There are decisions coming in Toronto. There are decisions to be made across the NBA, but plenty of front offices will hold their cards in this months-long game of poker and never let go. It appears clear the Raptors, who have been reluctant to ante in recent seasons, won’t choose to stay silent before the Feb. 9 trade deadline sounds. “What they’re not gonna do is be in the middle,” said one Western Conference executive. “They’ve told teams they’re going to do something,” said… Source link
Read More »‘I’m trying to figure out what it means’
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel isn’t exactly wowed by rival Mark Zuckerberg’s big metaverse vision. In fact, like many pundits and tech fans, he’s not completely sure of its purpose. Asked at Code Conference on Wednesday about the Facebook founder and CEO’s metaverse vision, Spiegel dryly quipped that he was “trying to figure out what it means.” The two companies are going head-to-head when it comes to technological developments and competing for social media users’ attention—but both are… Source link
Read More »US figure skaters sued for song use at Beijing Olympics
Team USA figure skaters Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier were hit with a lawsuit this week by a music group for their use of their version of “House of the Rising Sun” during the Winter Olympics in Beijing. The music group Heavy Young Heathens, which is made up of Robert and Aron Marderosian, sued the figure skating duo along with NBC and U.S. Figure Skating on Thursday for the use of the song during their short program routine in Beijing. The brothers claimed in the lawsuit, according to… Source link
Read More »Google judge tells lawyers to figure out document dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge hearing a U.S. government antitrust case against Google on Thursday urged the lawyers to work out a complicated dispute on pre-trial document production among themselves. FILE PHOTO: The Google sign is shown on one of the company’s office buildings in Irvine, California, U.S., October 20, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake The Justice Department has been pushing Alphabet’s Google to produce documents on a long list of topics related to its lawsuit, which… Source link
Read More »Google judge tells lawyers to figure out document dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge hearing a U.S. government antitrust case against Google on Thursday urged the lawyers to work out a complicated dispute on pre-trial document production among themselves. FILE PHOTO: The Google sign is shown on one of the company’s office buildings in Irvine, California, U.S., October 20, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake The Justice Department has been pushing Alphabet’s Google to produce documents on a long list of topics related to its lawsuit, which… Source link
Read More »Google judge tells lawyers to figure out document dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge hearing a U.S. government antitrust case against Google on Thursday urged the lawyers to work out a complicated dispute on pre-trial document production among themselves. The Justice Department has been pushing Alphabet’s Google to produce documents on a long list of topics related to its lawsuit, which accuses the company of breaking antitrust law in its search and search advertising businesses. Google has balked at some of the production, describing… Source link
Read More »Big Ten left to figure out messy Ohio State situation
Here’s the ending of the column at the beginning. It’s going to work out for Ohio State. The Big Ten is going to make sure it works out for Ohio State. Heck, even Michigan’s athletic director wants it to work out for Ohio State. That’s the easy part. The Buckeyes will be accommodated amid this most uncertain of Big Ten weeks, with games canceled and COVID-19 news popping at SEC speed. The Big Ten wants and needs to figure out the best way to help Ohio State reach the College Football… Source link
Read More »Google’s new ‘hum to search’ feature can figure out the song that’s stuck in your head
Google is adding a new “hum to search” feature to its search tools today that will let you hum (or whistle, or sing) the annoying song that’s stuck in your head, and then use machine learning techniques to try to identify it. The new feature is available today in the Google app on both iOS and Android, or in Google Assistant — just ask Google “What’s the song” or tap the newly added “search a song” button, and then hum your earworm. Google will then show you results… Source link
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