Why Is Silicon Valley Still Waiting for the Next Big Thing?

In the fall of 2019, Google told the world it had reached “quantum supremacy.” It was a significant scientific milestone that some compared to the first flight at Kitty Hawk. Harnessing the mysterious powers of quantum mechanics, Google had built a computer that needed only three minutes and 20 seconds to perform a calculation that normal computers couldn’t complete in 10,000 years. But more than two years after Google’s announcement, the world is still waiting for a quantum computer… Source link

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Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen may be NFL’s next great rivalry

When it was all over, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes sprinted across the field to pay it forward. He weaved his way past the celebrating embraces of backup quarterback Chad Henne and linebacker Frank Clark, dropping his helmet at the 35-yard line and curving his trajectory to a person who had earned a shared private moment in the most public of places.  Normally, this singular path in the euphoric chaos of victory delivers a player to an embrace with family or a cherished… Source link

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Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) Receives Consensus Rating of “Buy” from Analysts

Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) has received an average rating of “Buy” from the eight research firms that are covering the stock, Marketbeat.com reports. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and five have assigned a buy rating to the company. The average 1 year price target among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $82.86. YNDX has been the topic of a number of research reports. HSBC upgraded Yandex from a “hold” rating to a “buy”… Source link

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German publishers oppose Google plan to phase out third-party cookies

Google is facing a fresh complaint from Germany’s largest publishers and advertisers, which are demanding that the EU intervene over the search giant’s plan to stop the use of third-party cookies. Axel Springer, the publisher of titles such as Bild and Politico, is among the hundreds of publishers, advertisers and media groups that have argued to the bloc’s competition chief, Margrethe Vestager, that Google is breaking EU law with its move to phase out third-party cookies from… Source link

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Chiefs are 7.5-point favorites over Bengals

Oddsmakers aren’t putting much stock in the Bengals’ regular-season win over the Chiefs. Kansas City is a 7.5-point favorite over Cincinnati in the AFC championship game despite the Bengals’ 34-31 win in Week 17. The Chiefs are hosting the AFC title game for a record fourth consecutive season after defeating the Buffalo Bills, 42-36, in an overtime thriller that will go down as one of the best playoff games in NFL history. The Bengals advanced to the AFC championship game with a 19-16… Source link

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Overtime needs to change after KC-Buffalo classic

The greatest game in NFL history turned on a coin flip. Fine, you can question whether Sunday night’s divisional showdown between victorious Kansas City and heartbroken Buffalo was one of the greatest ever. Good luck finding another one with 25 points scored on four different successful all-or-nothing, score-or-go-home drives in the final two minutes. But this is indisputable: the NFL’s overtime gives an enormous advantage to whichever team wins the coin flip. Three years ago, Chiefs fans… Source link

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Matthew Stafford meets moment vs. Tom Brady

This was the moment Matthew Stafford always wanted. This was the moment he’d always worked toward. Final minute of an NFL playoff game, on the road, crowd going wild, momentum against you, some legend on the other side, heck, let’s make it Tom Brady no less, and everyone needs you to make a play, needs Stafford to go do something to win the game, a game that truly matters. This was all Stafford had wanted in his career, to be in the mix. And maybe it was partially his fault that he never… Source link

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Tom Brady retirement speculation now the topic in Tampa

Tom Brady had been spitting blood and spitting mad, but now he was just in a familiar spot, staring down a fourth-quarter comeback in the fading light of a January Sunday. Forty-four years old, 22 seasons into his NFL career, and it was like nothing had changed. That 27-3 deficit his Tampa Bay Buccaneers faced against these Los Angeles Rams? Ha. He’d made 28-3 famous once. That ferocious, forceful pass rush led by Von Miller, who’d busted up Brady’s lip in the second quarter? You wipe the… Source link

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Google executive cautions Canada against adopting ‘extreme’ new internet rules

Google senior vice-president and general counsel Kent Walker appears before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 1, 2017.Aaron Bernstein/Reuters A senior Google executive is urging Canadian lawmakers not to go too far as they prepare to debate a wave of government bills aimed at imposing new rules on web giants. In a recent interview with The Globe and Mail’s editorial board, Google’s president of global affairs and chief legal officer, Kent Walker, said… Source link

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Rams win late thriller over Bucs after nearly blowing it

The Los Angeles Rams beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 30-27, in Sunday’s divisional playoff game at Raymond James Stadium, sending Tom Brady home for the remainder of the playoffs and Matthew Stafford into his first conference championship game. And what a thriller it ended up. After Brady and the Buccaneers had tied the score with less than a minute left, erasing a one-time 24-point Rams lead, Matthew Stafford hit Cooper Kupp on 44- and 20-yard passes in the waning seconds to set up the… Source link

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