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The Big 12 as a whole is inheriting an abundance of talent throughout the conference via the transfer portal. With the rule of having to sit out after transferring now abolished, along with the extra year of eligibility due to COVID-19, teams throughout the nation are seeking transfers that can come in and make an immediate impact for their program. Texas, under a new coaching staff, is one of those schools that has relied heavily on the portal to address team needs. The Longhorns have taken… Source link

Thanks to Google, we now know more about the forthcoming Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro flagships, and it looks like a big upgrade is coming. Google’s Pixel 6 will likely offer a huge upgrade over the current Pixel 5 (pictured) © 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP ADVERTISEMENT MORE FROM FORBESGoogle Accidentally Reveals Significant Google Photos ChangeBy Paul Monckton Google’s Pixel 6 range, already the subject of numerous exciting leaks, has again come under the spotlight thanks to new… Source link

In a big week for pandemic relief, Americans just got $20 billion in new aid Though politicians, researchers, advocates and everyday Americans have been calling for additional direct payments for most Americans, the government already is providing additional support for people struggling to make ends meet and deal with debt as the effects of the pandemic linger. More than $20 billion in COVID relief was paid out in the last week alone. Some of that may be on its way to you. $15 billion from the… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, July 14, 2021 Pandemic pressures linger but new pressures emerge June’s inflation data was a barnburner.  Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics published Tuesday showed the consumer price index (CPI) rose 5.4% over last year on a headline basis, and 4.5% on a core basis. That measure strips out the more volatile components of food… Source link

Goldman Sachs’ closely watched chief U.S. equity strategist David Kostin isn’t ruling out more upside for the stock market into year end, but he does acknowledge gains will be tougher to generate.  “You’ve got two big headwinds facing the market in the next six months that I think is likely to restrain the appreciation. The first issue is higher rates [interest]. The idea of higher rates is typically associated with some lower valuations,” Kostin said on Yahoo Finance Live.  Kostin says the… Source link

Colleges are increasingly making standardized tests optional for applicants, leading to questions about whether or not the companies profiting from broad-based testing should be the de facto gatekeepers of the higher education admissions system. “The test prep industry has become a multi-billion dollar industry, and it’s growing and expanding at a high rate,” Susan Paterno, a professor of English and director of the journalism program at Chapman University and previously served on a… Source link

Most of Moving Day at the U.S. Open was more like Shuffling Day, with players edging up or down a couple strokes over their Friday scores. But then, after sundown on the East Coast, the top of the leaderboard suddenly bunched up tight, setting up a Sunday that will feature both star power and chances of a lifetime.  Louis Oosthuizen, who’s spent much of his career being in contention in majors but never closing since winning the 2010 Open Championship, hammered his way into a tie for the… Source link

The UK’s competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), will collaborate with Google as it attempts to rework online ad targeting, the regulator and Google have announced. It comes as Google is attempting to phase out the use of third-party cookies for tracking and targeting users with ads and instead use a new set of technologies it’s calling Privacy Sandbox. In its announcement, Google said this is the first time regulators and technology companies have worked… Source link

(Bloomberg) — The size and type of defaults that have occurred in China in recent times indicate that the notion of “too big to fail” may no longer apply to the nation’s borrowers, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. There has been a noticeable up-tick in defaults by Chinese state-owned enterprises since late 2019 and some of the borrowers that have failed to repay debt recently such as China Fortune Land Development Co. have had large amounts of outstanding bonds, analysts including… Source link

The bipartisan legislation marks Congress’s most significant push to date to rein in Silicon Valley, in some cases taking direct aim at tech giants’ underlying business models. If successful, the legislation could force Google (GOOG) to stop promoting YouTube in its search results, or prohibit Amazon (AMZN) from selling products on its marketplace that compete directly with third-party seller listings. Apple (AAPL) could be required to relax its restrictions on iOS app developers, and… Source link