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The 2022 WNBA All-Star Game is this weekend at Wintrust Arena in Chicago, home of the 2021 champion Chicago Sky. The All-Star weekend started with the New York Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu winning the Skills Challenge and Chicago Sky star Allie Quigley winning a record fourth 3-Point Contest on Saturday. No NBA or WNBA player had ever won a 3-Point Contest more than three times. The All-Star Game is at 1 p.m. ET Sunday (ABC). The two teams are captained by Seattle Storm forward Breanna… Source link

A teen charged with setting a fire that killed five members of a Senegalese immigrant family in Denver, Colorado, has become the first person to challenge police use of Google search histories to find someone who might have committed a crime, according to his lawyers.   The pushback against this surveillance tool, known as a reverse keyword search, is being closely watched by privacy and abortion rights advocates, who are concerned that it could soon be used to investigate women who search… Source link

Once Aaron Rodgers decided, with the help of a monstrous contract, to return to the Green Bay Packers it seemed the NFC North race was already over. The Packers have won three NFC North championships in a row. The Packers might not be quite as good as previous years, but it’s not like the rest of the division is positioned to beat them. The Packers are the third biggest favorite to win their division in BetMGM’s odds, behind only the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Buffalo Bills. That speaks to the… Source link

Sam Burns had to sit in the clubhouse and wait for several hours Sunday afternoon. Yet when he finally stepped back onto the course, it was as if he’d never left. Burns, after posting a 5-under 65 early in the afternoon, sank a wild birdie putt from just off the green to overtake top-ranked Scottie Scheffler and win the Charles Schwab Challenge. Sam Burns drained a huge birdie putt to beat Scottie Scheffler in a playoff on Sunday afternoon. (Carmen Mandato/Getty Images) Burns has won three… Source link

When Tesla (TSLA) reports earnings on Wednesday, all eyes won’t be on whether Elon Musk comments on his bid for Twitter on the earnings call (or if he is even on the call) but rather how big of a hit the company will experience due to a Shanghai factory production shutdown. “With Berlin and Austin key factories now online and producing Model Y’s in a quickly ramping pace, the main question for tomorrow is just how bad the China production issues are and what that means for deliveries in 2Q… Source link

Starting against the Boston Red Sox on opening day is enough of a challenge, but New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole had another obstacle in front of him as he took the field: Billy Crystal. Friday’s game against the Boston Red Sox saw some minor and perplexing drama to open the game when Cole was visibly displeased by the delay caused by the legendary actor/comedian and diehard Yankees fan’s ceremonial first pitch. Per MLB.com’s Bryan Hoch, a collection of pregame festivities, culminating in the… Source link

Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer is using the platform of March Madness to promote Ukrainian humanitarian efforts. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar) Tara VanDerveer has seen the images of once-beautiful cities reduced to rubble. Of destruction in the Ukrainian capital she once visited, and throughout the country that women she once called her “cousins” call home. It was “really, really, very hard” to watch Russian forces bombard Ukraine, VanDerveer, the Stanford women’s basketball coach, said. It… Source link

Google parent Alphabet Inc. headed toward a couple of elusive marks Tuesday evening, after disclosing earnings and plans for a stock split: A $3,000 share price and $2 trillion market cap. Alphabet shares gained more than 9% in the extended session, which ended with Alphabet’s class A shares GOOGL, +1.73% selling for $3,005 apiece and the class C shares GOOG, +1.61% going for $3,013.83. The class A shares have never… Source link

A 3D printed Google logo is placed on the Apple Macbook in this illustration taken April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Tech companies said rule reducing reviews undermines patent system Court says PTO decisions on instituting review can’t be appealed (Reuters) – A federal judge in California tossed a lawsuit brought by big tech companies including Apple and Google over a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office policy that reduced the number of patent disputes it considers. U.S. Supreme Court precedent… Source link

LUXEMBOURG, Nov 10 (Reuters) – Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google lost an appeal against a 2.42-billion-euro ($2.8-billion) antitrust decision on Wednesday, a major win for Europe’s competition chief in the first of three court rulings central to the EU push to regulate big tech. Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager fined the world’s most popular internet search engine in 2017 over the use of its own price comparison shopping service to gain an unfair advantage over smaller European… Source link