Yearly Archives: 2021

BlackBerry Expands Partnership with Baidu to Power Next Generation Autonomous Driving Technology

WATERLOO, ON and BEIJING, Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced an expansion of its strategic partnership with Baidu, whose high-definition maps will run on the QNX® Neutrino® Real-time Operating System (RTOS) and will be mass-produced in the forthcoming GAC New Energy Aion models from the EV arm of GAC Group (Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.). BlackBerry Logo Black (PRNewsfoto/Blackberry Limited) The milestones build on the company’s January… Source link

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Sabrina Ionescu reflects on losing Gigi, Kobe Bryant

Sabrina Ionescu pledged to live out Kobe Bryant’s legacy and found inspiration in the lives of his daughter, Gianna, and her teammates, Alyssa Altobelli and Payton Chester. One year after their deaths, she reflected on the loss and how she honors their legacies. Ionescu honors legacies of Kobe, Gigi Ionescu, 23, counted Bryant as a mentor and close friend. While working out with Bryant in Los Angeles ahead of her senior season at Oregon she twice helped coach the Mamba Ballers, the team… Source link

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Robinson: I think Brett Favre told Aaron Rodgers not to trust Packers front office

Senior NFL Writers Terez Paylor and Charles Robinson discuss what’s next for Green Bay and Aaron Rodgers. Could the Packers have another ugly divorce with a Hall of Fame quarterback? It sounds like Brett Favre is telling Rodgers to watch his back. Hear the full conversation on the Yahoo Sports NFL Podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen. Source link

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Google Pressed in Lawsuit to Dump Telegram Just Like Parler

(Bloomberg) — A former U.S. ambassador wants Google to do to Telegram what it did to Parler. Marc Ginsberg sued the Alphabet Inc. unit Monday, asking a California court to require it to remove the Telegram Messenger app from the Google Play Store because it facilitates violence, extremism and anti-Semitism. Telegram, especially in the wake of George Floyd’s killing and the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, has been used to threaten, encourage and coordinate racist violence, claims… Source link

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Janet Yellen confirmed as Treasury Secretary — first woman to hold the position

TipRanks 3 Top Dividend Stocks With Growth Opportunity; Goldman Sachs Says ‘Buy’ Investing is all about finding profits, and investors have long seen two main paths toward that goal. Growth stocks, equities that will give a return based mainly on share price appreciation, are one route. The second route lies through dividend stocks. These are stocks that pay out a percentage of profits back to shareholders – a dividend, usually sent out quarterly. The payments vary widely, from less than… Source link

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Stock market news live updates: Stock futures open

Stock futures opened lower late Monday after a mixed day on Wall Street. Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq reached record closing highs by the end of the regular session, led by a rally in tech stocks. The Dow ended slightly lower as financials, energy and industrial stocks came under pressure. “Today has been really been a continuation of what we saw last week, where the cyclical rotation that had really gone vertical since the Pfizer vaccine was first announced in November kind of took a pause,… Source link

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Chiefs/Bucs Super Bowl set, Rodgers future in Green Bay

Subscribe to The Yahoo Sports NFL Podcast Super Bowl LV is set as the Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers become the first ever team to play the big game in their home stadium, while the Kansas City Chiefs come to town looking to become repeat champs for the first time since…Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. Terez Paylor & Charles Robinson kick off two weeks of discussion surrounding this legacy-defining Super Bowl, but first they must address the legacy of Aaron Rodgers. After… Source link

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Virus to stay with the world ‘forever’

Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel on Monday trumpeted new data showing his company’s vaccine remains effective in battling new coronavirus variants, even as he painted a long road ahead in the war against the pandemic. The biotech firm’s study showed what it called “protective” immune responses to both the variant first documented in the U.K. (B.1.1.7) and the variant seen in South Africa (B.1.351). Yet Bancel gave a stark assessment of the pandemic, saying there is good reason to expect a… Source link

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Vaccines near me: Google Maps to show local COVID vaccination sites

by: Fareeha Rehman, Nexstar Media Wire Posted: Jan 25, 2021 / 04:40 PM EST / Updated: Jan 25, 2021 / 04:40 PM EST SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Google is about to make it way easier to find where to get a COVID-19 vaccine. The company will soon show COVID-19 vaccination sites in Google Search and Google Maps, starting in the U.S. and then expanding to other countries, according to CEO Sundar Pichai. Flu rate drops… Source link

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Yahoo: NCAA revenue falls by $600M in 2020 after March Madness cancellation

The NCAA experienced a $600 million drop in revenue for the 2020 fiscal year, new documents acquired by USA Today Sports show. It’s due largely in part to the cancelation of the 2020 Division I men’s basketball tournament and shows why the NCAA is pushing forward with the tournament this year. It’s a drop of more than 50 percent in revenue compared to the 2019 numbers. Why did NCAA lose $600 million? Though it had $270 million from event cancelation insurance and spent about $473 million… Source link

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