Author: Michael

China plays it fast and loose with its robots these days and just months after robots ran (or at least tried to run) a half-marathon, they’ve got robots playing soccer.
And while none of them are going to be bending it like Beckham any time soon, the robots already have a good idea of what it takes to be a high-level soccer player, specifically as it relates to getting carted off the pitch after an “injury.

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Don’t look now, but the Sixers may have a clear path to Joel Embiid’s first conference finals.
The NBA is a serious business. The Philadelphia 76ers are a serious franchise. I am a serious person. So trust me when I say that I am being completely serious in declaring totally, 100% seriously that the 76ers are maybe-sorta-kinda the favorites in the Eastern Conference next year.

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