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If quarterbacks are the NFL’s main characters, then this season has been playing out like one long Ozymandias episode for a spoiled generation. Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers — along with more moderately aged stars Russell Wilson and Matthew Stafford — have suddenly been humbled by the game they dominated for so long. After years of outrunning the odds, age and offseason tumult, this simultaneous hitting of the skids has felt disorienting. In trying to grasp the implications, it has been… Source link

The bloodletting in big tech continues after a year of slowing sales and profits along with de facto valuation resets at the hands of an aggressive Federal Reserve. Meta said Wednesday it will slash 13% of its workforce as it looks to redirect resources to Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse project and appease angry shareholders. Meta stock popped 8% on the news, paring the year-to-date decline to 69%. Meta was the top trending ticker on the Yahoo Finance platform through early afternoon. Meanwhile, a… Source link

WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) – The Biden administration is privately encouraging Ukraine’s leaders to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia and drop their public refusal to engage in peace talks unless President Vladimir Putin is removed from power, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. The paper quoted unnamed people familiar with the discussions as saying that the request by American officials was not aimed at pushing Ukraine to the negotiating table, but a calculated attempt to… Source link

Google began testing FLEDGE in AdSense in August but after just four months of trials, it seems to have gone stale, with only only RTB House, Criteo and Google itself using it in any meaningful way. Ad tech companies aren’t using it because it’s unknown. It’s an expensive test that could prove catastrophic if it fails. As Digiday reports, “No one can afford to be first, especially when there are so many unresolved issues.”  What is… Source link

DeMarcus Cousins, a four-time NBA All-Star, is arguably the most talented free agent remaining on the market. The 32-year-old is five years removed from his reign as the most dominant center in the league when he was governing the paint for the Sacramento Kings. He has since played for New Orleans, Golden State, Houston, the Los Angeles Clippers, Milwaukee and Denver. His talent, even to this juncture, has never been in question. But NBA executives continue to have questions about his… Source link

There’s a lot of stress in the ordinary week of a fantasy football manager. There are injuries and bye weeks and bad weather and surprise inactives and coaching whims and officiating mistakes. The ball bounces funny for all of us. But sometimes you just have to focus on what makes you happy. And no one wants to make you fantasy happy in 2022 like the Detroit Lions. We’re always on the lookout for a fantasy carnival, and this Detroit outfit might be a legendary one. The Lions lead the NFL… Source link

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue/Joe Raedle/Getty Images Text messages between Elon Musk and various notables in tech and business have been released. In several private exchanges, Musk and Jack Dorsey discussed the platform and Musk’s involvement. “I trust you,” Dorsey said in one text to Musk. Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey texted privately about Twitter several times before and after the Tesla billionaire became financially involved in the company, newly revealed court… Source link

Rihanna is going to headline Super Bowl LVII. Rihanna and the NFL announced on Sunday afternoon that the singer will headline the halftime show at the Super Bowl, which will be played Feb. 12, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona. The halftime show will be the first under its new title sponsor Apple Music, who is replacing Pepsi at the game this season. Pepsi had been the show’s main sponsor since 2012. The show will be produced by DPS with Roc Nation. “Rihanna is a generational talent, a woman of… Source link

A Mustang stampede and a presidential visit are on offer at this year’s Detroit Auto Show. The show, also known as the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), usually takes place in January from the Huntington Place convention center next to the usually frozen Detroit River. But due to COVID-19 and other changes, the show was cancelled last year and moved to September. Though many automakers have been pulling away from traditional auto shows, some of the bigger automakers are still… Source link

Dwyane Wade is out at TNT. The Miami Heat icon is leaving the network after three seasons of working on its NBA studio shows, Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reports. The decision was Wade’s, according to the report. TNT offered him a new contract, but he declined in order to pursue other business interests. Per the report, his exit is not related to the recent cost-reduction maneuvers by parent company Warner Bros. Discovery that’s initiated layoffs and the purge of content from media… Source link