CLEVELAND — John Beilein was soaked from his shirt to his socks after an unexpected shower. Cleveland’s rookie coach had his pro basketball baptism. Beilein picked up his first NBA win and got doused with water in the locker room by Kevin Love, Tristan Thompson and the rest of the Cavaliers, who played the kind
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The advantage Washington earned with two wins in Houston is gone.
Patrick Corbin wasn’t very good, and the Nationals’ thin bullpen was worse. Astros catcher Robinson Chirinos homered for the second straight game and Alex Bregman salted it away with a seventh-inning grand slam off Fernando Rodney to make it 8-1, which would end up being the final score. The World...
The Astros won their second game in a row in Washington to even the World Series and guarantee that the Fall Classic will head back to Houston.
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Alex Bregman slugged a grand slam in the seventh inning to break Game 4 open for Houston, who evened the series with the Nationals after an 8-1 win.
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New York (AFP) Oct 25, 2019
The US state of Massachusetts on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing oil giant ExxonMobil of misleading investors on the impacts of climate change, following similar litigation in New York.
"Exxon has known for decades about the catastrophic climate impacts of burning fossil fuels - its chief product," Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said in a statement detailing the lawsuit filed
Beijing (AFP) Oct 25, 2019
China said Friday it would increase its trade with Brazil, as it seeks to balance the impact of a protracted trade war with the US.
President Xi Jinping and Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro reaffirmed ties on Friday during the Brazilian leader's first official visit to China.
"China is willing to import more high-quality goods and high value-added goods from Brazil that meet Chinese mar
Mumbai (AFP) Oct 25, 2019
Indian automaker Tata Motors reported Friday narrowed losses as growing demand in China for Jaguar Land Rover offset dire conditions in its home market, beating analyst predictions.
The company which owns Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) lost 2.17 billion rupees ($30.6 million) in the three months to September, down from a loss of 10.49 billion rupees in the year-earlier quarter.
Revenues dipped
Washington (AFP) Oct 26, 2019
Washington and Beijing are making "headway" on key issues in their ongoing trade dispute and discussions will continue, the US Trade Representative's office said following a phone call between senior officials.
President Donald Trump heralded a major win in his offensive against China two weeks ago, saying the economic powers were close to concluding a "substantial phase one deal."
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San Francisco (AFP) Oct 27, 2019
The streaming television war is set to enter a new phase as titans Apple and Disney take direct aim at market leader Netflix, vying for consumers abandoning their cable TV bundles for on-demand services.
The shift away from "linear" television is likely to escalate with powerful new entrants to streaming coming this year and in early 2020.
The new landscape has important implications fo
Washington (AFP) Oct 25, 2019
Facebook on Friday began rolling out its dedicated "news tab" with professionally produced content - the latest move by the social network to promote journalism and shed its reputation as a platform for misinformation.
The tab, being tested with some US users, will be separate from a user's normal feed and include articles from partner news organizations - making a clear distinction betwee
San Francisco (AFP) Oct 25, 2019
Major online platforms have a complicated relationship with news organizations: the two sides are both friends and enemies, depending on the viewpoint.
Big internet firms such as Google and Facebook can help news organizations by driving traffic to news sites, but many media groups complain they miss out on the bulk of digital ad revenues, making it harder to support journalism.
Some tec
Paris (AFP) Oct 25, 2019
Offshore wind could become Europe's largest single source of electricity and its use for power generation is set to increase 15-fold worldwide by 2040, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Friday.
In its annual assessment of the clean energy source, the IEA said that falling costs, supportive government policy and technological breakthroughs could see as much as $1 trillion (900 billi
Paris (AFP) Oct 23, 2019
Scientists claimed Wednesday to have achieved a near-mythical state of computing in which a new generation of machine vastly outperforms the world's fastest super-computer, known as "quantum supremacy".
A team of experts working on Google's Sycamore machine said their quantum system had executed a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken a classic computer 10,000 years to complete.
Urbana IL (SPX) Oct 28, 2019
In the race to manufacture autonomous vehicles (AVs), safety is crucial yet sometimes overlooked as exemplified by recent Researchers develop platform for scalable testing of autonomous vehicle safety-making accidents. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to improve the safety of autonomous technology through bo
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Oct 25, 2019
Land is critical to human livelihoods and wellbeing, while actions related to land use also play an important role in the climate system. IIASA researchers contributed to the development of a new roadmap outlining actions on deforestation, restoration, and carbon cuts that could lead to the land sector becoming carbon neutral by 2040 and a net carbon sink by 2050.
A study published in Natu
Stanford CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2019
One proposed method for reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere - and reducing the risk of climate change - is to capture carbon from the air or prevent it from getting there in the first place. However, research from Mark Z. Jacobson at Stanford University, published in Energy and Environmental Science, suggests that carbon capture technologies can cause more harm than good.
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 28, 2019
A new way of removing carbon dioxide from a stream of air could provide a significant tool in the battle against climate change. The new system can work on the gas at virtually any concentration level, even down to the roughly 400 parts per million currently found in the atmosphere.
Most methods of removing carbon dioxide from a stream of gas require higher concentrations, such as those fo
Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Oct 28, 2019
The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, is developing space-based solar power transmission capability using high-efficiency solar cells to collect the sun's energy, convert it to radio frequency, and beam it to earth.
"Energy is a strategic enabler and potential vulnerability for our nation and our Department of Defense" said U.S. Air Force Col. Eric Felt, director of AFRL's Space Vehi
Munich, Germany (SPX) Oct 28, 2019
At the E-Aircraft System (EAS) House, Airbus is pushing alternative "eco-friendly" propulsion technology to the limit. Here, the E-Fan X's electric motor will undergo rigorous testing in preparation for the demonstrator's first flight in 2021.
In Ottobrunn, southern Bavaria-about 13 kilometres from Munich, the beginnings of a revolution in aircraft technology are starting to take shape. In
Kent UK (SPX) Oct 28, 2019
Conventional wisdom tells us that large objects appear smaller as they get farther from us, but this fundamental law of classical physics is reversed when we observe the distant universe.
Astrophysicists at the University of Kent simulated the development of the biggest objects in the universe to help explain how galaxies and other cosmic bodies were formed. By looking at the distant unive