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By Ernie Palladino
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Heading into the All-Star break, Aaron Judge was hitting .329 with 30 homers, 66 RBIs, and a 1.139 OPS. Rookie franchise records were falling like autumn leaves, and Judge’s cheering section in the bleachers was wild with excitement.
Since the break, things haven’t looked so great. Paul Bunyan has turned into Inspector Clouseau, stumbling around and looking for a clue. The line reads .161 with five homers, a double, and 12 RBIs. Most telling, he had 43 strikeouts in 27 games after fanning only 109 times in the first 84.
Joe Girardi can’t seem to find an answer to the kid’s prayers. Judge certainly can’t.
But everyone else seems to have an opinion, and many of them center around the infamous Home Run Derby.
Sure, that’s what did him in; the competition that draws TV watchers by the droves as they view their favorite power hitters drill one batting practice ball after another over the fence.
That All-Star Game prelude has already been blamed for several stars’ second-half declines. Stars that have a heck of a lot more major league experience than Judge. But the blame for the 25-year-old rookie’s reversal to his 2016 strikeout form, in many minds, at least, goes to the Home Run Derby.
It’s a lot of hooey.
The Home Run Derby, while strictly a gimmick inspired by the 1960 offseason show of the same name — minus the The — to revive interest in a fast-fading tradition, is no more to blame for Judge’s current issues than a bad case of beriberi.
Of course, it didn’t help that the derby had become a source of concern before it even took place. Judge himself didn’t make his intentions to participate known until almost the last minute. Then he went and won the darned thing, totaling 47 homers that traveled a cumulative 3.9 miles. Four of those traveled 500 feet or more.
But think about this. Could it be that Judge has simply settled down to earth?
For one thing, after last season’s brief appearance in which he struck out 42 times in 84 at-bats, no right-thinking person would have expected Judge to hit .347 for the season. So his decline to his current .289 since he hit that mark on June 12, though precipitous, had to be expected.
Whether the Home Run Derby helped push him over the cliff is debatable. More likely, the pressures of second-half baseball, especially for a team that remains in the thick of a division race, have taken their toll on him.
The strikeouts are indicative of that. Once selective, Judge now flails at pitches issued by men who have gone to school on him for a whole half a season. One of the keys to his lofty first-half BA was his 61 walks. His 24 post-break walks going into Sunday night’s finale against Boston put him on a similar pace, except that the strikeouts have offset them.
He is clearly pressing, and why shouldn’t he? He hasn’t been through a division race before. By the time he came up on Aug. 13 last year, the Yanks were already well-embedded in fourth place. And that’s exactly where they finished.
It’s only natural, then, that someone who so dominated a pressure-less first half to become part of the Rookie of the Year and MVP discussions would drop off when the real heat came up in the second half.
It’s called being a rookie. They look good. Then they look bad. And most of them don’t need the Home Run Derby to push them down the hill.
So let’s not blame all this on one night of glorified batting practice in July.
Blame it on being a rookie.
One whose amazing first half created some rather unrealistic expectations for the second half.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — DeMarcus Cousins will spend the rest of the 2016-17 NBA season walking on eggshells.
Having already served a league-mandated suspension for accruing 16 technical fouls, Cousins faces subsequent one-game bans for every two additional violations. Subduing emotion has always been difficult for the All-Star big man, but now the penalty for failure is more severe than ever.
Every incident that could produce a shout, scowl or diatribe against officials suddenly comes at a steeper price. Errant hands to the face of Donatas Motiejunas get extra scrutiny, for example. Reactions to low blows from Buddy Hield, obvious no-calls and every other potential outburst could result in another team-crippling suspension.
And you'd better believe it's weighing on Cousins.
"I don't know how to be myself anymore," he said softly from his locker stall at the Golden 1 Center on Friday night.
The Kings had just engineered a 22-point comeback to steal a win from the visiting Atlanta Hawks, but more importantly, it was Cousins' first night back from his initial suspension. He admitted the threat of future discipline affected his performance. Hence the miniature existential emergency.
"It's well known I'm a very emotional player," Cousins later explained to Bleacher Report. "I play with a lot of passion, a lot of emotion. I know that's what makes me the player that I am. When I'm kind of crucified for how I play, and they want change, it's hard for me to be the same type of player...It's just me trying to find the balance. I'm trying to make the adjustment, I'm trying to make the change for the better."
Can he sustain his productivity while snuffing out the fire that led to his suspension? And can he do it as the pressure of the season's stretch run intensifies?
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Cousins understands the stakes. He knows his team is within sniffing distance of the franchise's first playoff berth since 2007. And he knows one game lost to suspension here or there could be the difference between reaching what he's called his only goal and falling short again.
