The great debate over going for two found fresh fodder on Sunday when the Baltimore Ravens gambled the outcome of their game against the Green Bay Packers on one final play. Video released on Monday showed how the decision went down on the Baltimore sideline. After the Ravens scored a late touchdown to cut their deficit to 31-30, head coach John Harbaugh rolled the dice on a two-point conversion with the game on the line. Convert, and they take the lead with 42 seconds remaining. Fail, and… Source link
Read More »Google is turning off the controls for OnHub routers at the end of 2022
Google’s insistence on cloud-based controls for its networking products has occasionally caused issues, even though it was supposed to make life with OnHub routers simple. Now it will be a reason pushing anyone still using the OnHub to find a replacement by the end of next year when Google’s apps stop allowing owners to change the settings on their devices. An email went out to users, and a support page revealed the changeover is scheduled for December 19th, 2022 (via Droid-Life).
Read More »WTA standing up to China is laudable
Some things are more important than money. It seems as though we hear a lot of people and companies say that, but very few actually act on it. For too many, when push comes to shove, the money is just too enticing. The Women’s Tennis Association, or WTA Tour, is showing what that practice really looks like as it stands up to global giant China in defense of one of its players, Peng Shuai. There’s a lot of concern for Peng’s well-being right now, after the 35-year-old took to Weibo, China’s… Source link
Read More »Stock market news live updates: December 21, 2021
U.S. stock futures ticked up on Monday after a brutal day for markets in earlier trading, ignited by renewed investor fears that swelling Omicron case numbers could derail economic recovery and worsen inflationary pressures. Contracts on the Dow, S&P and Nasdaq turned green, creeping up declines in the daytime session. Futures for the Dow Industrial Average were up 102 points headed into overnight training, while the S&P and Nasdaq also changed course following drops of nearly 2% each for all… Source link
Read More »What record-breaking Google searches showed us about AAPI issues in 2021
Newly released data on Google trending searches showed record-breaking searches related to Asian Americans in 2021. As anti-Asian hate spiked amid the coronavirus pandemic, Google’s data showed that searches for the term “Asian American” increased by over 5,000 percent, what the company defines as a “breakout search.” In addition, searches for “what is a hate crime” hit record highs in March, the same month eight people — six of them Asian women — were killed at three… Source link
Read More »Eagles fans left footing bill for postponed game
PHILADELPHIA — Barrett Scheffler hopped in his Mazda CX-5 on Friday morning in Columbus, Ohio, halfway through a road trip to Philadelphia to see a football game. It was, at the time, two days away. In Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Stacey Koneski readied her midnight-green paraphernalia. In Arizona, Jamie Barmach and his teenage children boarded a flight. In Newark, New Jersey, fresh off a red-eye from Los Angeles via Vegas, Reza Perl picked up a rental car. In Houston, on the verge of his… Source link
Read More »Manchin killing Build Back Better is ‘devastating’ to climate change action, experts say
When Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced on Fox News on Sunday that he won’t vote for the current version of Build Back Better, experts predicted he may have single-handedly killed the world’s best hope of avoiding catastrophic climate change. In order to avoid breaching the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold that will trigger a cascade of devastating effects, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said that global emissions of the greenhouse gasses that cause climate change must… Source link
Read More »How the White Sox will use Michael Kopech in rotation in 2022
How the Sox will use Michael Kopech in rotation in 2022 originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago The Chicago White Sox pledged a “creative” way to deploy Michael Kopech during the 2021 campaign. Come 2022, that creativity isn’t going anywhere. Kopech missed back-to-back seasons in 2019 and 2020, the first while recovering from Tommy John surgery and the second due to personal reasons. The White Sox never took him out of their long-term planning, but he obviously boasted limited experience and… Source link
Read More »Hedge fund veteran cites ‘quite good’ news for the S&P 500
The S&P 500 is showing its strength amid concerns over the Omicron variant of COVID-19 casting a shadow over markets, morale, and hospitals this holiday season. Despite the uncertainties caused by this latest chapter of the pandemic, the index’s large caps are doing much better than their smaller counterparts, hedge fund veteran Nicholas Colas pointed out on Monday in the DataTrek newsletter. The returns since Nov. 24, when the variant first was reported to the World Health Organization,… Source link
Read More »Tesla is at risk of losing its market dominance: analyst
Tesla (TSLA) bulls shouldn’t get too comfy with the company’s market dominance continuing unabated, warns Guggenheim analyst Ali Faghri. “Our balanced view [on Tesla] is based on: 1) a favorable near-term setup — with demand outpacing supply, we see visibility to volume upside in 2022 and 2023 as new factories in Austin and Berlin ramp; 2) competitive advantage over all original equipment manufacturers today, including a high degree of vertical integration, a software defined vehicle… Source link
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