The NBA announced on Monday that Tuesday’s game between the Detroit Pistons and San Antonio Spurs is being postponed due to the league’s health and safety protocols.  The NBA has announced a game postponement for the 25th time this season: San Antonio at Detroit on Tuesday is off due to a positive test within the Spurs and ongoing contract tracing pic.twitter.com/K5TGTgjcFU — Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) February 15, 2021 A Spurs player has tested positive, and the regulated contact tracing… Source link

Verizon has defeated a lawsuit brought by former Trump administration advisor Carter Page, who alleged he was defamed in 11 online articles — one that appeared in Yahoo and 10 in the Huffington Post. In a 19-page opinion issued late last week, Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz said Page … Source link

Google has agreed to pay a €1.1 million fine over misleading star ratings for hotels in France. The tech giant had been applying its own (algorithmic) system of ratings for hotels applied via its search engine and on Google Maps. But back in 2019, following a number of complaints by hoteliers, the French national competition and consumer watchdog (DGCCRF) instigated an investigation into this propriety rating system. The probe revealed that the tech giant had replaced the standard… Source link

Google’s Pixel handsets are some of the best smartphones money can buy. And unlike most of their rivals, they don’t come with crazy price tags. The most recent in the range, the Pixel 5, costs just £599 ($699, AU$999), which is very good value for such a well-specced handset. The Pixel 5 launched at the end of last year, but already rumours are rumbling of a successor. It leaked recently that Google plans to launch a foldable phone at some point in the near future – could that be the… Source link

Google’s Pixel handsets are some of the best smartphones money can buy. And unlike most of their rivals, they don’t come with crazy price tags. The most recent in the range, the Pixel 5, costs just £599 ($699, AU$999), which is very good value for such a well-specced handset. The Pixel 5 launched at the end of last year, but already rumours are rumbling of a successor. It leaked recently that Google plans to launch a foldable phone at some point in the near future – could that be the… Source link

Benzinga What Keystone Pipeline Cancellation Means For Crude-by-rail President Joe Biden’s revocation of the March 2019 permit enabling the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline will likely result in more crude-by-rail volumes, according to industry observers. But how much volumes will increase could largely depend on the price that heavy crude oil can fetch in the global market. “The cancellation of the Keystone pipeline project was inevitable once the government changed. Despite its… Source link

Everyone has their listings of where J.J. Watt will play in 2021. The Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers are easy teams to pad such a list. However, there is one team that would wreak havoc across NFL trenches if they could land the former Houston Texans defensive end. In NFL.com writer Nick Shook’s list of teams that could be the next home for Watt, the Los Angeles Rams were mentioned as a possibility. This one is probably more fantasy than anything, but that won’t stop Rams fans… Source link

Peter King guesses J.J. Watt won’t end up in Washington originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington When J.J. Watt and the Houston Texans mutually agreed to part ways after 10 years, everyone started taking their shots at where the three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year would land next season, including Peter King in his weekly Football Morning in America column.  “If I had to guess the teams that would be most interested, I’d say Buffalo, Cleveland, Kansas City, Tennessee,… Source link

Russian web titan Yandex NV suffered an insider breach. An employee was selling sensitive user data to anyone who would pay, says Yandex. The perp was an admin of the firm’s email service, Yandex.Mail. It’s alleged they’d sold access to almost 5,000 mailboxes. No word on what’s happened to the scrote. In today’s SB Blogwatch, we visualize them chopped up and hidden in matryoshka dolls. Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Not to… Source link

Boston College coach Jim Christian watches from the sideline as the Eagles take on Rhode Island on Nov. 26, 2020. (David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports) Boston College is parting ways with men’s basketball coach Jim Christian, who will end his tenure there with no NCAA tournament appearances after seven years and just one winning season. Christian’s record in seven seasons at BC is 78-132, a run that includes a 26-94 record in the ACC. Boston College is 3-13 and 1-9 in conference play this… Source link