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[unable to retrieve full-text content]More arrests at University of Minnesota Tuesday as pro-Palestinian demonstrations spread from coast to coast. What’s …  Yahoo! Voices Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Rams kick meaningless field goal to cover spread in 30-23 loss to 49ers  Yahoo Sports Source link

Layoffs roiling the tech sector have been the biggest economic story of 2023. And now, it seems those layoffs are spreading into new corners of Corporate America. On Tuesday morning, 3M (MMM) announced it would cut 2,500 manufacturing jobs, as slower-than-expected growth followed from what the company called “rapid declines in consumer-facing markets — a dynamic that accelerated in December — along with significant slowing in China due to COVID-related disruptions.” The news from 3M… Source link

COVID-19 came as an unexpected challenge for humanity. Countries adopted different, sometimes diametrically opposed approaches to minimising the pandemic’s impact: from hard lockdowns to no restrictions at all, as in Sweden. It was only last week that China began to relax its zero-tolerance policy. Researchers of the HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences have identified a few factors which tend to have the greatest impact on the spread of COVID-19-;in Russia, such factors include… Source link

Subscribe to The College Football Enquirer Race For the Case Week 2: can Texas overcome a double-digit spread? Dan Wetzel, SI’s Pat Forde, & SI’s Ross Dellenger make their picks for Week 2 of the college football season. The fellas choose their winners against the spread in #1 ranked Alabama @ Texas, Tennessee @ Pittsburgh, Iowa State @ Iowa in the Cy-Hawk rivalry game, Kentucky @ Florida, Baylor @ BYU and as always give their locks of the week. 1:40 Alabama @ Texas 15:30 Tennessee @ #17… Source link

Just take a moment and appreciate how nice Thursday will be. For the first time since 2019, we’ll have a (hopefully) normal Thursday at the NCAA tournament. The 2020 tourney was scrapped due to COVID-19. Last year we had a tournament, but it wasn’t all the way back. It was held entirely in Indiana and with limited fans it didn’t feel right. It was great to have March Madness, but it wasn’t the same. VCU having to forfeit a first-round game due to a COVID-19 outbreak was a brutal blow for the… Source link

Facebook parent Meta (FB) is warning Ukrainian users that a Russia-linked hacking group is trying to take over user high-profile accounts to spread disinformation about Russia’s invasion. According to Nathaniel Gleicher, head of security policy at Meta, a Belarus-based group, known as Ghostwriter, is trying to compromise high-profile Ukrainians’ user accounts to sow discord among the local population amid Russia’s physical attack. “They were targeting and taking over, or attempting to… Source link

U.S. tech companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter have started to respond to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by attempting to stop the spread of disinformation and demonetizing ads that run on Russian state media accounts. Ukrainian digital minister Mykhailo Fedorov posted public messages on Telegram and Twitter to put pressure on tech leaders in an attempt to drum up support. Some companies had already started to make changes. Meta, which owns the global social media giant Facebook, said… Source link

Office-building owners and small businesses near such properties are bracing for another letdown in January, as the latest Covid-19 variant threatens to interfere with widespread company plans to return to the workplace. Before the Omicron variant surfaced overseas last month, employers throughout the U.S. were preparing to call back employees to the office after the holidays. Now, a small but rising number of companies have modified or delayed plans as uncertainties swirl over the severity… Source link

There’s one word to describe what happened with the mostly surprising results of Week 9 in the NFL: Brutal. After rolling of late with our game picks and predictions against the spread, Vegas put up a few traps and it was hard to avoid falling into all of them. At first glance, the numbers for Week 10 seem a little more normal and manageable, but there are several more essential “pick ’em” matchups on the slate with slight favorites on one side. There are 14 more chances to get things… Source link