Both tech giants are turning over new leaves -- but one is transitioning to new opportunities much faster.
Olympic champion Jerry Tuwai keeps repeating the mantra that Fiji treats every game as a final. Now Fiji's Olympic rugby sevens title defense really does hinge on every game it plays. The Fijians raced to a 19-0 half-time lead against Britain on Tuesday in a rematch of the 2016 final and finished 33-7 to secure top spot in Pool B and a quarterfinal match against Australia, which placed third in Pool A behind top-ranked New Zealand and Argentina.
Several sports have cracked down on female athletes' competition clothes. For beach volleyball players, it's a different case.
(Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks gave up modest gains Tuesday as the tailspin in China and Hong Kong sparked by Beijing’s sweeping regulatory overhaul continued to hurt sentiment, overshadowing a record close on Wall Street.MSCI Inc.’s Asia-Pacific equity gauge dipped as shares slid in Hong Kong and wavered in China. U.S stock futures fell after the S&P 500 hit a new peak, with Tesla Inc. the latest firm to post better-than-expected results. The Nasdaq 100 and Dow Jones Industrial Average also ended
Lydia Jacoby, a 17-year-old from Alaska, beat out the reigning gold medalist Lilly King on Tuesday.
Australia won their third straight match in the men's hockey tournament at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday after scoring five goals against Argentina, while India beat Spain. Australia's Kookaburras scored four goals by halftime, recovering after conceding a goal in the fourth minute as the match got underway in rainy conditions. "It was a good grind that first five, ten minutes," said Andrew Charter, Australia's goalkeeper.
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(Bloomberg) -- Bitcoin fell below $37,000 after briefly surpassing $40,000 following Amazon.com Inc.’s denial that its job posting for a digital currency executive meant that it will accept the token for payments this year.Earlier Monday, the job posting from the retail giant seeking an executive to develop the company’s “digital currency and blockchain strategy” had stirred questions among analysts over whether the move could eventually lead to Amazon accepting Bitcoin as a method of payment. S
17-year-old Lydia Jacoby became the first Alaskan to win a summer Olympic medal as she stunned American team-mate Lilly King to claim 100m breaststroke gold in Tokyo. Defending champion and world record-holder King had not lost a breaststroke race over the distance since 2015 but had no answer to her young compatriot as she took bronze, with South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker, who had set a new Olympic record in the heats, splitting the Americans for silver. Jacoby had been planning to attend the Olympics as a fan with her family last year, until the pandemic forced the Games to be postponed, but her marked improvement in 2021 saw her spring a surprise at the US Trials to become the first Alaskan swimmer to ever make the American team.
Singapore paddler Yu Mengyu scored a minor upset in the women's singles third round, when she stunned world No. 8 Cheng I-ching of Taiwan.
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Bermuda has been sending athletes to the Olympics since 1936. Until Tuesday, the Atlantic island's highest honor was a bronze medal won 45 years ago. Flora Duffy changed that in just under two hours, swimming, cycling and running through the wind and rain around Tokyo Bay to win the Olympic women's triathlon for Bermuda's first gold medal.
Australia’s second-most populous city Melbourne will end its fifth lockdown, with the Victoria state government declaring it has beaten an outbreak of the highly contagious COVID-19 delta variant for a second time
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NSW Covid lockdown restrictions: update to Sydney, Orange and regional coronavirus rules explainedCovid restrictions for greater Sydney, including residents in the Fairfield, Canterbury-Bankstown, Liverpool, Cumberland and Blacktown LGAs, the Central Coast, Blue Mountains and Wollongong have been extended, with lockdown set to lift for Orange, Blayney and Cabonne local government areas in the state’s central west. Here’s the full list of what you can and can’t do in NSWFull list and map of NSW h
The 27-year-old loose forward was accused of two offences of assaulting a woman and one charge of common assault at an appearance at Dunedin District Court. "I would like to take this opportunity to say how very sorry I am for my behaviour during [the] incident in May this year," Frizell said, according to New Zealand media outlets. Frizell was granted bail and ordered not to consume alcohol or contact either victim until his next appearance in September.
Drubbed 1-7 by Australia in their last match, India produced a spirited performance against world No.9 Spain.
Kimberley Daniels is at the Tokyo Olympics to judge canoeing slalom, where her daughter Haley is representing Canada in an event newly introduced at the Games as a bid for greater gender equality. "My goal was always to be seen as a woman, now I have to see myself as a transgender woman and that is also a big step." Daniels, who was a canoe slalom gate judge at Rio in 2016, had not planned to transition until after the Tokyo Games, but due to the one-year pandemic delay, she has arrived in Tokyo as a woman.
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Deaths of teenagers have risen while overall homicide figures have dropped in London.
A puncture less than 2km from the end of the bike leg may have ruined Georgia Taylor-Brown's hopes of winning triathlon gold on Tuesday - or it may have been what propelled the Briton to take what turned out to be a hugely impressive silver. Taylor-Brown was one of a pack of five who had broken more than a minute clear of the field and who knew the medals would be shared amongst them. Taylor-Brown revealed after the race she had suffered a stress fracture in her shin three months ago that left her unable to run for six weeks but had kept it private so as not to let her rivals think she had a weakness.
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