Frauds? Maybe not, but Vikings loss will fuel the detractors

Frauds? Maybe not, but Vikings loss will fuel the detractors

undefined There was curiosity this past week over the Minnesota Vikings being underdogs Sunday at the 5-7 Detroit Lions. It brought a lot of attention to the Vikings being — let’s be polite here — maybe not quite as good as their 10-2 record coming into Week 14. It also led to discussions about analytics in football and whether that mattered at all. The nerds, and the Lions, won Sunday. Detroit beat the Vikings 34-23. There’s nothing wrong with a team that was 10-2 and will undoubtedly be… Source link

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Brittney Griner ‘talked about everything under the sun’ with flight crew on trip home after prisoner exchange

Brittney Griner ‘talked about everything under the sun’ with flight crew on trip home after prisoner exchange

Brittney Griner was ready to talk on her 18-hour flight back to the United States earlier this week. According to special presidential envoy for hostage affairs Roger Carstens, who helped secure Griner’s release from a Russian prison, the WNBA star spoke with him and others for nearly two-thirds of the flight from the United Arab Emirates to San Antonio on Thursday. “When she finally got onto the U.S. plane, I said, ‘Brittney, you must have been through a lot over the last 10 months…. Source link

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‘8 days later, I had a brand new face’

‘8 days later, I had a brand new face’

Jay Leno (pictured in October) is addressing being burned in a gasoline fire in a new essay. (Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images) It’s been a month since Jay Leno suffered severe burns in a gasoline fire at his Burbank, Calif. car garage on Nov. 12. In a new column for the Wall Street Journal, the former talk show host proves that he has a sense of humor about the situation. The renowned car buff addressed the Nov. 14 accident — in which he was treated for serious burns after working… Source link

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Google Improves Privacy Of Google Photos But Makes Key Feature Worse

Google Improves Privacy Of Google Photos But Makes Key Feature Worse

Google has made an important change that will affect the accuracy of location information stored with some photos, potentially causing them to lose their precise location on a map or impacting your ability to search for them based on where they were taken. If your Google Photos account contains photos that were taken without attached location data, Google will attempt to estimate the location for you. However, one of the most accurate ways to do this, Google’s Location History feature, is… Source link

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Instant Collaboration: How to Share Google Drive Files

Instant Collaboration: How to Share Google Drive Files

You’ve created a file in Google Drive that you want to share with other people. No problem. One of the software’s strong points is its ability to play nice with others. Google Drive consists of several programs, including Docs for word processing, Sheets for spreadsheets, and Slides for presentations. There are enough ways to share all three, though, that the process can be confusing. Do you want other people to be able to edit your file or just view it? Do you need to give them access to… Source link

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Black Americans still face challenges chasing homeownership

Black Americans still face challenges chasing homeownership

For Mel Ligon and his wife, remnants of the 2008 housing crisis kept them from realizing major savings from refinancing their Chicago home during the pandemic refi boom. They had a deferred principal placed on their home during the Great Recession when they used a government program to refinance after their household income dropped by half. About a decade later, that prevented them from benefiting from the historically low mortgage rates. “Even when homes started to recover, we have this… Source link

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Google joins Apple in rolling out passkeys for Chrome on Mac

Google joins Apple in rolling out passkeys for Chrome on Mac

2023 may be the year the password finally dies. Following Apple’s announcement that Safari in macOS 13 and iOS 16 will support the standard, Google has announced that passkeys are now supported in Chrome Stable M108. Passkeys are a simpler and more secure login standard for websites that lets you use an encrypted key rather than a password to authenticate apps and websites. The process is similar to Apple’s two-factor authentication in that you’ll use a portable device to… Source link

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One of the most frequently cited risks to stocks in 2023 is ‘overstated’

One of the most frequently cited risks to stocks in 2023 is ‘overstated’

This post was originally published on TKer.co Stocks fell last week, with the S&P 500 declining 3.4%. The index is now up 9.9% from its October 12 closing low of 3,577.03 and down 17.9% from its January 3 closing high of 4,796.56. Last week I published a roundup of Wall Street forecasters’ outlook for stocks in 2023. In a nutshell, they were unusually bearish with more than half of them predicting the S&P 500 to close 2023 lower on the year. One commonly cited risk was the expectation that… Source link

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