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It’s the final Saturday of the men’s college basketball regular season and they saved the best for last. Alongside ongoing small conference tournaments is a solid slate that’s already delivered early. No. 1 Houston mauled No. 14 Kansas in a 30-point blowout while locking up the Big 12 title in its first season in the conference. In the SEC, No. 15 Kentucky and No. 4 Tennessee put on a show in a back-and-forth thriller. But that all serves as a warmup for the most storied rivalry in the sport… Source link

In addressing a Pixel feature that’s disappeared, Google has confirmed that the Pixel 8a is on its way. Back in Android 14’s QPR1 update, Google added a new extension of battery stats, which showed charging cycle counts and the date the battery was manufactured. This was a welcome addition, but also limited in how useful it actually was. In the March 2024 update for Pixel phones, though, this feature disappeared. According to Google on a bug tracker page, that’s… Source link

Image Credits: TechCrunch If you needed more evidence that GenAI is prone to making stuff up, Google’s Gemini chatbot, formerly Bard, thinks that the 2024 Super Bowl already happened. It even has the (fictional) statistics to back it up. Per a Reddit thread, Gemini, powered by Google’s GenAI models of the same name, is answering questions about Super Bowl LVIII as if the game wrapped up yesterday — or weeks before. Like many bookmakers, it seems to favor the Chiefs… Source link

Investors have had a slew of downbeat headlines to kick off 2023. Eye-popping layoff news from tech stalwarts Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce and 3M. Chip giant Intel reported another tough outlook amid a major slowdown in PC demand. Ford and Tesla slashing prices on EVs as the economy has cooled. Signs that inflation continues to slow — but not at such a rapid pace as to suggest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve later this year. Earnings are meh. And yet stocks are off to a surprisingly… Source link

Bed Bath & Beyond continues to struggle mightily. The near-dead home goods retailer released its long-awaited holiday quarter results on Tuesday morning, and the picture is not pretty. Here are seven numbers that stood out to Yahoo Finance and help explain why the company is on the brink of ruin: Net sales crashed 33% from the prior year. Comparable digital sales fell a whopping 33%. Bed Bath & Beyond banner comparable sales plunged 34%. BuyBuyBaby banner comparable sales tanked in the “low 20″… Source link

Week 12 Waiver-Wire Pickups: Available Sleepers in Most Yahoo Leagues 0 of 4 Mark Alberti/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Week 12 got underway on Thursday with a trio of Thanksgiving games. Some fantasy managers were thankful for point-stuffed performances from players like Amon-Ra St. Brown and CeeDee Lamb, while others were left hungry for a big bounce-back on Sunday. And with several key injuries this week, some managers will be scrambling to make late additions to their lineups. There are… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022 “Past performance is no guarantee of future results” may be the most repeated disclaimer in the financial services industry. It’s a warning to investors not to get too excited about what they think is a replay of a historical pattern. Because oftentimes, history doesn’t repeat itself. That said, if history is any… Source link

After two weeks of London games, the NFL’s Sunday slate returns its more familiar schedule albeit with the addition of bye weeks for the first time this season. The Bills, Eagles, Rams and Vikings each have the week off, meaning two fewer games on Sunday. In the early window, markets without a local game on FOX will see the New York Jets visit the Green Bay Packers, while on CBS markets without a local game in the window will see the Baltimore Ravens visit the New York Giants. There are just… Source link

The greatest thing about the 2022 NFL preseason is, of course, the fact that it’s finally over. Very soon, we will have actual statistics from an actual regular season game. Someone (hopefully you) will be winning your opening week fantasy matchup. But before we let go of the preseason entirely, let’s take a look at a six-pack of stats you may have missed, which, in theory, might give us a few clues about the fantasy season ahead. We begin with a rookie who was arguably the exhibition… Source link

To help employees better manage their day, Google Calendar is introducing new “Time Insights” that let paid Workspace users see “how [their] time is spent across meetings and collaborators.” Announced for Calendar back in March, Google calls Time Insights a “personalized, analytical experience.” The goal of these stats is to: With the changes to our working environments in the past year, some people have more meetings and may feel less control over how their work time is… Source link