"The guy's trying so hard," head coach Dave Joerger said. "He's an emotional player, so it's like he's playing with one hand behind his back if he can't ever say anything. He doesn't want to hurt the team. He doesn't want to get another technical."
Cousins survived the comeback win against Atlanta without incurring tech No. 17, but it was no easy thing. He was sluggish, visibly frustrated and unable to hide the strain of, well...restraint. Is his effectiveness divisible from his emotion?
"I'm dealing with my own demons right now," he said. "I've got to focus on what's going on at the moment, and I did a terrible job of that."
Two nights later, Cousins was assessed a first-quarter technical foul for an errant swing of the arm that caught New Orleans Pelicans forward Motiejunas in the face. In order to compose himself, Cousins actually left the floor and went to the locker room.
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"It was kind of hard for me with that one because of the situation that had just occurred where I come back and the slightest thing and I'm back (facing suspension)," Cousins said. "It's hard, but I had to gather myself, refocus and get back to the main objective which is winning the game. I've got to walk the straight and narrow. It's all I can do."
Sacramento won that game as well, getting 28 points, 14 rebounds and seven assists from its best player—despite an ejection-triggering groin shot from Pelicans guard Hield. It was as if the basketball gods were testing Boogie. To his credit, he passed. Plenty of players with less volatile reputations would have snapped in that situation.
But so many more games lie ahead. So many more trials have yet to be undertaken. And, again, Cousins' margin for error is basically nil.
How he handles the challenge he's helped create for himself (despite protestations about unfair treatment from officials, he is partly responsible for his situation) will either signal the kind of growth so many have been waiting to see or reaffirm the doubts that have dogged him for years.
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He'll have help.
"I lean on all my teammates, not just Matt (Barnes). But he is the voice of our team. Everybody leans on Matt when times get hard because he's been through it all, seen it all on all levels."
Barnes, like Cousins, is no stranger to image problems.
"He's got a tough rap—the reputation he's earned," Barnes told ESPN-Tencent's Yuan Fang. "Whether it's good or bad. We both have bad and that took me my whole career to change mine and it hasn't worked. He just has to be able to adjust within his reputation and still be himself. He has to keeps his head."
Barnes has been a calming figure all season, which may seem odd given his volatile reputation. He commands respect like no on else on the roster, and you can see it in the locker room and on the floor. When the Kings found life in the second half against Atlanta, they did so after Barnes gathered his teammates together at the foul line before the third quarter.
When he motioned for a huddle, everyone—Cousins included—hustled over, leaned in close and listened to the veteran as he clapped his hands and exhorted them to perform.
"I thought Matt did a good job of really talking to us the whole game," Darren Collison said. "He was the leader when things weren't going well."
This is about more than Cousins' personal journey, though. The Kings have professed commitment to their big man, with general manager Vlade Divac saying Cousins won't be traded. A contract extension worth upwards of $200 million will likely come by July.
Cousins could validate that faith by adjusting his behavior and upping his level of play. Or he could falter and, in doing so, force the Kings to reconsider their committed stance. Worse still, he might come up short and get that max extension anyway, which would effectively consign Sacramento to another half-decade of maddening sub-mediocrity.
We've seen a lot from DeMarcus Cousins over the last six years.
He's got six weeks to show us something more.
Kings Insider's Notebook
Free Willie
Joerger is loath to play Willie Cauley-Stein with Cousins, which is probably frustrating for fans who'd like to see athleticism like this alongside the proven productivity of an All-Star big man:
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But Sacramento's defense has been untenably bad in the 119 minutes the duo has played together, and it's only gotten worse as the season has worn on. In 50 minutes since Jan. 1, the Kings have allowed 118.1 points per 100 possessions with Cousins and Cauley-Stein on the court.
That's not to say Cauley-Stein's without his uses. Lately, his energy and rim-rolling prowess have charged up the Kings' scrappy second unit. He put up 14 points, five rebounds and four assists in a Feb. 8 win over the Boston Celtics.
"He's getting to balls that are outside of his area, and I think he's a lot more comfortable with our defensive schemes and also our offensive schemes where he can find seams to get to the rim."
In limited minutes as part of a unit with Anthony Tolliver, Matt Barnes, Ben McLemore and either Darren Collison or Ty Lawson, Cauley-Stein has solidified himself as a rotation player with upside. That's good timing by him, as Cousins figures to miss a few games before season's end, which will free up minutes in the middle.
Return of the Mac
Does it count as a return if Ben McLemore's viability as an NBA player was never really certain in the first place?
