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Wiggins: No love lost for booing Minnesota fans

Andrew Wiggins went 5-of-12 from the stripe in an OT loss to the Hawks and heard about it from a frustrated home crowd. Wiggins didn't take the boos kindly. "We've got some s---ty fans, and we've got some good fans. That's just how it works," he said. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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MLB's top 20 remaining free agents

Since free agency opened across Major League Baseball on Oct. 29, nearly half of MLBTR’s top 50 available players have come off the board. Twenty-three of those players have landed new contracts, leaving 27 without teams as the New Year approaches.  Based on the original rankings compiled by MLBTR’s Tim Dierkes, Steve Adams and Jeff Todd, here’s a look at where the 20 best free agents remaining stand as 2018 nears an end: 1. Bryce Harper, OF (Original prediction: 14 years, $420M): With Scott Boras as his agent, it’s unsurprising that Harper – who may be in line for a record-setting contract – remains unsigned. As you’d expect, there have been no shortage of offseason rumors centering on the 26-year-old Harper, who has been connected to his only team to date – the Nationals – as well as the Dodgers, Phillies, Braves, Cubs, Cardinals, Giants, Yankees and White Sox over the past couple months. On paper, the most logical landing spot for the superstar may be Los Angeles, which jettisoned p
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Jags' Tom Coughlin admonishes Fournette, Yeldon for 'selfish' behavior

Jacksonville Jaguars VP Tom Coughlin issued a statement on Sunday admonishing Leonard Fournette and TJ Yeldon for their behavior during Sunday’s game. The Jags offered little resistance in a 20-3 loss to the Houston Texans on Sunday. Fournette was inactive for the game, while Yeldon was active but did not play. Both players spent most of the game on the bench, even during offensive possessions, according to Daniel Popper. In a statement, Coughlin called the players “disrespectful” and “selfish” for their behavior. The Jaguars have been nothing short of a mess this season. Expected to be a contender in the AFC, they completely fell apart after a strong early start and have shown very little pride while falling to 5-11. They’ve had players fighting in the locker room and they had some arrests in London. They’re a mess and need to clean things up. That seems to be Coughlin’s intention. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Report: Kliff Kingsbury a top candidate to be next Houston head coach

Houston officially announced on Sunday that head football coach Major Applewhite has been fired after two seasons with the team, and the school appears to be intent on making a big splash to replace him. Brett McMurphy of Stadium reports that two of the leading candidates to replace Applewhite are Dana Holgorsen and Kliff Kingsbury. Houston was linked to Holgorsen before Applewhite was officially fired, with a report indicating the Cougars are keeping their eye on the West Virginia coach and believe he could consider leaving his current job. Holgorsen’s buyout drops to $1 million after the New Year, and he is losing two of his top players in Will Grier and David Sills. The Mountaineers' coach was also an offensive coordinator with Houston previously. Kingsbury would likely be another popular hire, and the expectation is that he will eventually land another head coaching job after he signed on to join USC’s staff as an assistant. The 39-year-old was fired by Texas Tech last month af
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10 most jaw-dropping performances from 2018 college football season

The 2018 college football season treated everyone to a thrilling year of action featuring stunning upsets, sensational teams and breakout players. Of course, it also provided some jaw-dropping performances that will never be forgotten. When you take a moment to look back at the 2018 regular season, it really becomes remarkable what some collegiate athletes were able to accomplish. Young men who took the word "domination" to an entirely new level with a stunning game that no one could believe. Some of these breakout performances helped capture the essence of what turned out to be an incredible year for these athletes. For others, it would be the lone highlight of their 2018 season, and their names wouldn’t be heard from again on the weekly jaw-dropping performance list. Here are the 10 most jaw-dropping performances from the college football season. Rondale Moore, wide receiver, Purdue Boilermakers vs. Northwestern, Week 1 Years from now we might very well look at this game as
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Gist::In an year of breaches, data leaks, and reports of starvation deaths due to faulty implementation, India's Aadhaar had its constitutional status upheld in 2018 (Aria Thaker/Quartz)

Aria Thaker / Quartz : In an year of breaches, data leaks, and reports of starvation deaths due to faulty implementation, India's Aadhaar had its constitutional status upheld in 2018   —  After almost a decade since its launch, India's controversial biometric identity programme, Aadhaar, finally got a measure … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::Inside Uber's serious incident team for US where ~130 investigators deal with reports of crashes, physical altercations, sexual misconduct, theft, and stalking (Shannon Bond/Financial Times)

