New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll has been the subject of negative attention so far this offseason. Multiple reports suggest his coaching style is suffocating, unhinged and intolerable.
After a losing season and with gloomy headlines being run, Daboll has largely avoided the public eye. He’s not been seen at any New York Rangers games, which was a regular occurrence in 2022, and he’s deliberately scheduled press conferences to avoid answering tough questions.
With all of the pessimism swirling, Giants great Eli Manning believes Daboll’s best course of action is to remain true to himself — both in public and on the sideline.
“With coach (Tom) Coughlin, he understood, made some changes, I think it was because he knew he had great leadership in a lot of guys who had been around for a number of years, been used to his system and he could let us take over some of that leadership responsibilities with the team,” Manning told the New York Post.
“Daboll, hey, you got to be yourself though, you got to coach the only way you know how to coach and I think he does a good job, and you can’t let one tough season impact the way you’re gonna be or the way you’re gonna coach.”
Manning also believes that Daboll’s fallout with members of his coaching staff is just a part of football that was made worse by losing.
“That’s just football,” Manning said. “Coming to New York, it’s a tough place and if you don’t do well they’re gonna want change and want to do everything.”
Ultimately, Manning has faith in the current regime led by general manager Joe Schoen and Daboll. He also has an unwavering faith in quarterback Daniel Jones, whom Schoen and Daboll inked to a four-year, $160 million contract a year ago.
“I know he’s determined, I know he wants to be in New York, and it’s not an easy place to play, but he has the mindset, he has the mentality. And I know he will do everything possible to get back and to get back to playing at a high level,” Manning said.
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In a bold move, the Miami Heat orchestrated a trade to acquire seasoned guard Terry Rozier from the Charlotte Hornets, sending Kyle Lowry and a protected first-round draft pick in return.
A key figure for the Hornets, the 29-year-old guard boasts impressive averages of 23.2 points, 6.6 assists, and 3.9 rebounds in 35.5 minutes per game.
As Rozier stepped onto Miami soil, he expressed his excitement, stating, “I don’t even know what to say.
United States Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has solidified his hold on his party’s electorate after his New Hampshire primary win against Nikki Haley, his only other major Republican rival left in the race. Here are the key takeaways from the contest:
Trump’s way forward
Trump won 54.6 percent of Tuesday’s vote in New Hampshire while Haley won 43.2 percent By late Tuesday in the northeastern US state, 20 of its 22 delegates to the Republican National Convention had been allotted based on the voting: 11 going to Trump and eight to Haley.
While opinion polls had tipped Trump as the winner, many analysts had suggested that Haley stood a chance against him in New Hampshire, a state with a high number of unaffiliated and independent voters and a conservative base that is more moderate than in many other states. Haley was even backed by the state’s popular governor, Chris Sununu.
However, the indicted former president won fairly easily, putting himself on a glide path to a third consecutive Republican presidential nomination. The biggest threat to his nomination, according to some analysts, comes from the possibility of a conviction and jail time as an outcome of one of the several trials Trump faces.
(Al Jazeera)
Warning signs for Trump
Trump’s victory wasn’t nearly as sweeping as his Iowa win last week, but it was never expected to be in a state with an electorate packed with moderate Republicans and independents.
Trump did not carry key groups of swing voters. Haley beat Trump among primary voters who identify as moderates as well as independents, 60 percent of whom voted for Haley, according to exit polls by Edison Research. She also beat Trump among those with college degrees 56 percent to 41 percent.
A town-by-town map shows Trump fell to Haley in New Hampshire in many of the same areas where he lost to Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
Perhaps the biggest warning sign of all was on abortion. The issue did not hurt Trump in the primary but could be central in a matchup against Biden.
Among voters who considered the issue their top priority, Haley won 64 percent to 30 percent even though she is arguably as conservative — if not more — on the issue than Trump. The former US president has bragged about his role in getting the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade, a 1973 high court ruling that had said the US Constitution protected a right to abortion, yet he has in recent weeks also spoken of the need to find a middle ground on abortion restrictions.
