After briefly halting sales of its 6-Series and 5-Series Google TVs due to sluggish, buggy software, TCL this evening announced that the TVs are back. “Recent software updates have allowed us to make significant improvements on the stability and speed of the TCL televisions featuring Google TV,” spokesperson Rachelle Parks said by email. “With these updates, this product now represents the powerful performance that TCL and Google believe is the future of TV.” The Google TVs… Source link

No. 1 South Carolina remains undefeated after it once again defended its ranking against a No. 2 team in the country.  The Gamecocks came back from 18 points down and completed the largest comeback victory in program history to down reigning champion Stanford, 65-61. It was their fifth victory against a top-10 ranked team this season and they are the first team since Baylor in 2011-12 to multiple regular season Nos. 1 vs. 2 games, per ESPN. National player of the year contender Aliyah Boston… Source link

You’ve never seen an interception quite like this.  Landon Collins made one of the plays of the NFL season early in Tuesday’s NFC East tilt between the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Football Team.  With the Eagles facing third-and-1 on their first possession, quarterback Jalen Hurts looked to tight end Dallas Goedert in the flat. Hurts hit his target, but Goedert couldn’t corral the ball, which bounced off his hands as he turned upfield.  The ball appeared to hit the turf before the… Source link

Stock futures opened flat Tuesday evening after a recovery rally during the regular trading day, with the major equity indexes recouping some losses after three consecutive sessions of declines.  Contracts on the S&P 500 ticked up. Futures on the Nasdaq were little changed, after the tech-heavy index outperformed to jump 2.4% during Tuesday’s session.  With trading volume relatively light during the holiday-shortened week, investors have continued to assess a multitude of developments on the… Source link

skyscrapers in mumbai Getty Images “Adventures do occur, but not punctually,” writes E.M. Forster in A Passage to India. In other words, exciting things happen in India, but a little patience is required. In recent years, however, it seems events have sped up in the Asian subcontinent, and that’s fueling a stock market rally. Government reforms initiated a few years ago have finally started to pay off. The changes, plus a rebound in economic activity, have lifted India’s stocks. The MSCI… Source link

President Biden said today that Americans will soon be able to order free COVID tests from a government-run website, which is not yet available. “We’ll have websites where you can get them delivered to your home,” he said of the 500 million at-home tests the government is purchasing to combat the Omicron surge. Details on this website are murky, however. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said today that “We will have more information as it is available including what the… Source link

Buffalo Bills wide receiver Cole Beasley made headlines over the summer after speaking out against the NFL’s COVID-19 policy. On Tuesday, Beasley was reportedly placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. If Beasley tested positive, he would automatically miss 10 days due to his unvaccinated status. In that scenario, Beasley would miss the Week 16 game against the New England Patriots. The game has massive implications in the AFC East, as the Patriots sit a… Source link

Google Voice now lets you create rules that dictate how the service responds to incoming calls from specific contacts. And yes, this includes having Google Voice automatically ignore certain contacts for you. Even though Google Voice already has a call forwarding feature, the new rules let you customize it even further — you can set up a rule that forwards calls from a contact (or a group of contacts) to any of your linked numbers. … Source link

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020. FABRICE COFFRINI | AFP | Getty Images Google employees are pressing executives to bring back a part of the company’s culture that, in the past, made it a desirable place to work: candor. At a year-end all-hands meeting, held virtually earlier this month, CEO Sundar Pichai read aloud one of the most popular questions from employees, based on the company’s internal… Source link

You can choose to delete your Yahoo account with just a few clicks, but Yahoo will remove it completely after about a month. If you change your mind, you can recover the account as long as you log back in within 30 days.  Before you can delete your account, you must cancel any paid Yahoo subscriptions.  Visit Insider’s Tech Reference library for more stories. … Source link