Shannon Bond / Financial Times : Inside Uber's serious incident team for US where ~130 investigators deal with reports of crashes, physical altercations, sexual misconduct, theft, and stalking   —  There is space for scores of people in a section of Uber's office in downtown Phoenix but on a recent weekday morning only a handful … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::Big players in autonomous driving like Uber, Tesla, and Waymo had a disappointing 2018, but several startups with a "minimum viable product" made good progress (Timothy B. Lee/Ars Technica)

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica : Big players in autonomous driving like Uber, Tesla, and Waymo had a disappointing 2018, but several startups with a “minimum viable product” made good progress   —  Big companies struggled but small ones moved forward.  —  As 2018 dawned, expectations for self-driving vehicles were sky-high: Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::How Amazon is opening tiny stores, adding local language descriptors, and accepting cash payments to target the 800M people living outside India's big cities (Eric Bellman/Wall Street Journal)

Eric Bellman / Wall Street Journal : How Amazon is opening tiny stores, adding local language descriptors, and accepting cash payments to target the 800M people living outside India's big cities   —  The retailer is targeting hundreds of millions of new online shoppers in India's countryside by adding Hindi and videos … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::In a formerly undisclosed memo from March, a top FTC enforcement official said Facebook wasn't at fault for Cambridge Analytica's abuses; FTC says probe ongoing (New York Times)

New York Times : In a formerly undisclosed memo from March, a top FTC enforcement official said Facebook wasn't at fault for Cambridge Analytica's abuses; FTC says probe ongoing   —  Last spring, soon after Facebook acknowledged that the data of tens of millions of its users had improperly been obtained … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::AI image processing for computer vision, facial recognition, image generation, and other applications saw marked improvements in 2018 (Andrew Tarantola/Engadget)

Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : AI image processing for computer vision, facial recognition, image generation, and other applications saw marked improvements in 2018   —  Computer scientists have spent more than two decades teaching, training and developing machines to see the world around them. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::Lawrence Roberts, who helped design the Arpanet and oversaw its implementation in 1969, dies at 81 (Katie Hafner/New York Times)

Katie Hafner / New York Times : Lawrence Roberts, who helped design the Arpanet and oversaw its implementation in 1969, dies at 81   —  In late 1966, a 29-year-old computer scientist drew a series of abstract figures on tracing paper and a quadrille pad.  Some resembled a game of cat's cradle; others looked like heavenly constellations … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::Inside digital music piracy and sharing in the 2000s via P2P networks like Napster, LimeWire, Gnutella, as well as IRC and internet music service Audiogalaxy (Abhimanyu Ghoshal/The Next Web)

Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : Inside digital music piracy and sharing in the 2000s via P2P networks like Napster, LimeWire, Gnutella, as well as IRC and internet music service Audiogalaxy   —  A couple of decades ago - well before a $10 monthly fee would unlock access to virtually every song ever recorded through streaming services … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::RBC Capital Markets: 41% of US consumers now own a smart speaker, compared to 21.5% in 2017; the growth was mostly driven by Alexa and Google Home devices (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : RBC Capital Markets: 41% of US consumers now own a smart speaker, compared to 21.5% in 2017; the growth was mostly driven by Alexa and Google Home devices   —  We already know Alexa had a good Christmas - the app shot to the top of the App Store over the holidays, and the Alexa service even briefly crashed from all the new users. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::How Booking Holdings, formerly Priceline, is betting on China's online travel market with partnerships and more than $2B in investments in Chinese companies (Stella Yifan Xie/Wall Street Journal)

Stella Yifan Xie / Wall Street Journal : How Booking Holdings, formerly Priceline, is betting on China's online travel market with partnerships and more than $2B in investments in Chinese companies   —  Booking, formerly Priceline, is investing heavily in Chinese travel startups  —  Nearly two decades ago, Priceline.com … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::Privacy International: popular Android apps like TripAdvisor, Kayak, Indeed, MyFitnessPal share data with Facebook without user consent, possibly violating GDPR (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times : Privacy International: popular Android apps like TripAdvisor, Kayak, Indeed, MyFitnessPal share data with Facebook without user consent, possibly violating GDPR   —  Some of the most popular apps for Android smartphones, including Skyscanner, TripAdvisor and MyFitnessPal … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::The biggest challenges for US tech firms in 2019: GDPR-like privacy protections, large security breaches becoming routine, and anti-government employee protests (Susan Fowler/New York Times)

