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Howard County Times, Columbia, Md. Howard County public schools staff looks to Anne Arundel for lessons learned on school start time changes Jan. 30—With less than a month remaining until the Howard County Board of Education decides whether to change school start times beginning next school year, district officials are turning to their eastern neighbor to see how proposed changes could play out. Anne Arundel County Public Schools is halfway through its first school year with new bell times,… Source link

Alphabet today has confirmed that it plans to cut 12,000 jobs, reportedly the largest round of layoffs in its history, a development that comes as advertisers note a gradual shift in how Google deals with its largest paying customers. The Google parent company ended weeks of speculation with confirmation of the job losses, amounting to 6% of its workforce, implemented to deal with the “economic reality… we face today,” according to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. In a blog post, he… Source link

Image: Google If you haven’t heard, Google Stadia is shutting down and closing shop next week. But before the never-quite-successful game streaming service dies, it has provided one neat (and free) little gift you can only play for a few days before it all goes offline. Launched back in 2019, Google Stadia was a costly and massive investment from Google into the world of video games. Powered by the cloud aka a bunch of servers and off-site computers, Stadia’s big promise was instantaneous… Source link

It appears fans did not feel like watching most of Monday’s College Football Playoff title game between Georgia and TCU, and it’s difficult to blame them. The 65-7 show of force from Georgia on its way to a second consecutive national championship drew only 17.223 million viewers for ESPN’s family of channels, according to Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal. That number reportedly makes the Bulldogs’ win the least-watched college football title game since the beginning of the BCS in… Source link

BLACKPINK playing Coachella dance tent in 2019. (Photo: Timothy Norris/Getty Images for Coachella) The lineup for this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival — North America’s largest music fest, with 125,000 attendees per day — has finally been announced. And it’s a historic bill, the most diverse to date: For the first time since the festival launched in 1999, a Latin music artist and a K-pop act will be headlining. Those headliners, Puerto Rican trap/reggaeton superstar… Source link

On Oct. 23, the NBA season was five days old, the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies clinched berths in the World Series that day, C.J. Stroud and Hendon Hooker were runaway Heisman favorites with Caleb Williams well behind at about 14-to-1 odds, Frank Reich was the Indianapolis Colts‘ head coach and the start of the World Cup was about four weeks away. It’s also the last time the San Francisco 49ers lost. The 49ers lost 44-23 to the Kansas City Chiefs to fall to 3-4 that day. They’ve… Source link

The Minnesota Vikings rallied from 33 points down to beat the Indianapolis Colts 39-36 in overtime and clinched the NFC North in doing so. The previous biggest comeback in NFL history was when the Buffalo Bills — led by Frank Reich, whom the Colts fired as head coach in early November — rallied from a 32-point deficit to beat the Houston Oilers in the 1992 season wild-card round. A massive fourth quarter for the Vikings sent it to overtime Trailing 36-28 late in the fourth quarter, Kirk… Source link

Tesla stock is in the midst of losing the most market valuation from a high in its history of being a public company. Shares of the EV maker are down 64% from a peak last November, marking the stock’s largest drawdown dating back to its IPO in 2010, according to data from Compound Capital. The recent 407-day stretch of selling pressure has eclipsed the 60.6% drop from a peak derived over 28 days from Feb. 19, 2020 to Mar. 18, 2020 (chart below). More recently, Tesla stock is down 22% in… Source link

Tesla stock is in the midst of largest drawdown since the company went public back in 2010. Shares of the EV maker are down 64% from a peak last November, marking the stock’s largest drawdown since its market debut, according to data from Compound Capital. The recent 407-day stretch of selling pressure has eclipsed the 60.6% drop from a peak seen over the 28 days from Feb. 19, 2020 to Mar. 18, 2020 (chart below), when the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic rocked markets worldwide. More recently,… Source link