Rather than worry about the details, check this out: McLemore is tearing it up since regaining a role after six consecutive DNPs.
In February, he's averaging 13.3 points per game and hitting 50 percent of his threes. His 22 points and 6-of-10 effort from long distance were vital in Friday's win over Atlanta.
"He's always been a good shooter to me, it was just a matter of time for him to really turn the corner," Darren Collison said. "One thing about Ben, even when he wasn't playing, he was always in the gym. First one in the gym, last one to leave."
Cousins, as you'd expect, was more forthright: "Ben is like a little brother to me. It's bigger than basketball, just to see him remain positive, remain professional through the bulls--t and things not going his way ... I think he's hitting his stride. I think that good karma's coming around for him now."
Digging Holes and Microcosms
It's fitting the Kings are scrambling to make up ground in the West after an uninspiring first half of the season (or 50-plus games, as the case may be). Because that seems to be the way they operate.
Here's proof:
Kings False Starts Quarter Offensive Rating Defensive Rating Net Rating First 100.7 111.9 -11.3 Second 103.5 111.4 -7.9 Third 108.8 104.9 +3.9 Fourth 108.9 105.9 +3.0 NBA.com
On the one hand, failing to show up for games before halftime is a concern. But, on the other, the Kings have been forced to develop resiliency.
"Our fight and our heart is undeniable," Cousins said. "I believe everybody here can agree with me on that. That being said, we can't keep putting ourselves in that position. We gotta make these games easier for ourselves."
Not getting blasted in every first quarter (the Kings lost all three opening periods in their three-game winning streak) would be a good start.
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All quotes obtained firsthand unless otherwise noted. Stats via NBA.com and accurate through games played Feb. 14.
Special thanks to Shock Doctor for facilitating our interview with Cousins. Cousins uses Shock Doctor's mouth guards in every game, and team-branded products are soon to be released.


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Oklahoma Republican Rep. Jim Bridenstine resigned from the House of Representatives Monday and was sworn in as NASA’s 13th administrator by Vice President Mike Pence, chairman of the recently revitalized National Space Council.
“Last December, President Trump … signed the first set of National Space Council recommendations under Space Policy Directive 1,” Pence said during a brief ceremony at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
“We will send American astronauts back to the moon, and after that we will establish the capacity, with international and commercial partners, to send Americans to Mars,” he said. “And NASA will lead the way.”
He praised Bridenstine and said he and the president are “absolutely confident” the new administrator will bring his military, government and civic experience to bear, “along with your character, on a new chapter of renewed American leadership in space.”
Bridenstine, with his wife and three children looking on, said he looked forward to implementing President Trump’s national space policy, which calls for ending full government support for the International Space Station in 2025, continuing development of commercial crew ships and focusing on returning astronauts to the moon and, eventually, Mars.
“I will do my best to serve our storied agency to the utmost of my abilities as we reach for new heights and reveal the unknown for the benefit of humankind,” Bridenstine said. “NASA represents what is best about the United States of America. We lead, we discover, we pioneer and we inspire. I look forward to our journey together.”
Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, joined several dozen reporters and NASA personnel at agency headquarters in Washington for the ceremony.
After Bridenstine was sworn in, the two men took a few moments to chat with three American astronauts aboard the International Space Station, who sent along their “hearty congratulations” to the new administrator.
Bridenstine resigned from the House of Representatives earlier Monday. He takes over NASA from outgoing acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot, a career NASA engineer-manager who ran the civilian space agency after its previous administrator, former shuttle commander Charles Bolden, retired in the wake of the 2016 presidential election.
A former Navy pilot, Bridenstine majored in economics, psychology and business at Rice University and holds an MBA from Cornell University.
During his Navy career, he accumulated 1,900 hours flying time and 333 carrier landings flying E-2C Hawkeye turboprops and, later, F-18 Hornets before leaving active duty to serve as executive director of the Tulsa Air and Space Museum & Planetarium.
He was elected to represent Oklahoma’s first congressional district in 2012, serving on the House Armed Services Committee and the Science, Space and Technology Committee. He is the first politician to be named NASA administrator, and his lack of professional space experience and technical education prompted criticism from Democrats.
He also was criticized for strong partisan positions and questioning human contributions to climate change, putting him at odds with many NASA scientists. He was nominated by President Trump to lead the agency last September and was finally confirmed, by a single vote, last Thursday.
His confirmation was one of the most contentious in NASA history, but Bridenstine thanked his colleagues Monday for their bipartisan support of the space program, saying “that’s important in space.”
“It’s been very bipartisan,” he said. “I am excited to continue working with you in this new role.”

