Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving was suspended eight games for his refusal to condemn an antisemitic film he shared on Twitter. (Mike Stobe/Getty Images) Nike has severed all ties with Kyrie Irving a month after the apparel company suspended its partnership with the Brooklyn Nets point guard amid controversy, a spokesperson told The Athletic’s Shams Charania. The news came roughly an hour before Charania reported that Memphis Grizzlies point guard Ja Morant is the likely successor to… Source link
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Microsoft Recruits Top Twitter, Google Engineer For Security Role
Cloud News Wade Tyler Millward December 05, 2022, 10:55 AM EST His new role “sits right at the nexus of critical infrastructure, security, and privacy, so it‘s a subject that speaks very closely to my heart,” Yonatan Zunger said on LinkedIn. … Source link
Read More »Google’s Pixel Fold may have just run Geekbench under the Felix moniker
Google’s long-awaited Pixel Fold may be, in fact, happening again. A device with the moniker Google Felix, rumored to be the Pixel Fold, has made the run on Geekbench, suggesting that the device is in fact in testing and will become official next year. The Google Felix could be mistaken for a Pixel 7 Pro as it has a Tensor G2 chipset with 12GB of RAM. The specs are identical to Pixel 7 Pro-run Geekbench scores. The Google Pixel Fold also looks quite a bit like a Pixel 7 Pro. It has… Source link
Read More »New Hampshire couple sues Google over alleged phone hijacking
An unnamed New Hampshire couple are suing Google and its repair company because an employee allegedly posted an intimate picture of them to their contacts, disrupting their lives and the woman’s startup business. The suit, filed Nov. 29 in U.S. District Court in Concord by “John and Jane Doe,” names Goggle LLC and KMT Wireless LLC – doing business as Cynergy, a Texas Google vendor – and other entities and employees, particularly “Employee X.” It was filed by Lyons Law Office,… Source link
Read More »Google’s Sundar Pichai Has More Direct Reports Than the CEOs of Meta, Amazon, Apple — The Information
Meta Platforms’ Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the only CEO spending more time overseeing the development of costly consumer devices. At Google, CEO Sundar Pichai directly manages two executives in charge of hardware businesses—Rick Osterloh, who oversees Pixel phones, Fitbit fitness trackers and Nest smart home devices; and Clay Bavor, who is working on experimental projects such as augmented reality headsets. Google is prioritizing the development of its own devices as Apple increases… Source link
Read More »Google shut down Duplex on the Web
Google has shut down Duplex on the Web and has retired its web crawler, DuplexWeb-Google. Google posted a notice of this in this help document saying “Duplex on the Web is deprecated, and will no longer be supported as of December, 2022. Any automation features enabled by Duplex on the Web will no longer be supported after this date.” Duplex on the web. Google called this feature “Duplex on the web,” and it allowed users to use the Google… Source link
Read More »Stock futures fall ahead of more economic data
U.S. stock futures sunk Monday ahead of another wave of economic data out this week. Futures tied to the S&P 500 (^GSPC) moved lower by 0.5% in premarket trading, while futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) ticked down by 0.4%. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) fell by 0.4%. Stocks finished mixed on Friday as investors digested hotter-than-expected jobs data. The strong job gains and robust wage growth are the opposite of what the Federal Reserve would like to see in… Source link
Read More »Yuzuru Hanyu becomes face of 2022 in Yahoo Japan’s portal searches
Yuzuru Hanyu. (Kyodo) Yuzuru Hanyu, Japan’s two-time Olympic gold medalist, became a figure who saw the sharpest increase in search queries from last year and claimed the title of “this year’s face as chosen by the public,” the popular Yahoo Japan web portal said Monday. Among the other figures who were searched far more frequently on the Japanese portal were actress Wakana Matsumoto, boy band Naniwa Danshi and comedian JP. Matsumoto appeared in a TV drama about a rich… Source link
Read More »Single-Game Preview for Spain vs. Morocco
Tuesday’s single-game late slate is the last of the Round of 16 matches, with Spain taking on Morocco. Spain are heavy 61 percent favorites with 1.70 implied goals in what is expected to be a one-sided match. Still, Morocco have some interesting pieces and the implied total for the match sits below 2.50. CASH GAME STRATEGY I feel like it’s hard to start anywhere other than Dani Olmo ($28), he isn’t even the highest-salary player on the slate and he has a rock-solid floor. Olmo has consistently… Source link
Read More »Yahoo DFS Hockey: Monday Picks
Looking for a pick-me-up on a Monday? How about a little hockey? There are six NHL games on the docket, and here are some players to target, and to avoid, for your DFS lineups. Good luck out there! GOALIE Dan Vladar, CGY vs. ARI ($25): There is a question of who will start in net for the Flames. Vladar, the definitive backup when the year began, has started four of Calgary’s last six games, and in those starts he has an 1.97 GAA and .940 save percentage. So, do the Flames run with Vladar, or… Source link
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