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'Utter nonsense': Top US hosts defend freedom of press questions and insist tennis ace Naomi Osaka is not victim of media bullying — RT Sport News

An accusation of bullying raised by Naomi Osaka's agent after she sobbed at a press call has earned a baffled response in the US, with one host warning that the media could be censored into asking stars what they want to discuss.

Dr. Fill, an A.I., won the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. Here's how.

Nearly 1,300 people spent this past weekend racing to fill little boxes inside larger boxes, ever mindful of spelling, trivia, wordplay, and a ticking clock. They were competitors newcomers, ardent hobbyists, and elite speed solvers in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, the pastime’s most prestigious competition. And most of them got creamed by some software. The annual event, normally set in a packed hotel ballroom with solvers separated by yellow dividers, was virtual this year, pencils swapped for keyboards. After millions of little boxes had been filled, a computer program topped the leaderboard for the first time. Advertisement Dr. Fill is the algorithmic creation of Matt Ginsberg, an Oxford-trained astrophysicist and computer scientist, stunt pilot, bridge player, novelist, and magician who lives in Oregon. When he began the project a decade ago, his motivation was simple: “I sucked at crosswords, and it just pissed me off.” Ginsberg hoped one day to walk into t

The 25th anniversary of Deep Blue beating Garry Kasparov in a chess game.

Chess has captured the imagination of humans for centuries due to its strategic beauty an objective, board-based testament to the power of mortal intuition. Twenty-five years ago Wednesday, though, human superiority on a chessboard was seriously threatened for the first time. At a nondescript convention center in Philadelphia, a meticulously constructed supercomputer called Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov for the first in a series of six games. Kasparov was world chess champion at the time and widely considered to be one of the greatest players in the history of chess. He did not expect to lose. It was perhaps understandable; 1996 was an age of fairly primitive computer beings. Personal computers were only just becoming a more affordable commodity (35 percent of U.S. households owned a computer in 1997, compared with 15 percent in 1990), the USB had just been released, and it would be another five years until Windows XP made its way onto the market.

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