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Former Kansas State quarterback Will Howard announces transfer to Ohio State

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The quarterback carousel in college football continues to turn as the transfer portal has become king. 

Former Kansas State quarterback Will Howard committed to Ohio State on Thursday for his final year of eligibility. 

Quarterback Will Howard #18 of the Kansas State Wildcats throws a pass against the Baylor Bears in the first half at Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium on November 11, 2023, in Manhattan, Kansas.  (Peter G. Aiken/Getty Images)

“I’m glad I took my time with this decision,” Howard told ESPN. “Through it, I got to learn a lot about myself and college football in general. It was a great process. I’m really glad I ended up choosing Ohio State.

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“I knew that if I passed this up, I’d regret passing up the chance to go be the quarterback at Ohio State. I knew I’d be kicking myself if I passed up this opportunity.”

Howard will be a fifth-year senior after spending the first four years of his college career in Manhattan, Kansas. 

He led the Wildcats to the 2022 Big 12 Championship Game where Kansas State defeated TCU before the Horned Frogs played in the College Football Playoff. In his two years as a starter, Howard went 12-5 and threw for 4,276 yards, 39 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. 

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Will Howard scores a touchdown

Kansas State Wildcats quarterback Will Howard (18) shoves Iowa State Cyclones defensive back T.J. Tampa (2) aside during a touchdown run in the third quarter of a Big 12 football game between the Iowa State Cyclones and Kansas State Wildcats on November 25, 2023, at Bill Snyder Family Stadium in Manhattan, Kansas.  (Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Howard also ran for 251 yards and nine touchdowns in 2023. 

Howard said he chose Ohio State because he wanted to have a chance at winning a national championship and potentially jump into the first or second round of the NFL Draft. 

“The goal I have, I want to go win a national championship,” he told ESPN. “At the end of the day, I want to go be a starting quarterback in the NFL. . . . I feel like the best place to stick as a quarterback in the NFL is as a first- or second-round pick in the NFL draft. Going to Ohio State gives me a chance to make a jump and leap into that conversation.”

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Howard’s decision to join the Buckeyes comes one month after 2023 starter Kyle McCord entered the transfer portal. 

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Ohio State quarterback Kyle McCord throws during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Michigan, Saturday, November 25, 2023, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

McCord announced in mid-December that he would play for Fran Brown at Syracuse next season. 

Ohio State went 11-2 in 2023, losing to Michigan for the third straight year to keep them out of the Big Ten Championship Game and the CFP. 

The Buckeyes lost to the Missouri Tigers in the Cotton Bowl. 

How an AI robot smashed the human world record in Labyrinth, a classic marble maze game

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You’ve probably heard of AI winning against humans in games like chess and GO that require intellect. That’s impressive but not shocking.

AI is good at crunching numbers and finding patterns.

But what about physical skills? That’s something humans are supposed to be better at, right? Well, not anymore.

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CyberRunner AI robot (ETH Zurich)

An AI labyrinth maze champion emerges

Researchers at ETH Zurich have created an AI robot with the task of learning how to play the popular wooden labyrinth maze game. The goal of the game is simple, using two knobs, you have to steer a marble ball from a start to an endpoint without it falling into the holes across the board. But if you’ve ever played it, you know it’s actually easier said than done. The scientific explanation behind its difficulty is that it requires acute motor skills, spatial reasoning abilities — and a lot of practice.

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CyberRunner AI robot (ETH Zurich)

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Meet the new robot champion

The robot, named CyberRunner, is equipped with two motors (its hands), a camera (its eyes), and a computer (its brain), allowing it to play the game just like a person would. Much like a human, CyberRunner learns through experience by leveraging recent advances in model-based reinforcement learning, which enables the AI to make decisions and choose potential successful behaviors by predicting the outcomes of different courses of action.

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CyberRunner AI robot (ETH Zurich)

While playing the game, CyberRunner makes observations of the labyrinth and receives rewards based on its performance. It keeps a memory of the collected experience, or as we humans call it, “practice,” which the algorithm uses to learn how the system behaves.

