One quarter into the NBA Finals, Jalen Brunson is affirming the concerns people have about small guards being able to win it all.
The closer you get. The more physical it gets. So far, Brunson’s body is betraying him.
@awfulannouncing@RachelKryshak Hockeys such a sensory experience it doesn’t need announcers all the time. This is better without commentary. Thats why those announcers that let moments breathe are so great.
Only in Florida! A boat designed to look like an ice cream truck was spotted cruising through Sarasota Bay, much to the delight of others on the water. 🍦🤣
The most amazing thing about this photo in this day & age is that only two people are on their phones. Everyone is else is soaking it in with their eyeballs. Great job fans! Great job!
In 2014, Amazon launched the Fire Phone.
It flopped completely... $170 million written off, unsold inventory, one of the most public product failures in tech history.
During its development, the executive running the project showed Bezos a voice recognition feature buried in the software.
You could ask it for any song and it would start playing instantly.
Bezos stopped the meeting.
He wanted that technology pulled out of the phone entirely and built into something much bigger, a standalone device that sat in your home and responded to your voice from across the room.
He gave the team a fresh budget and told them to build it.
Four months after the Fire Phone launched and failed, Amazon released the Echo.
Bezos told the executive who ran both projects: "You can't, for one minute, feel bad about the Fire Phone. Promise me you won't lose a minute of sleep."
Hundreds of millions of Alexa devices are now in homes worldwide.
The Fire Phone didn't precede the success. It contained it.
"Big winners pay for so many experiments."
@NYRLouie Something I don’t think is considered enough is the imbalance and dimensionality of the roster he inherited. How many undersized puck moving D’s and speed wingers did the organization need? Some of the swaps he made failed but that roster he got wasn’t doing any better.
Daily Marijuana Use In US Is Now More Common Than Daily Alcohol Drinking, New Study Finds
More Americans now consume cannabis every day than drink alcohol on a daily basis, according to a newly published study that explores how marijuana use...
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@chrisward__11@eyyankees@MissYankee If we got him from Pittsburgh, instead of prospect hugging, and didn’t wait for him to be a FA, we probably win 1 the WS instead of Houston that year.