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PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns are encouraged with the progress of Chris Paul and are hopeful that he will clear the COVID-19 health and safety protocols at some point early in the Western Conference finals, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Paul is quarantining in Los Angeles and has been symptoms-free since testing positive for COVID-19 last week, sources said. The Suns took care of Game 1 against the Los Angeles Clippers without Paul on Sunday, winning 120-114. Devin Booker elevated his game… Source link

After winning just one match, bad luck has ended Petra Kvitova’s time at the French Open. The Czech tennis player announced on Tuesday that she’s withdrawing from Roland-Garros due to a freak ankle injury she sustained on Sunday during her post-match media conference. “It is with great disappointment that I announce my withdrawal from Roland Garros. During my post-match press requirements on Sunday I fell and hurt my ankle. Unfortunately, after an MRI and much discussion with my team, I have… Source link

PHOTO: Eric BVD Google made some announcements that marketers should take note at its Google I/O developer’s conference last week. The announcements include advancements from the search engine giant in the arenas of AI and machine learning, search engines, connecting users with apps and ecommerce and shopping. Let’s dive into some of the updates in more detail. LaMDA Brings Search Changes for Marketers Google unveiled LaMDA, short for “Language Model for Dialogue Applications,”… Source link

Pixel Watch, Pixel Buds A-Series, WearOS We’ve been hearing rumors about a Pixel Watch for years. Could Google I/O finally be the event to showcase Google’s first branded wearable? A leak in April from Jon Prosser showed a circular watch likely powered by a new version of WearOS. The renders show a watch without a bezel around the screen, no physical buttons, interchangeable watch straps and indications the watch will have a heart rate sensor. This is also the first major… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the 2019 Google I/O conference at Shoreline Amphitheatre on May 07, 2019 in Mountain View, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Google’s (GOOG, GOOGL) annual I/O developer conference kicks off on Tuesday after being shut down entirely last year due to the pandemic. But this time around, rather than packing the Shoreline Amphitheater outside the Googleplex in Mountain View, California, the show will be an all-virtual… Source link

Google will hold its I/O conference virtually, instead of at its usual setting at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California.  … Source link

After canceling its I/O developer conference last year instead of hosting it virtually, Google is ready to bring back its I/O developer conference this year. CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that the show will run from May 18th to the 20th, following a tweet this morning from the Google Developers Twitter account sending users to a series of puzzles. Engadget is still attempting to crack all of them, but we have the solutions for at least the first two stages if you’re… Source link

The Association for Computing Machinery nixed Google as a sponsor for the fourth annual Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, happening this week online. The association had been facing pressure to address recent events at Google — namely the departure of two female computer scientists who called out bias in artificial intelligence and within the company. Conference sponsorship co-chair Michael Ekstrand, assistant professor of computer science at Boise State University,… Source link

ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports Lions owner Sheila Ford Hamp involved in personnel, free agency meetings Lions owner Sheila Ford Hamp is taking a hands-on approach to rebuilding the team’s roster. Chris Spielman, who joined the Lions’ front office in December, said this morning on 97.1 The Ticket that Hamp is involved in the Lions’ meetings as they discuss improving their personnel. “[Hamp] has been involved by being in all these [more] Source link

On one hand, it makes sense that playoff rematches would look similar to the regular-season result. There’s usually a reason one team beats another. That doesn’t magically disappear in the playoffs. Since 2002, when the NFL started its current divisional format, teams that won a regular-season meeting are 63-44 in the playoff rematch according to the Washington Post. In the championship round, there have been nine rematches from the regular season over the past seven seasons and the team… Source link