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The show Jamal Murray and Donovan Mitchell have been putting on deserves an encore. Murray was not going to let the Nuggets’ season end on Tuesday, and Denver found just enough defense to make that a reality. Murray took over in the second half, scoring 33 of his 42 points on the night, his swagger […]
Far too often, when Sarah Perren went to a Philadelphia hospital for her regular diabetes care, her doctor gave her dietary recommendations that she never could have afforded. Just stepping into the office made the 59-year-old Black woman feel tense and self-conscious; she sensed that the doctor thought she was just lazy for not following […]
Dell Technologies Inc (DELL.N) on Thursday posted a smaller-than-expected drop in quarterly revenue and beat profit estimates on robust demand for its notebooks and software products for remote work and online learning. Shares of the company were up 2% in trading after the bell. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a rapid shift to cloud, […]
Just over a year after Asus charmed us with the flipping cameras on the Zenfone 6, the company is back with the Zenfone 7 and 7 Pro. Both devices still have rotating camera arrays like last year’s model, as well as the same massive 5,000mAh batteries. But this year, there are a bunch of new […]
Sir Dave Brailsford has described his relationship with Chris Froome as “great”, despite his decision to omit the four-times Tour de France winner from his Ineos Grenadiers team selection for this year’s race, which starts in Nice on Saturday. Froome had already agreed to join the Israel Start-Up Nation team for 2021 but Brailsford said: […]
It wasn’t just a shooting slump Paul George was dealing with the past three games — the bubble had effected his mind. He described himself as being in a “dark place.” “I underestimated mental health, honestly. I had anxiety, a little bit of depression,” George said after Game 5. “Just being locked in here. I […]
Black Americans have a higher incidence of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) compared with other races, according to a study published online Aug. 26 in Neurology. Fadar Oliver Otite, M.D., from the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, and colleagues identified all new cases of CVT in the State Inpatients Database of […]
Workday Inc on Thursday appointed Chano Fernandez as co-chief executive officer and raised its annual subscription forecast, sending the business software provider’s shares up nearly 12% in extended trading. The company, which has become the latest to opt for the co-CEO model after Netflix Inc, promoted co-president Fernandez to serve alongside CEO and co-founder Aneel […]
Elon Musk has said that his secretive neurotech firm Neuralink will demonstrate a working “device,” presumably a brain-machine interface, at 6PM ET on Friday. Musk has spoken repeatedly about his belief that BMI devices are needed to help humans keep up with AI by supplementing our brainpower, but right now, his goal is much simpler: […]
Aided by cooler weather and reinforcements, firefighters in California made headway on Wednesday in containing the three giant blazes burning across the Bay Area. The fires, which were sparked last week by an unusual bout of lightning and stoked by an extended heatwave that desiccated fire-fueling vegetation, were calmed in part by a marine layer […]