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Nate Robinson says he has been dealing with kidney failure for four years. (Photo by Victor Decolongon/Getty Images) Longtime NBA fan favorite Nate Robinson announced Saturday he is undergoing treatment for kidney failure after a four-year battle with the illness, via The Athletic’s Shams Charania. Robinson said he was going public with his diagnosis so he can be a voice for others dealing with it. Robinson’s full statement: I am currently undergoing treatment for Renal Kidney Failure and have… Source link

Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +0.67% GOOG, +0.63% is in the hottest of hot seats as the antitrust spotlight intensifies on Big Tech, with multiple actions expected to come to a head in 2022. A rumored Justice Department lawsuit targeting Google’s digital advertising practices tops its list of regulatory headaches heading into the new year. The suit, which would be the second monopoly case against the company’s… Source link

Google, an unlikely underdog, is struggling to keep pace with Amazon . com Inc. in the battle for billions in e-commerce ad dollars. In its latest strategy shift, the Alphabet Inc. unit said Wednesday that it is updating the look and format of product search pages to feature images of apparel, accessories and other items to better resemble a digital store rather than a long list of links and text. Source link

Russian internet giant Yandex has been targeted in a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that started last week and and it reportedly continues this week. A report in Russian media says that the assault is the largest in the short history of the Russian internet, the RuNet, and that it was confirmed by a U.S.-based company. RuNet is the Russian segment of the internet, created to function independently of the worldwide web. Its purpose is to maintain the unified… Source link

Taliban fighters patrol in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) The chaotic departure of U.S. troops from Afghanistan obscures an important national-security development: The American counter-terrorism effort of the last 20 years has generally worked, while getting more efficient and much cheaper over time. U.S. troops invaded Afghanistan 20 years ago to root out the al Qaeda terrorists who perpetrated the Sept…. Source link

Mongolia promised its people a “COVID-free summer.” Bahrain said there would be a “return to normal life.” The tiny island nation of the Seychelles aimed to jump-start its economy. All three put their faith, at least in part, in easily accessible Chinese-made vaccines, which would allow them to roll out ambitious inoculation programs at a time when much of the world was going without. But instead of freedom from the coronavirus, all three countries are now battling a surge in… Source link

Watch: How Captain Sir Tom Moore captured a nation’s hearts The NHS, the Queen and Boris Johnson have led tributes to Captain Sir Tom Moore, who has died at the age of 100 after testing positive for COVID-19. In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, Sir Tom’s daughters Hannah Ingram-Moore and Lucy Teixeira said: “It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our dear father, Captain Sir Tom Moore. “We are so grateful that we were with him during the last hours of his life; Hannah,… Source link