Baseball’s best are jockeying for position in the sport’s second season — the mayhem of October. The rest of MLB’s clubs are looking back at what went wrong. In a sport where transactions and roster decisions provide clear expectations, we have separated out the rebuilding teams from the ones who entered 2022 expecting to be setting playoff rotations, not vacation plans. We ranked the success of 2022’s rebuilders earlier this week, and now it’s time to flip things over and assess… Source link
Read More »Google Web3 Lead Says Google Cloud Is a ‘Layer Zero’ for Crypto
Google has set its sights on becoming the backbone of Web3. While it might come as a surprise to Web3 natives, Richard Widmann—Google’s head of strategy, Web3, and cloud—sees the Web2 giant as ideologically aligned with many of crypto’s core values, including open-source development and decentralization. Prior to jumping headfirst into Google’s crypto initiatives, Widmann worked as legal counsel for the trillion-dollar tech company and also has a background in securities law. At the… Source link
Read More »Google hires Booz Allen vet to lead public sector business – Washington Technology
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Read More »Devin Duvernay returns opening kickoff to give Ravens early lead over Dolphins
Bill Belichick and the Patriots are hoping to avoid an 0-2 start. (Photo by Chris Unger/Getty Images) After a wild early window in Week 1, what can we expect from NFL Week 2? We’ll find out in short order with some tempting matchups, as the New England Patriots try to avoid an 0-2 start at the Pittsburgh Steelers, while Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will try to beat the New Orleans Saints in the regular season for the first time since he joined the team. Following along with all the… Source link
Read More »Shrinking Addressable Supply A ‘challenge’ For CTV, Yahoo Ad Data Lead Warns
Yahoo’s vice-president of ad data products has issued a stark warning that 75% of digital ad inventory will be non-addressable by 2024 in the US. But what does this mean for CTV? According to Gio Gardelli: “It will now become a lot harder to track web conversions for campaigns.” Speaking at the IAB’s Audience Connect summit, Gio Gardelli called non-addressable supply “the big elephant in the room” and said, “we can’t ignore this any longer.” Current privacy regulations mean… Source link
Read More »Ex-Google lawyer tapped to lead legal team at communications platform Dialpad
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Joe Faber joins Dialpad as general counsel Dialpad raised funds at a $2.2 billion valuation last year (Reuters) – Dialpad Inc has hired veteran Google attorney Joe Faber as its new top lawyer, the cloud communications platform said in a statement on Thursday. Faber, who has spent the past 15 years as senior counsel at Alphabet Inc’s Google, will lead San Francisco-based Dialpad’s legal and compliance teams as… Source link
Read More »Huskers blow lead, lose 31-28 to Northwestern
New season, same Nebraska. Nebraska’s miserable 3-9 record in 2021 included an impressively bad 0-8 mark in one-score games. To start off the 2022 campaign, the Huskers added another one-score loss to Scott Frost’s resume. In a brutal 31-28 loss to Northwestern on Saturday in Ireland, Nebraska blew two double-digit leads. The Huskers jumped out to a 14-3 lead in the first half and then again went ahead by 11 in the third quarter. But Frost’s team never scored again as Northwestern stormed… Source link
Read More »‘We have a lot of ingredients that might lead to a recession’
As the Federal Reserve gets more aggressive in its efforts to curb inflation amid implications from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continue to reverberate, Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller predicts that the cooling housing market is one sign among others that a recession may be on the way. “We have a lot of ingredients that might lead to a recession,” Shiller told Yahoo Finance (video above). “It looks like, since just a few months ago, the talk is really negative.” The… Source link
Read More »A first-time Super Bowl winner? Bills lead the list of candidates
There are 12 teams that have never won a Super Bowl. Some of them have virtually no chance of taking themselves off that list this season. Houston Texans and Atlanta Falcons, we’re talking about you. However, it seems like this could be a season in which we get a first-time winner. Buffalo hopes so. The Buffalo Bills are the Super Bowl favorite and in a month when you see preseason picks rolling in, you’ll see the Bills as the most popular pick to win the championship this season. But the… Source link
Read More »Inflation Reduction Act would lead to $1,800 in savings for average household, analysis finds
Sweeping climate and health care legislation unveiled by Democrats last week would lead to significant cuts in energy costs for American households, according to a new analysis. A report by non-profit group Rewiring America found that the tax incentives included as part of the $369 billion dedicated to climate initiatives in the Inflation Reduction Act would save the average household $1,800 per year on energy bills. “It is a market-tilting level of investment,” Ari Matusiak, the group’s… Source link
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