A look at the top 20 high school softball teams in the Southland; as ranked by CalHiSports.com for The Times. Rk. School; Record; Last ranking 1. Murrieta Mesa; 16-0; 1 2. Fullerton; 11-1; 4 3. Norco; 9-2; 3 4. JSerra 14-2; 2 5. La Mirada 12-2; 6 6. Oaks Christian; 12-1; 5 7. Orange Lutheran…
Since Prince Harry’s Spare came out in 2023, there’s been a weird undercurrent as royalists try to acknowledge the inherent pitfalls and generational trauma that comes with being a “spare” royal, all while never giving Harry credit for speaking about the exact same generational trauma. In recent years, that means periodic stories about how Princess…
Investigators said the government of President Ahmed al-Sharaa had done little to address the extrajudicial killings and torture of Druse civilians in July 2025.
Science has always relied on a curious human’s mind forming a hypothesis, designing an experiment, analyzing the results and presenting the case to that person’s peers. Over centuries, we’ve built better tools such as electron microscopes, particle accelerators and supercomputers, but the core loop of scientific discovery has remained stubbornly human. Now, for the first…
Last week I issued a reminder that Trump Mobile’s T1 Phone does not exist, and may never exist, despite the fact that the company showed me a phone in an effort to convince me otherwise. Today instead I bring cause for optimism for the Trump phone believers: it appears to have been certified by the…
Courtney Cronin Close Courtney Cronin ESPN Staff Writer Courtney Cronin joined ESPN in 2017, originally covering the Minnesota Vikings before switching to the Chicago Bears in 2022. Courtney is a frequent panelist on Around the Horn and host of Best Week Ever and GameNight on ESPN Radio. She also co-hosts The Chicago Bears Podcast on…
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Messenger Email A sand portrait of Hind Rajab – a 5-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed by Israeli forces in January, 2024, and who is now the focus of Oscar-nominated film, The Voice of Hind Rajab – has been created on a beach in Yorkshire, England, by artists from @aletterfromlucy. The…
The Tehran home of the acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami was damaged in strikes this week. His son Ahmad pushed back on efforts by the government to seize on his legacy.
The number of data centres is rapidly increasing JIM LO SCALZO/EPA/Shutterstock Data centres built to power AIs produce so much heat that they can raise the surface temperature of the land around them by several degrees – creating so-called data centre heat islands that may already be affecting up to 340 million people. The number…
Processing 200,000 tokens through a large language model is expensive and slow: the longer the context, the faster the costs spiral. Researchers at Tsinghua University and Z.ai have built a technique called IndexCache that cuts up to 75% of the redundant computation in sparse attention models, delivering up to 1.82x faster time-to-first-token and 1.48x faster…
