After recently taking a look at starting pitchers using CSW, let’s now use it to examine relievers. The Good CSW He had a 5.10 expected ERA last season but has turned into a legit ace reliever this year (1.14 xERA). Adam Ottavino has stolen just one save, as Barnes is locked in as closer on a surprising first-place Boston team. CSW says there’s no need for the Red Sox to bring in a closer at the deadline (or for you to try to trade him in fantasy leagues). Aroldis Chapman, New York Yankees… Source link
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Israel signs cloud services deal with Amazon, Google
The logo for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seen at the SIBOS banking and financial conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 19, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Helgren Israel’s government said on Monday it had signed a deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) (AMZN.O) and Google (GOOGL.O) for a more than $1 billion project to provide cloud services for the country’s public sector and military. A month ago, AWS and Google won a tender, beating out Microsoft (MSFT.O), Oracle (ORCL.N) and IBM (IBM.N) for… Source link
Read More »Russia gives Google one day to delete banned content
The Google logo is seen on on the company’s European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, February 27, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne Russia’s communications watchdog on Monday gave Google (GOOGL.O) 24 hours to delete what it called prohibited content or be fined and said Moscow could eventually slow down the company’s traffic in the country. Russia has already placed a punitive slowdown on U.S. social network Twitter (TWTR.N) for not deleting banned content, part of a push by Moscow to rein in… Source link
Read More »Verizon is your home for the best entertainment; now with Apple Arcade and Google Play Pass on us
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – Verizon already offers the best value in entertainment, and it just got even better with an amazing new deal guaranteed to bolster your mobile gaming library with hundreds of new titles. Starting May 25, new and existing customers get six months of Apple Arcade or Google Play Pass, ($4.99/mo. value) on us with any unlimited plan or 12 months on us with “Play More” or “Get More” plans1,2. Verizon Mix & Match Unlimited gives you more of what you love — on us —… Source link
Read More »Verizon offering free subscriptions to Apple Arcade, Google Play Plus
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., speaks during an event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, U.S., on Monday, March 25, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Verizon said it is giving away six- and 12-month subscriptions to Apple Arcade and Google Play Plus as it adds more bundled content offerings to its wireless subscriptions. New and existing Verizon wireless subscribers will get six months free of either Apple Arcade or Google Play Plus with a… Source link
Read More »6 ways Google wants to fix how you work
You don’t even have to wait for Android 12 to take advantage of Google’s Smart Canvas features. Screenshot by CNET
Read More »Bitcoin is officially a new asset class: Goldman Sachs
It’s time to take bitcoin way more seriously as an investable asset, says Goldman Sachs. “Bitcoin is now considered an investable asset. It has its own idiosyncratic risk, partly because it’s still relatively new and going through an adoption phase,” said Mathew McDermott, Goldman Sachs’ global head of digital assets, in a new piece of research. “And it doesn’t behave as one would intuitively expect relative to other assets given the analogy to digital gold; to date, it’s tended to be… Source link
Read More »What it means that everyone is talking about inflation: Morning Brief
TipRanks Goldman Sachs: These 3 Stocks Are Poised to Surge by Over 100% Markets are beset by volatility, with unpredictable swings making recent sessions something of a roller coaster. The main indexes were falling sharply at the end of last week, but Friday’s release of economic data showing strong manufacturing activity provided a boost that pared back the market losses somewhat. The recent earnings season also gave reason for optimism – the S&P listed companies, collectively, reported… Source link
Read More »Google KELM Reduces Bias and Encourages Factual Accuracy
Google AI Blog announced KELM, a way that could be used to reduce bias and toxic content in search (open domain question answering). It uses a method called TEKGEN to convert Knowledge Graph facts into natural language text that can then be used to improve natural language processing models. What is KELM? KELM is an acronym for Knowledge-Enhanced Language Model Pre-training. Natural language processing models like BERT are typically trained on web and other documents. KELM proposes adding… Source link
Read More »Wall Street Aims to Make Sense of Confounding Bitcoin Swings
Bloomberg Secretive Hedge Fund Ends Long Silence to Take On Japan Icon (Bloomberg) — It was the rarest of public appearances. At Toshiba Corp.’s extraordinary general meeting in March, a lawyer, who didn’t give his name, talked for four minutes about why shareholders’ rights should never be infringed.He was speaking on behalf of Effissimo Capital Management Pte, a secretive hedge fund that had avoided the spotlight for almost 15 years. Now it was coming out into the open, if only… Source link
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