Susan Fowler / New York Times : The biggest challenges for US tech firms in 2019: GDPR-like privacy protections, large security breaches becoming routine, and anti-government employee protests   —  How privacy, security and employee protests will shape the year ahead for Silicon Valley.  —  Ms. Fowler is an editor in the Opinion section. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::Sources: Amazon is planning to build and expand Whole Foods stores across the US to put more customers within range of its Prime Now two-hour delivery service (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal : Sources: Amazon is planning to build and expand Whole Foods stores across the US to put more customers within range of its Prime Now two-hour delivery service   —  Expansion would widen tech giant's delivery reach  —  Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 1.12% is planning to build and expand Whole Foods stores across … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::Malware attack on Tribune Publishing's network disrupts the printing and distribution of Saturday editions of LA Times, WSJ, NYT, and other papers (Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Times : Malware attack on Tribune Publishing's network disrupts the printing and distribution of Saturday editions of LA Times, WSJ, NYT, and other papers   —  A cyberattack that appears to have originated from outside the United States caused major printing and delivery disruptions at several newspapers across … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::How Facebook engineers keep Messenger from crashing on New Year's Eve, when more messages are sent than on any other day, through "graceful degradation" (Amy Nordrum/IEEE Spectrum)

Amy Nordrum / IEEE Spectrum : How Facebook engineers keep Messenger from crashing on New Year's Eve, when more messages are sent than on any other day, through “graceful degradation”   —  Messenger's 1.3 billion users send more messages on New Year's Eve than on any other day of the year Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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New Zealand wrap up series win

New Zealand completed their demolition of Sri Lanka on day five of the second Test in Christchurch, needing only 14 balls to take the last three wickets for a colossal 423-run victory. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Samsara banks $100M at a $3.6B valuation for its internet-connected sensors

Sensor data platform Samsara confirmed this morning that it had closed a new round of funding from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst that values the startup at $3.6 billion. The news was first reported by Cheddar , which spotted a filing with the state of Delaware on December 21 disclosing Samsara’s intent to raise a $100 million round at more than double the valuation it garnered upon its $50 million Series D  this March. “Our growth comes from bringing transformational new technologies to solve the problems of operational businesses, a massive segment of the economy that has long been underserved by the technology industry,” wrote Kiren Sekar, Samsara’s vice president of marketing and products, in the funding announcement. “Today, the advent of inexpensive sensors, high-bandwidth wireless connectivity, smartphones, and cloud computing enable these businesses to fully reap the benefits of 21st century technology.” Founded in 2015, Samsara supports the tr
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Capsicum launches a beautiful daily planner for iOS

Calendaring and note-taking apps have never really filled the void left behind when we moved away from our old, paper-based daily planners to digital devices. But a newly launched iOS app called  Capsicum may help to change that. Like real-world daily planners from years ago, Capsicum lets you not only track your events and to-dos, it also offers a place to track other things not tied to a specific date and time — like your larger, longer-term goals, journal entries and even your daily habits — like whether you made it to the gym, or remembered to take your vitamins.  The idea for the app comes from U.S. software engineer Ish ShaBazz, who was featured in the 2017 documentary “App: The Human Story,” and Australian designer Heidi Helen Pilypas. Both love beautiful planners and iOS apps, so around three years ago, they decided to work on a project that has now become  Capsicum.  The app’s name refers to a bell pepper, which is why it’s in the logo. However, the name was chosen because
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911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage

911 emergency services in several states across the U.S. went down after a massive outage at a CenturyLink data center. The outage began after 12pm ET on Thursday,  according to CenturyLink’s status page , and caused disruption across 911 call centers through Friday. Some states saw their services restored throughout the day. CenturyLink did not sy what caused the outage beyond an issue with a “network element,” but said around 11am ET on Friday that the company said that it was “ seeing good progress, but our service restoration work is not complete.” After 8pm on Friday, more than a day later, CenturyLink confirmed that “all consumer services impacted by this event, including voice and 911, have been restored.” CenturyLink, one of the largest telecommunications providers in the U.S., provides internet and phone backbone services to major cell carriers, including AT&T and Verizon. Data center or fiber issues can have a knock-on effect to other companies, cutting out service and
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