Former Atlanta Hawks star Eddie Johnson, who was hit with a lifetime ban from the NBA and was serving a life sentence in prison, has died, according to the Associated Press.  He was 65. Johnson died on Oct. 26, but his death was confirmed on Tuesday by the Rocker-Cusack Mortuary in Leesburg, Florida, per the report.  ‘Fast Eddie’ sentenced to life in prison, banned from NBA Johnson, who quickly earned the nickname “Fast Eddie,” was selected by the Hawks in the third round of the 1977… Source link

Monday night’s loss was frustrating for many New York Giants fans, but one person, in particular, posted 330 words worth of criticism for the team on Instagram. That would be Elise Tate, the wife of Golden Tate. As her husband was playing, Tate was posting multiple rants lamenting his lack of usage and demanding the Giants make him a priority in the passing game. Tate, the player, finished the game with two catches on three targets for 31 yards and a highlight-reel touchdown, which can be… Source link

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yandex‘s (NASDAQ:YNDX) stock recently dipped after the Russian tech company posted mixed third-quarter numbers and warned of rising COVID-19 cases across the country. Its revenue rose 30% year-over-year to 58.3 billion rubles ($732.1 million), which missed expectations by $21.8 million. On a like-for-like… Source link