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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Heartbroken UConn left to lament controversy, setbacks despite exceeding outsized expectations  Yahoo Sports Source link

DETROIT — There’s only silence around the Brooklyn Nets after they’re eliminated from the playoffs, or if the New York Knicks are a bigger mess — or the time before a trade demand. These past few weeks, they’ve been creeping and now they’re on the come-up, making themselves relevant in the Eastern Conference. But Kevin Durant notices the lack of attention his team has received. “I get that other people don’t look at our roster as a championship roster, but when we get wins the… Source link

Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving was suspended eight games for his refusal to condemn an antisemitic film he shared on Twitter. (Mike Stobe/Getty Images) Nike has severed all ties with Kyrie Irving a month after the apparel company suspended its partnership with the Brooklyn Nets point guard amid controversy, a spokesperson told The Athletic’s Shams Charania. The news came roughly an hour before Charania reported that Memphis Grizzlies point guard Ja Morant is the likely successor to… Source link

Subscribe to The College Football Enquirer The College Football Enquirer welcomes a late transfer onto the squad, just in time for the football season. SI’s Ross Dellenger joins the pod full time and will be your third voice of reason (or anarchy) through the year. Ross joins Dan Wetzel & SI’s Pat Forde today and kicks off with a piece of original reporting from Washington, D.C. on former Auburn coach and current U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville. Joined by Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia,… Source link

Let’s start this post with some raw truth: Google has not created robots that are sentient (or, put another way, have feelings). But don’t cast your worries aside just yet. The allegation that Google has made a sentient robot came up after Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer, claimed he had profound discussions with the tech company’s artificial intelligence system LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications).  Lemoine was reportedly placed on paid leave Monday for violating Google’s… Source link

YANQING, China — High-speed winds and controversy swept through the National Alpine Skiing Center here on Saturday, with the cancellation of a men’s downhill training session sparking fears that the Olympic competition will be neither safe nor fair. Organizers, citing wind gusts that created “dangerous” and “unpredictable” conditions, called off Saturday’s session after just three runs. Norway’s Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, the gold medal favorite, got one of them. His top… Source link

This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, January 19, 2022 Spotify needs to keep its artists happy, or it will have nothing Spotify (SPOT), the world’s most popular music streaming service, faces an existential threat in the form of a boycott by the very artists it needs to survive. So far, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have… Source link

(Editor’s note: Attention to strong language in paragraph 4 that could offend some readers) By Helen Coster Oct 25 (Reuters) – Comedian Dave Chappelle on Monday addressed the transgender controversy at Netflix https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/netflix-workers-stage-walk-out-over-chappelle-transgender-comments-2021-10-20 in full for the first time on a video on his Instagram account, five days after about 100 people protested near the streaming company’s headquarters. The employee… Source link

In a blog post on March 3, Google announced that it would be removing third-party cookies from its Chrome browser—a decision that would effectively end use of third-party cookies. Google also pledged to avoid any other technology for tracking individuals as they browse the web. In its place, Google proposed cohort tracking, whereby companies could use third-party ad services to target ads only to larger groupings instead of individual users. It argued that such a change is needed to… Source link

You’ve landed on the web version of the weekly Human Capital newsletter. Sign up here to get this in your inbox every Friday at 1 p.m. Welcome back to Human Capital. A lot happened this week pertaining to on-demand companies like Uber, Postmates, DoorDash and Instacart, and their respective gig workforces. Meanwhile, New York’s attorney general hit Amazon with a lawsuit over its warehouse labor practices and Twitter made some new commitments to increase diversity at the leadership… Source link