North Carolina ruins Miami’s NY6 hopes

Miami might have played its final game of the season at Hard Rock Stadium. Entering Saturday, the No. 10 Hurricanes were in line for a New Year’s Six bowl berth and a potential spot in the Orange Bowl in their home stadium. Instead, North Carolina could be the school playing in Miami on Jan. 2 after the No. 17 Tar Heels obliterated the Hurricanes’ defense in a 62-26 win. North Carolina totaled 778 yards, the most yards Miami has ever given up in a single game. UNC rushed for 554 yards and… Source link

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Anthony Joshua vs. Tyson Fury next?

Anthony Joshua officially, firmly and finally put Andy Ruiz Jr. in the rearview mirror on Saturday. For most people, 2020 has been the nightmare year of their lives. For Joshua, the 2012 Olympic super heavyweight gold medalist, it was 2019 that was the disastrous year. Joshua was stunningly knocked out by Ruiz on June 1 in one of the sport’s biggest upsets. He regained the IBF-WBA-WBO heavyweight titles on Dec. 7 by outpointing a chubby and overweight Ruiz, but he fought timidly and… Source link

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Dr. Timnit Gebru says Google’s memo was ‘dehumanizing’ – TechCrunch

Welcome back to Human Capital, where I break down the latest in diversity, equity and inclusion, and labor in tech. This week, Twitter dropped its latest diversity report and Tesla released its first one ever. Meanwhile, Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologized for the way things went down with Dr. Timnit Gebru, a prominent researcher in artificial intelligence ethics. Sign up here to get this as a weekly newsletter in your inbox every Friday at 1 p.m. Google’s Sundar Pichai will… Source link

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Google adds more AR animals to mobile Search and most of them are pretty cute

Google has added 50 new augmented reality animals to Search which can be either cute, or in the case of the giant cat in the photo above, a bit disconcerting. Of course it’s possible that I find the giant kitty menacing because I hate fun (or so I have been told), but I do not think I want that creature to greet me, anywhere, ever, in AR or any other reality. I do, however, want this red panda to play with a pumpkin in my dining room as long as she wants to. … Source link

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Ball State beats Western Michigan after forward lateral nullifies crazy last-second bench-clearing TD – Yahoo Sports

MMA Weekly Kevin Holland’s brutal knockout tops UFC 256 performance bonuses The UFC closed out its 2020 pay-per-view events with a fight card that suffered from several title bouts dropping off, but which delivered when it came to action come fight time. There were numerous candidates for the UFC 256 performance bonuses, including both the Fight of the Night honors and the Performance of the Night awards, for which fighters receive a $50,000 bonus. Performance of the Night: Kevin… Source link

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Are Tesla’s Shares Worth $90 or $780? Wall Street Can’t Decide

(Bloomberg) — For all the headline-making drama surrounding Elon Musk and his brainchild Tesla Inc., investors were rewarded handsomely for their patience this year. Now that the company is maturing into blue-chip status with its addition to the S&P 500 Index this month, what happens next may boil down to some simple questions: What type of company is Tesla exactly? And how should the stock be valued? Wall Street’s answers, however, are wildly different — Goldman Sachs has a price target… Source link

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Oklahoma State RB Chuba Hubbard opts out

Chuba Hubbard’s tumultuous final year at Oklahoma State appears to be over. OSU coach Mike Gundy said on his pregame show ahead of Saturday’s game against Baylor that Hubbard wouldn’t be playing because he’s heading to the NFL. Mike Gundy just said on the radio that Chuba Hubbard isn’t playing and has “chosen to go to the NFL.” #okstate — Frank Bonner ll (@Frank_Bonner2) December 12, 2020 Hubbard was one of the most dynamic running backs in college football in 2019. He rushed 328 times… Source link

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Yahoo Finance zings Nikola as worst company of the year

Yahoo Finance users voted Nikola Corp. (NASDAQ: NKLA) as the worst company of the year. And it wasn’t close.  The battery-electric and fuel cell electric truck startup received five times more votes — 15% of 1,582 responses in a poll — than the second place company, which Yahoo Finance did not publicly name.  Only one of five poll respondents said they think Nikola can recover. The inauspicious achievement joins Nikola with Boeing Aerospace Co. (NYSE: BA), which… Source link

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Google used a 64-camera rig to train its portrait lighting AI

TipRanks 3 ‘Strong Buy’ Stocks with Over 7% Dividend Yield It’s been up, up, and away for the markets since the end of September. Both the NASDAQ and S&P 500 are trading within 3% of their recent record high levels, after counting for daily fluctuations. It’s a clear sign of a bullish mood among investors.And that bullish mood is finding fertile soil among Wall Street’s stock analysts, who are not hesitant to make buy-side calls. There are some indications that the analysts are… Source link

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Verge Weekender: Disney’s big day, Cyberpunk 2077, latest at Google, and our favorite gadgets

Happy Saturday and welcome to the inaugural edition of the Verge Weekender, a short recap of some of the stories we covered this week on The Verge. The big event of the week was Disney’s investor day, where the company announced new Disney Plus series WandaVision, showed trailers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and the much-anticipated series Loki; as well as slew of new Star Wars series on Disney Plus, including Rangers of the New Republic, Ahsoka, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Star Wars:… Source link

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