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Betty White would’ve turned 100 Monday, and Google is honoring the TV legend in a unique way. When you type her name into the search engine, rose petals flutter on the screen, along with a message that reads, “Thank you for being a friend.” It’s a tribute to her role as Rose Nylund on “The Golden Girls,” whose legendary theme song includes the well-known and oft-repeated line, “Thank you for being a friend.” Google shows its love for Betty White on her 100th birthday.Via Google

Measuring Sox rotation’s playoff collapse, implications originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago Even before the New Year brought reports of still stymied labor talks between Major League Baseball and its players union, White Sox general manager Rick Hahn was fielding questions about a potentially lengthy lockout. For instance, what if a late agreement on the CBA condensed the rest of the offseason into about two weeks? “So be it,” Hahn said on the eve of the lockout. “Let’s go…. Source link

President Biden said today that Americans will soon be able to order free COVID tests from a government-run website, which is not yet available. “We’ll have websites where you can get them delivered to your home,” he said of the 500 million at-home tests the government is purchasing to combat the Omicron surge. Details on this website are murky, however. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said today that “We will have more information as it is available including what the… Source link

How the Sox will use Michael Kopech in rotation in 2022 originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago The Chicago White Sox pledged a “creative” way to deploy Michael Kopech during the 2021 campaign. Come 2022, that creativity isn’t going anywhere. Kopech missed back-to-back seasons in 2019 and 2020, the first while recovering from Tommy John surgery and the second due to personal reasons. The White Sox never took him out of their long-term planning, but he obviously boasted limited experience and… Source link

As a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows received text messages from multiple Fox News hosts and the president’s son, urging him to convince Trump to issue a statement condemning the violence, according to the House select committee investigating the attack. The text messages are among thousands of documents Meadows has turned over to the committee, according to Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who revealed the… Source link

Why Yoán Moncada is unlikely to be Sox’ second-base solution originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago When it comes to their search for a second baseman, the Chicago White Sox are in a holding pattern, baseball’s ongoing lockout bringing major league transactions to a halt. Meanwhile, those of us who don’t actually make the moves have looked high and low to dredge up possibilities for the position, a critical need on the South Side in the wake of last summer’s trade of Nick Madrigal and the… Source link

WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), Google (GOOGL.O) and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) are expected to join a Biden administration conference on Tuesday focused on quantum technologies as the U.S. government works to head off hacking threats and corner a burgeoning growth industry. The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is hosting the event that will discuss critical applications of quantum computing, which is expected to operate millions of times faster… Source link

The next steps in Washington’s very busy week are currently up in the air. Senate Republicans blocked an effort to raise the debt limit and also avert a government shutdown Monday night. Now the Democrats are likely going to have to move on those issue one at a time with an Oct. 1 deadline to avert a shutdown and Oct. 15 or soon thereafter to address the debt ceiling. “It’s never even conceivably thoughtful to think about defaulting,” Jared Bernstein, a member of President Biden’s Council… Source link

President Joe Biden is set to have his first high-profile meeting with the heads of some of the world’s biggest tech companies on Wednesday in Washington to discuss improving the nations’ cybersecurity preparedness and supply chain security. Newly minted Amazon (AMZN) CEO Andy Jassy will be among the attendees, people familiar with the matter told Yahoo Finance. Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook and Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella are also on the guest list, Bloomberg reports. The meeting,… Source link

(Bloomberg) — The chief executive officers of Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. plan to attend a White House meeting with President Joe Biden this week to discuss efforts by private companies to improve cybersecurity following a dramatic uptick in ransomware and online attacks over the past year. Apple’s Tim Cook, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Amazon’s Andy Jassy plan to attend the event scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, according to people familiar with the matter. The… Source link