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Sunday's inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff bracket reveal officially set the stage for the most anticipated postseason the sport has ever seen. Eight more spots in the playoff field have created two extra rounds to determine a national champion, which could come from the Big Ten, the Southeastern Conference or even the Mountain West! Now that the initial matchups are set, it's time to examine the FanDuel odds for the first-round games and, of course, the latest national championship odds. CFP Bracket: Odds for First-Round Games Oregon's win over Penn State in the Big Ten championship locked the Ducks into the No. 1 seed, while Georgia's overtime triumph over Texas for the SEC crown moved the Bulldogs up to No. 2. Boise State slotted in at No. 9 in the final CFP rankings but is the No. 3 seed thanks to its win over UNLV in the Mountain West championship. With SMU losing to Clemson in the Atlantic Coast Conference title game, No. 12-ranked Arizona State is the four seed after it throttled Iowa State to win the Big 12. The top four teams get a bye, with the 5-12 seeds meeting in the first round. 12-seed Clemson (+330) vs. 5-seed Texas (-11.5) Texas was favored to win the SEC and lock down a top-four seed, but Clemson was not expected to beat SMU for the ACC title. The Longhorns will therefore hunt redemption, while Dabo Swinney's team is essentially playing with house money. The winner will face Arizona State in the Peach Bowl. 9-seed Tennessee (+215) vs. 8-seed Ohio State (-7.5) The third-highest-ranked team from the SEC (No. 7 Tennessee) will face off with the third-highest-ranked squad from the Big Ten (No. 6 Ohio State). This game brings the Buckeyes a chance at redemption for their embarrassing loss to Michigan to end the regular season. The winner will travel to the Rose Bowl to play Oregon. 11-seed SMU (+240) vs. 6-seed Penn State (-7.5) Concerns over strength of schedule dog both teams. Both have 11-2 records and were runners-up in their respective conferences. Penn State's only win over a ranked opponent was against then-No. 19 Illinois in Week 4, while SMU has knocked off then-No. 22 Louisville and then-No. 18 Pittsburgh. The winner will meet Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl. 10-seed Indiana (+230) vs. 7-seed Notre Dame (-7.5) The Hoosiers may be the biggest surprise in college football this season, although their inclusion came with a few concerns over the strength of their schedule. After falling flat in a potential statement game against then-No. 2 Ohio State on Nov. 23, Indiana can prove its might against a Fighting Irish squad that won its last 10 games. The winner will take on Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. National Championship Odds and Picks Oregon was the betting favorite (odds via FanDuel) prior to the final rankings reveal at +230. Post-reveal, Texas and Georgia are co-favorites at +360, followed by Oregon at +380, Ohio State at +500 and Penn State at +600. Boise State is the biggest long shot at +7500 despite having a first-round bye. Like Boise State, Arizona State saw its odds go from +3500 to +6000 even though it doesn't play until the quarterfinals. The Picks are In... First-Round Best Bet: Indiana-Notre Dame UNDER 51.5-both teams have solid offenses but will find it difficult to move the ball against the other's defense. Upset Special: Clemson (+340) over Texas-Cade Klubnik will have his hands full against the Texas secondary, but the Clemson defense could be up for the challenge against Quinn Ewers and the Longhorns offense. National Championship Winner: Favorite-Oregon +380; Dark Horse-Notre Dame +1200; Long Shot-Arizona State +6000 --Field Level Media

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Missed kicks. Poor tackling. Costly penalties. Week 12 was filled with sloppy play around the NFL, leading to some upsets and surprising outcomes. Jayden Daniels nearly led Washington to an improbable comeback down 10 in the final two minutes against Dallas only to fall short because Austin Seibert's extra point sailed wide left. After a field goal and successful onside kick, Daniels connected with Terry McLaurin on an 86-yard catch-and-run touchdown to bring the Commanders within one point with 21 seconds remaining. But Seibert's point-after attempt failed and the Cowboys returned the ensuing onside kick for a touchdown to seal a 34-26 victory. Special teams were atrocious for both teams. Seibert also missed his first extra point and Washington allowed KaVontae Turpin's 99-yard kickoff return for a score earlier in the fourth quarter. The Cowboys missed a field goal, had another blocked and had a punt blocked. "What a wild special teams moment of blocked punts, kicks, kickoff returns, blocked field goals, just a number of things going to that spot," Commanders coach Dan Quinn said. Washington (7-5) was a 10 1/2-point favorite over the undermanned Cowboys (4-7) but ended up losing a third straight game. The Houston Texans were 8-point favorites against the lowly Tennessee Titans and let the game come down to Ka'imi Fairbairn missing a 28-yard field goal that would have tied it with just under two minutes left. C.J. Stroud threw two interceptions, was sacked four times and the Texans (7-5) committed 11 penalties, including an illegal shift that negated a go-ahead 33-yard TD pass to Nico Collins on the drive that ended with Fairbairn's miss in the 32-27 loss. The Titans (3-8) averaged just 17 points per game before putting 32 on the scoreboard against Houston's defense that entered No. 4 in the league. "We didn't do anything well enough to win this game," Texans coach DeMeco Ryans said. "Out of all the positives that we did have, there were way too many negatives. Too many negative plays. Score, get a penalty, get touchdowns called back. Get penalties on special teams. Just way too many negative plays defensively, like unexplainable explosives for touchdowns. We