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The Atlanta Braves minor league organization had a rough day.They allowed 11 or more runs in three games and had two key contributors sustained injuries that forced them to be removed from their respective games.Despite the problems on the mound and on the injury front, the Braves minor league teams were able to win three games.

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight More than four in 10 voters in Scotland think First Minister Nicola Sturgeon should resign immediately, according to a new poll carried out amid controversy over gender recognition reforms.

For the second time this season, Juventus has seen its second-place standing in the Serie A table taken away from them due to nothing the current squad has done on the field.Another day full of off-field drama and courts deciding just how this season may end up saw the latest chapter added to it.To make matters worse, the FIGC's Federal Court of Appeals announced that Juventus will receive a 10-point penalty right before the Bianconeri kicked things off against Empoli on Monday night.

DEAR HARRIETTE: I have found myself in an uncomfortable situation with a friend of mine.We both have children, but my friend seems to be too lenient when it comes to parenting.Lately, she has been giving me unsolicited advice about my own child with whom I have a great relationship.I appreciate her concern, but her constant input makes me feel undermined as a parent.

in brief You may have heard news this week that Google is finally updating its authenticator app to add Google account synchronization.Before you rush to ensure your two-factor secrets are safe in the event you lose your device, take heed: The sync process isn't end-to-end encrypted.The lack of synchronization encryption was pointed out in a tweet by two-man developer and security research team Mysk, which said it found the problem by analyzing network traffic during the secret-syncing process.

Anthony Davis sliced through the lane and finished at the basket for an easy two points on one possession in the first quarter Friday night and deterred Dallas' Josh Green and grabbed a defensive rebound on the very next trip down the court.It was the kind of impact that Davis can offer, his unique two-way impact on a game the reason why the Lakers can still credibly be optimistic about their season even if they've never been over .500.

Just like DDT, PCBs and asbestos, a group of substances obliquely known as PFAS are incredibly useful, potentially deadly and devilishly difficult to clean up.Since the 1950s, PFAS (per- and polyfluorinated substances) have been used in products ranging from pacemakers and fireproof foam to cosmetics and food containers.

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At the plate, Shohei Ohtani looked like a skilled hitter on a hot streak, chasing another historic cycle.But on the mound, the Angels' two-way star wasn't as successful.Making matters worse, the Angels saw rookie fireballer Ben Joyce depart because of an injury.

Detroit Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs is being held out of rookie minicamp practice on Saturday for precautionary reasons.The Detroit Lions made a bold choice in drafting running back Jahmyr Gibbs out of Alabama with the No. 12 overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft.Gibbs was an excellent player for the Crimson Tide and his home state's Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets before that.

NFL rumors: Jerry Jones is alive and well, and the Dallas Cowboys are on the board in NFL free agency.The Dallas Cowboys don't have an easy task as it pertains to adding to the team via free agency.After giving Tony Pollard the franchise tag, Dallas is short on cap room until they restructure the contracts of some veterans to make room.

Trevor Lawrence had the worst playoff debut imaginable, throwing three interceptions in the first quarter of the Jacksonville Jaguars' Wild Card game against the Los Angeles Chargers.The Jacksonville Jaguars fanbase had long waited to make a return to the playoffs.That dream became a reality last week when the team defeated the Tennessee Titans in Week 18 to win the AFC South.

With the NFL regular season now over, much attention shifts ahead to the postseason.But, for fans of over half the teams in the league, the offseason starts now.The 2023 NFL Draft should be the event of the offseason, like that weekend always is.But, the free agency period is also going to be a wild one.

Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel provided insight into their confusing fourth-and-one play call against the Buffalo Bills, and it's not a great look.Considering their quarterback situation entering the playoffs, the Miami Dolphins weren't given much of a chance against the Buffalo Bills.Yet, they were able to keep up with their AFC East rivals, and even had a 24-20 lead in the third quarter.

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Three years into a pilot program launched in East New York to convert illegal basement apartments into safe and regulated dwellings, the scheme has shown minimal progress, according to a new report.