Haley too has backed the right of states to enforce abortion restrictions but has cautioned that it might be difficult, even for a Republican administration, to push through a nationwide ban.
Haley still in the race
Despite Haley’s defeat, she has strongly suggested she would stay in the race until at least the primary in her home state of South Carolina on February 24.
“New Hampshire is first in the nation. It’s not last in the nation. This race is far from over,” Haley told cheering supporters in Concord, the capital of New Hampshire.
Haley’s team pointed out that roughly five in 10 primary voters do not support Trump. Her advisers insist she will stay in the race to serve as a vehicle for those anti-Trump forces who are still hoping that the former president might be forced out of the race by his legal problems.
Joe Biden’s win
Despite not being on the Democratic primary ballot, President Joe Biden won among the Democrats, beating Minnesota congressman Dean Phillips.
More than 30,000 Democrats braved the cold to write in Biden’s name even though it meant nothing in the grand electoral scheme.
No delegates to the Democratic National Convention in August will be selected from the primary vote. This is due to a dispute between the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the New Hampshire governor after the DNC announced that New Hampshire would no longer be the first Democratic primary in the nation, leading Biden not to register for the ballot even though the state went ahead with the primary.
Reminiscent of the 2020 presidential race, Trump and Biden will likely face off again in 2024 for a rematch that many voters say they do not want.
Trump’s speech
After Haley announced she will remain in the race, Trump attacked her in his victory speech. He said that when the primary contest reaches her home state of South Carolina, “we’re going to win easily.”
Trump’s address was loaded with his trademark warnings about immigration as he continued to lie about winning the 2020 election.
At one point swearing on primetime TV, Trump said the US was a “failing country” and claimed that undocumented migrants were coming from psychiatric hospitals and prisons and “killing our country”.
“We are going to win this. We have no choice. If we don’t win, I think our country is finished.”
What’s next
Haley’s campaign manager, Betsy Ankney, noted that multiple states on the primary calendar will have setups similar to New Hampshire, where independents could influence the vote.
South Carolina is holding its Democratic and Republican primaries on different dates. It allows any voter who doesn’t first cast a ballot in the Democratic primary on February 3 to vote in the Republican contest on the 24th. Michigan, which follows, has an open primary, which means voters don’t have to vote in their own party’s primary but may “cross-over” and vote in the other party’s.
Then comes Super Tuesday on March 5 when 874 delegates are up for grabs a 15 states and one US territory. Ankney said roughly two-thirds of those are in states with open or semi-open primaries.
She named Virginia, Massachusetts, Texas and North Carolina among states where Haley could perform well with independent or moderate voters whom the campaign views as persuadable.
If Trump blows Haley out in her home state of South Carolina, where she served two terms as governor, she will likely face mounting pressure to quit the race. Until then, Haley has a month to campaign, raise money and position herself as the only anti-Trump Republican left.
Trump’s inability to rally support among independent voters, college-educated voters and abortion rights supporters — the base that Haley is targeting in the Republican primaries — shows his weakness among a segment of the population that Biden will hope to assemble into a coalition ahead of November.
In the meantime, Trump is facing 91 felony counts across four indictments. The federal trial over Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election is tentatively set to begin on March 4, the day before Super Tuesday.
Earlier this month, leaders from the international financial sector gathered under one roof to attend the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland. The topics of blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and Artificial Intelligence were most discussed during this event. Several financial experts claimed that the integration of AI with blockchain elements could be a game changer for the efficiency, transparency, and security of the existing global financial industry. Members of the tech community have already been experimenting with the integration of blockchain and Web3 with concepts like Decentralised Physical Infrastructure Networks or DePINs.
DePins are protocols based on blockchains which, in an open or decentralised manner – construct, operate, and maintain digital infrastructures in the real world. This ‘infrastructure’ could range from WiFi hotspots in wireless networks to solar-powered home batteries in energy networks.
