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[unable to retrieve full-text content]A closer look at Michael Jordan’s 1988 DPOY award raises questions about its validity. Has LeBron James been …  Yahoo Sports Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Ezekiel Elliott, Dallas Cowboys moving closer to a reunion  Yahoo Sports Source link

INDIANAPOLIS — “My mindset is to come out and hoop and just be myself.” That was Portland Trail Blazers rookie Scoot Henderson, hours before the NBA’s Rising Stars Challenge. He came out, hooped and scored 10 points in a 40-35 loss to open the evening’s four-team mini tournament. It was a microcosm of what has been a quiet rookie campaign for Henderson, again overshadowed by peers. In a sea of Tyrese Haliburton shirts on the streets of snowy Indianapolis were a few jerseys bearing Victor… Source link

Google’s new video generation AI model Lumiere uses a new diffusion model called Space-Time-U-Net, or STUNet, that figures out where things are in a video (space) and how they simultaneously move and change (time). Ars Technica reports this method lets Lumiere create the video in one process instead of putting smaller still frames together.  Lumiere starts with creating a base frame from the prompt. Then, it uses the STUNet framework to begin approximating where objects within that frame… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Israel and Iran edge closer to war, but experts say conflict isn’t inevitable  Yahoo News Source link

The standard disclaimer here: look for a full review in the not-too-distant future. But now, let’s get a better look at the Pixel Watch in real life, through some quick photos and a hands-on squeezed in the press scrum at the Williamsburg Google Store, following today’s event. Image Credits: Brian Heater I had a few early thoughts about the device, having spent a small bit of time with it before today’s big Made By Google event. As I mentioned in the early news post, there are two… Source link

Wednesday October 5, 2022 7:08 am PDT by Sami Fathi New images of Google’s upcoming “Pixel Watch” have been leaked online ahead of when the company is expected to provide more information on its first in-house smartwatch during an event on Thursday, October 6. Google initially offered a preview of the Pixel Watch during its Google I/O conference over the summer. The Pixel Watch is the first smartwatch directly from Google and an answer to the Apple Watch, which has dominated the smartwatch… Source link

Midway through last month, Los Angeles Dodgers closer Craig Kimbrel was in the middle of one of the worst seasons of his career. Once the most feared reliever in baseball, Kimbrel’s name was only feared at Dodger Stadium, which regularly jeered his name. By Aug. 21, he had seen his ERA climb to 4.46 and hadn’t successfully protected a one-run lead until four days earlier. The Dodgers kept him on as their closer, but that spoke more of their injury woes and continued success than any… Source link

On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced a proposal to get even more aggressive with the billions seized from Russian oligarchs who have close ties to Vladimir Putin. The White House released the outlines of what it calls a new comprehensive legislative package around Ukraine that includes provisions to “streamline the process for seizure of oligarch assets, expand the assets subject to seizure, and enable the proceeds to flow to Ukraine,” the White House said. The move on oligarchs and… Source link

Elon Musk.Patrick Pleul/AP Elon Musk just opened Tesla’s Gigafactory in Texas, which will employ 20,000 people. Between Tesla and SpaceX, Musk is the boss of more than 100,000 employees. Here’s a closer look at the unconventional CEO’s approach to management and leadership. With the addition of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, CEO Elon Musk is bringing an estimated 20,000 workers under his employment. In fact, Tesla and SpaceX employ more than 100,000 people combined. So, what’s it like to… Source link