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Thanks to a huge performance from star freshman Cade Cunningham, Oklahoma State has reached the Big 12 championship game. The Cowboys, behind a 25-point night from Cunningham, knocked off top-seeded Baylor 83-74 on Friday night at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. Baylor held a five-point lead with just less than six minutes to go. With just more than two minutes to go, Oklahoma State took control. The Cowboys ended the night on a 10-2 run over the last 2:33 of the game, and held Baylor… Source link

Lawmakers on Friday debated an antitrust bill that would give news publishers collective bargaining power with online platforms like Facebook and Google, putting the spotlight on a proposal aimed at chipping away at the power of Big Tech. At a hearing held by the House antitrust subcommittee, Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, emerged as a leading industry voice in favor of the law. He took a divergent path from his tech counterparts, pointing to an imbalance in power between publishers and… Source link

“Google, please don’t do this,” wrote the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, in a blog post. In the post, EFF technologist Bennett Cyphers argued that, depending on how small each cohort is and the ability for clever companies to cross-reference that data with other available information — such as your email address — it may well be possible for third parties to figure out who you are, anyway. Source link

Bloomberg Tesla Is Plugging a Secret Mega-Battery Into the Texas Grid (Bloomberg) — Elon Musk is getting into the Texas power market, with previously unrevealed construction of a gigantic battery connected to an ailing electric grid that nearly collapsed last month. The move marks Tesla Inc.’s first major foray into the epicenter of the U.S. energy economy.A Tesla subsidiary registered as Gambit Energy Storage LLC is quietly building a more than 100 megawatt energy storage project in… Source link

Liam Hendriks adds big personality to Sox clubhouse originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago It probably didn’t take long for White Sox fans to notice Liam Hendriks’ on-field behavior when he faced off against his future mates in the playoffs last year. Screaming, yelling, fist-pumping, swearing. It’s all part of Hendriks’ act on the mound, the pitching equivalent of Tim Anderson’s bat flips. What wasn’t as apparent, perhaps not even known to his new teammates until he showed up to spring… Source link

TipRanks The Bottom Is in for These 3 Stocks? Analysts Say ‘Buy’ Never say that one person makes no difference. This past Thursday, stocks tumbled, bonds surged, and investors started taking inflationary risks seriously – all because one guy said what he thinks. Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, held a press conference at which he gave both the good and the bad. He stated, again, his belief that the COVID vaccination program will allow a full reopening of the economy, and that… Source link

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) Microsoft (MSFT) wants to get rid of passwords, with one top executive calling them an “inherent risk” to security. As part of its annual Ignite conference, the tech giant announced on Tuesday that it will begin allowing business customers that use its Azure Active Directory, Microsoft’s cloud authentication platform, to ditch passwords for biometrics to secure work accounts. “When there’s passwords there is inherent risk… Source link

The pandemic has inspired new Google Workspace features NurPhoto via Getty Images Google has announced a wave of new features for Google Workspace, many of which were developed as a result of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, according to the man in charge of the suite. Among the new features being announced for Google Workspace today are: Segmentable working hours that allow staff to signal to colleagues when they are and aren’t available Google… Source link

In this article, we examined Big Short’s Michael Burry bets on 11 stocks amid his warning over the stock market collapse ahead. Click to skip ahead and see Michael Burry’s Top 5 Stock Picks. Scion Asset Management chief Michael Burry, who is famous for his billion-dollar bet on the US housing crash in 2008, warned investors of the potential stock market crash ahead. The Big Short claims that the speculative market environment and trader’s strategy of using borrowed money for betting on stocks… Source link