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The Sky Stadium in Wellington will host the first T20 international between the two sides, which will be played on Friday, November 18. Under the leadership of Hardik Pandya, the Indian team will seek to collect themselves and try out a few individuals in the absence of senior players, including Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and KL Rahul. The Men in Blue will take the field with a brand new opening pair after India’s regular openers were rested despite failing to perform at the T20 World Cup in Australia....

Obama made an appearance Thursday at a virtual event for the COVID-19 Local Response Initiative, a program from former presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg’s philanthropic organization. Obama offered advice on responding to the pandemic to a large number of local leaders from cities around the world. “To be able to share information and best practices makes all the difference,” Obama said. “Speak the truth. Speak it clearly. Speak it with compassion....

2021 is arguably the joint most dominant Slam season of Novak Djokovic’s career, alongside 2015 (where he also won three Majors and finished runner-up at the fourth). It is difficult to pick the three best performances when you have had such a stellar Slam season as Djokovic has. While there is a clear winner for the first position, the other two spots are debatable. On that note, here is our list of Novak Djokovic’s three best performances at the Slams in 2021:...

Similar to his second-round match against Laslo Djere, Djokovic trailed by a set and a break against Kecmanovic. But he yet again raised his level when he needed to and broke back immediately to level the score. He didn’t face a single break point after that, winning 10 of the last 14 games to complete a comeback win. With his clay season gathering some momentum, Djokovic could be a formidable prospect in the tournaments to come....

The 33-year-old and his wife Jelena returned tested positive after returning from the Adria Tour, while his children tested negative. The 17-time grand slam singles champion is asymptomatic and will now isolate for 14 days. “The moment we arrived in Belgrade we went to be tested,” Djokovic said in a statement. “My result is positive, just as Jelena’s, while the results of our children are negative. “Everything we did in the past month, we did with a pure heart and sincere intentions....

There was a time when it would have shocked me that such words would even need to be uttered. After all, religious liberty is foundational to a free society. It is an inalienable right from God, which means it doesn’t come from the government. America’s founders recognized the fundamental importance of religious freedom and enshrined its protection in the First Amendment. Since this nation’s founding, the free exercise of faith has formed the bedrock of our country....

The industry has chanted this mantra for years with little to show for it. But just as China appeared to be opening up a little to American popular culture, the Walt Disney Co. last week got a sharp reminder of what a Long March still lies ahead when Chinese officials threatened Disney with unspecified business reprisals if it went forward with an upcoming film on the Dalai Lama. The Magic Kingdom had quietly known for months it was running afoul of the Middle Kingdom, and last month, news reports began to appear....

A video shared by the Belarusian media outlet Nexta on Twitter on Saturday shows dozens of cars lined up on a road reportedly located near the plant. The cars can be seen at a standstill, with many people waiting and standing outside their vehicles. “People are leaving #Energodar and other nearby towns en masse amid constant shelling of the area,” Nexta wrote on Twitter. Other Twitter users, including Maria Avdeeva, the research director at the European Expert Association in Ukraine, also shared the footage on Saturday....

The team signed 6-8 forward Wilson Chandler, 28, to a multiyear contract extension on Saturday, general manager and executive vice president of basketball operations Tim Connelly announced. MORE: Who’s done the best and worst in free agency? | Becky Hammond makes history with Spurs Terms of the deal were not released, only that his deal had been restructured, but Yahoo! Sports reported that the new deal is for $42 million over four years....

The report on Iran’s nuclear program released by the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency on Thursday afternoon offers the most recent case in point. If it were a report card, it would give three grades, and two of them would be F’s. As for what used to be called comportment? Most unsatisfactory. Here’s the breakdown and background: Nuclear History 101: Iran gets a passing grade, but barely. In late August, IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei agreed with Ali Larijani, who was then Iran’s top negotiator, on a “work plan” to try to cool off the increasingly tense confrontation between Tehran and the international community....

