It seems the WWE shortened this match. The segment consisted of a guitar attack backstage from Elias to Reigns, which was followed by an anti-Hartford number from the Drifter in the ring.
As Elias walked the ramp after his song, Reigns showed up, battered his opponent back to the ring and won a squash match. I have no idea what WWE is doing with Elias, but this felt like a space-filler.
Shane-O-Mac never ceases to amaze me. He again put on an excellent match that featured another significant bump. The Miz snatched McMahon from the cage which forced a hard fall. McMahon didn't miss a beat and went on to finish the match with a victory despite taking a beating most of the bout.
The Miz prevented McMahon from escaping from the cage on several occasions. However, in the match's final moment, McMahon escaped when he slid out of his shirt while dangling from the top of the cage. It was a pretty unique ending to a cage match. Couple that with a reliable ring performance from both parties, and this match worked.
Rey Mysterio def. (c) Samoa Joe to Win United States Championship
Joe continues to be booked to come out on the short end of the stick of championship decisions. This one was even more difficult to grasp because it was a "controversial" quick roll-up-style finish. Mysterio didn't win by a roll-up, but he did reverse a powerbomb into a pin. Joe's shoulders were clearly off the mat, so expect to hear something about that controversy this week.
Brock Lesnar surprisingly made his presence felt on Sunday in Hartford in the men's Money in the Bank 2019 main event. His appearance capped off a strong main event on an otherwise so-so pay-per-view.
Here is a breakdown of each segment.
Jonathan Coachman, David Otunga, Sam Roberts, and Charly Caruso had the unenviable task of hyping up the 2019 Money in the Bank card during the preshow. Armed with uninspired and underdeveloped stories, the four pros did their best, but the preshow had only a few memorable moments. The best was the argument between Zelina Vega and Sonya Deville. It seemed authentic, and Deville showed off better mic skills than I've seen from her previously.
Hopefully, something interesting comes from their exchange. Vega is a magnetic star who could take the Latina presence in WWE to the next level. She needs the opportunity to be more than Andrade's manager.
The Usos def. Smackdown Tag-Team Champions - Daniel Bryan and Rowan
The preshow only featured one match, but it was a good one. Although it still pains me to see Daniel Bryan on the preshow, he was predictably sharp, and he had good dance partners. In any case, The Usos got the win after a Double Splash. The titles weren't on the line, but on the strength of the WWE's wildcard rule, The Usos came from Raw to challenge the champions of Smackdown. Expect to see a future tag-team title match between the two teams.
The show started weakly, but in culminating with the intense tag-team action, the preshow was at least passable.
Robert F. Smith is the richest black man in America, who until just a few years ago was practically unknown.CreditCreditChester Higgins Jr./The New York Times
Robert F. Smith was giving the commencement address to the graduating class of Morehouse College when he made a surprise announcement: He would bepaying off the student loansof the roughly 400 graduates.
It was just the latest substantial gesture from Mr. Smith, therichest black man in America, who until just a few years ago was practically unknown.
Here’s what you need to know about him:■ Mr. Smith has amassed a fortune thatForbes estimatesto be worth $5 billion by founding Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm that focuses on buying and selling software firms.
Vista has about $46 billion in assets under management, according to Forbes. The company is privately held and does not publicly report its results, but it is believed to be one of the best-performing firms in the country, with annualized returns of more than 20 percent since its founding.
Google has been quietly keeping track of nearly every single online purchase you’ve ever made, thanks to purchase receipts sent to your personal Gmail account, according to a new report today from CNBC. Even stranger: this information is made available to you via a private web tool that’s been active for an indeterminate amount of time. You can go view it here.
Because I made my Gmail account nearly a decade ago, my purchase history stretches back as far as 2010, including purchases I made while I was a college student and those through Apple’s App Store, which has been linked to my Gmail account since its inception. It also includes some real-world transactions made using my credit card, thanks to point-of-sale software providers like Square and others that link your credit card number and name to an associated email account to deliver receipts, offer rewards programs, and, in some cases, collect valuable purchase data.
“To help you easily view and keep track of your purchases, bookings and subscriptions in one place, we’ve created a private destination that can only be seen by you,” Google told The Verge in a statement. “You can delete this information at any time. We don’t use any information from your Gmail messages to serve you ads, and that includes the email receipts and confirmations shown on the Purchase page.” Google did not say how long this tool has been active.
According to CNBC, the company says it does not use this information for personalized ad tracking; Google said back in 2017 that it would stop using data collected from Gmail messages to personalize ads. You can also delete the information from the Purchases webpage, but you must do so individually for each recorded transaction.
Google, like Facebook, knows an immense amount of information about you, your personal habits, and, yes, what you buy on the internet. And like the social network it dominates the online advertising industry alongside, Google gets this information mostly through background data collection using methods and tools its users may not be fully aware of, like Gmail purchase receipts. This is true of web tools like Gmail and smart assistants, which are increasingly coming under scrutiny for the ways the data that software collects is observed by human employees during the artificial intelligence training process.
