Derek Carr, Raiders agree to 3-year, $141M extension, per report

Derek Carr, Raiders agree to 3-year, $141M extension, per report

The Las Vegas Raiders and their quarterback Derek Carr have reportedly agreed to a three-year, $121.5 million contract extension. Carr is the longest tenured quarterback in the AFC, and now he’ll be extending his stay to at least 2025. According to NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo, Carr is now set to make over $140 million in the next four years, with $100 million coming to him in the next three. He also reportedly has a no-trade clause. Carr, 31, had reportedly been on the trade block several… Source link

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Bank of Canada hikes key interest rate by 50 basis points

Bank of Canada hikes key interest rate by 50 basis points

Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem says inflation is too high and we need higher interest rates (REUTERS/Blair Gable The Bank of Canada is raising its target for the overnight rate by half a percentage point to 1 per cent. Canada’s central bank says it will also stop buying government bonds and begin quantitative tightening (QT), beginning April 25. The Bank of Canada also sharply increased its inflation expectations, saying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is creating economic… Source link

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100% green energy by 2030

100% green energy by 2030

Google’s data centers around the world use about twice as much electricity as the city of San Francisco. In total, Google used 15.5 terawatt hours of electricity in 2020 and the majority of that goes to its data centers. (It hasn’t made 2021 figures available.) The amount of energy Google uses is growing as overall internet usage and its business grows, said Michael Terrell, the Director of Energy at Google. At the same time, Google is has set out a notably aggressive goal to operate on 24-7… Source link

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Bank expected to report lackluster Q1 results

Bank expected to report lackluster Q1 results

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), the largest U.S. bank by assets, is the first among a lineup of mega banks to unveil first quarter results this week as earnings season kicks off. The company has been a strong outperformer in the banking sector, which lagged the broader market meaningfully this year amid concerns over U.S. bank ties to Russia and worries of an economic slowdown. Still, shares of JPMorgan are down 18.7% year to date. JPMorgan released its quarterly results Wednesday. Here were the… Source link

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Google Selects Prince Harry-Backed Travalyst for Emissions Data on Flight Searches

Google Selects Prince Harry-Backed Travalyst for Emissions Data on Flight Searches

Skift Take With the search engine also publishing the methodology and framework for other travel sellers to adopt, there’s a greater chance that carbon emissions data will eventually become standardized, and less confusing. But there’s still a long way to go. Matthew Parsons Google is using a new method to collect and display flight emissions data that’s been developed by Travalyst, marking the latest step in the coalition’s efforts to push bookers… Source link

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Google to invest $9.5 bln in U.S. offices, data centers this year

Google to invest $9.5 bln in U.S. offices, data centers this year

A sign is pictured outside a Google office near the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., May 8, 2019. REUTERS/Paresh Dave/File Photo/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register April 13 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google said on Wednesday it plans to invest about $9.5 billion across its U.S. offices and data centers this year, up from $7 billion last year. Google said the investment will create at least 12,000 full-time jobs in 2022… Source link

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Giants assistant Alyssa Nakken makes on-field history

Giants assistant Alyssa Nakken makes on-field history

It may not have been how she planned it, but Alyssa Nakken made MLB history on Tuesday night. Nakken became the first woman in league history to coach on the field in a regular-season game. The San Francisco Giants assistant replaced Antoan Richardson at first base in the third inning after he was ejected during their game against the San Diego Padres at Oracle Park. “Alyssa has all the characteristics and all the skills of a person who can lead a major-league staff and lead a major-league… Source link

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T’Wolves-Clippers play-in game stopped after fan protest

T’Wolves-Clippers play-in game stopped after fan protest

A fan at the Target Center on Tuesday night interrupted the Minnesota Timberwolves’ play-in game against the Los Angeles Clippers with an attempted on-court protest. Though the protester used a new method to try and get her message across, it didn’t stick very well. In the second quarter of the play-in game in Minneapolis, while a free throw was happening at the other end, officials quickly halted the game after a protester ran onto the floor and apparently started trying to glue herself to… Source link

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With Aquila, Google Abandons Ethernet To Outdo InfiniBand

With Aquila, Google Abandons Ethernet To Outdo InfiniBand

Every couple of years, Google puts out a paper that makes everyone in the IT industry stop and think. The Google File System in 2003. The MapReduce analytics platform in 2004. The BigTable NoSQL database in 2006. Warehouse-scale computing as a concept in 2009. The Spanner distributed database in 2012. The Borg cluster controller in 2015 and again with the Omega scheduler add-on in 2016. The Jupiter custom datacenter switches in 2015. The Espresso edge routing software stack in 2017. The… Source link

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