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Sunrise making name for itself in wide world of chess - Sun Sentinel
Sun Sentinel
Sun Sentinel
Sunrise, a suburban enclave that happens to be home to the mega shopping mall and Florida hockey team, was recently named "Chess City of the Year" by the United States Chess Federation — the only city in Broward County to earn the title. Sunrise joins ...
Three British firms develop anti-drone 'death ray' that can disable UAVs from ... - The Independent
The Independent
The device, created by three British manufacturers, Enterprise, Chess Systems and Blighter, has been called an Anti-UAV Defence System (AUDS). It is far from the only anti-drone system in development. It emerged in August that the US government has ...
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How to Plan a Frugal Family Road Trip This Fall - U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
Plenty of board games come in travel versions, like checkers, chess, Connect Four and many more," she says. She also ... She also notes that gas prices can change significantly from state to state, so it's smart to research the gallon costs before you go.
Chess camp for kids - WAAY
WAAY
WAAY
On Saturday and Sunday, Stripunsky will teach a class for students at the Chess Camp from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Madison City Schools Central Office at 211 Celtic. "This is my first visit to Alabama," Stripunsky said. "I am looking forward to the Space ...
What to Do This Weekend - New York Times
New York Times
New York Times
It's hard to imagine a time when chess players could inspire widespread passion à la, say, the Mets in the postseason. But as ... Ten years ago, more than 300 people vanished without a trace from a Tennessee town that housed a research facility. Where ...
Indian American Chess Whiz Akshat Chandra from NJ wins the US Junior Chess ... - The Indian Panorama
The Indian Panorama
The Indian Panorama
The nine-round tournament was held at the prestigious Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis from July 6 to July 15. The tense race for first place remained undecided until the final round when International Master Akshat Chandra emerged ...
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg invested in the ultimate AI - ZME Science
ZME Science
ZME Science
Today, there are some pretty amazing AIs. For instance, Deep Blue and Watson – both from IBM – are some of the famous, garnering headlines when they beat the best human players of the time at chess and Jeopardy!, respectively. Then, there's the deep ...
UCLA researchers develop camera, technique to find cancerous tissue - Daily Bruin
Daily Bruin
Daily Bruin
The trials are a part of bioengineering professor Warren Grundfest's long-term research study that aims to use a novel quasi-real-time fluorescence lifetime imaging technique to better distinguish between cancerous and noncancerous tissue before ...
No Cards, No Cash: The Crazy Plan to Make Poker an eSport - Motherboard
Motherboard
According to research firm Repucom, there are 100 million poker fans in the world and 51 million in the US—they're just not watching poker like League of Legends fans watch League of Legends tournaments. "We failed to invest in characters and creating ...
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Lies and Truth: Obama's UN General Assembly Speech Dissected - Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
Putin tells his aide that, in a bid to lower the temperature and calm the nerves before turning to grave topics like the wars in Syria and Ukraine, the Russian president proposed they first sit down to a game of chess. Putin tells his aide what it's ...
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DC community calendar, Oct. 8-15, 2015 - Washington Post
Washington Post
Guides lead a visit and discuss how the exotic plant world connects to everyday life, with possible views of bananas, cacao and coffee ripening on the tree orinformation about the next big breakthrough in medical plant research. Fridays, Mondays and ...
What's happening Thursday in the north valley - Chico Enterprise-Record
Chico Enterprise-Record
Chico Air Museum: 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Aircraft, aviation, space artifacts and documents; outdoor museum with jet and propeller driven aircraft; research library, gift shop, speaker series, events by arrangements. Learn about aerospace history of Chico and ...
Washburn University professor gives talk on experiences in Iceland - Topeka Capital Journal
Topeka Capital Journal
Many Icelanders believe in the existence of elves, chess is considered the most popular national sport and the country is run mostly on geothermal energy, a result of its many volcanoes. Paul said Iceland looks like, “a union between mars and the ...
Things to do in and around Greenwich - Greenwich Time
Greenwich Time
Greenwich Time
On Oct. 15 at 3:30 p.m. in the Cos Cob Library Community Room, 5 Sinawoy Road, an afternoon of chess instruction will take place. The class is open to all grade and skill levels. Free, but limited to 20 players. Register at the library or call 203-622 ...
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'The House of Twenty Thousand Books' recreates an intellectual milieu - Washington Post
Washington Post
During his research, Sasha unearths a disconcertingly dogmatic letter setting forth his grandfather's once starkly Stalinist views: “There is nothing in it of the gentleness that I knew in the older, grandfatherly Chimen.” For a moment ... Though ...
Working for 'the most hated man in America' - Hamilton Spectator
Hamilton Spectator
Hamilton Spectator
Ripp said Turing has been misunderstood and vilified - understandably so, he concedes, given how swiftly the news snowballed on the Internet and social media - but that Turing's leaders are committed to developing life-saving drugs, investing in ...
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Appliance Science: How robotic vacuums navigate - CNET
CNET
CNET
He was part of a new wave of artificial intelligence (AI) research that stepped away from complex problems like teaching a computer to play chess to focus on the basics of intelligence. This movement reasoned that an ant isn't smart, but it navigates ...
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Appliance Science: How Robotic Vacuums Navigate - CNET
CNET
CNET
He was part of a new wave of artificial intelligence (AI) research that stepped away from complex problems like teaching a computer to play chess to focus on the basics of intelligence. This movement reasoned that an ant isn't smart, but it navigates ...
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Woodall chess club teaches focus, problem solving - Tahlequah Daily Press
Tahlequah Daily Press
The Woodall Chess team competed in the Oklahoma Scholastic Chess Organization's University of Central Oklahoma K-12 Scholastic open in Edmond on Sept. 26. The team's next event they are participating in is the OSCO Cherokee Nation K-12 Open on ...
Search is on for rich chess sponsors - Financial Times
Financial Times
Financial Times
Research by pollsters YouGov in 2012 found, for example, that 21 per cent of US households with annual incomes of more than $120,000 are home to regular chess players. Four-fifths of all US players are graduates. And figures from the National Golf ...