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NBA schedule release: Latest news, key dates for 2022-23 season originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Almost time to mark your calendars, NBA fans. The schedule for the 2022-2023 season will soon be released. Which matchups might be circled are still to be determined with plenty of uncertainty remaining in the offseason.  Star players like Kevin Durant and Donovan Mitchell remain on the trade market, meaning the NBA could see a rare late-offseason shift in its balance of power…. Source link

Running for thousands of miles along the bottom of the sea, the cable’s landing had been delayed for months by rough conditions and Covid-19. But now here it was, a couple of inches wide and already covered in sand. A welcome party stood on the beach and posed for photos before the cable continued inland. Equiano had finally arrived. Equiano is the latest subsea internet cable financed by Google. Starting in Portugal and eventually ending in South Africa, with branches to Nigeria, Togo, the… Source link

Google has a delightful new multiplayer Doodle that lets you play a game of pétanque online. If you haven’t heard of pétanque — I hadn’t before writing this article — it’s a game that’s kind of like bocce ball. The goal of pétanque is to throw your ball (the boule) as close as you can to a little ball (the cochonnet) on the playing field in front of you. On your computer, you’ll “throw” the ball by clicking on the boule and dragging back with your mouse to slingshot… Source link

Best Buy has become the latest big-name retailer to badly overestimate consumer demand as recession fears mount and shoppers pullback on discretionary purchases. The electronics retailer slashed both its second-quarter and full-year financial forecasts late Wednesday, sending shares lower by 4% in after-hours trading. Best Buy’s downward revisions are tough on the eye to say the very least: 2Q Same-Store Sales: -13% (previous: about -8%) 2Q Operating Margin: 3.7% (vs. 6.9% in second quarter of… Source link

Topline Russian authorities fined Apple and Alphabet’s Google this week, the latest crackdown from the Kremlin on American technology giants in wake of its Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian authorities have cracked down on Apple recently. NurPhoto via Getty Images Key Facts Russia’s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service said Tuesday it plans to fine Apple an undetermined amount for alleged antitrust violations, saying in a statement Apple “abused its dominant… Source link

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, announced the news on Tuesday in an internal memo, noting “the uncertain global economic outlook.” Google confirmed the authenticity of the letter to CNN Business, but declined to comment further. “Moving forward, we need to be more entrepreneurial, working with greater urgency, sharper focus, and more hunger than we’ve shown on sunnier days,” Pichai said in the memo, according to The Wall Street Journal. “In some cases, that means… Source link

Struggling retailer Gap (GPS) is in crisis mode ahead of the crucial selling periods of back to school and the holidays, with the stock down nearly 6% in pre-market trading after it revealed the departure of its CEO. Gap surprised a few on the Street Monday evening after the market close by announcing CEO Sonia Syngal would be stepping down as CEO after a “brief” transition period. In her place, executive chairman Bob Martin will assume the role as interim CEO. Syngal was seen as a potential… Source link

Russia-backed troops driving through Lysychansk, Ukraine, on Monday.Credit…Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters BAKHMUT, Ukraine — With Luhansk Province firmly in Russia’s grasp after weeks of brutal fighting, the country’s military forces on Tuesday were already setting their sights on the next target. On the outskirts of Bakhmut, a key supply hub for Ukrainian forces, the Russian Army was ramping up its shelling as an apparent prelude for an inch-by-inch offensive into the province of… Source link

As part of a broader update to its Chrome web browser, Google announced today a handful new features coming to the latest build of Chrome on iOS. Among the key additions, the Chrome app is gaining access to Google’s Enhanced Safe Browsing feature which proactively warns you about dangerous web pages. Other updates include user interface changes, the ability to set Google’s password manager as the autofill provider, an updated language identification model, and… Source link

Another strike against use of Google Analytics in Europe: The Italian data protection authority has found a local web publisher’s use of the popular analytics tool to be non-compliant with EU data protection rules owing to user data being transferred to the U.S. — a country that lacks an equivalent legal framework to protect the info from being accessed by US spooks. The Garante found the web publisher’s use of Google Analytics resulted in the collection of many types of user… Source link