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Google plans another campus in Silicon Valley which will include a new center for some of its hardware products, CNBC reported. Google has been buying up land in northern San Jose, California, spending more than $389 million on what preliminary plans show will include a research and development center, according to CNBC. The campus, which it calls Midpoint, will be located between Google’s current Mountain View headquarters and its mixed-use campus in San Jose. Midpoint will have five… Source link

The Dallas Mavericks continue to undergo a complete makeover this offseason. Longtime coach Rick Carlisle has reportedly told the team he will not return as its coach next season, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Carlisle has been with the team for 13 seasons. He led the team to its 2011 NBA championship. In his 13 seasons with Dallas, Carlisle has a 555-478 record. He still had two more years left on his current contract with the team. In a statement, Carlisle said it was completely… Source link

If there was any modicum of hope left in Buffalo for Sabres captain Jack Eichel to be still on their team next season, it should be gone by now. Amidst uncertain reports on what their intention this offseason is, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman appeared on Buffalo’s WGR 550 to further solidify the likelihood of a trade this summer. Eichel, 24, has five years remaining on his contract at a cap hit of $10 million. The one true kicker is that he will be earning a no-move clause after next… Source link

Hello! Here’s what happened today in European Tech. Deals – Israeli ad-tech company Tremor has filed for an IPO on Nasdaq, after its share price has risen by almost 500% on the London Stock Exchange over the past year to a market cap of about £1.1 billion. – Planet, a Galway-based fintech company, has secured investment from Advent International, a private equity firm. Existing shareholder Eurazeo has sold a portion of its stake to Advent. The deal, according to Eurazeo,

Unredacted documents in Arizona’s lawsuit against Google show that company executives and engineers were aware that the search giant had made it hard for smartphone users to keep location information private, Insider reported. The documents suggest that Google collected location data even after users had turned off location sharing, and made privacy settings difficult for users to find. Insider also reports that the documents show Google pressured phone manufacturers into keeping… Source link

Unredacted documents in Arizona’s lawsuit against Google show that company executives and engineers were aware that the search giant had made it hard for smartphone users to keep location information private, Insider reported. The documents suggest that Google collected location data even after users had turned off location sharing, and made privacy settings difficult for users to find. Insider also reports that the documents show Google pressured phone manufacturers into keeping… Source link

David Gray | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet’s Google is close to settling an antitrust investigation in France over allegations it abused its power in online advertising, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. It said the company was expected to pay a fine and institute operational changes. The French Competition Authority has said that Google’s tool to help websites and apps sell ads gave Google’s online ad auction system an advantage over… Source link

Tensions between Google and its AI brain trust DeepMind have always been fascinating. To put the relationship in crude terms: DeepMind, founded in 2010, is home to some the best AI researchers in the world who output a steady stream of insightful academic papers and Nature front covers. Google, meanwhile, bought DeepMind in 2014 and bankrolls its large losses, and it really, really wants to squeeze some money out of all those juicy brains. That’s why a recent story on the two companies… Source link

Marv Albert, the legendary sportscaster who spent nearly 60 years calling games, is reportedly calling it a career after the NBA playoffs.  According to Andrew Marchand at the New York Post, Albert plans to retire from his broadcasting duties once TNT has finished broadcasting games for the upcoming playoffs, and reported that TNT has started asking NBA players, coaches, and executives to pay tribute to Albert. No official announcement has been made yet, but Marchand said that one is… Source link

The Washington Nationals inched closer Saturday to finally opening the regular season. The team reportedly experienced no new positive COVID-19 results in their latest batch of tests, according to Britt Ghiroli and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. The Nationals have yet to open the 2021 MLB season after a positive COVID-19 test prior to the team’s opening game. As a result, MLB postponed the team’s opener against the New York Mets. There was hope the Nationals could have returned to play… Source link