When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. I unleashed AI on the Excel World Championship. If I can use AI like Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT to solve the hardest problems at the Spreadsheet Super Bowl, does it still mean anything? At around the same time that a humanoid robot broke Usain Bolt's record for the 100 meters, I was pushing the button to make people like Diarmuid Early irrelevant. Early, the winner of the Microsoft Excel World Championship 2025 competition, used brains, not brawn, to defeat two dozen other finalists in Las Vegas last December for just a few thousand dollars, plus bragging rights.

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Look Up Say More Switch Off Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Creator Playbook Mashable Voices Trending Now Mashable Selects Safety Net Versus Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List In My Bag All Series Everything you need to know before one of the biggest pro wrestling events of the year. Chance Townsend is the General Assignments Editor at Mashable, covering tech, video games, dating apps, digital culture, and whatever else comes his way. He has a Master's in Journalism from the University of North Texas and is a proud orange cat father. His writing has also appeared in PC Mag and . While not as established as its contemporary, All Elite Wrestling, or AEW, is perhaps the best showcase of professional wrestling in the United States and the wider world. It's why AEW is Where the best wrestle. For that simple reason, it's a no-brainer that AEW's biggest event of the year,, is must-watch TV. The fourth annual event is the culmination of years and years worth of television on the company's weekly shows, and and the showcase of the company's future pillars.

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It's time for Wright to retire - Van Gerwen Michael van Gerwen says Peter Wright should retire after his emphatic defeat in the second round of the PDC World Championship. Two-time world champion Wright won just two legs and averaged below 80 as he was surprisingly beaten by debutant Arno Merk on Tuesday. Van Gerwen, who has won the world title three times, said he was not surprised by [Wright's] performance given the Scotsman's inconsistent recent record and it's time for him to retire anyway. The 36-year-old Dutchman beat William O'Connor to reach the third round at Alexandra Palace. Another two-time world champion, Gary Anderson, said players cannot play well all the time and that Wright is having a blip.

LG TVs add'delete' option for Copilot Riot Games has confirmed that it's working on a huge update for the game. Signage for Riot Games, developer and publisher of video game League of Legends, is seen displayed as fans attend a viewing party for the League of Legends 2025 World Championship Finals at LoL Park, an e-sports venue in Seoul on November 9, 2025, as the LoL Worlds Championship finals between South Korea's T1 and KT takes place in Chengdu. Riot Games has confirmed that it's working on a massive update for after published a report saying that the company has plans to remake the game. Back in November, a Chinese esports insider also reported that a is in development and is coming as early as the second half of 2026. In a video announcement discussing Riot's plans for after 2026, executive producer Paul Belleza denied that the developer is working on like rumors have been suggesting, but he admitted that it is working on a big update that will arrive in 2027.

Biomechanical features have become important indicators for evaluating athletes' techniques. Traditionally, experts propose significant features and evaluate them using physics equations. However, the complexity of the human body and its movements makes it challenging to explicitly analyze the relationships between some features and athletes' final performance. With advancements in modern machine learning and statistics, data analytics methods have gained increasing importance in sports analytics. In this study, we leverage machine learning models to analyze expert-proposed biomechanical features from the finals of long jump competitions in the World Championships. The objectives of the analysis include identifying the most important features contributing to top-performing jumps and exploring the combined effects of these key features. Using quantile regression, we model the relationship between the biomechanical feature set and the target variable (effective distance), with a particular focus on elite-level jumps. To interpret the model, we apply SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) alongside Partial Dependence Plots (PDPs) and Individual Conditional Expectation (ICE) plots. The findings reveal that, beyond the well-documented velocity-related features, specific technical aspects also play a pivotal role. For male athletes, the angle of the knee of the supporting leg before take-off is identified as a key factor for achieving top 10% performance in our dataset, with angles greater than 169°contributing significantly to jump performance. In contrast, for female athletes, the landing pose and approach step technique emerge as the most critical features influencing top 10% performances, alongside velocity. This study establishes a framework for analyzing the impact of various features on athletic performance, with a particular emphasis on top-performing events.

A huge event, with hundreds of participants, takeout pizza boxes stacked shoulder-high on carts, a jazz-rock band, a d.j., teams from about thirty high schools, robots by the dozen, and robot parts by the (probably) thousands spread out on tables in the cafeteria: it was the first day of the qualifiers for the all-city semifinals in the NYC FIRST Robotics Competition, at Francis Lewis High School, in Queens. On weekdays, about forty-four hundred students attend the school. In the rest of the building on this Saturday the hallways were empty. Michael Zigman, the C.E.O. of NYC FIRST, a nonprofit that provides STEM-education resources for students in public schools, stood in the gym, calculating in his head how many people were there. Zigman is a tall, kindly fifty-five-year-old Queens-born man who made money advising tech investors in the early two-thousands and then, in 2016, joined NYC FIRST.

These championships were the first time the technology, formally known as the Judging Support System, or JSS, had been used on every apparatus in a gymnastics competition--and its first use in a competition that could make or break an athlete's Olympic dreams. While the AI judging system did not replace human judges--rather, it was available to help judges review routines in case of an inquiry or a "blocked score"--it still marked a watershed moment for the sport that was years in the making. The International Gymnastics Federation (known as FIG, its initials in French) first used JSS to judge pommel horse, rings, and vault back at the 2019 World Championships before adding more events at different competitions each year. There are obvious upsides to using this kind of technology in competition. Human gymnastics judges must have an eye for quick, tiny movements: the point of a toe, the angle of a split (did she hit 180?), the slightest bend at the hip. AI could help take the guesswork out of the technicalities.