This particular tool is not outright nefarious in an obvious way, but it does highlight Google’s struggle to transparently communicate its privacy policies and ad-tracking methods as Silicon Valley at large grapples with a more sensitive atmosphere around data privacy and security. The idea that this tool, and the technology to collect and present the data it provides, has existed quietly without a majority of Gmail users aware it exists echoes similar issues Google has faced over the last few years.
google claims this difficult to find, hard to delete itemization of my entire purchasing history is to "help me keep track of all my shopping habits in one place"
Those include a controversy over third-party app developers pulling data from the contents of Gmail messages, an auto-login feature for Chrome that would sync web browsing with your Gmail account, and reports that Google supplemented its ad-targeting tools with Mastercard purchase history data to provide advertisers a link between online ad impressions and real-world purchases. All of these situations contribute to a common theme: Google offers users a compromise that involves trading products and web services in exchange for data that the company will collect through a variety of means you may not know about and have little to no control over. That data is then used to help Google target ads, a division of its business that’s largely responsible for it becoming one of the most valuable corporations on Earth.
The existence of such purchase history tool that knows a scary amount of your offline and online behavior stretching back years, even if it is private, does not square nicely with Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s op-ed in The New York Times last week. Timed to the company’s I/O developer conference, Pichai wrote that “privacy cannot be a luxury good,” a subtle swipe at Apple and a pledge to remake Google’s image as one concerned with broad, inclusionary access to privacy tools that give you more control and provides more transparency.
Someone asked me today why Google gets less privacy flak than Facebook despite collecting more (+ more intimate) data.
My theory is that Google takes ppl's data in exchange for useful things (maps! docs! mail!) while FB exchanges data for things that make them sad and angry.
Google is improving on this front, and it’s making an effort to make sure users are aware of what is being collected, how it’s collected, and what ways it can be deleted. As part of its I/O announcements, Google announced a new privacy policy for its smart home devices, given they contain microphones and cameras and are designed to be plugged in inside your home.
Yet Google will only continue to face scrutiny for tools that, while benign in nature, reveal the true extent of the company’s depth of knowledge that it has stored on its users. Fixing its image will require more than a Pichai op-ed or the pledges of executive onstage at a developer conference. In an interview with CNET ahead of I/O last week, Google ad chief Prabhakar Raghavan resisted the notion that the company should turn its more significant privacy tools on by default, saying the approach would be “ham-handed.”
With Game of Thrones over, it’s time to build the hype for HBO’s next huge series
The buildup to the hotly anticipated Game of Thrones finale featured a suitably high-profile trailer from HBO: Set to air in 2020, the third season of Westworld looks like a real departure from the original two, leaving the confines of the robot-populated fantasy playground for a more conventional futuristic setting. Which is, of course, still richly populated with robots.
Featuring Pink Floyd’s “Brain Damage” as a soundtrack and a distressed Aaron Paul searching for authenticity in a synthetic world, this trailer is full of foreboding and unease, but it wouldn’t be Westworld without those things.
Real Kashmir Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, managed by ex Rangersand Aberdeen player David Robertson. Real Kashmir is the first team from Kashmir to compete in I-League[2], the first division of football in India.[3][4] The club participated in their first national competition in September 2016 when they played in the 2016 Durand Cup.[5] In July 2017 Real Kashmir FC became the first club from J&K to play on foreign soil by playing 4 matches in Scotland. Real Kashmir FC is participating in all four categories of the AIFF I-League.
Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared completely unaffected after a man surprised a gym full of people with a flying, two-footed drop kick to the former California governor’s back during a public appearance Saturday near Johannesburg.
Schwarzenegger, 71, was recording a Snapchat video with fans as part of his annual Arnold Classic Africa event when the unidentified assailant ran toward him and threw himself feet-first at the Terminator. Video shows Schwarzenegger jolt forward but stay on his feet as the man hits him and falls to the ground, where he was quickly subdued by a security guard.
“I only realized I was kicked when I saw the video like all of you," Schwarzenegger tweeted shortly after the attack. "I’m just glad the idiot didn’t interrupt my Snapchat.”
“By the way ... block or charge?” he wrote in another tweet, an amusing homage to former NBA player Rex Chapman’s Twitter-video meme.
We have 90 sports here in South Africa at the @ArnoldSports, and 24,000 athletes of all ages and abilities inspiring all of us to get off the couch. Let’s put this spotlight on them.
The annual Arnold Classic Africa event is bringing together 24,000 athletes for three days of competition in the affluent Johannesburg suburb of Sandton. In another tweet after the attack, Schwarzenegger urged his followers to ignore his assailant and instead “put this spotlight” on the athletes “inspiring all of us to get off the couch.”
As he was being dragged away by the security guard, the kicker apparently shouted, “Help me! I need a Lamborghini!” repeatedly. A site promoting Johannesburg tourism proudly boasts of theexotic cars of Sandton, which it calls “the richest square mile in Africa,” but according tosales figuresfrom South Africa’s auto manufacturers’ association, Lamborghinis are the rarest brand in the country.
In a statement, event organizer Wayne Price said he “believes this incident was carefully planned by the offender, as he is known to the police for orchestrating similar events in the past.” Despite this history, Price says, “None of us could have foreseen that something like this could have taken place.”
The statement said that Schwarzenegger has no intention of pressing charges against the drop-kicker. “He views this as an unfortunate event by a mischievous fan.”
Schwarzenegger was back on social media Sunday, posting a selfie video showing a martial arts demonstration in the background.
The video also showed that Schwarzenegger still has jokes: “I’m so lucky that none of those girls drop-kicked me yesterday,” he said.
Looking forward to visiting a lot more great athletes today at @arnoldsports Africa. Starting with karate, naturally. They’re all going to be on my Snapchat. pic.twitter.com/nRV4VUudg6
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Someone asked me today why Google gets less privacy flak than Facebook despite collecting more (+ more intimate) data.
