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Did No. 15 seed St. Peters ruin your hopes of a perfect men’s tournament bracket? You weren’t alone. After a day of March Madness, only 14 perfect brackets remain in Yahoo Tourney Pick’Em. By far the biggest bracket-buster was St. Peter’s, the small school from Jersey City, New Jersey that took down college basketball juggernaut Kentucky, a No. 2 seed, in an 85-79 thriller. To get a sense of the scale of upset we’re dealing with here, consider that Kentucky head coach John Calipari’s salary is… Source link

Yandex, a Russian technology company, supplies the on-campus food delivery robots through Ohio State’s partnership with Grubhub. Credit: Tom Hanks | Lantern Reporter Following the invasion of Ukraine, some Buckeyes are wondering what the future holds for the Russian-made food delivery robots on Ohio State’s campus. Yandex, a Russian technology company, supplies the on-campus food delivery robots through Ohio State’s partnership with Grubhub. The robots remain operational —… Source link

The Green Bay Packers’ Super Bowl odds improved over Wild Card Weekend even though they didn’t play at all. The Packers remain the Super Bowl favorite at BetMGM entering the Divisional round. The NFC’s No. 1 seed entered the playoffs at +400 to win the Super Bowl and is now at +375 ahead of a matchup against the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday. If Green Bay beats San Francisco (+1000) it will host the winner of the Los Angeles Rams and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC Championship… Source link

Businesses will increasingly use “foundational” A.I. algorithms, but ethical perils remain, Google executive warns |… Source link

WASHINGTON — Cleaner sources of energy, harvested by machinery made in the United States. Early childhood education subsidized by the federal government. Cheaper hearing aids and expanded health care coverage. A million units of affordable housing. Those are just some of the “truly consequential” changes Americans will see if President Biden’s $1.75 trillion Build Back Better agenda survives the meat grinder of Capitol Hill, he said on Thursday. “We will own the future,” Biden… Source link

Google parent Alphabet Inc. reported quarterly results that exceeded Wall Street estimates Tuesday, belying fears that it would be dinged by the changes in Apple Inc.’s mobile privacy policy that stung its social-media brethren. The search-engine giant  GOOGL, +1.35% GOOG, +0.65%,  dominant in global digital advertising, reported net income of $18.94 billion, or $27.99 a share, in its fiscal third quarter, compared… Source link

Colleges are increasingly making standardized tests optional for applicants, leading to questions about whether or not the companies profiting from broad-based testing should be the de facto gatekeepers of the higher education admissions system. “The test prep industry has become a multi-billion dollar industry, and it’s growing and expanding at a high rate,” Susan Paterno, a professor of English and director of the journalism program at Chapman University and previously served on a… Source link

Tesla (TSLA) stock fell 12% this week — it’s the second worst weekly performance in a year. But it did manage to settle above a key price area watched by traders. Even if price breaks to the downside, a relatively obscure technical indicator suggests Tesla is maintaining its long-term bullish trend. “For Tesla, the trend is higher based on that cloud — or shaded area on the chart,” says Katie Stockton, founder and managing partner of Fairlead Strategies, during a Yahoo Finance Plus on… Source link

The Chinese government has called for boycotts of several Western companies — including Nike, Adidas, and H&M — that have made past statements criticizing China for alleged human rights abuses against Uyghurs in the northern province of Xinjiang, where the Chinese government has built a network of internment camps for the Muslim minority group, forcing them to work in textile and other hard-labor manufacturing jobs, according to human rights groups. Though China denies the allegations,… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Ford Motor Co. told employees they can continue to work from home, allowing more than 30,000 to use the office only when they need to, even after the pandemic is over. The “flexible hybrid work model” unveiled Wednesday lets employees choose to stay home for “heads-down work,” while coming to the office for meetings and team-building activities. The system will debut as soon as July and apply mostly to salaried office staff, not factory workers. Kiersten Robinson,… Source link