This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Basketball series. There are only two weeks left in the NBA regular season! It’s been a grind to get to this point, but we’re looking at a sprint for these final 16 days of the regular season. This is the time for some teams to battle for a playoff spot and other clubs to jockey for playoff positioning. That should detour some dreaded rest days, but there’s still plenty of chaos on the injury front and numerous teams playing for draft… Source link

Google (GOOG, GOOGL) recently revealed a pilot program that will allow Spotify (SPOT) users to circumvent Google Play’s billing system. Spotify is among the companies that have publicly fought against Google and Apple’s hold on their respective app stores. Apple takes a 30% commission on app and in-app purchases for larger developers, while Google Play takes either a 30% or 15% commission, depending on a variety of factors. This seems like a small but substantial turning point for… Source link

The possessions of Russian oligarchs — yachts, planes, homes, cars, and cash — subject to “seizure” under White House sanctions, are in a state of legal limbo that requires U.S. people, and not the U.S. government, to temporarily manage them. “The burden, effectively, is sitting with the person who’s holding that blocked property,” Dave Johnson, a sanctions law expert and partner with Vinson & Elkins, told Yahoo Finance. “To set it aside, and then deal with it in a way that’s… Source link

When she co-led Google’s Ethical AI team, Timnit Gebru was a prominent insider voice questioning the tech industry’s approach to artificial intelligence. That was before Google pushed her out of the company more than a year ago. Now Gebru is trying to make change from the outside as the founder of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, or DAIR. Born to Eritrean parents in Ethiopia, Gebru spoke with The Associated Press recently about how poorly Big Tech’s AI… Source link

PHILADELPHIA — The “Fire Hubert” furor peaked as the North Carolina Tar Heels rode through darkness on a chilly bus across their home state. It was Jan. 23, wee hours of the morning. Roads were frozen, but message boards were alight. Hubert Davis, , was “in way over his head.” They said much worse, too, as the Tar Heels and their first-year head coach sat in silence. They’d just lost at Wake Forest by 22, four days after losing at Miami by 28. They were 12-6, 4-3 in the ACC, NCAA… Source link

Staring at his computer screen, Blaine couldn’t help but start sweating. The $50,000 in cryptocurrency he once had in his account was now worthless. Months from getting his law school degree, Blaine, 25, had invested all the money that he had made from trading NFTs over the past year in the hopes of putting it toward starting a life with his fiancé. He had put $50,000 of a stablecoin, USD Coin (USDC), into a liquidity pool of assets for stablecoins USDC and Cashio nine days prior, but when… Source link

The answer Cleveland Browns general manager Andrew Berry gave to the final question asked during Friday’s news conference, the unsettling, unsatisfying news conference the team had after trading for Deshaun Watson and then signing him to a record-breaking $230 million contract, may have provided the most revealing moment of all. Do you, and does this organization, believe there was no wrongdoing? “We feel very confident in Deshaun the person, and we have a lot of faith in him, and we believe… Source link

This may sound familiar, but there’s something wrong with the latest software update for Google’s Pixel 6 phones. As Google tweaks the version of Android it distributes to phones running its custom Tensor chip, there have been some odd issues, but instead of problems with Wi-Fi or a slow thumbprint scanner, this time, it’s affecting another key feature: notifications. They still pop up on the phone just as regularly, but for some reason, the strength of the vibration is now… Source link

Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, sports federations and leagues have played a major role condemning Russia’s actions. Russian athletes are currently barred by most Olympic sport federations, FIFA kicked Russian clubs and national teams out of international competitions, and leagues around the world have issued statements of support and organized fundraising efforts for Ukraine. But the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF), a women’s professional hockey league in North America… Source link

With the offseason quarterback carousel mostly ground to a stop, a few questions about starting positions around the league remain. The Carolina Panthers lead that list. For now, it sounds like Sam Darnold is the plan. Until a better option comes along. General manager Scott Fitterer addressed the subject in a news conference on Friday. He confirmed that Darnold has the locker room lead at the position. “Sam’s on the roster as I sit here right now,” Fitterer said. “He’s in the lead for… Source link