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The explanation for why Anthony Davis was so much more of a force in the third quarter than he had been in the first half was something Lakers coach Darvin Ham was more than willing to share.“His dumb-ass coach just started calling his plays more, calling his number more,” Ham said.That drew laughter from the coach and the media.The ball finding Davis more in the third quarter led him taking 10 shots, making six and scoring 14 points in 11 minutes. In 17:35 of the first half, Davis took just six shots, made three and…

New tech for multiple EV segments. In the production Al-Air powered car, the battery pack will be under the floor.In this disruptive and innovative age, new offerings get picked up quite swiftly if the customer sees value in them. And that’s what at least two battery technology players will bet on, with their aluminium-air technology options. Phinergy, an Israel cleantech firm, and Bengaluru-based nanotechnology start-up Log9 Materials are looking at commercialising…

In a world where the word his-tory defines the past, author Aanchal Malhotra has unearthed tales of the Partition with her words. As the first Indian woman to record oral history and material memory of the Partition, this 33-year-old writer and co-founder of the Museum of Material Memory — a crowd-sourced digital repository tracing family histories and social ethnography through heirlooms, collectibles and antiques from the Indian subcontinent — knows hows to stay sensitive and true to human emotions through her words.…

Apple Inc. won its biggest quarterly market share in China, outrunning Covid disruptions and a global economic slowdown. Apple Inc. won its biggest quarterly market share in China, outrunning Covid disruptions and a global economic slowdown. The Cupertino, California company accounted for nearly 24% of China's smartphone sales in the last three months of 2022, according to Counterpoint Research data. It topped all manufacturers in the quarter, becoming the second-biggest seller in the country on an annualized basis…

Consumer analytics firm GfK and Livres Hebdo released their report on the top fifty bestselling books for 2022 in France and comics took a hefty chunk of that: 18 comics titles sat in the top 50 bestseller list, including the year’s highest selling title, Christophe Blain and Jean-Marc Jancovici‘s World Without End. Based on the report, which doesn’t include a full list of sales numbers, the general fiction prose book category remained dominant, represented by 27 titles (54%) but comics took a huge chunk of the…

Deals totaled almost $154B It was a funny year in enterprise tech M&A, one in which the majority of activity came from private equity firms: As tech stock values plunged throughout the year, these companies went bargain hunting. They saw companies with lots of upside being vastly undervalued in the brutal market conditions of 2022. But curiously, the year began with Microsoft announcing it was acquiring Activision Blizzard for a startling $69 billion in January, followed in…

This week, many of us saw our social media feeds taken over by colorful, surreal pictures of people we follow, except they don’t quite look like themselves. The images were generated by Lensa AI, and it’s the latest in what feels like a now-annual trend to use a new app to create mockups of your face in various scenarios. Alongside Lensa, some folks also saw blocks of text from another AI generator, ChatGPT. So on this episode of the podcast, Devindra and Cherlynn chat the appeal, implications and possible future of these…

Wordle topped Google's Year in Search for 2022, beating even the biggest events in the world over the past few months. Searches for the five-letter word game peaked shortly after it was acquired by The New York Times in February, perhaps when people had to look for its new address or when those who haven't heard of it before wanted to see what the fuss was about. The second most searched term for 2022 is "India vs. England," which pertains to the countries' faceoff at the Cricket World Cup. Ukraine takes the third spot in…

After the success of the first-ever crypto, many developers started to cash in on the opportunity. They created their networks with solutions to help the world and the blockchain. Runfy Token (RUNF) is a fitness-related token and will surely get a lot of fame. Why? This article has done the due diligence of research to help answer this question. On the other hand, Bitcoin (BTC) and Ripple (XRP) are already on top of the list that most traders have a chunk of. More on these ahead, so stay tuned. Bitcoin (BTC)…

Source: Christine Romero-Chan / iMore Apple topped the smartphone market once again for the month of April. According to new data from Counterpoint Research, iPhone models made up half of the top ten smartphones sold in the month, followed by Samsung and Xiaomi. The report noted that Apple's smartphone models in the top ten made up 89% of its sales that month, an insane notion considering Samsung's four models only made up 22% of its sales. One of the key things revealed in the report was that the number of top sellers…