Tennis Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst Pam Shriver opened up on Wednesday and revealed that she was in “an inappropriate and damaging relationship with my much older coach” that started when she was 17. Shriver told ESPN’s Outside the Lines and wrote a story for The Telegraph detailing her relationship with former coach Don Candy. Shriver, 59, got her professional tennis start at 15 in 1978 — the same year she reached the US Open finals as an amateur. She started working with Candy, who… Source link
Read More »Google rolls out new badges to help people avoid bad Chrome extensions
Google is trying to make it easier for Chrome users to install useful extensions without having to scrutinize where they come from. The company says it has begun applying two new badges to extensions. The first, Featured, looks like a prize ribbon and will be displayed on extensions that “follow our technical best practices and meet a high standard of user experience and design.” Google says this is a manual process that involves evaluating extensions for an “enjoyable and… Source link
Read More »Cathie Wood’s ARKK falls 60% from its peak, erasing all post-pandemic gains
A broad sell-off in technology stocks has dragged Cathie Wood’s main Ark Invest fund into the gutter – and it looks like it will take a long time for the popular ETF to dig itself out. The average holding in Ark Innovation (ARKK), Ark Investment Management’s namesake flagship exchange-traded fund, is currently down over 70% from its five-year high, according to fresh data from market research firm Bespoke Investment Group. The rout in ARKK’s portfolio brings the investment vehicle 60%… Source link
Read More »Google Search now displays city-level air quality information in the US – TechCrunch
Google is rolling out detailed information about air quality in Search, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday. The company notes that the launch currently only supports city-level queries. Google first rolled out the feature in India last November. The company says it’s now bringing the feature to Search in the United States to help people find timely and actionable information about air quality in their area. The new feature was first spotted by Source link
Read More »Musk to Judge in Go-Private Tweet Fight: Don’t Muzzle Me
(Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. chief executive officer Elon Musk told a judge he shouldn’t be prohibited from talking about his fight with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as shareholders suing him have requested. Most Read from Bloomberg It’s the latest volley in a lawsuit by shareholders alleging that Musk’s 2018 tweet about taking the company private manipulated its stock price and defrauded them. Last week, the investors won a key ruling in the run-up to a San Francisco fraud… Source link
Read More »Netflix’s best days are behind it, says analyst who predicted the stock’s crash
Netflix (NFLX) is past its prime. Shares of the streaming media giant crashed nearly 40% on Wednesday as the company uncorked another disappointing quarter, sparking fresh worry on the Street about future growth potential. “I think its best days are behind it,” said Macquarie tech analyst Tim Nollen on Yahoo Finance Live. Nollen is one of the few analysts on Wall Street to downgrade Netflix shares ahead of the company’s latest results. And Nollen’s call looks to be spot on. Here’s how Netflix… Source link
Read More »Google tests big changes to featured snippets
Google is testing some significant changes to featured snippets. Both will give searchers a more diverse set of sources in the coveted featured snippet position. From the web. A typical featured snippet features text from, and a link to, one website. In this From the web test, Google shows brief excerpts from two or three different websites, linking to each source separately. Google also includes the site’s favicon. Here’s an example screenshot (shared via Twitter by @vladrpt): Other… Source link
Read More »Shaq opens up about his 3 major regrets
Shaquille O’Neal, NBA Hall of Famer and “Inside the NBA” host, opened up about some painful details from his private life recently, discussing his three major regrets on an episode of “The Pivot Podcast” that was released on Tuesday. “Just because things you do make you seem like you’re perfect, you’re not perfect,” Shaq said. “Big mistake in the Penny [Hardaway] relationship. Big mistake in the Kobe [Bryant] relationship. Horrible mistake in both marriages. Other than that I don’t really… Source link
Read More »Existing home sales dip for a second consecutive month
Housing activity slowed for a second straight month in March. Existing home sales fell 2.7% to a seasonally adjusted 5.77 million units in March from a month earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Home sales fell across all regions in the U.S. from February. The NAR also revised February existing home sales downward to 5.93 million from 6.02 million. The number of sales was down 4.5% from the same month a year ago. The results came in better than analysts’… Source link
Read More »Michigan state senator hits back at GOP colleague accusing her of ‘grooming’ kids
Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow pushed back in a viral speech against the growing trend of Republicans labeling their Democratic opponents as groomers and pedophiles. McMorrow responded Tuesday morning to accusations made in a fundraising email by Republican state Sen. Lana Theis that her Democratic colleague wanted to “groom and sexualize kindergarteners.” “I didn’t expect to wake up yesterday to the news that the senator from the 22nd District had, overnight, accused me by name… Source link
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