just didn't play good across the board." The San Francisco 49ers didn't have quarterback Brock Purdy, star edge rusher Nick Bosa and All-Pro left tackle Trent Williams against Green Bay. That was no excuse for their undisciplined performance. The Niners committed nine penalties and their tackling was shoddy in a 38-10 loss to the Packers. The defending NFC champions are 5-6 with a trip to Buffalo (9-2) coming up. They're still only one game behind Seattle and Arizona in the NFC West. "I'm really not concerned right now about how many guys were missing. We didn't play good enough, so that's not a factor. But, when you are missing some guys, you do have to be better. When you have those penalties and we didn't stop the run like we did and we had those three turnovers in the second half, that's how you get embarrassed." Coming off their first loss of the season, the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs needed Patrick Mahomes' heroics on the final drive to beat Carolina 30-27. Mahomes ran 33 yards to set up Spencer Schrader's 31-yard field goal as time expired. Kansas City had 10 penalties, including a pass interference that gave the Panthers (3-8) another chance to make the 2-point conversion that tied the game with 1:46 remaining. On defense, the Chiefs (10-1) suddenly shaky unit gave up 334 total yards against Bryce Young and an offense that entered last in the NFL. "We've got to do better. We're doing good in the red zone but that's only a third of the field," Chiefs safety Bryan Cook said. "We will go back and look at the film to see what we're doing week to week, and see the tendencies that we're giving up, and just move forward from there. At the end of the day, we're all vets in the room for the most part. ... got to go back to the drawing board and see what we're doing and correct it from there." The Vikings allowed the Bears to recover an onside kick with 21 seconds left and Caleb Williams followed with a 27-yard pass to D.J. Moore to set up Cairo Santos' tying 48-yard field goal. But Minnesota won in overtime, 30-27. The Chiefs and Vikings overcame their mistakes in narrow victories. The Commanders, Texans and 49ers couldn't. They have to be better down the stretch to make a playoff run. Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson. A subscription helps you access more of the local stories that keep you connected to the community. Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox!

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British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton and co-laureate John Hopfield are set to receive the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday in Stockholm. The pair landed the accolade because they used physics to develop artificial neural networks, which help computers learn without having to program them. These networks form the foundation of machine learning, a computer science that relies on data and algorithms to help artificial intelligence mimic the human brain. Hinton and Hopfield’s path to the Nobel began when Hopfield, who is now a professor emeritus at Princeton University, invented a network in 1982 that could store and reconstruct images in data. The Hopfield network uses associate memory, which humans use to remember what something looks like when it’s not in front of them or to conjure up a word they know but seldom use. The network can mirror this process because it stores patterns and has a method for recreating them. When the network is given an incomplete or slightly distorted pattern, the method then searches for the stored pattern that is most similar to recreate data. This means if a computer was shown, for example, a photo of dog where only part of the animal was visible, it could use the network to piece together the missing part of the image and recognize it was depicting a dog. Hinton, who was working at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 1985, used the Hopfield network as the foundation for a new network he called the Boltzmann machine. Its name came from the nineteenth-century physicist Ludwig Boltzmann. The Boltzmann machine learns from examples, rather than instructions, and when trained, can recognize familiar characteristics in information, even if it has not seen that data before. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which gives out the Nobel, likens this to how humans may be able to identify someone as a relative of one of their friends, even if they’ve never met this person before, because of they share similar traits. The Boltzmann machine works in a similar way, classifying images or creating new examples based on the patterns it was trained on. This kind of technology can help suggest films or television shows based on a user’s preferences and past viewing history The Hopfield network and Boltzmann machine are considered to have laid the groundwork for modern AI. Hinton, a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, went on to win the A.M. Turing Award, known as the Nobel Prize of computing, with fellow Canadian Yoshua Bengio and American Yan LeCun in 2018. He is often called the godfather of AI. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 8, 2024. Tara Deschamps, The Canadian PressDarts star Beau Greaves, 20, scoops THIRD WDF world title and £25k prize after rejecting PDC World Championships

