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Google claims a Supreme Court defeat would transform the internet — for the worse

Google claims a Supreme Court defeat would transform the internet — for the worse

CNN  —  An unfavorable ruling against Google in a closely watched Supreme Court case this term about YouTube’s recommendation engine could have sweeping unintended consequences for much of the wider internet, the search giant argued in a legal filing Thursday. Google, which owns YouTube, is fighting a high-stakes court battle over whether algorithmically generated YouTube recommendations are exempt from Big… Source link

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Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and the fuel of NBA Finals defeat

Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and the fuel of NBA Finals defeat

BOSTON — Jayson Tatum, as dejected as we have seen him in his nascent career, lolled out of the press room following his Boston Celtics’ NBA Finals loss to the Golden State Warriors and hugged his father. “It hurts,” Tatum had just told a horde of reporters huddled in a corner of TD Garden, as the smell of cigar smoke emanated from the nearby visitors’ locker room. “I feel like I could have done a lot of things better.” Following a lengthy discussion, the first team All-NBA forward exited… Source link

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No. 1 South Carolina comes back to defeat No. 2 Stanford

No. 1 South Carolina remains undefeated after it once again defended its ranking against a No. 2 team in the country.  The Gamecocks came back from 18 points down and completed the largest comeback victory in program history to down reigning champion Stanford, 65-61. It was their fifth victory against a top-10 ranked team this season and they are the first team since Baylor in 2011-12 to multiple regular season Nos. 1 vs. 2 games, per ESPN. National player of the year contender Aliyah Boston… Source link

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Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gives Newsom $200K to defeat recall

Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer delivers the keynote address at the first-ever Yahoo Mobile Developer’s Conference, in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2015. | AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has contributed $200,000 to beat back an effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom, deepening the governor’s substantial Silicon Valley support. The outlay from Mayer bolsters Newsom’s massive cash advantage over Republican rivals and further demonstrates the extensive… Source link

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Jack Nicklaus declines to talk about President Trump, how to ‘accept defeat’

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jack Nicklaus believes the Masters is no place for politics. The six-time Masters champion opened the Masters on Thursday morning with a ceremonial tee shot alongside fellow legend Gary Player. Afterward, he and Player spoke for nearly an hour on topics ranging from fitness to Augusta history to Player’s attempts to help integrate his native South Africa. But one topic was off-limits for Nicklaus: President Trump. Nicklaus endorsed the president recently in a social media… Source link

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James Carville still thinks Trump might pull out of race rather than risk a landslide defeat

James Carville and President Trump. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Jason Kempin/Getty Images, AP[2]) Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville doubled down Friday on his prediction that President Trump may yet abandon his run for reelection when confronted with poll numbers showing that he is in danger of getting swamped in an electoral “tsunami” that might rival Herbert Hoover’s 1932 landslide defeat to Franklin D. Roosevelt. In an interview on the Yahoo News podcast… Source link

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