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Based on this knowledge, it’s able to recognize the most promising behaviors. As a result, the robot’s use of the two motors continuously improves, and CyberRunner keeps getting better while the algorithm runs every time it plays.

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Diagram of CyberRunner AI robot learning and acting (ETH Zurich)

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The triumph of the robot in breaking the human record

The robot received 6.06 hours of practice. Impressively, it beat the previous world record set by Lars Göran Danielsson, who set a time of 15.41 seconds in 2022. CyberRunner completed the game in 14.48 seconds — faster by over 6% compared to the human record holder.

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CyberRunner AI robot’s winning time (ETH Zurich)

During the learning process, the researchers say the robot discovered shortcuts and found ways to cheat — a behavior that they are studying as an innate human trait. Therefore, the researchers had to step in and instruct CyberRunner not to skip parts of the maze.

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A view of the ball trajectory through the labyrinth by CyberRunner AI robot (ETH Zurich)

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What can be learned from CyberRunner?

Researchers Thomas Bi and Raffaello D’Andrea are making available the robotic system’s hardware and software open-source so that others can benefit and learn from their breakthrough in AI skill acquisition. They want to spur other scientists and engineers to use their experiment as an opportunity to conduct their own research. For those interested, their research paper is available here.

Kurt’s key takeaways

CyberRunner’s victory marks a significant milestone in the field of artificial intelligence, demonstrating that AI can now outperform humans not only in tasks that involve information processing but also in physical skill games. The project’s open-source approach ensures that the benefits of this achievement are accessible to a wider audience, paving the way for further innovations in real-world machine learning and AI. As we witness AI breaking new ground, the line between human and machine capabilities continues to blur.

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Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic’s buzzer-beating banked three stuns Warriors

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Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic added a new chapter to his incredible career. 

The two-time MVP and reigning NBA champion sunk the Golden State Warriors on Thursday night, banking in a game-winning three from near half-court to send the four-time champs to their fourth loss in five games. 

Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, #15, hits a three-pointer over Golden State Warriors forward Kevon Looney to give the Nuggets the win in an NBA basketball game on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Loren Elliott)

With 3.6 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter and the game tied 127-127, Aaron Gordon inbounded the ball to Jokic, who took three dribbles before pulling up from just beyond half-court. 

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The game-winner completed an 18-point comeback for the Nuggets, who went on a 25-4 run to close the game. 

“That was the last option with that play,” Jokic said, according to ESPN. “I just took a shot. I think those shots are the easiest shots to take. You don’t have any other options. So actually, when I felt it, I thought, ‘Oh, I’m going to bank this.’ You can see the flight of the ball, and I just knew I was going to bank it.”

Jokic finished the night with 34 points, 10 assists and 9 rebounds, as the Nuggets improved to 24-11 on the year. 

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Nikola Jokic, #15 of the Denver Nuggets, celebrates after making the game winning three-point basket against the Golden State Warriors on Jan. 4, 2024 at Chase Center in San Francisco. (Jed Jacobsohn/NBAE via Getty Images)

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It was a stunning loss for the Warriors, who held a 123-105 lead with 6:51 left in the fourth quarter. 

It was the seventh time this season that Golden State lost a game after holding a lead of at least 10 points, per ESPN. 

“These games all come down to the wire, it feels like for us this year,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “We’ve probably lost four or five we should have won.”

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Nikola Jokic, #15 of the Denver Nuggets, hugs head coach Michael Malone after the game against the Golden State Warriors on Jan. 4, 2024 at Chase Center in San Francisco. (Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images)

It has been a rocky start to the season for the Warriors, who have been without four-time All-Star Draymond Green for the last three weeks. 

Green was suspended indefinitely by the NBA after he wildly struck Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkic in the face during a December matchup. 

Green is reportedly nearing a return to the team. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Child seizures caught on video may be a clue to solving SUDC

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The last bedtime of 17-month-old Hayden Fell’s life was heartbreakingly normal. Crib video shows the toddler in pajamas playing happily as his parents and sister sang “Wheels on the Bus” with his twin brother.

The next morning, Hayden’s dad couldn’t wake him. The tot had become one of several hundred seemingly healthy U.S. toddlers and preschoolers each year who suddenly die in their sleep and autopsies can’t tell why. But Hayden’s crib cam was recording all night — and offered a clue.

