The BIG3 is going big. As part of the league’s championship weekend, it will hold its first-ever All-Star Game and a Celebrity Game benefiting underprivileged youth. Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Chris Haynes will participate in the Celebrity Game at 2 p.m. ET Sunday at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. The game will air on CBS on Sept. 4. The two Celebrity Game teams will be coached by Ice Cube (captain, Rob Gronkowski) and Clyde Drexler (captain, Nelly). Haynes will be joined by other Celebrity… Source link
Read More »Expert prediction for heavyweight title rematch
Through the years, there are fighters who are never fully appreciated, who don’t get the recognition for their accomplishments or their skills. Anthony Joshua has long been one of those. Note that he’s won a version of the heavyweight championship twice and there’s always a quick, “Yeah, but,” which will follow. Joshua is by no means one of the 10 greatest heavyweights who’s ever lived, but he’s still only 32 years old and has several years to add to his résumé if he chooses to… Source link
Read More »Meme Stock Hero Ryan Cohen Used Retail Investors To Pump ‘Extremely Underwater’ Bed Bath & Beyond Position, Strategist Says
Retail traders were quick to flock to the side of Chewy Inc (NYSE: CHWY) founder and GameStop Corp (NYSE: GME) chair Ryan Cohen when he purchased a stake in Bed Bath & Beyond Inc (NASDAQ: BBBY) in March. Less than six months later, Cohen has filed intent to sell his stake in the embattled retailer and accusations are flying. One institutional investor has suggested that Cohen used retail investors to pump the stock for his own benefit. What To Know: Luke Lloyd, wealth advisor… Source link
Read More »Yahoo Mail users bombarded with spam or junk emails in primary inbox
New updates are being added at the bottom of this story……. Original story (published on June 22, 2022) follows: Yahoo Mail is one of the best known email services. Although it has lost popularity in recent years, millions of users around the world continue to use it. That said, it seems that many users are facing an issue related to junk emails in the service. More recently, Yahoo Mail users are receiving an excessive amount of spam or junk emails in their primary inbox (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Source link
Read More »Google workers demand abortion protections and stronger data privacy
Hundreds of Google employees are petitioning the company to extend its abortion health care benefits to contract workers and to strengthen privacy protections for Google users searching for abortion information online. Google parent company Alphabet had pledged to pay travel and other health care costs for employees seeking an out-of-state abortion and to help some workers relocate after the U.S. Supreme Court repealed the constitutional right to an abortion. The June decision… Source link
Read More »Hundreds of Google workers petition company to expand abortion protections for users and contractors
New York CNN Business — Hundreds of workers at Google-parent Alphabet are calling on the company to take steps to expand abortion protections for users and contractors in a post-Roe world, according to a statement Thursday from a union representing the workers. In the petition, which was signed by more than 650 workers at the company and addressed to several executives including Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai,… Source link
Read More »Deshaun Watson receives largest player fine in NFL history, suspension increased to 11 games in settlement
Deshaun Watson will serve an 11-game suspension and pay a $5 million fine for multiple violations of the league’s personal conduct policy in what amounts to one of the most significant penalties in NFL history, sources have confirmed to Yahoo Sports. The Cleveland Browns quarterback and the NFL have settled his disciplinary case prior to a final ruling by arbitrator Peter C. Harvey, following an agreement between the two sides on Thursday. The fine is the steepest ever levied against an NFL… Source link
Read More »Google will roll out new updates to reduce low-quality and unoriginal content in search results – TechCrunch
Google announced today that it’s rolling out new Search updates over the next few weeks that will aim to make it easier for people to find high-quality content. The new ranking improvements will work to reduce the amount of low-quality or unoriginal content that ranks high in search results. Google says that the update will especially target content that has been created primarily for ranking on search engines, known as “SEO-first” content, rather than… Source link
Read More »Workers demand Google expand abortion protections post-Roe
Comment on this story Comment Happy Thursday! As always, send news tips and predictions for who won’t survive the “House of the Dragon” premiere to cristiano.lima@washpost.com. Below: The FTC threatens to sue an adtech firm, and Australia’s top court sides with Google in a defamation case. First: Workers demand Google expand abortion protections post-Roe Google staffers are calling on the tech giant to take greater steps to protect workers’ reproductive health, including by expanding… Source link
Read More »Five years later, Google is still all-in on Kotlin – TechCrunch
It’s been just over five years since Google first announced that it would make Kotlin, the statically typed language for the Java Virtual Machine first developed by JetBrains, a first-class language for writing Android apps at Google I/O 2017. Since then, Google took this a step further by making Kotlin its preferred language for writing Android apps in 2019 — and while plenty of developers still use Java, Kotlin is quickly becoming the default way to build apps for Google’s… Source link
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