Politicians and advocates gathered on Feb. 22 to demand that the state legislature end onerous court fees, which disproportionately harm low income New Yorkers and "perpetuates poverty" in the Empire State."Are you aware that it's still a crime here in New York in 2023, and are you aware that if you are poor you will fund that same system that perpetuates your poverty and keeps you poor," said Bronx Assembly Member Kenny Burgos, a sponsor of the End Predatory Court Fees Act .

The White Sox face the Tigers for one last time in Detroit, trying for a series split.We have a few announcements from the team.First and foremost, it's National Burger Day.Our big baby is back!Finally, here is the lineup for this warm holiday weekend in Detroit.Tim Anderson starts the game with a double.

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It was one of the worst deals in White Sox GM Ron Schueler's career, as he traded pitcher Melido Perez and minor hurlers Bob Wickman and Domingo Jean to the Yankees for Steve Sax.Schueler envisioned a devastating 1-2 punch at the top of the order in Tim Raines and Sax, followed by Frank Thomas and Robin Ventura.

The Los Angeles Dodgers faced off against the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday for the first time since defeating them in the 2020 World Series, but took the loss in part to Noah Syndergaard struggling through another subpar outing.The right-hander did pitch six innings, which provided some much-needed length for the Dodgers bullpen, but he also gave up six runs on eight hits.

NY Post | Mike Vaccaro: Stop me if you've heard this, but Aaron Judge is really good at playing baseball.The big bopper of the Yankee lineup has been on a tear since returning from the IL, and consequently the team has picked up some big wins over that stretch.His teammates continue to be wowed by Judge's Herculean efforts at the plate, and several said that he looks just as good now as he did throughout his MVP campaign last season.

Well, we have to give the Yankees this: They do at least keep finding new ways to lose.After rallying from down four runs last night, they ended up falling to the Rays after a costly Jake Bauers fumble in left field allowed Tampa Bay to take the lead for good.Unfortunately, that's another loss on the tally in what's been a difficult start to the season.

The Yankees were patting themselves on the back for vaulting Jhony Brito into the fifth spot in their rotation to begin the season.Not only did he finish spring training with five perfect innings, but he allowed just one run over 10 frames in his first two regular season starts.Yet, shortly after his second start, our Andrés Chávez predicted that Brito's third pitch, an unpolished curveball, would be tantamount to his success going forward.

Back on December 21st, during the press conference officially announcing Aaron Judge's return to the Yankees, he was officially named the team's captain.It was expected once the news broke that he was set to re-sign with the Yankees, but the confirmation was another notch on his belt in his place in franchise history.

Regardless of your opinions on AI chatbots, you can't deny their massive impact on the content industry.Probably every writer has heard about them.Global tech giants made headlines by releasing AI-driven chatbots, e.g., ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and Google Bard.Despite AI being innovative, it isn't always beneficial.

Early March might seem like too early in the year to state "This is one of the best novels of 2023," but when it comes to Jacqueline Holland's The God of Endings, I'm willing to make that statement.Heartbreaking, gorgeously written even if its darkest passages, and truly epic in terms of breadth and scope, The God of Endings chronicles almost two centuries of one woman's journey while also exploring the beauty of brevity, the power of love, and the importance of art.

A Twitter user has sued the troubled social media platform over an alleged data leak that exposed more than 200 million account users' information.In a class-action lawsuit [PDF] filed January 13 in a US district court in San Francisco, Stephen Gerber claims Twitter exposed his and "tens of millions" of other users' personal information - specifically email addresses and phone numbers linked to accounts - between June 2021 and January 2022 because of an API flaw.

On Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida went out on a limb.On Tuesday, it snapped.A day after he swooped into the Republican primary for Kentucky governor with a last-minute endorsement a move that turned the race into an obvious proxy fight between himself and former President Donald J. Trump Mr. DeSantis watched his chosen candidate lose in a landslide to the Trump-backed rival.

The day before Logan Roy died, he delivered a fiery call to arms to his ATN staff, letting them know what he expected from the network going forward.The speech was an angrier variation of the populist spiel he had given many times before, in which he insisted that the news should always be frank and unpretentious.

