If you have played a game of online chess, or queued up in ranked esports games, chances are you’ve already encountered the Elo rating system. Originally developed in the 1960s by physics professor ...

Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI. Doctorow doesn’t actually enjoy talking about AI, but ...

Hold onto your butts, fighters: Facebook is now in charge of the UFC rankings. Monday saw the rollout of the new Meta UFC Rankings, a mathematical model designed to take the subjectivity and alleged ...

At long last, Meta has come to the UFC's rescue to solve the vexing problem of fighter rankings. The new system, reportedly designed by the Facebook parent company (and UFC sponsor), debuted on the ...

Elena Rybakina has spent much of the past two years hovering near the top of the women's game. At Wimbledon, she has a chance to take the final step and become World No. 1 for the first time. The ...

I can’t tell the exact tipping point from realistic excitement over a new technology, to hype, to aww-come-on — but I’m pretty sure when a sandwich shop with Danny DeVito as its public face talks ...

On Friday night, the Toronto Maple Leafs will make a franchise-altering decision with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NHL Draft. Barring a shocker, that selection will be Penn State winger Gavin ...

A 21-year-old using the alias "Snoopy" was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in hacking DraftKings accounts in the November 2022 cyberattack. In December 2025, the man, Nathan Austad of ...

The chips that datacenters use to run the latest AI breakthroughs generate much more heat than previous generations of silicon. Anybody whose phone or laptop has overheated knows that electronics ...

Ford Motor Co. took an unusually human approach to fixing its stubborn quality problems: It brought back what it calls “gray beard” engineers to help train younger staff and to reprogram the ...

Erling Haaland's Norway were one of the tournament's most impressive performers Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images And so, the 2026 World Cup is over, after 104 games, 308 goals, 15 players sent off, ...

The World Cup round of 32 is well underway, as teams continue to book their places in the last 16. Through the first handful of games we've already seen some shocking eliminations, as pre-tournament ...