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[unable to retrieve full-text content]How Google’s Augmented-Reality Dream and Pursuit of Apple Fell Apart  Business Insider Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]New details emerge on Chiefs’ pursuit of DeAndre Hopkins  Yahoo Sports Source link

LeBron James is only a few games from NBA history. (Paul Rutherford-USA TODAY Sports) LeBron James keeps moving forward, even on nights where he ends regulation in open disgust with the officials. James entered Saturday night’s game against the Boston Celtics needing just 158 points to pass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the NBA’s all-time scoring leader. He finished the night with 41 points on 15-of-30 shooting (6-of-12 from deep) with nine rebounds and eight assists. James is now only 117 points… Source link

The New York Knicks and wing RJ Barrett are finalizing a four-year extension to his rookie contract that could be worth up to $120 million, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports, citing Barrett’s agent Bill Duffy. The Knicks have reportedly been in pursuit of Donovan Mitchell, but team president Leon Rose set a Monday deadline to trade for the Utah Jazz guard or sign Barrett to an extension, according to Wojnarowski. Per the report, the Knicks and Jazz failed to reach agreement on trade details… Source link

Less than three months ago, Jimmy and Dee Haslam, the owners of the Cleveland Browns, expressed supreme confidence in Deshaun Watson. We are talking quarter-billion-dollar-to-Watson confidence. We are talking about three-first-round-picks confidence. We are talking about $55-million-salary-cap-hit confidence. That’s a lot for a guy who sat out an entire season seeking a trade while dealing with an onslaught of sexual assault allegations. “We are confident in Deshaun,” the Haslams said in… Source link

The Atlanta Falcons didn’t acquire Deshaun Watson. But their pursuit of the contentious quarterback got the ball rolling on Matt Ryan‘s exit. So says Matt Ryan. The now-Indianapolis Colts quarterback opened up on his departure from Atlanta in a recent appearance on “The Ryen Russillo Podcast.” He said that he started to explore his options when he found out that Atlanta was seeking to secure Watson’s services. “I kind of got filled in to the loop that they were gonna look into Deshaun Watson,”… Source link

In his annual letter to CEOs this year, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink urged other chief executives to harness the “power of capitalism” to influence society and serve as a catalyst for positive change. Progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a democratic socialist, has a very different view on the nature of capitalism. In a new interview with Yahoo Finance taped on Jan. 27, Ocasio-Cortez suggested that people often have different definitions of terms like socialism or capitalism. “When… Source link

In a theme that’s stretched on for essentially one year, Deshaun Watson has some sizable quandaries on his hands. But as far as what he can control — the waiving of his no-trade clause — the firing of head coach Brian Flores in Miami is expected to reset the trade landscape for the quarterback. Through the entire process of Watson’s trade demands, he has pointed his compass toward the Dolphins. And the sources in his camp have said consistently that the driving force behind Watson’s… Source link

Thomas Kurian, chief executive officer of cloud services at Google LLC, speaks during the Google Cloud Next ’19 event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. The conference brings together industry experts to discuss the future of cloud computing. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images At Google’s weekly all-hands meeting on Thursday afternoon, CEO Sundar Pichai and cloud boss Thomas Kurian tried to address concerns about the company’s potential pursuit of a… Source link