For those of you still competing in fantasy leagues through Week 18, below you’ll find a collection of recommended pickups. Obviously, fantasy football seems particularly inconsequential right now. Our thoughts are still very much with Buffalo’s Damar Hamlin as well as his family, friends and teammates. Everything else related to football (and certainly to fantasy) is far less important today. Wide Receivers and Tight Ends Treylon Burks, WR, Tennessee Titans (42 percent rostered) Tennessee ran… Source link

India antitrust rulings latest setback for Google in key market Google wants Indian antitrust decisions to be quashed Indian watchdog copied parts of EU order, Google alleges Google says its conduct is not anti-competitive – filing NEW DELHI, Jan 3 (Reuters) – Google has told a tribunal in India that the country’s antitrust investigators copied parts of a European ruling against the U.S. firm for abusing the market dominance of its Android operating system, arguing the decision be quashed, legal… Source link

Meta isn’t the only tech heavyweight making tools to help root out terrorist content. The Financial Times has learned Google’s Jigsaw is developing a free tool to help smaller websites detect and remove extremist material. The project, built with the help of the UN-supported Tech Against Terrorism, makes it easier for moderator teams to deal with potentially illegal content. The effort has the assistance of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (founded by Google, Meta, Microsoft… Source link

Google’s antitrust woes mainly stem from its Android mobile operating system, which is used by more than 70% of smartphone users worldwide.Image: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Google has asked an appeals court in India to throw out an October antitrust ruling by the Competition Commission of India (CCI), accusing regulators of plagiarizing language from a similar ruling in Europe. The American internet giant cited more than 50 instances of language copied verbatim. Google also objected to… Source link

U.S. stocks closed with losses Tuesday as last year’s selling pressures poured over into a busy first trading week of 2023. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) dropped 0.4%, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) fell 0.8%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) capped the session just below breakeven. Apple (AAPL) shares sank 3.7% on Tuesday to the lowest level since June 2021, bringing the company’s market capitalization below $2 trillion — a symbolic milestone for the tech stock rout that… Source link

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy arrives for a meeting with House Republicans at the Capitol on Tuesday. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) For the first time since 1923, the U.S. House of Representatives failed Tuesday to elect a new speaker on the initial ballot, signaling the start of what could be a fractious, days-long drama to find a Republican successor to former Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. But for Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, Calif. — the Republican leader who was also… Source link

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy arrives for a meeting with House Republicans at the Capitol on Tuesday. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) For the first time since 1923, the U.S. House of Representatives failed Tuesday to elect a new speaker on the initial ballot, signaling the start of what could be a fractious, days-long drama to find a Republican successor to former Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. But for Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, Calif. — the Republican leader who was also… Source link

Domantas Sabonis has been integral to the Kings having a positive record so far this year. It will be a quiet night in the NBA on Tuesday with just three games on the schedule. There is the potential for a couple of blowouts, with the Bucks hosting the Wizards and the Celtics taking on the Thunder. We could also see a high-scoring affair when the Jazz host the Kings. The Jazz will be shorthanded, though, with Collin Sexton (hamstring) expected to miss at least the next week. Let’s dig… Source link

The Federal Reserve, FDIC, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a joint statement on Tuesday warning about “significant” risks crypto assets may pose to the broader banking system. “It is important that risks related to the crypto-asset sector that cannot be mitigated or controlled do not migrate to the banking system,” the agencies said in a joint statement. “Given the significant risks highlighted by recent failures of several large crypto-asset companies, the… Source link

Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to eight different counts of wire fraud, securities fraud, and conspiracy before a U.S. federal court in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday. U.S. prosecutors allege that under Bankman-Fried’s direction, FTX, once considered one of the largest and most-trusted cryptocurrency exchanges, transferred billions in customer assets to his trading firm, Alameda Research. If convicted of these charges, Bankman-Fried faces up to 115 years in prison. A trial… Source link