Monthly Archives: November 2020

Adrien Broner jailed after ill-advised Instagram post

A judge threw boxer Adrien Broner in jail on Monday after holding him in contempt of court as part of a civil lawsuit filed by a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her at a nightclub in 2018, according to Cory Shaffer of cleveland.com. Cuyahoga County judge Nancy Margaret Russo reportedly found that Broner failed to cooperate with multiple deadlines to submit documents and other evidence explaining why he was unable to make the $830,000 payment the judge ordered him to make in… Source link

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The Making of An Algorithm Update

Google is revealing new details about the making of its DeepRank algorithm which surfaces more relevant search results by understanding language the way humans do. DeepRank is discussed in length in a brand new video from Google about how search works. Among other aspects of search, Google’s video goes over the development, testing, and approval process that each algorithm update goes through. DeepRank was launched in 2019 as BERT, and is named for the deep learning methods used by BERT and… Source link

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Google squashes two more Chrome bugs under active attacks

The updates come on the heels of news of attacks exploiting another zero-day in Chrome in tandem with a previously-unknown Windows flaw Two weeks after patching an actively-exploited vulnerability affecting Chrome for desktop, Google is squashing another zero-day bug in the browser’s version for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Within hours, Google also pushed out an update… Source link

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Election 2020: These 4 states ‘come in early’ and ‘Trump must win’ them all: Republican pollster Frank Luntz

With Joe Biden’s commanding lead in the polls, President Donald Trump will have to win pretty much every toss-up state tonight and in the coming days to secure re-election. It’s not unprecedented. That’s essentially what he did in 2016. If we’re in for another Trump wave, Republican pollster Frank Luntz lists the 4 states to watch for the first signs of it. These states “all come in early” on Election Day and “Donald Trump has to win all four” in order to get re-elected, Luntz… Source link

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How Georgia has gone from solid red to tossup

ATLANTA — The Atlanta Hawks aren’t exactly the NBA’s winningest basketball team, but you’d never know it from the way their home court, State Farm Arena, hums and thrums during games. So it’s been something of a shock over the last few weeks to see the arena silent as a church in prayer while thousands of voters filed through to cast early ballots in the 2020 presidential election.  Queues of voters wound through the stadium’s concourse, past closed taco and pizza stands, past… Source link

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Why your favorite tech stocks may disappoint after the election

TipRanks 3 ‘Strong Buy’ Stocks With at Least 5% Dividend Yield Americans went to the polls today under the shadow of a resurging pandemic, with a substantial increase in cases nationwide and the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 reaching record highs in a growing number of states. Meanwhile, it’s still unclear what a second stimulus package from the federal government may look like and how long it will be until that arrives.To add fuel to this, there are several European… Source link

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Cowboys’ Jerry Jones says Ben DiNucci’s first start was ‘more than he could handle’

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones took an optimistic tone about his team’s 23-9 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday night. During his weekly interview on Dallas’ 105.3 The Fan, he said that he felt the team played better in general despite the final result of the game. It wouldn’t be a Jerry interview without some brutal honesty, though, and he saved some of it for rookie quarterback Ben DiNucci. The 2020 draft pick, who was pressed into service following Dak Prescott’s injury… Source link

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Waiver Wire, Week 9: Add DeeJay Dallas, Harris – Yahoo Sports

<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="Welcome to the Week 9 edition of Waiver Wired for the 2020 season. We should expect nothing less than another tricky run on waivers since a number of the players we’re fighting for are still waiting for those ahead of them to be ruled out (or deemed healthy). Some could also be shipped away by Tuesday’s 4p ET trade deadline, vacating a wake of opportunity behind them. We’ll do our best to navigate those… Source link

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