The individuals and companies that contribute to DePins protocols, in return, receive crypto-based compensations and an ownership stake in the network and service they’re contributing to.
Citing an example of a DePin, a report by Techopedia said Helium, which is a decentralised open wireless network, allows anyone to earn crypto tokens for providing wireless connectivity.
DePins are increasingly being developed for the AI industry to efficiently cater to the industry needs like secure data storage, cloud storage, and GPU computing data among others, the report said. The blockchain element in DePins add characters like shared control, transparency, and durability to AI infrastructures that DePins are deployed to.
In terms of cloud computing, that require permission-based access to GPU power and other high-performance compute resources – DePins provide permissionless access that adds more layers of details to the outputs that AI delivers. The more the developers experiment with concepts like DePins – the more AI and blockchain technology will intertwine with each other.
“AI technology in a decentralised and open-source manner. Calls for the democratization of AI are increasing by the day. DePINs will reduce entry barriers, allow unrestricted access, and make AI solutions more affordable for everyone,” the report by Techopedia noted.
A Little More About DePins
It was in November 2021, when the concept of DePins, got its first tentative name from an open-source platform called IoTex. At the time, DePins were termed as MachineFi – to show that the concept will combine machines with DeFi leading to the ‘financialisation of machines’.
After jumping through other temporary names like EdgeFi, Token Incentivised Physical Networks (TIPIN), and Proof of Physical Work (PoPW) — Messari finalised the name for this sector as DePin. The provider of crypto market intelligence products had posted a public poll in November 2022 asking people to choose their favoured name for this concept.
Web3 physical infrastructure needs a name!
Often referred to as Proof of Physical Work (PoPw), Token Incentivized Physical Networks (TIPIN), EdgeFi, or Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN), crypto has yet to reach a consensus.
As per a report by CryptoPragmatist, some of the top DePin projects are – Render, which is a decentralised GPU rendering platform, Theta Network – that provides a blockchain infrastructure for the media industry, and the Ator Protocol – that is working to construct an international privacy routing system.
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Ever since Israel withdrew its soldiers and settlers from Gaza in 2005, critics have accused it of blockading and immiserating the territory — turning it, as they say, into an “open-air prison.”
The charge was always preposterous. Gaza shares a border with Egypt. Gazans were often treated in Israeli hospitals for cancer and other life-threatening conditions. Israel provided Gaza with much of its electricity and other critical goods even after Hamas came to power in 2007.
Now, as Israeli troops uncover more of Gaza’s vast underground city, the falsity of the accusation has become even more apparent.
According to a report this month in The New York Times, Israeli defense officials now estimate that Hamas’s tunnels measure between 350 and 450 miles in a territory that’s just 25 miles long. (By comparison, the London Underground is only 249 miles long.) Some of Gaza’s tunnels are wide enough for cars; some are more than 150 feet deep; some serve as munitions depots; others are comfortably kitted out as command bunkers.
Israeli officials also estimate that there are 5,700 separate entrances to the tunnels — many of them with access from civilian houses and some directly beneath Gaza City’s main hospital, which U.S. intelligence agencies say was also used as a Hamas command center. Within that maze, scores of Israeli hostages, including a year-old infant, are being held without fresh air, sunlight, adequate medicine or food, or visits from the Red Cross.
All this should radically reconfigure the world’s understanding of what Hamas has done in, and to, Gaza. It has turned the territory into a gigantic military fortress purpose-built to attack Israel, endure Israeli retaliation and interpose civilian lives and infrastructure as part of its means of defense. Imagine any other government doing something similar to its people — say, putting the NORAD command center directly below Times Square — for a sense of the outrage Hamas is perpetrating against its own people.
That’s not the only outrage. How much did it cost to build these tunnels? How much concrete, steel and electricity did it divert from civilian needs? How many millions of hours of labor were given to the effort? What was the cost of building up its stockpile of thousands of rockets, which continue to be fired at Israel? How many ordinary Gazans had to be conscripted into the effort of miserably shoveling dirt deep underground — and how many perished in the effort?
