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Lefty Driesell, head coach of Maryland from 1969 to ’86, has died at 92 years old. (File photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images) Lefty Driesell, the legendary college basketball coach who built Maryland into a top program, has died at the age of 92. “Lefty Driesell was a transcendent figure in college basketball and the man who put Maryland basketball on the map,” said Maryland Athletic Director Damon Evans. “A Hall of Famer, Lefty was an innovator, a man who was ahead of his time from his… Source link

A report from The Verge confirms that Google is beta testing support for digital identification cards in the Google Wallet app. Apple Wallet currently supports adding ID cards from three states including Maryland, Colorado, and Arizona. A tipster sent in screen shots to The Verge and shared the process required to add a new ID card to the Wallet. First scan the front of the ID > scan the back > take a short video of your face >… Source link

Maryland was one of the first states to make state IDs available on Apple’s Wallet app for iPhones, and now Google is beta testing support for the “Digital Driver’s License” in the Wallet app on Android phones. The Apple Wallet integration can already be used to get through TSA at airports like the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport that allow the use of digital state IDs, which should be similar on Android. Users running Android 13 who are in the Google Play… Source link

RIYADH: Mental health is still often considered a taboo subject in the region and across the world, with explanations ranging from the superstitious to the criminal, but it is now being highlighted and normalized by Saudi filmmakers with their movies and television shows. In her most recent work, Saudi writer, director, and actress Sarah Taibah packs a collection of laughs, empathy, and thought-provoking elements into the TV series “Jameel Jeddan.” The show is a coming-of-age story… Source link

This week, doodlers and their fans have been working to get votes in the hopes of winning the grand prize, which includes a $50,000 technology package for the student’s school and a $30,000 college scholarship, as well as the honor of the national title and getting their doodle on Google’s homepage. Voting, available at doodles.google.com/d4g/vote, closes at 2:59 a.m. Saturday. Source link

Maryland’s first-in-the-nation law taxing digital advertising by Big Tech companies like Facebook and Google is being challenged in federal court as “a punitive assault” on digital advertising and should be struck down, according to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday by leading trade associations. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, contends the law “is illegal in myriad ways.” It alleges the law violates the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibits… Source link

TipRanks 2 “Strong Buy” Penny Stocks That Could See Outsized Gains Well, it’s official. Joe Biden is now President, and he’ll be backed – at least for the short term – by Democratic majorities in both Houses of Congress. Wall Street is taking the measure of the new Administration, and sees, among its first moves, a boost in fiscal stimulus that is likely to goose consumer spending, bump corporate profits, and provide general economic support in the first half of 2021. Covering the… Source link

While speaking at the Ronald Reagan Institute on Monday, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan discussed what he called the “exhausted majority” of Americans who he said are “fed up with politics” and feel ignored by politicians in Washington. Video Transcript LARRY HOGAN: A large majority of Americans are thoroughly convinced that our political system is fundamentally broken, that we, as a people, are tragically divided, and that Washington is completely dysfunctional. Most of us are sick and… Source link