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The Telegraph The comeback starts here: Ineos Team UK victory keeps Prada Cup alive It is not over yet. Ineos Team UK still have a mountain to climb if they are to pull back this Prada Cup final and advance to next month’s America’s Cup match against New Zealand. But they are off the mark. Victory in the second of Saturday’s two races means Sir Ben Ainslie’s team have stopped the rot and notched their first win of the series, making it 5-1 to Luna Rossa in the first-to-seven showdown…. Source link

Draganfly CEO Cameron Chell discusses drones delivering packages to homes in the future and the FAA allowing companies to fully operate. Google says it has “no immediate plans” to re-engage on a project that would test drones for fire-fighting and monitoring operations. FAA BRINGS COMMERCIAL DRONE DELIVERIES ONE STEP CLOSER WITH NEW RULES A Wednesday filing from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration showed the tech giant’s Research Climate and Energy Group requested permission… Source link

Positioned now on both sides of an advertising transaction, we were ready to observe the life cycle of an ad click from end to end. We invited individual volunteers to download AdNauseam and visit our site. Soon we had recorded a few dozen successful AdNauseam clicks—billed to our team’s advertiser account and credited to the publisher account. AdNauseam was working. But this only proved that Google did not discard the very first click on an ad generated by a brand new AdNauseam user… Source link

In November 2019, just a few days after Disney+ launched, Netflix (NFLX) content chief (now co-CEO) Ted Sarandos, speaking at a Paley Center for Media event, said that Disney (DIS) is “bound by” its content universes, a reference mostly to Marvel and Star Wars. He continued: “I do think the risk of being bound in a few universes is that there sometimes may be a melting ice cube of interest over time.” That has been the most common knock on Disney for a few years now: that if Disney… Source link

Syracuse has now paused activities for the third time in just six weeks due to the coronavirus. (Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images) For the third time in six weeks, the Syracuse men’s basketball team is on pause. Syracuse announced on Monday that it halted all basketball activities due to an unnamed Buffalo player testing positive for COVID-19. The Orange beat the Bulls, 107-96, at the Carrier Dome on Saturday. Buffalo has halted activities, too, and coach Jim Whitesell is… Source link

WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 2, 2020 — A man wearing a face mask walks past the U.S. Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Dec. 2, 2020. Most Federal Reserve districts reported that firms’ outlooks remained positive, but “optimism has waned,” as COVID-19 cases continue to spike, the U.S. Fed said in its latest Beige Book released on Wednesday. (Photo by Liu Jie/Xinhua via Getty) (Xinhua/Liu Jie via Getty Images) The Federal Reserve on Friday loosened its restrictions on share… Source link

Google on Wednesday unveiled plans to install its first backup battery at a data center, with ambitions to use the project as a test case for grid service applications. The 3-megawatt, 2-hour-duration battery will be installed at a Google data center in Belgium, a location selected because its market has policies that allow batteries to provide frequency regulation to the grid. Google is already experimenting with load-shifting on a pilot scale. Google has matched its overall… Source link

Google has delayed its plan for employees to return to the office, moving the date from July to September 2021, according to a staff memo sent Sunday night by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. In the email, confirmed by NBC News, Pichai said the company will test out a “flexible work week” that entails working at least three days a week in the office and other days at home. “We are testing a hypothesis that a flexible work model will lead to greater productivity, collaboration, and… Source link

Google has pushed back its return to the office until September, and will experiment with a hybrid model allowing some employees to work from home part of the week, the company said. First reported by The New York Times, Google CEO Sundar Pichai emailed employees Sunday about plans to test a flexible work week once conditions are safe for people to return. Google employees would work three days in the office and the rest of the week at home under the new plan. Pichai said the company is… Source link

For most of his NFL career, Taysom Hill has been more curiosity than anything else. He’s been a package player, an Internet meme, and a Twitter joke. But Sunday against Atlanta, in his first start directing the Saints, Hill looked like a bonafide professional quarterback. Taysom Hill passes the test Hill was the second-best fantasy QB in Week 11’s early window, playing well in a 24-9 victory over Atlanta. Hill threw for 233 yards, ran for 51 more, and picked up a couple of rushing… Source link