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President Donald Trump wants to see U.S. astronauts return to the Moon as a foundation for future Mars missions.
Trump signed a policy directive Monday instructing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to "refocus America's space program on human exploration and discovery."
The move, Trump said, "marks an important step in returning American astronauts to the Moon for the first time since 1972 for long-time exploration."
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"This time we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint," he said. "We will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars, and perhaps someday, to many worlds beyond."
NASA’s goal is to send a manned mission to Mars in the 2030s.
Chris Carberry, executive director of Explore Mars, a non-profit organization that aims to advance the goal of sending humans to Mars within the next two decades, welcomed the policy directive and urged the administration to drive space exploration over the coming years. “We are certainly happy that Mars remains a key element of US space policy,” to told Fox News, via email. “However, we also hope that a plan can [be] devised that will enable humanity to return to the Moon, but not delay Mars missions by decades.”
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Explore Mars, he explained, is a strong proponent of building strong commercial and international partnerships to enable lunar missions, while at the same time, allowing the U.S. to lead missions to Mars in the 2030s. “We hope that this signing will help to accelerate our return to deep space exploration.”
Under the directive, the government is expected to work closely with other nations and private industry.
The last time a human set foot on the Moon was during the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. Only 12 men, all Americans, have set foot on the Moon.
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Vice President Mike Pence also highlighted the economic impact of the policy directive Monday. “We will see jobs created that you couldn’t even imagine,” he said, during the White House signing ceremony.
The space policy directive ensures that America will lead in space once again, he added.
Trump and Pence were joined at the White House by several current and former astronauts, including Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, and former U.S. Sen. and Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, the next-to-last person on the Moon.
EARLY EARTH TOOK A HEAVY BEATING AFTER THE MOON WAS FORMED
Monday marks the 45th anniversary of the Moon landing by Schmitt and Eugene Cernan, the Apollo 17 commander. Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, died earlier this year at the age of 82.
Past presidents, including George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, have also proposed returning to the Moon and missions to Mars but budget constraints derailed their plans.
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Pennsylvania's Conor Lamb and Alabama Sen. Doug Jones, the new miracle men of the Democratic Party, offer a clear model for how to run in Republican territory: Focus on economics, not guns, immigration or President Donald Trump.
But that won't be easy when much of the party is whipped into a fervor over those topics.
As the party barrels into primary season, its biggest success stories star Democratic moderates who have run strong in Trump country. But much of the energy in the party is on the left, where an active base is calling for single-payer health care, a $15-an-hour minimum wage and bans on certain weapons and ammunition. Finding the balance between the base's demands and winning general elections is Democrats' new mission as they look toward the November midterms.
The challenge will greet Democratic candidates across 75 targeted GOP-held districts that Trump won in 2016, as well as the 10 Democratic senators facing re-election challenges in states Trump won.
U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) (L) participates in a mock swearing-in ceremony as Jones' wife Louise (R) and son Carson (2nd L) look on at the Old Senate Chamber of the U.S. Capitol January 3, 2018 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images
To be sure, most of those districts are friendlier to Democrats than Jones' Alabama, which Trump won by nearly 30 percentage points, and Lamb's southwest Pennsylvania House district, where Trump won by nearly 20 percentage points. Lamb maintains a lead of fewer than 700 votes. That race has not been called.
The questions of tone, emphasis and policy nonetheless hang over Democrats' mission to flip the 24 GOP-held seats they need for a House majority and their path to reverse Republicans' 51-49 Senate advantage.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who is in line for a second stint as speaker if the Democrats are victorious in November, says the dangers of competing — and sometimes unhappy — factions are overblown.
"It's not a question of ideology. We all believe in working families, that's what unifies us," she told The Associated Press. "In order to win, it has to be an economic message."
U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during a weekly news conference March 1, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images
Republicans acknowledged Lamb's strong performance this week in Pennsylvania as a wakeup call. But they also insist Lamb and Jones, who won his Senate seat last year, were unusual candidates. They competed in special elections where turnout is unpredictable, ran against flawed Republican nominees and, importantly, emerged unscathed from primaries.
Some top Democratic recruits face serious primary battles.
In southern New Jersey's 2nd District, where Republican Frank LoBiondo is retiring, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee touts state Sen. Jeff Van Drew as "a bipartisan consensus builder" who wins his majority Republican legislative district easily. Trump won the congressional district by almost 5 points in 2016; LoBiondo got 59 percent of the vote.
Yet liberals hammer Van Drew as a National Rifle Association supporter and abortion-rights threat. Van Drew has backed certain abortion restrictions as a legislator. His loudest critics support retired teacher Tanzie Youngblood, who supports gun restrictions and abortion rights.