The 70-year-old nun planned to retire to her hometown of Vesoul, France in October 2018. After spending the whole of her adult life in a convent, the sister had applied for an apartment with the Municipal Center for Social Action of Vesoul (CCAS). The complex that she’d applied to would provide her with an apartment and a shared dining space. The letter she received reflected France’s strict secular policies. “Within our homes, our residents may have preferences and beliefs and these should be respected… All ostentatious religious symbols cannot be allowed in order to guarantee everyone’s tranquility,” it said....

Kelly Morris, of North Carolina, posted videos to her 32,000 followers under the username “BubbleGumKelz” and made content about her job. However, viewers expressed concern about Morris appearing to joke about mistreating her patients. Now-deleted videos, which are still available through stitches and duets on TikTok, show Morris joking about giving her patients too many pills, lying about vital signs, or acting as though she doesn’t care when a patient dies....

And when you’re living with a roommate like mine, the pressure is always on you on bringing that jar home. You open the door, he sees the missing jar and an inevitable frown adorns his face and now you know he has dirt on you for when you snore in the night and wake him up. Think of Arsenal’s midfielders as Nutella jars. After we lost Cesc Fabregas, Samir ‘I-love-Wenger-so-much-I-stab-him-while-he’s-asleep’ Nasri and Alex Song, we struggled to fill those positions with players we had but made a few signings here and then as paper over the cracks....

BUY ‘EM Bryce Harper , Ian Desmond and Adam LaRoche have combined to hit eight homers off Dillon Gee. Carlos Gomez (1.250 OPS), Jean Segura (1.145) and Rickie Weeks (.950) have all crushed against Mat Latos. Marcell Ozuna has hit three homers off of lefty Cole Hamels. Joe Mauer is 8-for-18 (.444) with a pair of homers against Jose Quintana. Carlos Santana is 6-for-14 (.400) with four doubles against David Price....

The entry point for content creators is refreshingly low. Ansel can be run on most Nvidia GeForce 600 series cards or newer, though the most advanced features may be restricted to the Nvidia GeForce 30-series or newer. In order to use it, a user must install Nvidia GeForce Experience, start-up one of the supported games, navigate to whatever area the player wants to take pictures in, and press ALT+F2 to pause the game and open the menu, which will appear on the left-hand side of the screen....

What can potential buyers expect? How about the fastest GPU that Nvidia has ever launched. The GTX 1080, according to Nvidia, offers two times the performance of the Titan X. It runs at a staggering 2.1 GHz on the back of 7.2 billion transistors and 2560 CUDA cores. Nvidia says that all leads to as much as 9 TFlops of rendering performance. The price is fitting then at $599, or a $699 price tag on what’s likely a better binned overclocking version of the card....

Here’s everything you need to know about Nvidia’s next-gen graphics card range, from release date and pricing to the latest details on the Ada Lovelace architecture and the new graphics cards themselves. When was the Nvidia RTX 40 Series released? Nvidia’s top-end RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 are now available following release in late 2022, but the RTX 4070 Ti isn’t available just yet – though it is scheduled for release on 5 January 2022 so you don’t have long to wait either!...

Nvidia recently demonstrated the photo method called Instant NeRF, which uses computing power to approximate how light behaves in the real world. It could transform your old photos into a video game scene, or it can be used to train robots and self-driving cars to understand the size and shape of real-world objects. “3D imaging brings a new world of transformation,” Oren Debbi, the CEO of Visionary.ai, a computer vision company that runs its 3D algorithms on the Nvidia platform, told Lifewire in an email interview....

In preparation for Nvidia’s GeForce event coming next week, the company has unveiled a video that shows the new design for its next-gen graphics card. Recent leaks from the company have also hinted that the official announcement for this graphics card will happen on September 1st of this year. RELATED: Images Leak of Nvidia’s Huge GeForce RTX 3090 Near the end of the video, Nvidia quickly highlights the design for the RTX 3090....

The Titan X has long been viewed as Nvidia’s top of the line card, so perhaps it’s not surprising to hear that it won’t be staying outclassed by the GTX 1080 for long. Last week, Nvidia continued its fast-paced GPU release schedule with the announcement of a new Titan X that will cost $1200. [HTML1] The refreshed Titan X is being billed as the company’s most powerful graphics card yet and is “the biggest GPU ever built” with 12 billion transistors in total....