In a Wednesday memo to teams, the NBA said “players’ families and longtime personal friends” were eligible as guests in the NBA bubble. The competition will exclude business partners, casual acquaintances and “any individual that the player has not met in person before with whom the player has had limited …
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Google details 50 new features for Classroom and Meet for the pandemic school year
At its Event Any School School 2020 today, Google announced a number of distance learning updates across Google Classroom and Google Meet to help schools begin this coming semester. In addition, Google launched a new app called Assignments, the Tech Toolkit for families and caregivers, and an update to school …
Read More »Meet the hydrogen-electric supercar hell bent to define high speed
Gas? No, hydrogen. Hyperion Hyperion calls it an ‘educational tool.’ But the XP-1 looks like something out of a sci-fi flick with his hydrogen fuel cell power. The Hyperion XP-1 is the brainchild of 10 years of research among hundreds of engineers and scientists, with the company in Southern California …
Read More »Pelosi, Mnuchin talk but make no progress with ending stalemate
Chamber member Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiKamala Harris Makes History – As A Westerner On The Money: McConnell Says It’s Time To Start Coronavirus Talks | New report finds majority of Americans support merger moratorium | Corporate bankruptcies on pace for 10-year-old high McConnell: Time to start coronavirus talks MORE (D-Calif.) And …
Read More »Greenlandic ice sheet claims the life of the famous climate scientist
The climate science community is mourning the loss of a pioneering climate scientist and glaciologist, Konrad Steffen. Koni, as he was known to his friends and colleagues, apparently fell to his death in a deep opening in the ice called a crevasse on Saturday while conducting research in West Greenland. …
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