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The Thunder has, more or less, been the team to beat with Alex Hales and Tanveer Sangha leading the way with bat and ball respectively. They have a well-balanced squad with the BBL side yet to see the best of Usman Khawaja. However, they will be without Daniel Sams, who took a blow to the helmet in the previous game. Nevertheless, with the likes of Ben Cutting and Sam Billings capable of winning matches single-handedly, the Thunder will be eyeing a return to winning ways....

Because of these restrictions, the company has been forced to get creative with its products. Because working with Google is all but impossible, Huawei cannot rely on Android as the OS for its devices. Instead, the company is working on its own mobile operating system called HarmonyOS. So far, we’ve only seen the beta of HarmonyOS available to developers for use on smart home products. However, we might see the smartphone version soon, as a new report indicates that the company may have the new mobile OS installed on the upcoming Huawei P50 smartphone....

Just as the mouse brain is a lizard brain “with some extra stuff thrown on top,” Linden writes, the human brain is essentially a mouse brain with extra toppings. That’s how we wound up with two vision systems. In amphibians, signals from the eye are processed in a region called the midbrain, which, for instance, guides a frog’s tongue to insects in midair and enables us to duck as an errant fastball bears down on us....

It makes me numb to think that America Online, with annual revenues (not profit) of just $4.8 billion, was valued at more than $200 billion by Wall Street (Desperately Seeking a Deal,“special report, Jan. 24). I believe traders have dangerously overvalued internet-related stock, and the day the common investor wakes up to reality, there will be a real calamity on Wall Street. The Internet, after all, is just another convenient way to do business, like the telephone or fax before it....

Hope is no strategy: a lesson Clinton and other potential presidential candidates are quickly coming to learn. As the Bush presidency approaches its seventh year and the war continues, Iraq is no longer just George W. Bush’s problem. Washington waits for a miracle pill from James Baker and Lee Hamilton’s Iraq Study Group. But leaders in both parties know that a truly hap-py solution to the conflict is nowhere in sight–and may never be....

Most people struggle to comprehend the sheer, aberrant evil of a premeditated act like a mass shooting. Defense attorneys try to rationalize these killings with arguments about mental health, tragic upbringings, and extenuating circumstances. While these issues might have contributed to the dark psyche of many murderers, they don’t ease the pain of victims’ families or erase any of the shock and horror of mass murder. Those left behind aren’t comforted by hearing about the sob story of the person who murdered their loved ones....

Recently, there seemed to be a big opportunity for FF16 to reappear. Late last week, Sony announced that it would be holding a State of Play presentation focussing on third-party games. This roughly twenty-minute presentation took place today, and promised to be illuminating for a wide variety of different fandoms. Final Fantasy 16 was thought to be one of these, but unfortunately, the evidence that fans dug up led them astray....

The 29-year-old The Flash actor has been no stranger to negative headlines in the past few weeks. Officials arrested Miller in March on charges of disorderly conduct and harassment stemming from their actions while in attendance at a bar in Hilo, Hawaii. The actor allegedly yelled obscenities while harassing the venue’s patrons. Miller was able to pay the $500 bail to obtain release but was hit with a temporary restraining order days later for allegedly entering a couple’s bedroom and threatening them....

We’re about 75 percent through the season and the All-Star Game is just days away but don’t fret, you’re in the right place to catch up with everything you’ve missed from the season so far. NBA ALL-STAR GAME 2022: Full list of rosters for Team LeBron and Team Durant As you prepare to closely follow the stretch run of the NBA season, allow me to get you up to speed with the football fan’s guide to the 2021-22 NBA season....

Paleobiology student and Jurassic Park Podcast contributor James Ronan called for potential Jurassic World 3 candidate titles on Twitter (offering three possibilities of his own), but what would have been a fairly typical social media interaction became something more when Trevorrow joined the fray. On Sunday, Trevorrow confirmed that life had found a way—someone guessed the title correctly. Jurassic Outpost caught on to the unique title confirmation. “Wow, somebody in this thread actually got it,” Trevorrow tweeted....

Midnight came, corks popped, fireworks exploded, the ball fell, the threat passed. Except that it didn’t, really. Top officials of the FBI and the CIA believe there is a loose network of Islamic extremists planning terrorist attacks in the United States–and those are just the ones they know about. The scary headlines last week were not a media contrivance. By advertising a crackdown and tightening security for New Year’s Eve, the authorities believe they warded off a terrorist strike, but only for the time being....

Though it may seem like The Game Awards have been around forever, it was in fact established as recently as 2014. With that in mind, there have now been a grand total of seven games awarded Game of the Year by The Game Awards, and they are each from a wide variety of genres and studios. With The Last of Us 2 joining the ranks of this growing hall of fame, it’s important to recognize all those games that came before it as well....

“Mr. President, those lead soldiers make a great display with all your books! Like when you were sick with pneumonia in 1915, and played with armies on the counterpane?” He smiled faintly, not remembering, and I noticed something unimaginable before: a patch of silvery stubble on his chin. It glowed incandescently as a sunbeam slanted across his face. “Uh, the fellow who made them, he–uh, came…” “Came here and presented them to you?...

Cities fight to host the Olympics because they’re desperate to show their face to the world, and for Sydney, the stakes are enormous. It’s remote: 14 air hours from Los Angeles and nine from Hong Kong, and only 3 million tourists make the trip each year (New York gets 10 times as many). But during the 16 days of the Games, the city will host 1.5 million visitors, and more importantly, a global television audience of nearly 4 billion....

Omnisport’s Christopher Devine takes a look at the positives (and yes, there were some) and negatives arising from a challenging trip for the tourists, and looks at where England go from here. THE GOOD No England player did more to enhance his reputation than Dawid Malan, whose fabulous 140 in Perth represented a breakthrough innings at Test level. Malan, whose initial selection for the tour appeared to owe much to a lack of alternative options, also made three fifties and finished the series with 383 runs at a creditable average of 43....

Real could be looking at life after Ancelotti in the summer with Zinedine Zidane a possible candidate to takeover, but this uncertainty hasn’t prevented president Florentino Perez, never one to pass up on an opportunity to open the chequebook, heading into the market for a new player. Los Blancos have added 21-year-old Lucas Silva and the 16-year-old Martin Odegaard to the squad this term for a combined fee in excess of £11 million, but while those deals were geared towards the task of building a bright future, the €31....

“A stunning move by the DOJ and FBI,” tweeted Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin. “The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents … Banana Republic,” tweeted Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. “Using government power to persecute political opponents is something we have seen many times from 3rd world Marxist dictatorships but never before in America,” tweeted Florida Senator Marco Rubio. For the record, they have every reason to be skeptical....

If you find this comforting, you’re either older than 40 or suffering from perfluxity–or both. Perfluxity is the feeling that you’re drowning in a flux of information. It’s the hunch that the world has recently shattered into a billion bits of data and your only glue gun is a tiny cursor skidding around in cyberspace. On the other hand, if you’re under 40 or otherwise cozy on the Infobahn, you’re probably already bored to tears by the linear nature of this essay....

After first spreading a series of lies about Hormel, right-wingers are now using the fig leaf that he has refused to denounce a gay acting troupe whose members sometimes dress up as nuns. Luxembourg is 99 percent Roman Catholic and the Republican Senate, oh-so-deeply sensitive, believes this disqualifies the presumptive ambassador. The Luxembourgers themselves apparently don’t agree, but who asked them? We’re playing the “failure to denounce” game here. Very important Senate business....