"Progressive activists have to save the party from itself, otherwise we'll be represented by Republicans masquerading as Democrats," Youngblood said on her campaign Facebook account this week. Democratic leaders, she said, "are out of touch with the base of the party."
Lamb could be headed for a similar squeeze. Because of a new, court-ordered congressional map in Pennsylvania, he will need to start campaigning in a newly drawn district that is less Republican than his current one. There are already two declared candidates in that race, including a prominent local attorney who is to Lamb's left on guns and health care.
Alabama's Jones downplays those kinds of fights, insisting at a recent national party fundraiser that "it's time to find the common ground." Jones didn't hide his support for abortion rights but emphasized "kitchen-table issues" at every opportunity and pledged to work with anyone, even Trump. Since joining the Senate, he's voted with Republicans to end a government shutdown that liberal activists wanted but stuck with his party in voting against GOP-backed abortion restrictions.
A less strident approach, he said, "will lead us to the kinds of victories that I believe we're on the verge of having in November."
Democrats stress that may not be true in every race, dismissing concerns that some policy positions may be too liberal to sell in November.
US Rep. Tom Perriello(L) D-VA, speaks to voter Charles Bailey during a campaign rally at Tonsler Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, on October 10, 2010. STR/AFP/Getty Images
Tom Perriello, who ran for Virginia governor as a liberal in 2017, said, "People are coming to realize that we have misunderstood how mainstream progressive thinking is." He lost a primary to Ralph Northam but pulled Northam to the left on some issues, including minimum wage. Northam won the general election by 9 points anyway.
Perriello noted that "the Republican civil war" hasn't exactly abated.
Recent GOP history shows Democrats the very double-edged sword at issue. Republicans were fueled by the tea party rise in 2009 and 2010, winning a wave election that gave them the House and many statehouses around the country. But tea party nominees also cost them winnable Senate seats during Barack Obama's presidency — Christine O'Donnell in Delaware in 2010, Todd Akin in Missouri in 2012. And those tea party nominees who captured the House in 2010 have often upended the GOP's ability to get major legislation through.
Those dynamics now leave Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan the target of aggressive attacks from two Democrats who want to oust him in his southern Wisconsin district, where Trump won 53 percent of the vote.
United States Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, speaks during the Friends of Ireland luncheon at the United States Capitol March 15, 2018 in Washington, DC. Pool/Getty Images
"Paul Ryan has shown no leadership," says Cathy Myers, a teacher and Ryan's local school board representative who is in a Democratic primary fight with union worker Randy Bryce.
Of course, Myers and Bryce both embrace a litany of liberal positions that leave national party leaders only cautiously watching the race, despite having identified Ryan's seat as a target.
"With all due respect to the national party, the first thing I have to do is look to my district and find out what they care about," Myers said, insisting her approach can defeat the speaker. "People want authentic candidates, and they want leadership."
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Associated Press writer Lisa Mascaro in Washington contributed to this report.


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The B.C. government is offering emergency grants of $1,500 for eligible small businesses affected by wildfires in the B.C. Interior.
Forests Minister Doug Donaldson announced Monday the grants will be administered through the Red Cross, which has also distributed $600 payments to individuals and families forced from their homes by fires in the Cariboo. The grants will also be available to aboriginal communities and non-profits affected by fires and highway closures.
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1.Apple gave Uber's app "unprecedented" access to a secret backdoor that can record iPhone screens. The revelation of the app's access to privileged Apple code raises important questions for a company already under investigation for a variety of controversial business practices.
2. Uber's profits jumped 65% in the UK before it lost its licence in London. Profits surged to £3 million ($4 million) in 2016.
3. Apple's Siri briefly thought Bulgaria's national anthem was "Despacito". It's unclear why.
4. Netflix is raising prices for its subscribers. The price of the lowest-tier plan will not change from $7.99 monthly. But the most popular, the "standard plan," which allows HD and two simultaneous streams, will increase to $10.99 a month from $9.99.
5. Tesla CEO Elon Musk his the company's batteries and solar panels could help restore electricity to Puerto Rico if residents and the government decide they want to pursue that option.Musk said on Twitter Thursday that Tesla has already used a combination of its solar panels and Powerpack batteries to power a couple of small islands
6. A second government panel wants Facebook, Twitter, and Google execs to testify on the same day as their Senate appearance. They will be testifying about Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election before a House of Representatives panel on November 1.
7. Business Insider ranked the 100 coolest people in the UK tech scene. It features startup founders, investors, PR people, and journalists — as well as a drone racer and a "chief emoji officer".
