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Liz Cambage played 25 games with the Sparks before parting ways with the team. Los Angeles has nine games left in the regular season. (Photo by Meg Oliphant/Getty Images) LOS ANGELES — Liz Cambage was leisurely running up the court complaining on Saturday while playing against her former team, the Las Vegas Aces, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Her condemnation stemmed from not getting enough post touches from her Los Angeles Sparks teammates, which sources close to the team say was… Source link

For a few years running, the Pixel A-series phone was a no-brainer: always the best Android phone in its midrange class. With the Pixel 6A, things are a little different. Google is shifting its priorities for its Pixel phones, and competitors like Samsung have closed the gap. The 6A still has the best performance and camera quality at its price, but it’s not quite the shoo-in that it once was. As is tradition for the A-series, the 6A offers most of what the Pixel 6 does — and to a… Source link

Today, we are excited to announce a new chapter in our partnership with Google: a multiyear agreement that represents a first-of-its-kind option in payment choice and offers opportunities for both consumers and developers.   Users who’ve downloaded Spotify from the Google Play Store will be presented with a choice to pay with either Spotify’s payment system or with Google Play Billing. For the first time, these two options will live side by side… Source link

Tech entrepreneur Oleksandr Kosovan takes shelter inside his car parked underground. He’s helping combat the Russian invasion — using the skills he knows best. “I’m not a military man, I don’t know how to shoot, but still I can use my brain and technology in order to stop the war in any possible,” Kosovan told Yahoo Finance Live. The CEO of MacPaw, a software company based in Ukraine, says he stayed behind to defend his country. “Part of our team are already outside of Ukraine. I’m here… Source link

Huang Yu-ting made waves at the Beijing Olympics for wearing a China uniform. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) Taiwan will cut two years worth of funding for speed skater Huang Yu-ting after she was pictured wearing a China uniform prior to last month’s Beijing Olympics. Taiwan’s Sports Administration released a statement on Thursday, saying the decision was made based on “Huang Yu-ting’s repeated controversial words and deeds during the preparation and participation in the Beijing Winter… Source link

There is a story developing in the labor market, which has marked a significant shift in who is participating amid the ongoing pandemic.  Among the many stories are resignations, for various reasons, and the struggle to fill more labor-intensive jobs. It has resulted in an unprecedented demand for more highly-skilled, remote jobs, and those willing to work in lower-wage jobs are being paid significantly more than those who previously held the positions. ZipRecruiter chief economist Julia… Source link

Australia could be next to mandate a choice screen in a bid to break Google’s dominance of the search market. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is recommending it is given the power to “mandate, develop and implement a mandatory choice screen to improve competition and consumer choice in the supply of search engine services in Australia”. A new report by the country’s competition watchdog concludes that interventions are needed to boost competition in the… Source link

The 60 rating InvestorsObserver gives to Yandex NV (YNDX) stock puts it near the top of the Internet Content & Information industry. In addition to scoring higher than 89 percent of stocks in the Internet Content & Information industry, YNDX’s 60 overall rating means the stock scores better than 60 percent of all stocks. YNDX has an Overall Score of 60. Find out what this means to you and get the rest of the rankings on YNDX! What… Source link

There’s no end in sight for Jaromir Jagr’s professional hockey career. (Photo by Alexander ShcherbakTASS via Getty Images) Former NHL player Jaromir Jagr has decided that he will continue to play for Kladno in the Czech Extraliga even as he nears his 50th birthday. Jagr will be turning 50 in February 2022, but he said that people are still expecting him to play — and to play well. “It’s not easy anymore, believe me,” Jagr said Wednesday to The Hockey News. “…mostly during my career,… Source link

The growing spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant is creating an increasingly stark choice that could make the difference between more reopenings — or a return to restrictions that decimated the world’s economy, a World Health Organization expert suggested on Friday. Amid the leak of internal documents from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), comparing the transmissibility of Delta variant to that of chickenpox, new discoveries are sparking furious debate about how… Source link