"You kept too many secrets," Adelaide Henry says to her parents, early in Victor LaValle's new novel Lone Women."Look what it cost you."Her mother and father don't react.They can't.They're both dead, their corpses lying in their bed in the house that Adelaide has just finished dousing with gasoline.

Q: The neighbor above my condo apartment recently took up the drums.He likes to practice in the middle of the day, which is a problem since I work from home.To make matters worse, he seems to practice at random times, so I cannot even plan around it.It is interfering with my work and is getting under my skin.

So much for Toronto being a sophisticated hockey market.The so-called fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs are out for blood and facts be damned.You can't blame the fans, as most of the media covering the Toronto Maple Leafs were clearly waiting for the team to stumble so they could throw out their ice-cold, eight-year-old grievances about how this team is built, and how it's a "failed experiment."

The Knicks couldn't get out of their way in Miami on Monday night, dropping Game 4 to the Miami Heat 109-101, falling behind 3-1 in the series.With New York desperately needing a win to avoid falling behind Miami 3-1 in the Eastern Conference Semifinals, they simply couldn't execute when they needed to.

Owen Coyle's knack of winning play-offs meets head on Partick Thistle's fine form, including a thumping win over his Queen's Park side, in Tuesday's Scottish Premiership quarter-final.Coyle's side not only missed out on the second-tier title and automatic promotion when they lost 5-3 in Friday's thriller at home to Dundee.

This game should be considered a golden opportunity for the Raptors to inch closer to the all-important eight seed.League leading Milwaukee is waiting on Sunday, literally the worst opponent you can draw up to play on a back to back.1-1 in this scenario is a passing grade.Minnesota is the final West opponent on the schedule.

There is a misconception that digital analytics reports are inaccurate.In reality, they are highly accurate in their own way, just not precise.The issue lies in users who don't know what the analytics data means or how it is gathered.To make matters worse, different tools measure things differently but call them by the same name.

Wild forward Ryan Hartman drives to the net against Capitals goaltender Charlie Lindgren in the first period Sunday.(Stacy Bengs/AP) ST.PAUL, Minn. - The lasting image of the Washington Capitals' 5-3 loss to the Minnesota Wild arrived early in the third period Sunday, when center Evgeny Kuznetsov remained facedown after a blind-side hit.

Jayson Tatum was watching his alma mater Duke get hammered down the stretch of the Blue Devils' 65-52 loss to Tennessee on March 18 during the 2023 March Madness tournament Round of 32 matchup, and former Volunteer and Boston Celtics teammate Grant Williams wasn't letting the MVP candidate down easy (WARNING: NSFW LANGUAGE).

It did not take long for anyone to realise that the Iraq war was the disaster that many had predicted; not much longer than it took to confirm that it was launched on a lie and that there were no weapons of mass destruction.Whatever relief or joy was felt by Iraqis at the fall of Saddam Hussein's violent and oppressive regime, it was soon subsumed by the horror of what followed.

When the New England Patriots took the practice fields behind Gillette Stadium on Thursday, they had only five cornerbacks present.Jonathan Jones, Myles Bryant and Shaun Wade are all on the active roster and were joined by practice squad members Quandre Mosley and Tae Hayes.The rest of the team's cornerback group, meanwhile, was nowhere to be seen.

Sunday's matchup between the Rangers and Penguins was the first of three times they play each other this week, making this the best chance the Penguins and their (questionable) deadline additions to close the distance for third place in the Metro.Unsurprisingly, the game eventually got physically, emotionally charged, and chippy.

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With the likes of OpenAI's blockbuster AI tool ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing AI, machine learning-powered chatbots have officially landed in the hands of practically anybody with an internet connection.Now, the consequences of AI-generated text flooding the internet are already starting to show.

Datacenter operators' investments in inclusion and diversity have done little to shift the balance of workers in the historically male-dominated field, an Uptime Institute report found.Three quarters of datacenters surveyed by the analyst group said women make up roughly 10 percent of their workforce, while a fifth of respondents said they didn't have any female workers at all.