8. Ride-hailing service Taxify has launched in Paris, one month after being banned in London. The Uber rival claims it has 2,000 Parisian drivers on its platform already, according to local newspaper Le Figaro.
9. Sidewalk Labs — the urban innovation unit of Google parent company Alphabet — may be close to a deal to build a high-tech neighborhood on Toronto's waterfront. Called Quayside, the 12-acre project is expected to cost at least $1 billion and will prioritize smart city technologies, according to The Wall Street Journal.
10.Electric aircraft startup Zunum Aero announced its plans to introduce a 12-seat hybrid-to-electric jet by 2022. In April, the three-year-old company made news by earning financial backing from Boeing HorizonX fund and JetBlue Technology Ventures.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cam Newton delivered the body blow and Jonathan Stewart provided the knockout punch for Carolina.
Newton’s 62-yard run set up Stewart’s 1-yard touchdown leap — his third TD run of the day — with 1:47 remaining to lift the Panthers to a 31-24 victory Sunday, snapping the Minnesota Vikings’ eight-game win streak.
Stewart accounted for 103 of Carolina’s 216 yards rushing — including a 60-yard touchdown burst in the first quarter — against the league’s second-ranked defence, as the Panthers prevented the Vikings (10-3) from clinching the NFC North division title.
But it was Newton’s run that turned out to be the play of the game.
After Carolina squandered an 11-point fourth-quarter lead, Newton rolled out to his left, saw an opening and the 6-foot-5, 245-pound quarterback was off to the races before being pulled down from behind at the Vikings 8-yard line .
Newton joked after the game that he got tackled on purpose.
“It was very strategic, when I think back,” the 2015 league MVP said with a smile. “Because if I would have scored, they would have had all of their timeouts left. So I felt like, hey, let me flip this car back into third gear.”
The Vikings did use all of their timeouts, but the Panthers still scored. The Vikings turned the ball over on downs on their final possession.
“There’s only one guy in the league that is doing that,” tight end Greg Olsen said of Newton’s scramble. “We had everything against us and we had struggled out last three possessions. And for him to pop something that like, that was huge.”
Said Vikings defensive tackle Linval Joseph: “He is big, strong, and can throw the ball. He is a first-round draft pick, a Heisman Trophy winner and a great player. He makes plays.”
Newton threw for 137 yards and a touchdown and ran for 75 yards as the Panthers (9-4) recorded their third 200-yard rushing game of the season to move into a tie with the New Orleans Saints atop the NFC South.
Carolina’s defence did its job , too.
They sacked Case Keenum six times, forced three turnovers and came up with a crucial stop late to force a field goal.
“We turned the ball over three times and gave up 200-plus yards rushing. That’s not like us,” Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said.
LATE STOP: The Panthers seemed in control midway through the fourth quarter leading 24-13, but the Vikings came charging back to tie it as Keenum hooked up on a 52-yard scoring strike with Adam Thielen on a crossing route. Blake Bell added 2-point conversion catch to cut the lead to three.
On Carolina’s next possession, Vikings safety Andrew Sendejo intercepted Newton on a ball that sailed off the hands of Christian McCaffrey and returned it to the Carolina 6. But Carolina’s defence had a huge stop, holding the Vikings to minus-3 years on three plays to force a field goal with 3:07 left.
NO DIVISION TITLE: Even with the loss, the Vikings could have wrapped up the division had the Packers and Lions also both lost. Instead, both division foes won in overtime.
“We need to get this division wrapped up, but to do that, we have to play better football,” Vikings tight end Kyle Rudolph said.
McKINNON OVER MURRAY: The Vikings turned to Jerick McKinnon after Latavius Murray could find no room on the ground and was held to 14 yards rushing on nine carries. McKinnon was the more effective back, rushing for 46 yards on seven carries.
FINALLY, A PICK: It took 13 games, but the Panthers finally got at an interception from their starting cornerbacks. Daryl Worley and James Bradberry both intercepted Keenum on Sunday after being shut out the previous 12 games.
“Hopefully now everyone will stop talking about it,” Bradberry quipped.
JUMBO PACKAGE: Stewart had a 60-yard TD run on Carolina’s first possession on a third-and-1. The Panthers shifted four offensive linemen, including left tackle Matt Kalil, to the right side of centre Ryan Kalil and ran that way. Once Stewart got through the line, it was clear sailing. He sealed the run by stopping and falling back into the end zone, like a kid falling into a pool.
“When you see a team that is lined up like that in the box, you just hope to see a hole because you know there is no one else in the secondary,” Stewart said.
INJURIES:
Vikings: Linebacker Emmanuel Lamur left with a foot injury and did not return. … Left tackle Riley Reiff left with a left ankle injury and did not return.
