The return of BTS is a big deal. In case you were in any doubt, just look at the frenzy surrounding the South Koreans' comeback. On Saturday, the band will kick off a sold-out, 82-date world tour with a free concert in Seoul, which is expected to be attended by more than 250,000 in-person fans and will be live-streamed on Netflix to more than 190 countries. When the tour wraps up in 2027, BTS are expected to have generated more than $1billion in revenue. Some more outlandish estimates suggest they will eclipse the $2billion haul of Taylor Swift's Eras tour.

Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Lots of people are going to be reminiscing about their childhood after EA Sports announced its College Football video game will return after an 11-year hiatus. The series began in 1993 with the release of Bill Walsh College Football, and the game was released under the legendary coach's name for two years. The name changed to College Football USA for the 1996 and 1997 seasons before changing to NCAA Football from 1998 to 2014.

The scientist behind a landmark letter calling for a pause in developing powerful artificial intelligence systems have said tech executives did not halt their work because they are locked in a "race to the bottom". Despite support from more than 30,000 signatories, including Elon Musk and the Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the document failed to secure a hiatus in developing the most ambitious systems. Speaking to the Guardian six months on, Tegmark said he had not expected the letter to stop tech companies working towards AI models more powerful than GPT-4, the large language model that powers ChatGPT, because competition has become so intense. "I felt that privately a lot of corporate leaders I talked to wanted [a pause] but they were trapped in this race to the bottom against each other. So no company can pause alone," he said.

Most medical articles have methods & results sections and matches in those sections are more important. I had little to no expectations entering this competition, so I wouldn't say I was surprised by anything. It was great to see so many smart and capable people all working together to try to help in whatever way they could. All of the work is driven by the Kaggle platform. The list of notebooks cover all the submissions for Round 1 and Round 2 of the CORD-19 challenge. All of the notebooks are in Python.

Back in June, a report from LinkedIn noted that the Covid crisis had cooled off demand for artificial intelligence skills. However, four months later, companies are still struggling with finding AI skills. Overall, more than four out of 10 enterprises now use artificial intelligence in a serious way, up one-third in just two years, a recent survey of 1,000 executives by RELX finds. Adoption accelerated in a big way over the past few months. AI technologies are being employed at 81% of businesses -- up from 48% in a similar survey conducted in 2018.

Uber had previously been pushing to get a fully autonomous vehicle on the roads by year-end, part of its mad dash to keep abreast of rival Alphabet Inc. GOOGL -3.16% But those plans were derailed when an Uber car struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz., in a March incident that some safety experts have said was avoidable. Uber on Thursday will send out just a handful of the self-driving vehicles on a fixed one-mile route between two of its offices in Pittsburgh. It is home to the company's largest testing and development center and one of the three cities where it had been experimenting with the cars. The runs are limited to the daytime during weekdays and speeds no more than 25 miles an hour.

It's one month until E3, and that means it's time for the rumors, leaks, and let's-get-ahead-of-the-flood announcements to start appearing. Need for Speed and Assassin's Creed kicked off the season this week with a below-the-radar announcement and a leak, respectively. That, plus a steep discount on the Steam Link, a 20-minute Prey run, Hitman and Mass Effect put on hiatus, and an amazing Strafe "movie trailer" as we head into the weekend. This is gaming news for May 8 to 12. I think it's safe to say at this point that Valve's whole Steam Machine ecosystem hasn't exactly taken off.

When Facebook Messenger first proclaimed the future of commerce was messaging in April 2016, it provided companies with a viable distribution mechanism (to over 1 billion monthly active users and growing) but excluded an important element in the equation -- a discovery mechanism. Developers and brands who chose Kik as their distribution platform fared a bit better, as Kik's official Bot Shop launch allowed discoverability and curation within multiple categories, modeled after Apple's App Store. By August over 20,000 bots had been created on Kik's Bot Shop. At the time Facebook Messenger announced it was supporting payments in September, over 30,000 bots had been built on Messenger. Although that's a far cry from the 2 million-plus apps in both Apple and and Google's app stores, discoverability remained a hurdle for bot creators.

Records of global temperatures over the last few decades figure prominently in the debate over the climate effects of CO2 emitted by burning fossil fuels, as I discussed in my first post in this series, on What can global temperature data tell us? One recent controversy has been whether or not there has been a pause' (also referred to as a hiatus') in global warming over the last 15 to 20 years, or at least a slowdown' in the rate of warming, a question that I considered in my second post, on Has there been a pause' in global warming? As I discussed in that post, the significance of a pause in warming since around 2000, after a period of warming from about 1970 to 2000, would be to show that whatever the warming effect of CO2, other factors influencing temperatures can be large enough to counteract its effect, and hence, conversely, that such factors could also be capable of enhancing a warming trend (eg, from 1970 to 2000), perhaps giving a misleading impression that the effect of CO2 is larger than it actually is. To phrase this more technically, a pause, or substantial slowdown, in global warming would be evidence that there is a substantial degree of positive autocorrelation in global temperatures, which has the effect of rendering conclusions from apparent temperature trends more uncertain. Whether you see a pause in global temperatures may depend on which series of temperature measurements you look at, and there is controversy about which temperature series is most reliable. In my previous post, I concluded that even when looking at the satellite temperature data, for which a pause seems most visually evident, one can't conclude definitely that the trend in yearly average temperature actually slowed (ignoring short-term variation) in 2001 through 2014 compared to the period 1979 to 2000, though there is also no definite indication that the trend has not been zero in recent years. Of course, I'm not the only one to have looked at the evidence for a pause.