The SEC is delaying the start of its college football season. The conference announced Thursday that it’s implementing a 10-game conference-only schedule for each team similar to the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12. But unlike those three conferences, the SEC is also moving the start of football season back. The first SEC games will kick off on Sept. 26, three weeks after the original Week 1 start date on Labor Day weekend. The delay means that the SEC Championship Game won’t be played until Dec…. Source link

Life won’t start looking normal for most Google employees before next July, the earliest the company expects its workforce to be able to return to its offices. Yet Google is resuming some suspended business functions, including a high-stakes review cycle that has made at least one group of employees—parents—particularly anxious.   Many Google employees who have kids said they expect the upcoming assessments to show that their job performance suffered in recent… Source link

The economy is “leveling off,” following the worst drop in GDP on record amid the pandemic, says Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic advisor at Allianz. “It is the square root”–shaped recovery, El-Erian told Yahoo Finance’s On The Move. The economy contracted 32.9% in the 2nd quarter amid COVID related shutdowns, and then initially came back strongly as seen in last month’s jobs report and the initial improvement in jobless claims. “Now we’e getting the leveling off,” said… Source link

Google today announced a new autofill experience for Chrome on mobile that will use biometric authentication for credit card transactions, as well as an updated built-in password manager that will make signing in to a site a bit more straightforward. Image Credits: Google Chrome already uses the W3C WebAuthn standard for biometric authentication on Windows and Mac. With this update, this feature is now also coming to Android . If you’ve ever bought something through the browser on… Source link

Google Pixel 4a teaser Google Google on Thursday added a teaser page to the Google Store that says its new phone, expected to be called the Pixel 4a, will launch on Aug. 3. The new phone is largely expected to be a successor to last year’s Pixel 3a, pictured below, which launched for $399 but offered some of the flagship features of the more expensive Pixel 3, such as the high-end camera. Google hasn’t managed to make a huge splash in the U.S. smartphone market, which is dominated by Apple and… Source link

Google’s next budget phone, the Pixel 4A, is likely just days away from going on sale. The company has posted a teaser on its online store, saying that “the Google just what you’ve been waiting for phone” will be revealed on August 3rd. 9to5Google spotted the page. To unlock the full message, you need to tap the various boxes until the colors match Google’s logo: blue, red, yellow, blue, green, and red. Google has also updated some of its social media images (like the header for… Source link

Zion Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans kick off the NBA’s restart games in Orlando Thursday … [+] night. Starting next week, Yahoo Sports will be producing betting-focused broadcasts on League Pass. Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images Getty Images As part of a multi-year extension of their existing partnership, Yahoo Sports is now the NBA’s official gaming partner, an official marketing partner and will be producing league sanctioned betting… Source link

Grim jobless and economic growth data on Thursday underscored how badly the coronavirus pandemic has damaged the world’s largest economy, as still rising COVID-19 diagnoses in the Sun Belt region amplify concerns for the recovery, and America’s ability to contain the fallout. The U.S. continues a concerning upward trend in cases and deaths, with Texas, California and Florida all surpassing New York as states with the highest cases in the past week, surpassing 4.4 million cases. The Empire… Source link

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NEW YORK, July 30, 2020 – Yahoo Sports and the National Basketball Association (NBA) are joining forces to enhance the at-home fan experience with a multiyear relationship that will make Yahoo Sports an Official Marketing Partner of the league and RYOT a live virtual reality (VR) production partner during the NBA Restart in Orlando. The relationship will also allow Yahoo Sports to engage fans through fantasy and sports betting in unprecedented ways, including the right to create sports… Source link