Did the football gods know that with the stock market giving us migraines, the NFL playoff games needed to be extra awesome? We’ll see if the trend continues this weekend when the league’s final four teams take the field. One thing’s for sure, the NFL is back, baby (as the late Al Davis might have said.) Back from COVID-19. Back from the kneeling controversy. The instant-classic-in-the-snow 49ers-Packers game was the most-watched TV show on a Saturday night in 28 years. And no one’s… Source link

Australia’s Ashleigh Barty hits a return against Danielle Collins in the Australian Open women’s final. (Photo by AARON FRANCIS/AFP via Getty Images) Ashleigh Barty is the first Australian Open women’s champion in 44 years who is actually from Australia. In front of an enthusiastic home crowd, the world No. 1 beat fierce upstart Danielle Collins 6-3, 7-6 (7-2) on Saturday to become the first Australian woman since Chris O’Neil in 1978 to win the country’s most celebrated tennis title.  Barty,… Source link

Some members of the U.S. Olympic Bobsled team pose for a photo before departing on Delta Airlines for Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Los Angeles International Airport on January 27, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for USOPC) The United States bobsled and skeleton team has been dealing with COVID-19 trouble a week before the Olympics, with multiple positive tests affecting travel plans in recent days, sources told Yahoo Sports. One bobsledder, Josh Williamson, Source link

One of Android’s original founders, Rich Miner, is working on Android tablets, a fact that was recently revealed in a ComputerWorld report digging into Google’s history with tablets. Miner’s LinkedIn page appears to confirm it, listing his current title as “CTO Android Tablets,” and says he’s been in that role since March, 2021. Google told The Verge in an email that his specific role is “leading software development for Android for large screens” in the “Platforms and… Source link

A phenomenal fiscal year for Alphabet Inc. is about to close, and there are concerns that the future isn’t as rosy. Google’s parent company should expect “tricky waters to traverse in 2022” after it reports a solid fourth quarter on Tuesday, AB Bernstein analyst Mark Shmulik warned in a Jan. 27 note that shaved his price target of Alphabet GOOGL, +3.37% GOOG, +3.23% shares to $3,250 from $3,350. … Source link

Inflation in December was the hottest in nearly 40 years, according to the Federal Reserve’s favored gauge, released this morning. U.S. consumers have been confronted with higher prices for everything from gasoline to groceries, cars to dishwashers. There’s one industry, though, that’s undergoing a pricing war that has prevented increases. Have you looked at your mobile phone bill lately? “At a time when seemingly every other industry in America is raising prices, the wireless industry… Source link

Tesla’s (TSLA) shares closed higher on Friday after an unusually volatile week in which the electric vehicle company posted fourth quarter earnings that, while better than estimates, gave at least a few Wall Street analysts grounds for skepticism over its ambitious 2022 goals. The automaker beat expectations during the final stretch of 2021, with double digit revenue and gross margin growth. Tesla sales will comfortably grow above 50% in 2022 compared with last year despite supply chain… Source link

The Super Bowl is just over two weeks away, and that means you might be in the market for a new big screen TV. But before you pull out your credit card, you should know about your next TV. You know, beyond that you should get a 65-inch OLED and have it shipped to my address. Namely how to disable some of the tracking features built into your new set. That’s right, like everything else with an internet connection, your television tracks what you watch, for how long, when you watch it, what… Source link

Teams around the NBA would consider asking the league to investigate a James Harden to 76ers deal, should the Brooklyn Nets superstar land in Philadelphia, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Harden has been linked to the 76ers because of his relationship with president of basketball operations Daryl Morey from their time with the Houston Rockets. Harden is also friends with 76ers co-owner Michael Rubin. Some front-office executives believe talks are going on now between Harden and the 76ers on… Source link

Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday that if Russia decides to attack Ukraine, “it would be horrific,” and that such a move would result in “a significant amount of casualties,” particularly in Ukraine’s dense, urban areas. Milley offered this grim assessment during a Friday press conference at the Pentagon, where he addressed the latest developments in the mounting crisis alongside Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. While both men insisted that… Source link