Panthers: Tight end Greg Olsen left briefly after re-injuring his foot, but returned.
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Vikings: Host the Bengals next Sunday.
Panthers: Host the Packers next Sunday.
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LOS ANGELES — Carson Wentz threw for 291 yards and four touchdowns before leaving with a knee injury and Jake Elliott kicked the go-ahead 33-yard field goal with 3:45 left for the Philadelphia Eagles, who beat the Los Angeles Rams 43-35 in a thriller Sunday to clinch the NFC East title.
Two sources familiar with the injury told The Associated Press that doctors believe Wentz has torn his left anterior cruciate ligament and will miss the rest of the season and playoffs.
Wentz needs an MRI to confirm the severity of the injury. Both people spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to release the information.
Wentz was hit hard as he scrambled into the end zone on a play that was called back because of holding. He stayed in and threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Alshon Jeffery four plays later to give the Eagles (11-2) the lead. Nick Foles replaced Wentz on the next drive.
The NFC West-leading Rams (9-4) then went up 35-31 on Todd Gurley’s second short TD run.
Elliott kicked a 41-yard field goal to pull the Eagles to 35-34.
The game ended on a crazy play, when Philadelphia’s Brandon Graham grabbed a lateral by Tavon Austin out of the air on and scored what was ruled a 16-yard fumble return.
PANTHERS 31, VIKINGS 24: Jonathan Stewart ran for 103 yards and three scores, and host Carolina (9-4) snapped Minnesota’s eight-game winning streak.
Cam Newton threw for 137 yards and a touchdown and ran for 75 yards as the Panthers racked up 216 yards on the ground against the Vikings (10-3), who entered with the league’s No. 2 ranked defense.
BILLS 13, COLTS 7: LeSean McCoy scored on a 21-yard run with 1:33 left in overtime to secure Buffalo’s victory at home in a wintry, white-out setting.
Buffalo (7-6) stayed alive in the AFC playoff picture, while the Colts (3-10) were eliminated.
CHIEFS 26, RAIDERS 15: Kareem Hunt ran for 116 yards and a touchdown, the Chiefs shut down Derek Carr and Kansas City (7-6) held on to snap a four-game losing streak.
Alex Smith threw for 268 yards for the Chiefs, who held the Raiders (6-7) without points until Marshawn Lynch’s 22-yard touchdown run with 8:51 to go.
CHARGERS 30, WASHINGTON 13: Philip Rivers passed for 319 yards and two touchdowns, and the host Chargers continued their ferocious playoff push by beating Washington (5-8) for their fourth straight win.
JAGUARS 30, SEAHAWKS 24: Blake Bortles threw two perfect passes for touchdowns, Jaydon Mickens set up another score with a 72-yard punt return and Jacksonville (9-4) beat the Seahawks (8-5) at home.
CARDINALS 12, TITANS 7: Phil Dawson kicked four second-half field goals and host Arizona (6-7) shut down Tennessee’s offense nearly all day in dropping the Titans (8-5) from first place in the AFC South.
49ERS 26, TEXANS 16: Jimmy Garoppolo was 20 of 33 for a career-high 334 yards and a touchdown to help the San Francisco (3-10) defeat the Texans (4-9) for their second straight win.
BEARS 33, BENGALS 7: Rookie Mitchell Trubisky threw for a touchdown and ran for another in his best showing yet, and Chicago (4-9) ended a five-game losing streak with a rout at Cincinnati (5-8).
PACKERS 27, BROWNS 21: Brett Hundley threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to Davante Adams in overtime, and Green Bay (7-6) rallied from a two-touchdown deficit in the fourth quarter to win at Cleveland (0-13) and stay alive in the playoff race.
LIONS 24, BUCCANEERS 21: Matthew Stafford passed for 381 yards with an injured throwing hand and set up Matt Prater for a 46-yard field goal in the closing seconds, helping Detroit (7-6) remain in contention with a win at Tampa Bay (4-9).
BRONCOS 23, JETS 0: Demaryius Thomas’ big game – eight catches for 93 yards and a score – helped host Denver (4-9) snap its longest losing streak since joining the NFL in 1970 with a shutout of New York (5-8).
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MUMBAI, India (AP) — Sunrisers Hyderabad successfully defended their second lowest total in Indian Premier League history by recording 31-run victory over defending champions Mumbai Indians on Tuesday.
Seamer Siddarth Kaul picked up 3-23 and Afghanistan's Rashid Khan snapped up 2-11 with his masterful googlies and legspinners as Mumbai was bowled out for 87 in 18.5 overs.
