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In the bustling atmosphere of the Beijing Olympic table tennis hall, 11-year-old Wang Tianyi sat quietly, not as a fan, but as a researcher. While others cheered for Zhang Yining, she meticulously ...

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Japanese baseball has a rich history, but a series of structural factors stand in the way of it becoming a phenomenon in ...

Nvidia has acquired synthetic data startup Gretel to bolster the AI training data used by the chip maker's customers and ...