Undrafted free agent kicker Andrew Mevis hasn’t had a great start to his NFL career. Four days into his first training camp, Mevis was cut by the Jacksonville Jaguars after missing three field goals during the team’s Thursday warm-ups, according to ESPN’s Michael DiRocco. One of those field goals reportedly missed its mark so badly that it hit former Dallas Cowboys head coach Dave Campo in the shoulder, and the other two weren’t even close to the goalposts. Campo, 75, was an assistant coach… Source link
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Global solar demand ‘staggering,’ on track to grow 30%: analyst
The energy transition is well underway as solar demand blazes higher. Rob Barnett, a senior clean energy analyst at Bloomberg, forecasted that solar capacity installations are on track to grow by 30% globally this year and see sustained double-digit growth in 2023 through 2025. “At the end of the day, the global solar picture is just staggering at this point,” Barnett told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “We are on track to install something like 250 gigawatts of solar capacity this year…. Source link
Read More »Indonesia blocks Yahoo, Paypal, gaming websites over licence breaches
Indonesia has blocked search engine website Yahoo, payments firm Paypal and several gaming websites due to failure to comply with licensing rules, an official said on Saturday, sparking a backlash in social media. Registration is required under rules released in late November 2020 and will give authorities broad powers to compel platforms to disclose data of certain users, and take down content deemed unlawful or that “disturbs public order” within four hours if urgent and 24 hours if… Source link
Read More »What is Google Play Pass? Pricing, Features, and Best Games and Apps
Mobile gaming fans might be interested in Google’s often overlooked Play Pass subscription service. Play Pass is an affordable way to get a mix of games and apps on your Android phone, including some of our picks for the best mobile games. We have all the details and a few recommendations for you. Are you married to your Xbox Game Pass subscription for life? If so, you might want to check out some of our other buying guides to improve your experience, such as the Best Mobile Game… Source link
Read More »The video game industry has a COVID hangover
The video game industry is suffering from a COVID hangover even a bottle of Pedialyte and a bacon, egg, and cheese can’t fix. After explosive growth throughout the pandemic, game sales are finally plummeting back to Earth. Both Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SONY), two of the world’s leading game companies, revealed this week that their gaming divisions saw year-over-year revenue declines, as soaring inflation takes a toll on the industry. It’s not just hardware and games sales that are… Source link
Read More »Midterm Misery for Biden as Key Economy Gauge Flags 30-Seat Loss
(Bloomberg) — Whatever else is on Americans’ minds — and that’s a long list right now — the state of the economy looms large in any US election. That spells big trouble for Democrats in November’s midterm vote. Most Read from Bloomberg A new study by Bloomberg Economics takes one gauge with a knack of predicting ballot outcomes — the misery index, calculated by adding up the inflation and unemployment rates — and projects it forward through election day. The result: Based on past… Source link
Read More »Yahoo DFS Baseball: Saturday Picks
This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Baseball series. The Saturday MLB schedule can sometimes be a little tricky for DFS purposes, but not today with nine games starting at 7:10 p.m. EDT or later. Sounds simple enough. When you’re constructing your lineups, consider these recommendations. Pitching Joe Musgrove, SD vs. MIN ($46): Though the Twins have been decent offensively this season and are above average in terms of runs scored, Musgrove has been formidable with a 2.63 ERA and has… Source link
Read More »Google Pixel 6a Review: Stellar Performance, Down-To-Earth Price
Google Pixel 6a in Sage finish. David Phelan The latest Google phone is just out, and has a lot going for it. As you’ll know, Google’s routine is to launch a Pixel in the fall each year, and in 2021 that was the Pixel 6, a premium phone, alongside a super-duper flagship phone, the Pixel 6 Pro. It then releases a more affordable version the following spring or summer, indicating that it’s next in series by adding an ”a” to the end. So, here comes the Pixel 6a.
Read More »How our GDP complex prevents us from asking — happiness or growth?
All the hand-wringing this week over whether or not the U.S. economy has fallen into recession lacked an important consideration: What if the measure of GDP we’re all focused on is itself massively flawed? It’s a heretical question, because there’s a ‘GDP complex’ at work here. There’s an entire apparatus — economists, bankers, government officials, and prognosticators — of folks whose livelihoods are predicated on measuring GDP, maintained as the be-all and end-all method for… Source link
Read More »Gmail Security Tips, How To Protect Your Gmail Account From Hackers
Although many people use Gmail for throwaway, one-time, spam avoidance use, there are, according to the latest numbers I could find, around 1.8 billion active Gmail users. To put that into perspective, there are an estimated 4.25 billion email users across all platforms and applications, so Gmail accounts for roughly 20% of them. No great surprise, then, that Gmail is also a favored target of malicious actors. Unlike your business email, personal Gmail accounts tend to stay in use for… Source link
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