Watch “Frank.” “Young man!” a voice shouted down the telephone line. “We’re all different! But we’re all the same. And we’re all God’s children.” Thus began my short, intense friendship with Frank Lucianna, a ninety-nine-year-old attorney, as we followed him on his final criminal trial. Stepping out of the elevator into Frank’s law offices was to enter a shrine to his seventy-year legal career: framed newspaper clippings (“Retirement? He Objects!”), photographs of long-dead secretaries, and gifts from long-ago clients. Frank was a time capsule: he spontaneously broke into song, belting out nineteen-forties big-band hits; wore a pin-striped suit to work; handed out five-dollar bills to the needy on Main Street; and waited until a female crew member was out of earshot to discuss anything remotely PG-13. View the latest or submit your own film. Frank said his life was blessed. In fact, it had nearly ended in 1945, when his B-17 bomber was hit by anti-aircraft fire over Italy. At twenty-two, he was the old man of the crew; he steadied their nerves until they crashed, and then led them to Yugoslavian partisans and safety. Other kids from his Jersey neighborhood weren’t so lucky: thirteen friends never made it home. Anytime I asked about the war, Frank slipped into a quick, low recitation of their names. Frankie Novello, Carl Murray, John Way . . . Each boy was now a bead on a private rosary. Their stories had ended, but Frank’s went on. He graduated from Fordham Law and began representing indigent Black defendants in Bergen County, because when he hung out his shingle they were some of the only clients he could get. He came to specialize in murder cases with psychological defenses: in 1981, Frank pioneered the “battered woman” defense when he won an acquittal for Dorothy Rapp, a housewife who had killed her abusive husband. By the end of his life, he was a celebrity to many of his working-class clients and—a function of his longevity—their children and grandchildren. They spotted him from blocks away, his small frame, large head, and shock of white hair. (Frank himself acknowledged his resemblance to the protagonist of the 2009 Pixar film “Up.”) Despite Frank’s passion for criminal defense, the violence weighed on him. “Some of these cases are so terrible, they’re unimaginable,” he told me, as we stood under the vaulted ceilings of his beloved church. And yet, he saw his role not just as a defense attorney but as a shepherd, guiding broken souls toward redemption. “To unearth the goodness from some of these people who have done wicked things is a tremendous job,” he said. “That’s what the law profession comes down to.” His statement was so powerful that I can now scarcely remember a time when I failed to understand it. Turnout at funerals tends to dwindle with age, as friends die and social networks dissipate. When Frank died, I allotted twenty minutes to stop by his wake. Instead, I spent two hours in a line that snaked down the block: grateful clients, veterans, prosecutors stymied by his courtroom theatrics, judges swayed by them, and fellow defense attorneys to whom he was an unofficial dean. Many had known him for decades, some for days. I had spent less than a week with Frank in the final year of his life. But length of acquaintance is not always indicative of depth of connection. It was family, in the end, that Frank cherished the most. On the final shoot day, just six weeks before he died, he said, “Boys!” and waved his hand dismissively. “Forget ’em. Girls! Girls are the best, young man.” Frank and Dolores had three daughters: Diane, Susan, and Nancy. On Sundays after church, other families visited Baumgart’s Café or Howard Johnson’s. For his girls, it was Rahway and Trenton State. They waited in prison parking lots while he went inside to visit clients. The law became a family affair. Diane and Nancy eventually worked alongside him as attorneys, and Susan was a paralegal at his office. Susan died of breast cancer at forty-eight. At day’s end, before driving himself home, Frank put on his coat, gripped a cane, and prayed before her portrait in the lobby. In success, a documentary short is a Polaroid, a snapshot of time and place. Rather than trying to squeeze the vastness of this extraordinary life into fifteen minutes, we met the man in this moment, as he summoned the strength for one last case. At ninety-nine, he was determined to not just survive but thrive. Laughing, crying, praying, despairing, drinking, hoping, singing, and above all else, living. Early on in the project, I had told someone at a party about Frank’s never-ending career. “How sad,” she had said, thinking it was tragic that he felt the need to keep working. But Frank had not missed some crucial chapter of life by not decamping to a South Florida shuffleboard court. Nor was he raging against the dying of the light. He was a torch-bearer, protecting a faith in the promise of redemption. He spread that flame right up until the final gavel struck. New Yorker Favorites The killer who got into Harvard . How Steve Martin learned what’s funny . Growing up as the son of the Cowardly Lion . The light of the world’s first nuclear bomb . A thief who stole only silver . Amelia Earhart’s last flight . Fiction by Milan Kundera: “ The Unbearable Lightness of Being .” Sign up for our daily newsletter to receive the best stories from The New Yorker .Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. TSM shares were trading higher Monday following an announcement by the Biden administration regarding a trade investigation into China’s semiconductor policies, particularly concerning “legacy” semiconductors. What To Know: The investigation, known as the “Section 301” probe, could lead to higher U.S. tariffs on these components and aims to counter China’s state-driven semiconductor industry expansion according to Reuters. The probe is part of a broader U.S. effort to limit China’s influence in the semiconductor sector, including increased export restrictions on advanced chips and equipment. The U.S. has also imposed a 50% tariff on Chinese semiconductors starting Jan. 1, with the possibility of further tariff increases. The investigation will evaluate the implications of Chinese semiconductors on critical industries, including defense and automotive. China’s Commerce Ministry has condemned the U.S. investigation, stating it will disrupt global semiconductor supply chains. In retaliation, China has restricted exports of key minerals, such as gallium and germanium, essential for chip manufacturing and advanced technologies. 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