streams from Java collections, the mechanics of a stream pipeline, examples of functional programming with Java streams, and more. You can think ...
Pew Research Center

What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom

Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years, with tech companies investing billions of dollars in data centers to help train and run AI models. The expansion of data centers has ...
IEEE

Queue Dissipation-Based Max Pressure Signal Control Using Vehicle Re-Identification Data

Abstract: Traffic congestion is a persistent urban challenge, and signal control strategies play a crucial role in enhancing network efficiency. Traditional max pressure-based control systems ...
Dunfermline Press

Fife schoolchildren invited to use app to avoid school lunch queues

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...
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Shoppers brave endless queues after refusal to use self-checkouts

Despite the self-service tills being fully functional, Debi Evans and other shoppers opted to wait for the human-manned checkouts. U.S. envoy's mention of 'animalistic' behavior sparks press corps ...