Bazball revolution falters for England in the Ashes, but it's not the end of the system

England's cricket team has faced challenges with its aggressive Bazball strategy during the Ashes series loss in Australia.

David Walliams crumbling life and lonely Xmas after being dropped by publisher

It may have looked like David Walliams career was bulletproof after a string of controversial comments - but now the golden ...
GitHub

Rapid fuzzy string matching in C++ using the Levenshtein Distance

RapidFuzz is a fast string matching library for Python and C++, which is using the string similarity calculations from FuzzyWuzzy. However, there are two aspects that set RapidFuzz apart from ...
WTHR

Bluegrass artist Billy Strings to perform 2 shows at Fishers Event Center next spring

Strings will be performing at the Fishers Event Center on Friday, April 24 and Saturday, April 25, 2026. The tour extension is in support of his latest full-length album, "Highway Prayers, which was ...
Daily Mail

America's second-largest county offers new program giving residents $500 a month with no strings attached

Cook County in Illinois has unanimously approved plans that could give thousands of residents $500 a month in free cash. America's second largest county is committing $7.5 million to fully fund a ...
People

Billy Strings Says He's Still in 'Denial' Over His Mom's Shocking Cause of Death: 'It Was Just Unnecessary'

The bluegrass musician's mom Debra died of a drug overdose in June Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has ...
Taste of Country

Billy Strings Was Blindsided When He Learned His Mom’s Cause of Death

Billy Strings is opening up about the unexpected death of his mother, Debra Apostal, which happened in June. Strings — whose legal name is William Lee Apostal — says his mom wasn't sick leading up to ...
Rolling Stone

Billy Strings Wants to ‘Honor’ His Late Mom With a New Album Featuring Her Poetry

Billy Strings revealed that he wants to set his late mother’s poetry to music for a potential new album during an extensive interview about drug use and addiction on the Dopey podcast. Strings’ mother ...
Forbes

Programming In The Age Of AI: Why Code Still Matters

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amir is Founder of AI unicorn Avathon & Boeing/SC JV, SkyGrid. Recently, a friend asked me a question that's been floating around ...
Wired

Programming in Assembly Is Brutal, Beautiful, and Maybe Even a Path to Better AI

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...
Wall Street Journal

‘11,000 Strings’ Review: Georg Friedrich Haas’s Meditation

As I made my way out of the Park Avenue Armory after a performance of Georg Friedrich Haas’s “11,000 Strings” Saturday afternoon, a friend asked what I’d thought of what we’d just heard. For the ...
The New York Times

50 Pianos Rumble With the Sound of ‘11,000 Strings’

Performances in N.Y.C. Georg Friedrich Haas has written a piece of almost ridiculous scale and complexity. The effect is awe-inspiring. Georg Friedrich Haas has written a piece of almost ridiculous ...