HOUSTON — For the past 16 days, the NFL had the luxury of time and patience as civil suits piled up against Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson. While lawyers slung accusations back and forth through litigation and media statements, the league has been able to go about its due diligence without a ticking clock of criminal investigation hanging over its own disciplinary process. The bottom line? If Watson wasn’t part of a police probe, the demand on the NFL to do something about his… Source link

A brutal note sparked by an unfortunate oversight has made for a family’s sour introduction to a new neighbourhood. In the midst of moving into a new home in Avondale, in New Zealand’s Central Auckland area, the family’s newly installed alarm system incorrectly sounded one night and apparently kept their new neighbours awake.  The family were that night staying in their former home in Waterview, about two kilometres away, and having not met anyone in Avondale yet, could not be contacted nor… Source link

The shot rimmed out. Hands snapped to heads. South Carolina’s Aliyah Boston sank to the floor. And after the most dramatic of Final Four finishes, after inches separated heroism and heartbreak, Stanford players bounded toward their bench. They leapt into one another’s arms. Haley Jones, who’d hit the game-winning jumper, celebrated as jubilantly as anyone. Then she looked across the court, and paused. A few dozen feet away, she saw a dear friend. A friend she communicates with almost… Source link

Stanford survived a late turnover and two game-winning looks by South Carolina to advance to the NCAA women’s basketball championship game. The Cardinal won, 66-65, and advance to their fifth title game in program history.  They’ll continue to extend the tournament record for 3-pointers that the Cardinal set on Friday. They were 5-for-8 as a team and broke the previous team mark of 54 set by UConn. They currently have 55.  South Carolina misses final chances The Gamecocks committed a costly… Source link

SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — The executive who steered the transformation of Google’s self-driving car project into a separate company worth billions of dollars is stepping down after more than five years on the job. John Krafcik announced his departure as CEO of Waymo, a company spun out from Google, in a Friday blog post that cited his desire to enjoy life as the world emerges from the pandemic. “I’m looking forward to a refresh period, reconnecting with old friends and family, and… Source link

The Guardian There’s another pandemic under our noses, and it kills 8.7m people a year While Covid ravaged across the world, air pollution killed about three times as many people. We must fight the climate crisis with the same urgency with which we confronted coronavirus ‘Climate change is invisible, in everyday political consciousness, because it occurs on a scale too vast in time and space to see with the naked eye and because it concerns imperceptible phenomena such as atmospheric… Source link

Google will soon be more selective about which apps on the Play Store can see all of the other apps you have installed (via XDA-Developers). As Ars Technica points out, your list of installed apps, innocent as it seems, can communicate to developers personal traits like dating preferences and political affiliations. So starting on May 5th, 2021, developers will have to provide a very good reason for why Google should let you access info like that. Android 11 apps that currently request… Source link

The Guardian There’s another pandemic under our noses, and it kills 8.7m people a year While Covid ravaged across the world, air pollution killed about three times as many people. We must fight the climate crisis with the same urgency with which we confronted coronavirus ‘Climate change is invisible, in everyday political consciousness, because it occurs on a scale too vast in time and space to see with the naked eye and because it concerns imperceptible phenomena such as atmospheric… Source link

SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — The executive who steered the transformation of Google’s self-driving car project into a separate company worth billions of dollars is stepping down after more than five years on the job. John Krafcik announced his departure as CEO of Waymo, a company spun out from Google, in a Friday blog post that cited his desire to enjoy life as the world emerges from the pandemic. “I’m looking forward to a refresh period, reconnecting with old friends and family, and… Source link

Google’s next Pixel flagship — the presumably named “Pixel 6” — will reportedly feature a Google-designed GS101 “Whitechapel” SoC (system on a chip), a first for the company, as reported by 9to5Google and XDA-Developers. 9to5Google’s report claims Google is working on two phones that will feature the Arm-based GS101 — presumed to be a flagship device to succeed last year’s Pixel 5 and a Pixel 4A 5G follow-up. XDA’s report, meanwhile, goes into further detail on the… Source link