Seizures during sleep are a potential cause of at least some cases of sudden unexplained death in childhood, or SUDC, researchers at NYU Langone Health reported Thursday after analyzing home monitoring video that captured the deaths of seven sleeping toddlers.

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Similar to SIDS in babies, SUDC is the term when these mysterious deaths occur any time after a child’s first birthday. Little is known about SUDC but some scientists have long suspected seizures may play a role. In addition to some genetics research, scientists also have found that a history of fever-related seizures was about 10 times more likely among the children who died suddenly than among youngsters the same age.

The new study is very small but offers the first direct evidence of a seizure link. Five of the toddlers died shortly after movements deemed to be a brief seizure by a team of forensic pathologists, a seizure specialist and a sleep specialist. A sixth child probably also had one, according to findings published online by the journal Neurology.

Seventeen-month-old Hayden Fell, of Bel Air, Md., was one of the hundreds of American babies who die in their sleep each year, seemingly without explanation. But the baby monitor camera recording Hayden that night offered a clue.  (Fell via Associated Press)

“It’s hard to watch,” said Dr. Orrin Devinsky, an NYU neurologist and the study’s senior author. “We have video which is in some ways the best evidence we may ever get of what’s happened to these kids.”

The recordings can’t prove fevers triggered the seizures but researchers noted several toddlers had signs of mild infections. One, Hayden, previously had such febrile seizures when he’d catch childhood bugs.

That raises a big question: Fever-related seizures are hugely common in young children, affecting 2% to 5% of tots between ages 6 months and 5 years. While scary, they’re hardly ever harmful. So how could anyone tell if occasionally, they might be a warning of something more serious?

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“I thought he would be fine and it was just a matter of letting this run its course,” said Justin Fell, explaining how multiple doctors told the Bel Air, Maryland, family not to worry whenever Hayden had a fever-sparked seizure. Instead, “it was every parent’s nightmare.”

Laura Gould, one of the NYU researchers, understands that agonizing frustration. In 1997 she lost her 15-month-old daughter Maria to what later was named SUDC — the toddler woke up one night with a fever, was her usual happy self the next morning but died during a nap. Gould later co-founded the nonprofit SUDC Foundation and helped establish NYU’s registry of about 300 deaths — including the first seven videos offered by families — for research.

Gould doesn’t want families to be scared by the new findings — they won’t change advice about febrile seizures. Instead, researchers next will have to determine if it’s possible to tease out differences between those very rare children who die and the masses who are fine after an occasional seizure.

“If we can figure out the children at risk, maybe we can change their outcome,” she said.

It’s hard for autopsies to find evidence of a seizure so using video from home monitors to reevaluate deaths “is actually very clever,” said Dr. Marco Hefti, a neuropathologist at the University of Iowa who wasn’t involved with the study but has also investigated SUDC.

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“It’s not that parents need to be stressing out, panicking about every febrile seizure,” he cautioned. But Hefti said it’s time for additional research, including animal studies and possibly sleep studies in children, to better understand what’s going on.

SUDC is estimated to claim over 400 lives a year in the U.S. Most occur during sleep. And just over half, about 250 deaths a year, are in 1- to 4-year-olds.

Sudden death in babies occurs more often and gets more public attention — along with more research funding that in turn has uncovered risk factors and prevention advice such as to put infants to sleep on their backs. But SUDC happens to youngsters long past the age of SIDS. The Fells had never even heard of it until Hayden died.

Hayden experienced his first seizure shortly before his first birthday, when a cold-like virus sparked a fever. Additional mild bugs triggered several more but Hayden always rapidly bounced back — until the night in November 2022 when he died.

Other recent studies, at NYU and by a team at Boston Children’s Hospital, have hunted genetic links to SUDC — finding that some children harbored mutations in genes associated with heart or brain disorders, including irregular heartbeats and epilepsy.

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Heart problems, including those mutations, couldn’t explain the deaths of the toddlers in the video study, Devinsky said. He cautioned that far more research is needed but said epilepsy patients sometimes experience difficulty breathing after a seizure that can lead to death — and raised the prospect that maybe some SIDS deaths could have seizure links, too.

