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The latest five-star women’s basketball recruit to commit to Virginia Tech was Elizabeth Kitley. Could first-year coach Megan Duffy be on track to land the next one?On Friday, Davenport, Iowa, five-star Divine Bourrage narrowed his list of schools to six, with the Hokies the highest-ranked school ahead of his official visits this fall. The Hokies join the top six spots in his top six: South Carolina, Baylor, Illinois, Arizona and LSU.5⭐️ Recruit Divine Bourrage (6’0″ guard ranked 5th in the Class of 2025) has narrowed down his college choices and announced his Top 6:🔸LSU🔸Illinois🔸Baylor🔸South Carolina🔸Virginia Tech🔸Arizona— EJ 🏀 (@EJayArrow) July…

The chipmaker’s latest results suggest it’s getting a solid AI-powered boost. Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has played a pioneering role in the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) technology with the help of its graphics processing units (GPUs), which are deployed in data centers to train large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, leading to considerable growth in the company’s revenue and profits. As a result, Nvidia’s stock has set the market on fire over the past year, nearly tripling in value. This explains why Nvidia stock is now trading at a lofty 72 times earnings. However, another company is experiencing a…

View this interactive content on CNN.com Hong Kong CNN — The world’s population is aging, in what the United Nations calls an “irreversible global trend” driven by longer life expectancies and smaller families. According to a UN report released last year, the number of people aged 65 and over is expected to more than double to 1.6 billion worldwide by 2050. In Japan, this shift threatens one of the world’s largest economies, as the percentage of elderly people increases and fewer couples have children. In early June, the country said the number of babies born had declined for the eighth…

Les Iraniens ont voté vendredi lors d’un second tour pour remplacer le président feu le président Ebrahim Raisiqui a été tué dans un accident d’hélicoptère en mai dans le nord-ouest du pays avec le ministre des Affaires étrangères et plusieurs autres responsables. Les électeurs devront choisir entre l’ancien négociateur nucléaire Saeed Jalili et le candidat réformiste Masoud Pezeshkian, qui s’est aligné sur ceux qui cherchent un retour à l’accord nucléaire de 2015 avec les puissances mondiales. Les problèmes intérieurs qui ont pesé sur la course incluent une nouvelle répression sur le port obligatoire du foulard pour les femmes et une…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) – It was a busy week of travel leading up to July 4 with millions of Americans traveling for the holiday. From last weekend through Sunday, more than 70 million Americans are expected to travel for the July 4 holiday, including more than 810,000 Kentuckians, by car or plane. “From last Thursday to Sunday, we saw about 11,000 travelers depart from Lexington, so I think we will definitely see those passengers return this coming weekend,” said Lauren Simmerman, community relations manager for the Bluegrass Airport. Simmerman says this summer is the busiest tourist season the…

One of the worst heat waves on record in the western United States is expected to peak this weekend and early next week, bringing a brutal and sustained period of high temperatures to the Southwest, much of California and parts of the Pacific Northwest.”Many climate sites are likely to break daily and historical temperature records,” the National Weather Service office in Las Vegas wrote. “The extreme heat is expected to persist through at least midweek.”Maximum temperatures are expected to reach at least 100 to 120 degrees across California except along the coast, increasing the risk of heat-related illness and death.…

Beryl made landfall near Cozumel, Mexico, Friday morning as a Category 2 hurricane, battering the coast and knocking out power to several resorts and vacation towns. Downgraded to a tropical storm Friday afternoon, it is expected to continue weakening until emerging over the Gulf of Mexico late Friday.Concern is growing in Texas, where the National Hurricane Center now predicts the storm will make landfall between Sunday night and Monday. By then, Beryl will likely have regained hurricane status and will intensify until it reaches landfall.”There is an increasing risk of hurricane-force winds, life-threatening storm surge and flooding from heavy rainfall…

Down angle icon An angle icon pointing down. Costco and Sam’s Club have become destinations for Gen Z shoppers looking to save money. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images Some Gen Z shoppers are trying to save money by shopping at Costco and Sam’s Club.They share bulk groceries and membership cards with their roommates and family.It is the latest example of how food prices remain historically high. One of Gen Z’s main tools for combating persistently high food prices: sharing a large shopping cart — and potentially a membership card — to Costco or Sam’s Club with roommates or family.Young consumers, many of…

51,200 years ago, a historical event was written on the ceiling of a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. A wild pig was painted with crude red pigment, standing peacefully next to three human figures. The newly discovered artwork is now being heralded as the oldest known cave painting, surpassing the previous record holder by some 10,000 years, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. “This method represents a significant improvement over other methods and should revolutionize the dating of rock art worldwide,” said Maxime Aubert, an archaeologist at Griffith University in Australia and one…

By Morning Star News, Friday July 5, 2024ROMEO GACAD/AFP via Getty ImagesSURABAYA, INDONESIA — Local officials in Indonesia have disrupted a wedding ceremony and banned the church from continuing to worship at the site, sources said.Last Sunday, in Mergosari, Tarik district, Sidoarjo regency on Java island, village headman Eko Budi Santoso interrupted the wedding at the site of the Pentecostal Church of Indonesia (Gereja Pentekosta di Indonesia, or GPdI) and banned them from meeting, saying the congregation did not have a building permit and that local residents opposed their church, local media reported.Residents of the region, in the Muslim-majority country,…