A radical new function appears to be coming to Google Pixel smartphones in the next few days. Google’s Pixel 5 flagship smartphone © 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP MORE FROM FORBESSamsung Confirms Serious Galaxy S21 ProblemBy Paul Monckton Google is likely to deliver an impressive new Astrophotography timelapse camera mode in its next Pixel update, according to a new report. Pixel 3 phones and newer already provide an impressive Astrophotography mode that lets your… Source link

The App is Back! Don’t forget to download the NBC Sports EDGE app to receive real-time player news, mobile alerts and track your favorite players. Plus, now you can check out articles and player cards. Get it here! Here’s an oversimplification: things haven’t exactly been trending in the right direction for the rebuilding Orioles this season. That disturbing trend continued on Saturday afternoon when ace left-hander John Means, who tossed a no-hitter against the Mets last month, was… Source link

The Nets had hustle and star power in Game 1. (Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images) Even with only a big 2 (or big 14, according to Kevin Durant), the Brooklyn Nets are still formidable. The Milwaukee Bucks confirmed that for themselves on Saturday. The Nets defeated the Bucks 115-107 in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, riding big nights from Durant and Kyrie Irving at home in Barclays Center. The game opened with a brutal turn of events for the Nets, as James Harden exited after… Source link

Injuries have been a main character throughout this NBA season, so it would be unrealistic for it to allow the most anticipated playoff series to unfold uninterrupted. But for some reason, James Harden coming up lame in the first minute seemed to affect the Milwaukee Bucks more than the Brooklyn Nets. Perhaps it’s because the Nets have dealt with uneven turf all season, yet still find themselves discovering new elements, morphing into a more dogged bunch. Harden’s nonemotional reaction to… Source link

(Bloomberg) — El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, Latin America’s youngest president who’s known to break from the norms, said he plans to send legislation that would make Bitcoin legal tender in the country. “In the short term, this will generate jobs and help provide financial inclusion to thousands outside the formal economy,” Bukele said in a video broadcast at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami. He said he would submit the legislature a bill next week. In a series of tweets, the… Source link

(Reuters) – Floyd Mayweather will give up nearly 35 pounds (16 kg) to YouTube personality Logan Paul when they step into the ring for their exhibition fight at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on Sunday but that is the only thing the undefeated five weight division champion is conceding. The “ceremonial” weigh-in on Saturday produced no surprises with the 6 feet, 2 inches (1.88 m) Paul always going to have an advantage on the scales coming in at 189.5 lbs with the 5-foot, 8-inch (1.73 m) Mayweather… Source link

Everything that is great about heavyweight fighting and everything that is wrong with it was on display in the opening five minutes of the main event of UFC Vegas 28 on Saturday between Jairzinho Rozenstruik and Augusto Sakai. For more than four minutes at Apex, the two big men circled each other cautiously, their right hands cocked but rarely coming out of the holster. That was the bad part. But then, when Rozenstruik heard the clapper to signify 10 seconds were left in the round. He exploded… Source link

A controversial call at the end of the first half of Game 1 of the Brooklyn Nets versus Milwaukee Bucks Eastern Conference semifinal series resulted in a bad beat for some bettors. The first-half spread was Nets -2 over at BetMGM. And if you put money on the Nets covering the two points going into halftime, you were sitting pretty when they took an 11-point lead with 3:22 left in the second quarter. The lead for Brooklyn was eight points, 61-53, at the 1:57 mark and then seven points, 63-56,… Source link

Evgenia Parajanian / Getty Images/iStockphoto More and more support has been developing for a fourth — and possible fifth — stimulus check amongst members of Congress. See: $1,400 Stimulus May Be on the Way — This Time From Your StateFind: New Stimulus Perk Helps Pay for Your WiFi and Laptop In a new letter to President Joe Biden, seven members of the influential Ways and Means Committee have joined fellow members of Congress who support additional stimulus checks. It claims that that the… Source link

Surging usage of Polygon Network’s Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution allowed that platform’s token (MATIC) to largely escape the fate of other cryptocurrencies in May brought down by crash in the price of bitcoin. MATIC, currently ranked 18th as per market capitalization by Messari, rallied 120% in May even as bitcoin fell by 35%. Ether, polkadot, cardano, XRP, and decentralized finance (DeFi)-blue chips suffered bigger losses, pushing the total market capitalization of the crypto… Source link