We may never know for sure. But in 2014, around the time Israel first started to get a sense of the scale of Hamas’s tunnel network, The Wall Street Journal, citing Israeli military officials, reported that the cost of building 32 tunnels (a small fraction of what has since been uncovered) came to around $90 million.
“Some tunnel-building materials also came from aid earmarked for development projects by international aid agencies in Gaza or were purchased on the open market when Israel allowed some imports into Gaza starting in 2010,” The Journal added.
In other words, Hamas stole from foreign donors, subtracted what probably amounted to billions of dollars over several years from Gaza’s gross domestic product, and diverted labor from productive to destructive ends, all to feed its war machine. Western progressives are usually against this sort of thing, at least when it comes to the guns-to-butter ratio in their own democracies. Why are they virtually silent about it now?
The tunnels also help explain the level of destruction that Israel has wreaked on Gaza since the war began. If Hamas hides the bulk of its fighters and munitions in the tunnels, Israel somehow has to find, search and destroy those tunnels. If Hamas builds the entrances to those tunnels inside private homes, schools or hospitals, those places all become military targets.
And if there are nearly 6,000 such entrances, the destruction is all but guaranteed to be epochal — just as it was in Mosul when the United States assisted Iraq in destroying ISIS (which was much less deeply entrenched there than Hamas is in Gaza) over nine months in 2016 and 2017. I don’t recall “Cease-Fire Now” demonstrations on college campuses back then.
It’s possible that Israel could fight with more discrimination to spare Palestinian lives while still destroying Hamas’s ability to make war. If so, it behooves Israel’s constant critics to explain precisely how, and to do so in a way that doesn’t let Hamas off the hook. Otherwise, the tragic reality of this war is that it is going to be catastrophic for Gaza — not because Israel wills it, but because Hamas spent years of cynical efforts to make it so.
Hamas could have averted this tragedy if it had turned Gaza into an enclave for peace rather than terror. It could have averted it if it had not started four previous rounds of war against Israel. It could have averted it if it had honored the cease-fire that held on Oct. 6. It could have lessened the blow against Gazans by fighting in the open, not behind civilians. It could have eased it by releasing all of its hostages. It could end it now by surrendering its leaders and sending its fighters into exile.
Asus Zenfone 10, launched in June 2023, was earlier rumoured to be the last smartphone of the series. However, the company soon refuted those claims and confirmed that its successor would be launched in 2024. Now, reportedly, a listing for the Asus Zenfone 11 has been spotted on the Google Play Console. It is believed that the smartphone might be equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset.
According to a report by 91mobiles, the Google Play Console listing highlights some of the hardware specifications of the Asus Zenfone 11. While it does not mention the name of the chipset, it highlights an octa-core Qualcomm chipset paired with the Adreno 830 GPU, which is believed to be the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4.
Considering the Zenfone 10 was powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, it was expected that its successor would be equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, however, it is possible that the company may have decided to skip over the current flagship chipset by Qualcomm.
Asus Zenfone 11 specifications (leaked)
As per a screenshot shared by the website, the listing mentions the upcoming phone with the Asus Zenfone 11 moniker. This suggests that the Zenfone series is likely to continue. Apart from this, it could also get 16GB RAM, and run on Android 14, as per the report. A front-facing image of the handset was also seen in the listing, and it appears to show a display with a hole-punch cutout for the front camera placed centrally at the top. The power button and the volume keys are seen on the right side of the phone.
The launch timeline for the Asus Zenfone 11 is not known at the moment. Its predecessor was launched in June last year, however, given that Qualcomm has not yet launched the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset, the smartphone’s launch might be delayed to the end of 2024.
Last year’s Asus Zenfone 10 featured a 5.9-inch Super AMOLED display with up to 144Hz refresh rate (only for supported games) and 1100 of peak brightness. The smartphone has a dual rear camera setup with a 50-megapixel primary sensor and a 13-megapixel ultrawide lens. The handset is backed by 4,300mAh battery with 30W wired, 15W wireless, and 5W reverse charging.
