Oil set for weekly gain on supply cuts, strong demand Oil prices were set for a second consecutive week of gains on Friday, buoyed by tightening supplies and continued support from OPEC and its allies on supply cuts. Brent crude oil futures LCOc1 were at $74 per barrel at 0958 […]
Joel Embiid plays key role in 76ers’ Game 3 win; Winslow steps on protective mask Wearing a high-tech carbon face shield that is part mask, part goggles, Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid made his much-awaited playoff debut vs. Miami in Game 3 of their first-round series on Thursday. All told, […]
LeBron James knows his responsibility to sports journalism as Erin Popovich question shows LeBron James, as much as any professional athlete today, understands the complex dynamics of the modern media landscape. He knows the mission of print media, online media, TV media and social media and the role they each […]
Lamar Jackson, the NFL and a system that de-emphasizes his greatest attribute After next weekend, Lamar Jackson will all but certainly have a multimillion-dollar check to cash. The NFL draft’s first round is Thursday, April 26, meaning the University of Louisville’s high-flying Heisman Trophy winner has one more week of […]
Knicks owner: It’s possible Kristaps Porzingis is out all next season Knicks president Steve Mills said last week that they hadn’t thought about the possibility of Kristaps Porzingis not playing next season. But the team’s owner apparently has. In an interview with the New York Post, James Dolan, the Madison […]
Meet the quarterback recruit who chose Princeton over Alabama It’s hard to be miserable in Cancun, especially when you’re in the Mexican resort city for your 18th birthday, as Brevin White was in late July of 2017. But surrounded by family and friends, shimmering water and sandy beaches, White was […]
Ryzen gains on Intel with second generation The second-generation Ryzen chips announced last week are now out, and reviews have hit the ‘Net. Unlike the situation last week, we’re now free to talk about what has changed in the second-generation chips and where their improvements lie. AMD is calling the […]
Tim Cook explains why a hybrid Mac/iPad device would be bad for users Despite the success Microsoft has enjoyed with the Surface Book, Apple has no intention of creating a hybrid tablet-notebook device anytime soon, if ever. Hardly a surprise, Tim Cook a few years ago famously said that the […]
Grasshopper, a learn-to-code app from Google’s Area 120 incubator, goes live Google’s internal incubator, Area 120, is today releasing its next creation: a learn-to-code mobile app for beginners called Grasshopper. At launch, the app teaches would-be coders how to write JavaScript, via short lessons on their iPhone or Android device. […]
2018 might be the first year I don’t buy a flagship iPhone The flagship iPhone X might not be the best-selling iPhone Apple has ever released. Numerous well-sourced reports have stated that Apple has had to slash iPhone X production on at least one occasion because sales have fallen short […]
