EDMONTON – Anxious to put last season’s struggled in the rear-view mirror, goaltender Tristan Jarry spent the summer preparing for what he and the Edmonton Oilers hope is a positive bounce-back season. The Oilers have seven goaltenders in camp, but when the season begins Sept. 29, Jarry will be the main man in net. He’ll…
Hetmyer’s unbeaten 102 goes in useless as Jamaica overhaul 207 to remove table-toppers Amazon Warriors Rovman Powell produced a blistering late assault as Jamaica Kingsmen chased down 207 to beat Guyana Amazon Warriors by 5 wickets in Qualifier 2 on Friday and guide a spot within the Caribbean Premier League last. Shimron Hetmyer’s magnificent unbeaten…
Anthropic has a wet biology lab in the Bay Area where it can use its AI models to run physical experiments, it has confirmed to TechCrunch. AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Dario Amodei opined just last week: “I believe that AI could cure most major diseases…
Canada looms over Lance Thrailkill’s office as a dead, stuffed bird. Mounted above the Texas manufacturer’s desk, a Canada goose, flanked by a mallard and four deer heads, fixes a glassy stare on the room. An open bottle of rye whiskey sits on the floor below. It is a fitting backdrop for a conversation about…
Dutch coach says rebuilding is his ardour, confirms one-year PHF contract with possibility to increase KARACHI: KARACHI: Pakistan hockey coach Bob Veldhof has mentioned that rebuilding the nationwide group is his ardour and he desires the nation to return to the highest of the world hockey inside two to a few years, insisting that turning…
Four years ago, a startup lab launched that wasn’t quite an incubator, accelerator program, or venture firm. UP.Labs, as it was called then, built startups designed to solve problems for corporate customers such as Alaska Airlines and Porsche, as well as for the outside world. The firm still has the same mission — albeit with…
Coalition Avenir Québec Leader Christine Fréchette changed her schedule to meet Montreal’s mayor on Friday, as the discovery of a one-year-old child at a homeless encampment continued to send waves through the provincial election campaign. Fréchette announced a list of promises aimed at municipalities ahead of the meeting with Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada, including the…
Inam Butt takes Silver in Commonwealth Video games 2022. Picture: AFP LAHORE: Pakistan’s ace-wrestler and administrator Mohammad Inam Butt has accomplished a two-month suspension imposed over an anti-doping violation and has been cleared to renew wrestling actions, paving the best way for him to symbolize Pakistan on the Asian Video games as a coach. In…
Linkup research team releases SPARSEUP, an open-source learned sparse embedding model. The model runs on a 149M-parameter ModernBERT backbone and ships under Apache 2.0. Linkup team reports 56.4 average nDCG@10 on BEIR-13. It calls this the strongest public vocabulary-based sparse encoder it knows of under 150M parameters. Is it deployable?…
A jury has found former Saskatoon Christian school principal Duff Arthur Friesen guilty on three counts of assault with a weapon involving former students and not guilty on two others. The jury found the offences in the three counts occurred between September 1997 and June 2007 and that Friesen intentionally applied force with a weapon…
