Paul Skenes entered the All-Star break seemingly on top of the baseball world, earning the starting pitcher designation for the NL and surging to Cy Young contention despite spending the first six weeks of the season in the minors. Skenes hasn’t necessarily fallen from grace. In fact, his numbers remain some of the best of […]
Meta axed CrowdTangle, a tool for tracking disinformation. Critics claim its replacement has just ‘1% of the features’
Journalists, researchers and politicians are mourning Meta’s shutdown of CrowdTangle, which they used to track the spread of disinformation on Facebook and Instagram. In CrowdTangle’s place, Meta is offering its Content Library — but is limiting usage to people from “qualified academic or nonprofit institutions who are pursuing scientific or public interest research.” Many researchers […]
Olympics swimming results: Tracking 2024 medal winners for every event at Paris Games
Let’s get our swim on. The greatest swimmers in the world have converged on the Paris Aquatics Centre for the right to be named a world champion. Past medalists such as Katie Ledecky, Penny Oleksiak, Caeleb Dressel, and Emma McKeon will be among the hundreds of swimming stars pursuing bronze, silver, and, of course, gold medals. Who […]
Tracking the EV battery factory construction boom across North America
The onshoring of battery manufacturing for EVs started as a trickle during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then it turned into a tsunami. In 2019, just two battery factories were operating in the United States with another two under construction. Today there are about 34 battery factories either planned, under construction or operational in the country. U.S. […]
USA Olympic gymnastics team projection: Tracking live scores, updated standings at 2024 U.S. Olympic trials
The U.S. women’s gymnastics team is one of the best in the world and is expected to be in the running for gold yet again in 2024. Team USA has medaled in women’s gymnastics at every Olympics since the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta. That includes three gold medals, three silver and one bronze, as […]