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Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk’s disclosure on Monday that he acquired a 9.2% stake in Twitter (TWTR) represents just the type of surprise for investors that U.S. regulators may soon curtail. In February, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a controversial rule change that it says can “modernize” disclosure rules for investors who buy a large block of a public company’s stock. Electronic filing advances since the rule was adopted in 1968, the agency says, make it possible… Source link

Illinois guard RJ Melendez got a technical foul after a fast-break dunk during the second half of the Illini’s second-round men’s NCAA tournament loss to Houston. Melendez was sprinting down court before he dunked the ball and it was obvious to anyone watching that he had to hold onto the rim to prevent himself from flying off and potentially landing dangerously. But the officials calling the game somehow ruled that Melendez intentionally hung on the rim for longer than he needed to and he… Source link

South Dakota State was 3 shot-clock seconds away from March Madness opportunity. Not from an upset, necessarily, or even a lead, but with less than a minute to play in an NCAA men’s tournament opener in Buffalo on Thursday, the 13th-seeded Jackrabbits were down three and one stop away from a chance to take No. 4 seed Providence to overtime. Then, with the shot clock waning, Jackrabbits star Douglas Wilson flew out to contest a 3-point shot. Providence’s Jared Bynum missed it, but Wilson… Source link

A partisan audit of the 2020 election in Arizona continued this week, with further accusations of ineptitude against the firm running it and a gubernatorial campaign launch from a top Democrat opposing it. The audit of votes in Maricopa County, which has drawn criticism from a number of local Republican officials, will not affect the actual results of November’s election but has been used in right-wing media to justify the widespread belief among Republicans that the 2020 results were… Source link

After first proposing it in 2017, Google has received unanimous approval from the San Jose City Council to move forward with its Downtown West development plan, CNBC reports. The company and city have reached an agreement to develop around 80 acres of land in downtown San Jose, California that will also serve as a mixed-use residential, retail, and open space for Google employees and the city’s residents. According to the proposed development agreement (PDF), Google will construct 7.3… Source link

More than a year after facing widespread criticism over its patient data-sharing arrangement with hospital chain Ascension, Google on Tuesday unveiled new details and a name for a core product of the partnership. The tool — a kind of Google search for electronic medical records — is called Care Studio and will now be available to roughly 250 clinicians in pilot mode. The software that lets clinicians search through reams of patient health record data without needing to know precisely… Source link

Seattle Mariners president and CEO Kevin Mather issued an apology Sunday night after a video surfaced on YouTube of controversial remarks he made to the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club on Feb. 5. During the video conference with the club, which lasted over 45 minutes and included a question and answer portion, Mather made racist remarks criticizing his own players’ English skills, called a player overpaid, got the name of one of the team’s prospects wrong, trashed the facilities of their own… Source link

The tech giant said in a blog post Thursday that Marian Croak, a Black woman who has been a vice president at the company for six years working on a range of projects including getting public Wi-Fi on railroads in India, will run a new center focused on responsible AI within Google Research. The announcement, which included a video interview with Croak, touted her decades of tech experience and patents for technologies such as Voice over IP. Croak will report to Jeff Dean, Google’s head of… Source link

GlobeNewswire Global Telepresence Robots Market By Component, By Type, By Application, By Company, By Region, Forecast & Opportunities, 2026 Global Telepresence Robots Market By Component (Head v/s Body), By Type (Stationary v/s Mobile), By Application (Education, Healthcare, Enterprise, Homecare, Others), By Company, By Region, Forecast & Opportunities, 2026New York, Feb. 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report “Global Telepresence Robots Market By… Source link

TipRanks The 5G Revolution Could Send These 3 Stocks Higher We’ve got a full month of 2021 behind us now, and a few trends are coming clearer. The coronavirus crisis may still be with us, but as vaccination programs expand, the end is in sight. With President Trump out of the picture, and the Democrats holding both Houses of Congress and the White House, politics is looking more predictable. And both of those developments bode well for an economic recovery this year. Looking back, at the… Source link