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There are fewer MLB games than usual today, with 11 to choose from, and you can keep track of the latest odds and betting percentages for all matchups with VSiN Betting Splits, provided directly by DraftKings and updated every 10 minutes. In the meantime, let's take a look at where the smart money is leaning on today's three games. Top MLB Resources: This is the final game of a four-game series. The Padres (76-59) swept the first two games, winning the opener 7-4 as the +105 road dog and the second 7-5 as the -145 road favorite. Then the Cardinals…
Hanoi-based video streaming company Fmovies has been shut down after industry groups called the site home to the world's largest piracy ring. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, a global anti-piracy coalition, said Hanoi police had shut down the streaming operation and related sites. Authorities coordinated with ACE, which includes studios and other content companies, to launch legal action against piracy sites. MPA Chairman and CEO and ACE Chairman Charles Rivkin said Fmovies' closure was “the largest closure in history and a major win for IP holders.” According to ACE, Fmovies and associated sites generated more than 6.7 billion visits…
Congratulations to all college football fans! We've made it through another long, tough offseason without the sport we know and love. Football will look different this year, but the games are still guaranteed to be exciting. This season's theme will be new faces and new locations as Jim Harbaugh and key players from his national title-winning Michigan team will be playing in the NFL, and the Big Ten will also welcome four West Coast programs, creating an East Coast to West Coast league of epic proportions. The B1G features 18 teams and a schedule unlike anything we've seen before. Week…
Fun fact: Allison Janney, who gave a fantastic performance as Juno's stepmother, was also great as a suburban Minnesota housewife in Drop Dead Gorgeous. (Paramount Pictures/PhotoFest/Minnesota Star Tribune)The Movie: Based on a thriller novel by Scott B. Smith, the film tells the story of an uneasy alliance that develops when three men (Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton and Brent Briscoe) steal more than $4 million from a plane that crashes near their Delano home, killing the pilot.Minnesota Features: Possibly the darkest film ever made out of Minnesota, it's a pessimistic portrayal of humanity, but it's also accurate in every detail:…
At 7 a.m. on a windy August weekday, we jump from a 10-foot-high boardwalk into Istanbul's iconic Bosphorus.This famous Turkish waterway stretches 20 miles from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, where it flows out into the Dardanelles and the jewel-like Aegean Sea beyond, dividing the city into its European and Asian identities. Every day, 130 ships pass through the strait, but its twisting terrain and currents meander only the most skilled pilots can navigate it without running aground. For swimmers, there's even less room for error.People can drown here.But the group of eight dedicated Istanbul locals I…
Despite major efforts to decouple supply chains, China's role in global exports is not expected to decline significantly and fewer Asian countries will benefit from the process than commonly thought, according to a leading ratings agency.”Overall, trends in exports and inward foreign direct investment (FDI) suggest only modest changes in the role of Asian countries, including China, in global supply chains,” S&P Global Ratings said in a report on Tuesday.U.S.-led efforts to diversify commodity distribution outside China have intensified in recent years as trade tensions in key Western markets have put other Asian suppliers such as India and Vietnam in…
Sign up for the Nightcrawler Newsletter Every week, Nightview Capital's Eric Markowitz delivers thought-provoking articles on technology, innovation and long-term investing. This is The Nightcrawler, a weekly roundup of thought-provoking articles on technology, innovation and long-term investing from Nightview Capital's Eric Markowitz. Sign up above to receive articles like this one directly to your inbox every Friday evening. X: Follow him at @EricMarkowitz.Investor Gavin Baker offered some smart analysis this week about what's at stake (and who's winning) in the race to make artificial intelligence a reality. Baker, managing partner and chief information officer at Atreides Management, began covering Nvidia…
Butterflies AI, a new social network where humans and AI can interact with each other, is launching a new Clone feature that lets users transform into AI characters. This latest addition builds on a feature that was publicly released in June, allowing users to create an AI persona called “Butterfly” that can automatically create posts on the social network that other AIs and humans can interact with. This new feature allows users to take a selfie and create themselves as a butterfly with an unfolding backstory. The idea behind the feature is to give users the ability to reimagine themselves…
Move over, Simone Biles. Nature’s gold medalist for backflips is a millimeter-tall arthropod that can barely straddle the tip of a pencil. Despite its size, the globular springtail (Dicyrtomina minuta) can vault itself 60 mm in the air, spinning at a rate as fast as 368 times per second, researchers report August 29 in Integrative Organismal Biology. Blink and you’ll miss this super-flipper, though, as its jump lasts just 161 milliseconds, on average. “Nothing on Earth does a backflip faster than a globular springtail,” says biologist Adrian Smith of North Carolina State University in Raleigh. “They’re extraordinary, but also ordinary.” The…
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers stunned the world late last year when she became the first woman to amass a $100 billion fortune through her stake in cosmetics giant L'Oreal. Her fortune has fallen to $89.9 billion since the beginning of the year, but she held the title of the world's richest woman for several months. Bettencourt Myers has now been dethroned by the heir to another business empire on the other side of the Atlantic. Alice Walton, daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, has seen her fortune soar to $95.7 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Walmart's shares have surged…