Now that the 2022 college football season is over, it’s already time to start looking ahead to 2023. As always, this is simply a first look. Things are going to change. And this is for entertainment purposes only. We’ll have a better idea of what teams will look like over the next few weeks as players declare for the NFL draft before the Jan. 16 early entry deadline and coaches continue to add transfers and finalize their recruiting classes in February. Even with that said, it’s time to make… Source link
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Chiefs are becoming old hat, but their budding dynasty is impressive
We get bored with greatness in sports. In the quest to find the next great story, we are quick to dismiss the one happening in front of us. We’re also not used to teams staying on top for very long, especially in the NFL. It’s more exciting to predict the next big thing than pick the current big thing to keep being great. Go back to August and early September and remember what was said about the Kansas City Chiefs. The rest of the AFC West made the big moves. The Chiefs traded Tyreek Hill —… Source link
Read More »Move JavaScript Below HTML Headers
Google’s John Mueller suggests placing JavaScript code below the HTML header tag to ensure search crawlers can fully understand your website. Mueller shares this advice in a Reddit thread, where a user asks whether HTML code placement could cause SEO issues. The answer is yes; the placement of HTML code could adversely impact your SEO efforts if it doesn’t appear at the top of the page. More specifically, it’s important to keep the <head> section of the HTML document at the top of the… Source link
Read More »Powell defends Fed taking ‘measures that are not popular’ to rein in inflation
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made the case in a speech on Tuesday for the Federal Reserve’s independence, noting stable inflation is the foundation of a healthy economy and can require the central bank taking actions that are necessary, but not popular. “The case for monetary policy independence lies in the benefits of insulating monetary policy decisions from short-term political considerations,” Powell said at the Symposium on Central Bank Independence in Stockholm, Sweden. “Price… Source link
Read More »Stock market news live updates: January 10, 2023
U.S. stock futures pulled back early Tuesday as Wall Street processed hawkish rate talk from Federal Reserve officials and awaited comments from Chair Jerome Powell. Futures tied to the S&P 500 (^GSPC) dropped 0.5%, while futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) shed 150 points, or 0.4%. Contracts on the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) declined by 0.7%. Fed chief Powell is scheduled to participated in a panel discussion at the Sveriges Riksbank International Symposium on… Source link
Read More »Microsoft Investment in ChatGPT Parent Could Mean Trouble for Google
Google has been the unassailable leader among search engines for around 20 years. However, Microsoft ‘s reported plans to integrate artificial-intelligence technology from OpenAI into its search tools are raising questions about whether it could threaten Google’s dominance. Source link
Read More »7 whopping stats from Bed Bath & Beyond’s brutal holiday quarter
Bed Bath & Beyond continues to struggle mightily. The near-dead home goods retailer released its long-awaited holiday quarter results on Tuesday morning, and the picture is not pretty. Here are seven numbers that stood out to Yahoo Finance and help explain why the company is on the brink of ruin: Net sales crashed 33% from the prior year. Comparable digital sales fell a whopping 33%. Bed Bath & Beyond banner comparable sales plunged 34%. BuyBuyBaby banner comparable sales tanked in the “low 20″… Source link
Read More »Here’s why the House GOP made defunding the IRS its first priority
The House GOP’s first policy bill out of the gate didn’t address inflation or gas prices or immigration, but instead went after the Internal Revenue Service. The bill was passed Monday evening on a straight party line vote of 221 to 210 to reverse much of the $80 billion in extra funding set aside for the agency by 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act. While it has little chance of it being enacted anytime soon with Democrats in control of the Senate and President Biden promising a veto, the… Source link
Read More »Google’s Extension SDK aims to bring latest features to older Android versions • TechCrunch
Fragmentation has been a longstanding complaint about the Android ecosystem. Often users miss out on features of the latest Android version because they are using older devices that are no longer updated. To reduce the gap, Google has released the first public version of the Extension SDK, which aims to bring features of the latest Android version to older iterations. As a part of this announcement, Google is opening up Photo Picker API support to Android 11 and… Source link
Read More »GM, Ford, Google partner to promote ‘virtual’ power plants
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WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) – Companies including GM, Ford, Google and solar energy producers said on Tuesday they would work together to establish standards for scaling up the use of virtual power plants (VPPs), systems for easing loads on electricity grids when supply is short. Energy transition nonprofit RMI will host the initiative, the Virtual Power Plant Partnership (VP3), which will also aim to shape policy for promoting the use of the systems, the companies said. Virtual power plants… Source link
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