Author: Lily Evans

TEMPE — The Arizona Cardinals have selected Texas Tech safety Dadrion Taylor-Demerson with the 104th overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. Taylor Demerson was the first pick of the third day out of the University of Arizona, making him the first safety the Cardinals took in the draft. “Yesterday I thought I was going to get drafted (by the Cardinals),” the cornerback said on a conference call. “This is where I wanted to go. I'm just happy that I was chosen here. “I loved it there when I visited. One of my best friends is staying there. I love…

BYU Basketball has four-star Texas Tech transfer Pop Isaacs in the top three. According to Jeff Goodman, Isaacs has two years of eligibility remaining, including Creighton University, St. John's University and BYU. Isaacs just finished his second season as the Red Raiders' leading scorer. He averaged 15.8 points per game, 3.5 assists per game, and 3.2 rebounds per game. After the season, he was named to the All-Big 12 Third Team. said Pop Isaacs, who transferred to Texas Tech University. @aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa His three finalists are Creighton, St. John's and BYU. Isaacs will likely schedule a visit within the next few…

Meta's open source Llama 3 is already catching up to OpenAIWill Knight | Wired“OpenAI changed the world with ChatGPT, sparking a wave of AI investment and attracting more than 2 million developers to its cloud APIs. But once the open source model proves competitive, developers and entrepreneurs Homes may decide to stop paying for access to OpenAI or Google's latest models and instead use Llama 3 or one of the increasingly powerful open source models that are emerging. yeah.” Personalized mRNA vaccine against melanoma goes into clinical trials, offering 'real hope' for cancer cureandrew gregory guardian”Experts are testing a new…

BLACKSBURG, Va. (WFXR) — Unrest continues at universities across the country. Demonstrators from Columbia University in New York to Cal State in California are calling out the war in Gaza. On Friday, April 26, the atmosphere at Virginia Tech was much more peaceful than in many other places, but protests began closer to home. On Friday, Hokie students demonstrated for more than 10 hours. Student organizers, who plan to demonstrate over the next few days or until the university accedes to their demands, set up tents early in the day and provided food to protesters throughout the day. “One of…

There's a popular story in the investment community that during the gold rush, the people who really made money weren't the miners, but the entrepreneurs who sold them the picks and shovels they needed to mine. Investors who tell this story often point to California's first billionaire, a businessman and newspaper publisher named Samuel Brannan. He made most of his fortune selling equipment and food to gold miners at high prices during the 1840s and 1850s. Some people might bring up Levi Strauss. Levi Strauss was a German-born businessman who imported luxury goods (including, of course, blue jeans) to San…

China's clean energy sector was the biggest driver of GDP growth in 2023, contributing 40% of economic expansion (approximately $1.6 trillion). The country's commitment to renewable energy is highlighted by significant investment in the industry. Let's take the solar power sector as an example. Over the past decade, investment in new solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in China has exceeded $50 billion, 10 times more than in all of Europe. This surge in investment has strengthened China's energy independence and facilitated significant job creation, adding more than 300,000 manufacturing jobs across the solar power value chain since 2011. China currently holds…

China's attempts to promote scientific research and innovation have yet to overcome setbacks caused by a “title-driven” system of academic resource allocation, analysts have warned.The initiative is seen as a necessary countermeasure to the Chinese government's efforts to revamp academic evaluation processes to encourage innovation in cutting-edge technology. Management measures from the United States, making this country a technological powerhouse by the middle of this century.However, the current research environment, which is a key factor in nurturing new talent, is still “somewhat distorted” by the way subsidies are provided, Liao Wang, a magazine affiliated with state news agency Xinhua, said…

One of the many things we know about the Virginia Tech football team heading into the 2024 season is that they have depth at multiple positions. One of those positions is wide receiver. Quarterback Kyron Drones will have some talented targets to throw to in the fall, as the Hokies have gained a lot of retention at wide receiver.Jaylin Lane, Daquan Felton, Stephen Gosnell, and Ali Jennings will return for another season. Jennings may be the one to break out among this group. That's because he only appeared in one game last season before injuring his ankle in Virginia Tech's…

The Texas Tech men's track and field team has so many talented sprinters that they can win the 400 meter relay in the first lineup and then in the second.On Friday night, in Tech's final home meet of the regular season, Josh Barr, Sean Brown, Jack Marshall and Antwan Andrews ran a season-best time of 38.72 seconds to win the Corky/Crofoot Shootout.Come Friday, three members of the Red Raiders' sprint relay lineup have posted times within the top 20 in NCAA Division I this year, with Jalen Drayden and three-time NCAA sprint champion Terrence Jones running the other team. was.Jones…

U.S. stocks had their best week so far this year, driven by gains in the world's biggest technology companies.The latest inflation data was broadly in line with expectations, which also provided support for Wall Street.The S&P 500 and Nasdaq posted their biggest weekly gains since early November 2023.On Friday, the S&P 500 rose 1.02% to close at around 5,100, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 rose nearly 2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4%.MSCI's global stock index rose 0.9% to 762.39 on positive results from Alphabet and Microsoft and optimism for the tech sector.The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury…