Football has been officiated with a basic 10-yard chain for over a century. As the sport's judge and jury, the so-called chain gang has decided whether a ball went the required number of yards to give a team a first down and four more scoring opportunities. However, new technology and artificial intelligence may soon render the chain gang obsolete. Hawk-Eye, a sophisticated system, aims to improve game speed and accuracy by combining sophisticated algorithms with numerous cameras. The NFL evaluated the ability of Sony's Hawk-Eye to make calls on line to gain—the officiating phrase for calculating the 10 yards a team must progress the ball to get a first down—during the 2024–25 preseason. Hawk-Eye pieces together every perspective of a football play using up to 60 cameras, including broadca...

This week, DeepSeek's Chinese AI assistant overtook ChatGPT to take the top spot in the Apple App Store, proving that it can compete with all of the industry's main competitors. In practical assessments According to NBC News on Tuesday, DeepSeek exhibits a helpful, amiable manner and is capable of very complex reasoning—until it encounters a topic it is unable to discuss openly. According to the testing, DeepSeek frequently appears to be trained to censor itself (and occasionally exhibit certain political inclinations) over subjects that are considered sensitive in China. Its responses are generally in accordance with what is allowed by the nation's comprehensive system of internet content regulation. In response to a question concerning the apparent censorship, Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for...

Washington Reaching out to three conservative former special agents who have criticized the FBI and its extensive investigation into the Capitol incident on January 6, 2021, was one of Kash Patel's first actions after President-elect Donald Trump declared that he wanted Patel to be the next head of the agency. Patel used the term "The Suspendables" to describe the former agents. Republicans have asked two of them—along with an FBI analyst—to testify before Congress after they claimed whistleblower status. Several of them testified in 2023 that Patel, through his Kash Foundation, gave them financial help while they were suspended. According to Kyle Seraphin, 43, a member of the group and a veteran of the military, Patel contacted the three Suspendables the night Trump declared his intent...

AUBURN, NY. This month, a massive donation of fresh fish was made to a food bank in New York, but there was a catch. The Food Bank of Central New York is a mother lode of high-quality protein that could feed thousands of households. LocalCoho, a salmon farm in the small upstate community of Auburn that is about to close, wants to donate 40,000 pounds of coho salmon to the organization. The fish, however, were still alive and swimming in the enormous indoor tanks at the farm. For distribution to local food pantries, the organizations would have to find out how to remove some 13,000 salmon from the water and then process them into frozen fillets. They would also have to act quickly, before the company permanently closed. This Friday is LocalCoho's last day of operation. The team was able t...

Four current and former FBI officials tell NBC News that the head of the bureau has advisers that include a former staffer to one of the FBI's harshest congressional critics and someone who has been connected to Elon Musk's SpaceX. According to the current and former officials, the two are part of a team of at least four individuals who have been brought into the FBI to advise its director. Retired FBI agents make up at least two of the new advisers, including Tom Ferguson, a former assistant to Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, an outspoken FBI critic and ardent Trump supporter. There have been no prior reports of the arrival of the individual associated with Space X. The individual's name has not been verified by NBC News. A request for response from a SpaceX representative was not answered. It's...

WashingtonA comprehensive executive order that would prioritize and free up government funding to expand school choice programs was signed by President Donald Trump on Wednesday. According to a senior White House official, the directive affects many federal departments and instructs the Education Department to give school choice initiatives first priority when allocating discretionary grants. It also provides states with direction regarding federal funding for districts and schools. According to the order, the Secretary of Education must provide direction to States on how to use Federal formula monies to assist K–12 educational choice programs within 60 days of the order's date. "Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families," the order, requires the Department of Health and H...

The PresidentOn Wednesday, Donald Trump signed a letter initiating the construction of a facility to detain thousands of migrants at the U.S. military station in Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, claiming that this was an attempt to "halt the border invasion." "I hereby direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all appropriate actions to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States," the memo said. Trump said he will "instruct the departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guant namo Bay" during the signing ceremony for the Laken Riley Act, an immigration de...

Austin, Texas Authorities are looking for a Texas man who was freed from prison following President Donald Trump's massive pardons for the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol on a 2016 allegation of soliciting a minor online, according to prosecutors. Andrew Taake, 36, was charged with using a metal whip and bear spray to strike police officers during the Capitol assault. Since his pardon last week, he is one of only a few former Jan. 6 defendants who have attracted the interest of law enforcement. Get real-time updates here. Following the pardon of almost 1,600 individuals charged in relation to the Capitol attack by Trump, Taake was released from a federal prison in Colorado. According to a statement from the Harris County District Attorney's Office, he was freed on January 20th, even thou...

According to two people briefed on the situation who spoke to NBC News, a lawyer for New York City Mayor Eric Adams has reached out to the leadership of the Justice Department with a petition to dismiss the prosecution against him. Officials in Washington have also reviewed the proposal with prosecutors in New York. Adams' attorney's outreach is typical for a well-known defendant like Adams who wants the Justice Department of a new administration to take a second look at the case. However, according to a person familiar with the situation, there is currently no sign that federal prosecutors in Manhattan in the Southern District of New York will abandon the case. According to a Justice Department official who spoke to NBC News, the office of acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove is parti...

Washington Democrats were caught off guard by President Donald Trump's rapid-fire actions in his first week in office, which caused division within the party about how to react to key aspects of his program and a number of his well-known nominations. However, Trump's botched attempt on Monday to put a blanket block on federal help across the government sparked a fierce backlash from Democrats. Two days later, the White House retracted the budget memo due to the pressure and the confusion and disruption it created. Unknowingly, Trump's action gave Democrats the political gift of a cohesive narrative that centered on economic issues that they feel would restore the party's damaged reputation and help them regain power following a crushing loss in the 2024 election. It followed days of inte...