The decision on whether to participate in restarting seasons is exposing the haves and have-nots of the sports world.
Coronavirus Leads Some Athletes to Opt Out, if They Can Afford It
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Daily Archives: July 5, 2020
Washington NFL team will undergo a ‘review’ of their team name
Eddie Glaude, Chairman of the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, and Maya Wiley, MSNBC legal analyst, weigh in on this move by the NFL team and what more needs to be done to address racism in this country
Mongolia quarantines area next to China border due to PLAGUE
Two suspected cases of the plague – which is linked to the consumption of marmot meat – have been identified in the region of Khovd, health experts announced on Wednesday.
MrBeast ends Finger on the App competition by telling players to stop after 70 hours
After watching contestants keep their fingers attached to a phone screen for more than 70 hours, YouTube creator Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson called an early end to a massive competition originally designed with one winner and a $25,000 prize in mind. The result? Four winners, each walking away with $20,000 in hand. Donaldson’s “Finger on the App” was a one-tim […]
Celtic sign up JD Sports as official retail partner
Scottish soccer champions’ kit to be sold across JD outlets worldwide.
FuboTV joins YouTube TV and ESPN+ in hiking subs fee
US streaming services adjust price points to cover content costs.
R&D Roundup: Tech giants unveil breakthroughs at computer vision summit
Computer vision summit CVPR has just (virtually) taken place, and like other CV-focused conferences, there are quite a few interesting papers. More than I could possibly write up individually, in fact, so I’ve collected the most promising ones from major companies here. Facebook, Google, Amazon and Microsoft all shared papers at the conference — and […] […]
Labour urges more support to stem post-Covid job losses
Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds calls for jobs schemes to be extended during local lockdowns.
National security law: China won’t be ‘threatened’ but is braced for US financial sanctions, Beijing official says
China is braced for possible financial sanctions from the United States over the Hong Kong national security law, but still hopes to ease tensions with Washington, according to a source close to China’s financial authority.“The Chinese mainland and Hong Kong financial authorities certainly have prearranged plans. We won’t allow others to threaten or make tro […]
Wolfsburg the favorites to win yet another domestic double
Wolfsburg are the team to beat in Germany. Essen are the team out to stop the best team in the land from sealing another domestic double. But changing the status quo is not always easy.
As Hong Kong autonomy bill moves to Donald Trump’s desk, analysts focus on his previous reluctance to use sanctions
As US President Donald Trump faces pressure from rare bipartisan US congressional support for a bill authorising sanctions against officials deemed to have eroded Hong Kong’s autonomy, legal analysts are attempting to predict what exactly the American leader – who has shown a reluctance to dole out hard-hitting sanctions on China and Russia – will do next.On […]
UK manufacturers to export surplus medical ventilators
UK government initially called for 30,000 machines but NHS capacity was never stretchedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageUK manufacturers are to export surplus medical ventilators after they produced 14,000 to treat coronavirus patients only to find that most were not needed.Boris Johnson hailed the success of the “ventilator challe […]
Global food commodity prices rebound in June
FAO expects new record-high global cereal production and comfortable stock levels for 2020/21, while food assistance needs up
Boris Johnson’s newt-counting claim questioned
The PM is accused of inventing an allegation that wildlife rules are holding back house-building.
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