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Manchester United are the only club in England who have entered formal talks for Joshua Zirkzee.
It has recently been reported that the Mancunian side were in “pole position” for the Dutch striker, despite heavy interest from the likes of Arsenal, AC Milan and former side, Bayern Munich.
This information is corroborated by Football Talk who reported that, “Manchester United are the only Premier League club to begin formal talks to sign Bologna striker Joshua Zirkzee”.
Speaking to the website, journalist Ben Jacobs claimed “Manchester United are the only Premier League club to date to begin any formative talks. Ajax, who considered Zirkzee last summer, also retain an interest but will struggle to meet the asking price”.
The sports reporter went on to comment that the player’s breakthrough season has led those at United to advance their interest in the tall striker.
There was “never full consensus within the club to move for Zirkzee last year but his form now has led to some firmer support within the club”.
The 22 year old has been in fine form this year, scoring seven and assisting twice in 19 Serie A games for Bologna. (All statistics according to transfermarkt.com)
Football Talk claim that the player may have room for development in his finishing skills but that fellow Dutchman, Erik ten Hag will believe he can develop this aspect of the player’s skillset.
It is clear that the Red Devils see something in the player, who has been likened to Zlatan Ibrahimovic in playing style.
Reports from Germany claimed that while a deal in the winter window was out of the question, the player has a release clause of €40m in the summer.
Recent reports suggest that United may be prepared to go to €50m to blow their competition out of the water, although reports from Italy this morning suggest that even this figure may be fantasy.
La Gazzetta Dello Sport claim that “the 22-year-old has a release clause of 40 million euros but that option is only available to his former club, Bayern Munich. For others, the price is double”.
Bologna want to hold on and have slapped a mammoth price tag of €80m to fend off interested clubs. Gazzetta cite the fee United paid for Rasmus Hojlund from Atalanta as “a reference” for the figure.
It remains to be seen whether United or Arsenal will go that high in the summer or whether the price will drop once Bologna feel ready to sell.
Palworld’s explosive launch shows no sign of slowing down, with the ‘Pokémon with guns’ crafting and survival game selling another million copies in a day.
According to developer Pocketpair, Palworld has now sold over seven million copies in just five days.
“Thank you very much!!” a tweet from the developer read. “We continue to be hard at work addressing the issues and bugs some users are experiencing.
“Thanks for your support!”
The Game Awards boss Geoff Keighley tweeted to say he had confirmed with Pocketpair that the seven million sold figure is for Steam sales only, and so does not include Xbox and Windows PC sales. It’s worth noting Palworld launched day-and-date on Game Pass, too.
“That translates into approximately $189 million USD in Steam sales in 5 days,” Keighley added.
It’s an incredible result for Pocketpair, whose game has dominated the video game community since going on sale on January 19.
Palworld is second only to PUBG, whose remarkable Steam concurrents peak of 3,257,248 was set during the game’s glory days amid the battle royale boom, and is unlikely to be topped.
IGN’s early access review of Palworld on Steam returned an 8/10. We said: “Palworld may crib quite a bit from Pokémon’s homework, but deep survival mechanics and a hilarious attitude make it hard to put down – even in Early Access.”
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
A Russian military transport plane has crashed in the Belgorod region, close to the border with Ukraine, according to Russian state media citing the defence ministry.
The defence ministry confirmed to the RIA news agency that a Ilyushin Il-76 had come down in the region, which has been regularly targeted in recent weeks by Ukrainian missile and drone attacks.
Video posted on the Telegram messenger app by Baza, a channel linked to Russian security services, showed a large aircraft falling towards the ground and exploding in a vast fireball.
Regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on social media that he had altered his schedule due to an “incident” and that investigators and emergency workers had already arrived at a site in the Korochansky district.
The Kremlin told reporters that it was investigating the reports.
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