The National Basketball Association (NBA) is using Microsoft Teams’ new Together mode to put basketball fans into a virtual experience during live games. Microsoft just unveiled Together for Teams mode earlier this month, and uses artificial intelligence to segment its face and shoulders and place it alongside other people in …
Read More »Arctic heat wave driving record temperatures, forest fires
A woman near the ruins of a summer house destroyed by a fire in a dacha community in the Moshkovo district, Novosibirsk region, southern Siberia. The Novosibirsk region is experiencing hundreds of fires believed to have been caused by burning old grass. Kirill Kukhmar | TASS | fake pictures The …
Read More »Play again, setting up the central cities’ ‘incredible challenge’ for the NHL
The NHL is trying to make this seem easy. This is the opposite. This is nothing less than a historic company, something we have never seen before and hope never to see again. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, which paused the season on March 12 and has disrupted society around the …
Read More »Musk’s Tesla benefited from stimulus, but opposes more now
(Bloomberg) – Elon Musk, whose Tesla Inc. was one of the main beneficiaries of government stimulus in the wake of the latest global financial crisis, has been bent on the concept. Tesla’s open chief executive and US government contractor SpaceX tweeted on Friday that “another government stimulus package is not …
Read More »New CDC Guidelines Emphasize Reopening of Schools in Fall
The latest guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention greatly emphasize sending students back to school this fall, despite what the CDC described as “mixed evidence on whether returning to school gives as increased transmission or outbreaks “of COVID-19. The new guidelines arrived the same day as the …
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