Everyone knows you should take Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, or Auston Matthews with your first few Fantasy Hockey Draft picks. But who should you be drafting in the mid-to-late rounds? Who is going much later than they should be? Who has the same profile as a player going much earlier? I looked at Yahoo ADPs (Average Draft Position) and compared them with my projections and customizable rankings tool to find the biggest draft day steals as of right now. Mark Scheifele (WPG – C | ADP… Source link

Boxer Gervonta Davis and his lawyer are headed to trial on Dec. 12 after a judge rejected a plea deal in the case of a 2020 hit-and-run crash in Baltimore. In a hearing on Tuesday, Judge Melissa Phinn rejected the deal offered by prosecutors, which included a one-year suspended sentence, two months of home confinement, and zero jail time. Davis, 27, had already accepted that deal, which was not the first one he was offered. Prosecutors originally proposed a plea deal that included four months… Source link

A man holding a phone walks past a sign of Chinese company ByteDance’s app TikTok, known locally as Douyin, at the International Artificial Products Expo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China October 18, 2019. Reuters The explosion of TikTok’s popularity has pushed the app into the biggest technology companies’ focus. While geopolitical issues remain heightened over data-privacy and security, technology firms can’t ignore the platform’s influence on audiences. Google, Apple and Microsoft all… Source link

LONDON: TikTok will begin requiring accounts belonging to US government departments, politicians and political parties to be verified and will ban videos aimed at campaign fundraising, the short-form video app said on Wednesday.The move comes as TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, and other social media platforms are working to clamp down on political misinformation ahead of the US midterm elections in November, after years of being criticized for allowing such content to flourish on… Source link

Repairable electronics firm Framework just announced a new take on the company’s signature laptop. Produced in association with Google, the company is releasing the Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition. As the name suggests, it’s an iteration of the Framework Laptop specifically designed for ChromeOS. Image Credits: Framework The system is up for preorder in the U.S. and Canada starting today, and is expected to start shipping around early December, according to the firm. Starting at… Source link

RIYADH: Mental health is still often considered a taboo subject in the region and across the world, with explanations ranging from the superstitious to the criminal, but it is now being highlighted and normalized by Saudi filmmakers with their movies and television shows. In her most recent work, Saudi writer, director, and actress Sarah Taibah packs a collection of laughs, empathy, and thought-provoking elements into the TV series “Jameel Jeddan.” The show is a coming-of-age story… Source link

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Young people are increasingly using TikTok as a search engine, utilizing the social media platform’s powerful algorithm to provide them with the personalized information they want, reports the New York Times. And Google has noticed. “In our studies, something like almost 40% of young people, when they’re looking for a place for lunch, they don’t go to Google Maps or Search. They go to TikTok or Instagram,” Prabhakar Raghavan, a Google senior vice president,… Source link

LONDON: HBO’s fantasy drama television series “House of the Dragon” set a new record by becoming the best-performing series premiere to date on all platforms in the Middle East and North Africa region, OSN revealed. Since it first aired on Aug. 21, “House of the Dragon” attracted an unprecedented number of viewers with the first episode beating out the finale of the franchise’s predecessor, “Game of Thrones,” by more than 25 percent. “‘House of the Dragon’ is by… Source link

In recent months, Google has been steadily adding new tools to help consumers choose more sustainable options when using its services like Google Maps, Google Flights, and hotel search. On Tuesday, the company announced it’s expanding these efforts with the addition of a handful of new features that allow travelers to better filter their searches to make sustainable choices when booking flights or hotels as well as improved options for trains. The new features complement Google’s… Source link

On September 12, Google began rolling out its second broad core algorithm update this year – the September 2022 core update. We are now several days into the update, and Google has decided to roll out another algorithm update before it is complete – the September 2022 product reviews update. So we felt it was safe to look at the impact of the September 2022 core update at this time, as the September 2022 product reviews update is now rolling… Source link