Yearly Archives: 2021

Jacob deGrom injury update: Forearm tightness delays Mets ace’s return to mound

(Getty Images) https://images.daznservices.com/di/library/sporting_news/3d/31/jacob-degrom-getty-ftr-032819jpg_m1q3fgv97nd410ommh7od6fgv.jpg?t=-22145575&w=500&quality=80 Jacob deGrom is dealing with another injury issue. This time, the Mets ace is experiencing tightness in his right forearm. Manager Luis Rojas told reporters Saturday that deGrom was scratched from his scheduled start Monday in Cincinnati against the Reds after he felt the tightness during a bullpen session Friday. On Sunday,…

NHL Expansion Draft frenzy: Ryan Ellis, Jared McCann, Barclay Goodrow among players swapped before trade freeze

The NHL’s trade freeze went into effect at 3 p.m. ET Saturday. From 10 a.m. ET Sunday through 1 p.m. ET Thursday, July 22, the only team allowed to do anything is the league’s newest franchise, the Kraken. Seattle can negotiate with pending unrestricted free agents and restricted free agents who will be left exposed in…

NHL Expansion Draft 2021: Full list of players protected by all 30 teams

(Getty Images) https://images.daznservices.com/di/library/sporting_news/a9/d6/nhl-logo-031320-getty-ftrjpeg_ut1zgchlw4pe1hxky4czmf43w.jpg?t=-701714016&w=500&quality=80 It’s almost time for Christmas in July for Seattle Kraken GM Ron Francis. He got the list of protected players on Sunday morning — and, as a result, the guys he can take —so, it’s like the day the toy catalog comes out and he gets to circle all the presents he wants on the big day.…

When do the Olympics start? Opening ceremony date, time, schedule for 2021 Tokyo Games

Written By Jacob Camenker Share (Getty Images) https://images.daznservices.com/di/library/sporting_news/aa/32/olympics-032220-getty-ftr_p7ld7nf33msy1oxnm66jflfzi.jpg?t=211811505&w=500&quality=80 The 2021 Tokyo Olympics are nearly here. After a year-long postponement due to the COVID-10 pandemic, the best athletes in the world are gathering in Japan to participate in 28 different sports in the hopes of earning a gold medal. After such a long wait, athletes and…

Young sepoy martyred in South Waziristan operation

A soldier of the Pakistan Army is seen in this AFP file photo.A young sepoy was martyred during an intelligence-based operation by security forces in the Senai Narai area of South Waziristan district, the Inter-Services Public Relations said on Sunday.According to a statement by the ISPR, the operation was conducted “on reported presence of terrorists”.”During…

WATCH: Bear attacks female trainer during circus performance in Russia

A brown bear attacked its female trainer during a circus performance in Russia, much to the horror of the audience sitting metres away, an incident captured on video and widely shared across international media outlets on Sunday.According to a report by DailyMail, the footage was recorded by a spectator and shows the bear clawing at…

Watch: WhatsApp secures chat, media history with encrypted cloud backups

WhatsApp is now working to secure chat log history via end-to-end encryption.According to Slash Gear, with the latest beta update, the messaging app is offering encrypted cloud backup.Cloud backup is the history of a user’s WhatsApp chat and media stored on cloud services like Google Drive. As of now, backlogs are not secured, which means…

3D-printed bridge in red light district opened by Dutch Queen with robot arm

WTF?! It’s a turn of events that seems like it was spat out by a neural network trained on Elon Musk tweets and Black Mirror episodes, but on Thursday, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands ceremonially opened a 12m (40ft) long steel bridge in Amsterdam’s red light district, the first in the world to be 3D…

Disable Windows print spooler or you could be hacked, says Microsoft

Facepalm: Microsoft is once again advising its customers to disable Windows print spooler, after a new vulnerability that allows hackers to execute malicious code on machines has emerged. While a patch fixing the flaw will be released in due course, the most effective workaround currently on the table is to stop and disable the print…

Some strange Intel Core 12900K, 12700K, and 12600K specs have appeared online

Rumor mill: Intel recently sent samples of Alder Lake (12th-gen Core) processors to their partners, and with that some leaks have started on their specifications. At the moment, nothing but the core count of the 12900K has been verified by a database leak, though most of the information has been corroborated by multiple sources. Some…