The ‘Last of Us’ follow-up is now slated for June 19. That’s pretty soon considering it looked like it might be on hold indefinitely.
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Author: Julie Muncy
Elon Musk Says Tesla Stock Is ‘Too High’—and It Quickly Falls
An early-morning tweet punctuates a week in which the CEO has complained loudly and often about coronavirus-induced lockdowns.
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Author: Aarian Marshall
Wake Forest’s Forbes focused on keeping current players
New Wake Forest coach Steve Forbes is focused on recruiting back the Demon Deacons’ returning players
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Mindy Kaling’s new teen sitcom Never Have I Ever is an empathetic exploration of grief
If you told everyone exactly how high school would play out, odds are many would opt the hell out. High school in America is a bizarre and unkind time, a collective coming-of-age story that has as much room for variety as there are people who go through it. Never Have I Ever, a new Netflix sitcom from The Mindy Project creator Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher, takes the broad strokes of high school and gives them new life by centering its story on an Indian-American girl. It’s an absolute delight, one of the most pleasant new binge-watches you can do right now.
That doesn’t mean the show is all sunshine — Never Have I Ever begins with a tragedy when protagonist Devi Vishwakumar’s (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) father Mohan (Sendhil Ramamurthy)…
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Author: Joshua Rivera
Memphis Penny Hardaway Says G League’s New Approach Is ‘Almost Like Tampering’
Penny Hardaway is not thrilled about the NBA G League’s professional pathway program.
Penny Hardaway is not thrilled about the NBA G League’s professional pathway program.
The former Memphis star turned Memphis head coach said in a video interview to media released Friday that he disagrees with the league’s latest on-court approach.
“For me, I didn’t think the G League was built—and I could be wrong—to go and recruit kids that want to go to college out of going to college,” he said. “I thought they were going to be the organization that was going to be, if you want to go overseas or you absolutely did not want to play college 100%, that this would be the best situation for you before you go into the NBA.
“But taking guys out of their commitments [or] they’ve already signed and continuing to talk to their parents, it’s almost like tampering. I really don’t agree with that.”
The G League’s pathway program is already having a direct impact on the Tigers’ program. Sports Illustrated All-American Player of the Year Jalen Green was expected to join Memphis had he not elected to forgo his collegiate career in favor of joining a non-NBA team affiliated franchise.
Next year, Green, and a number of other top high school prospect Class of 2020, will take part in the G League’s one-year developmental program.
Per Sports Illustrated‘s Jeremy Woo, the salary range for the top prospects in the pathway program is believed to be in the range of $500,000, including incentives and sponsorship opportunities.
Earlier this week, the NCAA Board of Governors announced it is moving toward allowing student athlete compensation and adopting recommendations from a NIL (name, image and likeness) working group to allow student athletes to be paid for sponsorships and endorsement deals as early as the 2021-22 academic year.
Hardaway’s top recruit in the class of 2019 also played a limit stint with the Tigers. In December, James Wiseman announced that he had left the University of Memphis and was turning his attention to the NBA.
Wiseman’s departure from Memphis came amid a 12-game suspension he was in the middle of serving for accepting ineligible benefits.
Wiseman played three games for the Tigers, averaging nearly 20 points per game on 77% shooting from the field.
The new G League team is reportedly going to be based in Los Angeles.
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Author: Ben Pickman
Watch a livestream of La La Land for free tonight – CNET
It includes special appearances by Seth Rogen, Salma Hayek, Jaeden Martell and Pamela Adlon.
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Author: Dave Johnson
FDA authorizes experimental drug remdesivir for emergency use in COVID-19 patients
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The Food and Drug Administration just authorized the emergency use of remdesivir, an experimental anti-viral drug, to treat COVID-19.
Emergency authorization does not mean that the drug is FDA-approved, a standard that only comes after a detailed review showing a drug can safely and effectively treat a particular disease. The agency can issue an emergency use authorization (EUA) for unapproved medical products that may help treat a life-threatening disease when no approved alternatives are available — that’s what it did here.
The authorization does not mean the drug was proven to work by the FDA’s usual benchmarks, but that “the known and potential benefits of remdesivir when used to treat COVID-19 outweigh the known and potential risks…
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Author: Nicole Wetsman
Elon Musk lied about the EPA’s Tesla Model S test, agency claims
The Environmental Protection Agency denied Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s claim that the agency made a mistake in its test of the Model S sedan, which resulted in a lower range than Musk thought was deserved.
In an earnings call this week, Musk claimed that the Tesla Model S Long Range should be the first electric vehicle to sport a 400-mile range, and that the EPA’s 391-mile rating was the result of a snafu. Musk said someone had left the keys in the vehicle and the door open overnight, causing the Model S to enter into a “waiting for driver” mode that depleted 2 percent of the vehicle’s battery. This resulted in the slightly less than 400-mile range.
Not so, said the EPA. “We can confirm that EPA tested the vehicle properly, the door was…
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Author: Andrew J. Hawkins
How to use your DSLR or mirrorless camera as a webcam
A Fujifilm X-H1 mirrorless camera used as a webcam. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge
If you’ve been working from home for the past few weeks, you’ve probably had to join more than a few video conference calls. Or perhaps you’ve been using video chat apps to keep in touch with friends and family while social distancing. Either way, you’ve probably noticed that the webcam on your laptop is, well, crap. It leads to blurry, pixelated video calls, and unflattering viewing angles.
There are a few ways to address this problem. You could buy a proper webcam, but good luck finding one of those in stock. You could repurpose an old smartphone and use that as a webcam, if you happen to have one lying around. Either of those might be slightly better than your laptop’s webcam.
But if you really want to step up your video call game,…
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Author: Dan Seifert
At Home, Robin Schwartz’s Lens Is More Focused Than Ever
The photographer says her animal subjects, which she also considers her family, are helping her survive the long stretches of quarantine.
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Author: Samantha Cooper