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Welcome to March, David Jean-Baptiste. The Chattanooga senior guard set a ridiculously high bar for 2022 madness with a wild 3-point heave to secure the Mocs’ place in the NCAA field on Monday. Frantic finish in SoCon final With 4.3 seconds remaining in overtime, Chattanooga inbounded the ball under its own basket trailing Furman in the Southern Conference championship game, 63-61. Jean-Baptiste corralled the inbounds pass and didn’t give it up until he’d secured victory. He dribbled the ball… Source link

WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) attempt to nix a lawsuit by shareholders accusing the Google parent company of fraudulently concealing a security glitch that left private user data exposed. The justices left in place a lower court’s ruling that revived the lawsuit brought over the 2018 incident that the company was slow to disclose, turning away Alphabet’s appeal. The lawsuit, led by the state of Rhode Island, was filed… Source link

(Reuters) -Peloton Interactive Inc has drawn interest from potential buyers including e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the exercise bike maker struggles to maintain pandemic-fueled growth. Shares of Peloton surged 30% in extended trading on the news, which comes days after activist investor Blackwells Capital urged the company’s board to put it up for sale. Amazon is exploring an offer for Peloton and is speaking with advisers about whether… Source link

New Year’s Eve Google Doodle today: With the year 2022 just around the corner, Google has marked the New Year’s Eve with its newest doodle — a giant candy with the year 2021 that seems ready to pop. Once you click the candy, it pops to reveal celebratory confetti across the search page. Google has another fun surprise for its users as the results for ‘New Year’s Eve’ show a party horn, which when clicked, makes noise and throws up confetti. The doodle has twinkling fairy lights… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Over a span of four decades, Jaime Gilinski has quietly amassed a fortune exceeding $4 billion by expanding his family’s group of companies and pushing into new areas like banking, finance and real estate. Most Read from Bloomberg At 63, the Colombian native is embarking on his biggest gamble yet: a $2.2 billion bid to buy a majority stake in foodmaker Grupo Nutresa SA with the royal family of Abu Dhabi. For the deal to succeed, he’ll need to convince a group of investors in… Source link

Written by Billy Mitchell Nov 12, 2021 | FEDSCOOP Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Thursday confirmed recent reports that his company wants a piece of the Department of Defense’s forthcoming multi-cloud procurement, the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability. Kurian wrote in a blog post that if Google Cloud is invited by the Department of Defense (DOD) to bid on the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC),… Source link

Throughout the build-up to their rematch for the welterweight title Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York, Colby Covington disdainfully referred to champion Kamaru Usman as “Marty Fakenewsman.” Well, this isn’t fake news: Usman is the best fighter in the world, and it’s not particularly close at this point. He survived a spirited upset bid from Covington to pull out a unanimous decision in the main event of UFC 268 and retain his welterweight title. Scores were 48-47 twice and… Source link

Tensions between Google and its AI brain trust DeepMind have always been fascinating. To put the relationship in crude terms: DeepMind, founded in 2010, is home to some the best AI researchers in the world who output a steady stream of insightful academic papers and Nature front covers. Google, meanwhile, bought DeepMind in 2014 and bankrolls its large losses, and it really, really wants to squeeze some money out of all those juicy brains. That’s why a recent story on the two companies… Source link

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are making big moves to expand their business empire — one year after exiting the royal family. Riding the momentum from a blockbuster televised interview, the couple made several announcements this week, including a new partnership with Proctor and Gamble (PG), the same company a young Meghan Markle called out over sexist ads 28 years ago.  The multi-year, global initiative was publicized through the couple’s Archewell Foundation, and is set to “focus on… Source link

Law360 (May 12, 2021, 8:30 PM EDT) — A patent holder that lost a bid this month to force former Yahoo owner Altaba to establish a $749 million infringement reserve asked the Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday to reconsider in light of Verizon’s recently revealed plans to sell Yahoo to Apollo Global Management. Earlier this month, the Chancery judge overseeing disputes over Altaba’s wind-down rejected patent holder Droplets Inc.’s push to create the reserve, since the former Altaba… Source link