Yann Sommer had an eventful start to life at Bayern Munich.Thrown in the fire right away against RB Leipzig on Saturday, and now a home debut against a roaring 1. FC Köln side that blasted seven past Werder Bremen at the weekend.To make matters worse, the visitors bundled in a goal from a corner not four minutes into the contest!

To say they have been underwhelming this season would be the understatement of the year for the Washington Wizards.Despite this, there is still hope that they might reach the playoffs through the Play-In Tournament.However, their last game against the Chicago Bulls put a bit of a stake through those plans as they only hold the ten seed by half a game.

Why is the Pixel Watch so expensive?The device's $350 and $400 price tags are well above the closest comparable products from Apple and Samsung, especially considering Google's first-generation smartwatches use slower, older parts compared to other products.The company is charging more for less, and while the Pixel Watch is a nice piece of hardware, it's hard to make the price make sense compared to faster products with better parts, like the $250 Apple Watch SE and $280 Galaxy Watch 5.
Counterpoint Research's report details the Bill of Materials (BoM) for Google's Pixel Watch and comes to the conclusion that the $400 LTE-version of the device costs $123 to build.

As crews hustled to clear snow-covered roads in the San Bernardino Mountains, many residents remained stranded Monday, frustrated at being cut off for more than 10 days and running low on food and medicine.The major highways to the mountains were reopened Monday afternoon to residents with proof of residency, the California Highway Patrol announced.

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Businesses and employees have benefitted greatly from the introduction of remote and hybrid working, but have also faced major challenges, new research has found.A report from Fortinet found almost two-thirds of firms (62%) suffered a data breach during the last two to three years, which could be, at least in part, attributed to the remote working environment.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails House sales are more likely to be being agreed at a discount typically when homes are priced above 500,000 than below this level, research by surveyors suggests.

Business secretary Grant Shapps has accused Labour and other opposition parties of putting lives at risk by planning to vote against the government's anti-strike legislation.The government is being accused of attempting to steamroller through its restrictions on strikes in six key sectors, amid mounting anger over the spiteful measure.

Perhaps the biggest question looming over the Dallas Cowboys' offseason is the future of Ezekiel Elliott.A large contingent of fans were ready to move on from Elliott after last season, when he averaged just 4.2 yards per carry and 58.8 yards per game and looked as though his burst and acceleration were fading.

Apple's shiny new HomePod 2 is official and there's quite a few improvements over its predecessor but one area where Apple has seemingly dropped the ball is its WiFi capabilities.So...The "New" HomePod 2 Uses A 2009 WiFi Standard
Prowling around Twitter, I happened across a tweet which claimed the new HomePod 2 runs the WiFi 4 standard which isn't exactly great; WiFi 4 is a 2009 standard.

The roller coaster ride of the Lakers season has featured a fair share of ups and downs, namely in winning and losing streaks.Less than two weeks ago, the Lakers were two games under .500and looked ready to contend for the playoffs.Four losses in the five games since, including a number of those late in games, has largely dampened the mood around the team.

Most religious parents want to share their faith with their kids.And, until a certain age, most kids are content to follow along.But at some point, they inevitably push back, which raises a crucial parenting question: Is it ever a good idea to force religion upon your children?And when, if ever, can you let your kids skip church, or gloss over a Zuhr prayer, or duck out of Hebrew School?

Real Estate Tell us what's worrying you about your home.With temperatures this low, we're all spending a lot more time at home.Unfortunately, the cold weather months also bring a number of problems that can make life difficult for homeowners and renters alike.Cold weather can lead to pipe bursts, melting snow runs the risk of causing leaks and other damage, and overworked heating systems may be on their last legs.

The National Weather Service issued a Flood Watch for the Bay Area for this Wednesday and Thursday.Last weekend's atmospheric river brought 1.74 inches of rain to San José."A potent Pineapple Express will move into the region Wednesday and continue into Thursday," the Weather Service reported.

Winners in four of their last five games, it finally feels like the Chicago Bulls are getting things back on track this season.These victories haven't come against pushover competition either, as they've piled on the wins over the Heat, Hawks, Knicks, and Bucks.With a meeting against the Detroit Pistons on the dock for tonight, Chicago looks to extend their winning ways and make it five wins in their last six.