Hayden’s mom, Katie Czajkowski-Fell, hopes the video evidence helps finally lead to answers.

“His life, it was too precious and too important for us to not try and do something with this tragedy.”

Oklahoma State quarterback to return for seventh year after being granted another year of eligibility

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Oklahoma State will have another season with quarterback Alan Bowman after the NCAA approved his waiver request for a seventh year of eligibility on Thursday. 

Bowman, who will turn 24 before the season begins, made the announcement on social media. 

Alan Bowman, #7 of the Oklahoma State Cowboys, throws a pass in the third quarter against the Texas A&M Aggies during the TaxAct Texas Bowl at NRG Stadium on Dec. 27, 2023 in Houston. (Tim Warner/Getty Images)

“Just want to say thanks to all my Oklahoma State teammates, the coaches and fans for helping make the 2023 season the most fun I’ve ever had playing football,” Bowman wrote in a post on X. 

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“That said, I just heard back that I was granted another year of eligibility, and we have unfinished business. I love Stillwater and this program, so I’ll be back in 2024 to make a championship run.” 

Bowman began his collegiate career at Texas Tech, where he played three seasons before spending the 2021 and 2022 seasons at Michigan. He transferred to Oklahoma State in January 2023. 

Alan Bowman throws a long pass

Oklahoma State Cowboys quarterback Alan Bowman, #7, throws a long ball from deep in his own endzone during second half action during the TaxAct Texas Bowl between the Texas A&M Aggies and Oklahoma State Cowboys at NRG Stadium on Dec. 27, 2023 in Houston. (Ken Murray/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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“Alan met the criteria for an extension of his eligibility due to his season-ending injury in 2019 combined with redshirting at the University of Michigan,” said Ben Dyson, Oklahoma State’s senior associate athletics director for compliance. 

“We appreciate the assistance of the Texas Tech training staff for providing us the documentation we needed to quickly process our waiver request.”

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Bowman led the Cowboys to a 10-4 record this season to reach the Big 12 title game where he threw 250 yards for three touchdowns in the loss to the Texas Longhorns. 

Alan Bowman celebrates a completed pass

Oklahoma State Cowboys quarterback Alan Bowman, #7, celebrates after completing a pass for a successful two-point conversion against the BYU Cougars in the fourth quarter at Boone Pickens Stadium on Nov. 25, 2023 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Oklahoma State won 40-34 in double overtime. (Brian Bahr/Getty Images)

He finished the season with a 402 yard passing and two touchdown performance in Oklahoma’s 31-23 victory over Texas A&M in the Texas Bowl last month. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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How much is Bitcoin worth today?

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Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has been intensely scrutinized as investors and analysts watch for signs of its next major move.

Bitcoin ETF rejection fears mount

As of Jan. 5, BTC’s price was stabilizing around $43,850 after a 4.75% drop from its local high, suggesting a cautious market awaiting decisive moves.

The drop appeared amid rumors of U.S. regulators rejecting a round of spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications, which have been a critical point of focus for the crypto community.

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BTC/USD daily price chart. Source: TradingView

For instance, Fidelity Investments’ registration of a Bitcoin fund as a public security raised expectations for an approved Bitcoin ETF, indicating institutional interest and a potential regulatory milestone.

However, Bloomberg Intelligence analyst James Seyffart suggested that conclusive evidence of an ETF approval is still pending. Attorney Joe Carlasare and Senior Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas reiterated this as well.

Bitcoin price technical analysis

On the technical front, indicators such as the Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) are nearing a reset, which is historically a precursor to significant price action, as shown below.

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BTC/USD daily price chart. Source: TradingView

Traders have advised caution on short-term expectations, while others have pointed to current prices as a strong buying opportunity, implying potential for upside movement.

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In summary, Bitcoin’s price is currently in a consolidation phase, with the market’s eyes fixed on regulatory developments and technical indicators signaling a possible trend reversal.

This article does not contain investment advice or recommendations. Every investment and trading move involves risk, and readers should conduct their own research when making a decision.