Earlier, after being put into bat, Hyderabad was dismissed for its second lowest IPL total when it fell to Mumbai seamers for 118 in 18.4 overs.
"Without a doubt we were expecting a lot more from ourselves with the bat," Hyderabad captain Kane Williamson said. "A number of injuries, a change in balance, but the best part of it was how the guys were engaged in the second half."
Mumbai, which now has lost five out of six matches, buckled against some fine seam and spin bowling despite Hyderabad going without its frontline injured seamers.
Billy Stanlake was ruled out of remainder of IPL due to fractured finger and injured Bhuvneshwar Kumar was rested from the game.
Mumbai's chase was in disarray when it stuttered at 21-3 in the sixth over that included key wicket of captain Rohit Sharma for just 2.
"118 on any wicket, we should have been able to get that, we just weren't there," Rohit said. "We needed to show some intent but we didn't ... they kept us guessing all the time. A few of us played bad shots including myself."
Suryakumar Yadav (34) and Krunal Pandya (24) shared the best partnership of the innings by combining in a 40-run fourth-wicket stand before Mumbai lost its last six wickets for just 14 runs.
Rashid hurried the collapse when he successfully won an lbw television referral against Krunal and Kaul ran through the tail in quick succession as Hyderabad clinched its fourth win in the tournament.
Earlier, Hardik Pandya (2-20) and Mitchell McClenaghan (2-22) polished off Hyderabad's top order as the visitors' innings never got any momentum from the onset.
McClenaghan struck twice in his first over when he clean bowled fit-again Shekhar Dhawan and then Wriddhiman Saha was caught behind for zero.
Hardik had captain Kane Williamson (29) caught behind off an inside edge and Manish Pandey (16) drove carelessly in the covers as Hyderabad stuttered at 63-5 in the ninth over.
Mumbai's 20-year-old Mayank Markande took his wickets tally to 10 to be the leading wicket-taker in the IPL by clean bowling Mohammad Nabi (16) and Basil Thampi.
Yusuf Pathan (29) struck seamer Mustafizur Rahman for a six over long-on which took Hyderabad past its lowest ever total of 113 in the IPL — also made against Mumbai in 2015.
However, Yusuf holed out in the deep off the next ball to be last man out as only four Hyderabad batsmen could reach double figures.

Pakistan registered an emphatic eight-wicket victory against England in the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 on Wednesday to seal their first-ever final in the tournament's history. Pakistan bowled and fielded tightly to restrict the hosts to a paltry total of 211 all out and the lowest-ranked team in the tournament knocked off the chase in style with a massive 12.5 overs to spare. It was a major disappointment for England, who won all three group matches in their bid to claim a first global 50-over title and had beaten Pakistan in 12 of their last 14 one-day internationals.
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As soon as Pakistan defeated tournament favourites, fans started predicting India vs Pakistan final at The oval on Sunday. Though, India is yet to play Bangladesh in the second semi-final on Thursday and they need to beat them to enter the finals.
Meanwhile in Pakistan- Abhi toh naya TV laaye the phir todo bethke isse Sunday ko. ??#IndVsPak — Saniya Sayed (@Ssaniya25) June 14, 2017
Pic1:Indian cricket fans during normal days.
Pic2: Indian cricket fans during #IndVsPak pic.twitter.com/H1Bpbvkcva — Arvind Mishra (@gr8arvind) June 14, 2017
Without any doubt, Kohli's men are overwhelming favourites on a fresh pitch at Edgbaston but not to forget, the tournament has been full of upsets, be it Pakistan defeating South Africa or Mashrafe Mortaza's side chasing down 266 at Sophia Gardens last Friday, which ultimately booked their semi-final place.
India will have to be careful against the subcontinent opponents.
Defending champions India kick started their campaign by beating Pakistan hands down. A great batting performance from the top order, combined with some good bowling gave India an easy 124-run victory (DLS method) over traditional rivals. India scored 319 for 3 in their rain-truncated 48 overs and then dismissed Pakistan to 164 off 33.4 overs as the latter chased revised Duckworth-Lewis total of 289 off 41 overs.


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NickyKiss wrote: If you win things there isn't a problem but not winning whilst playing a negative brand of rugby isn't ever going to be accepted.
I'm sure Lenagan knows that. It sounds like he's trying to take some pressure off Wanes shoulders because there is no doubt that next season is potentially career defining for him.
If things go badly he will probably be out of a job here and he doesn't seem the type who will have made too many friends elsewhere because he's Wigan to the core and doesn't mind upsetting the opposition.
Your spot on.
We accepted last seasons failings due to what happened at the end of the season.
Question is would people accept 5 years of us playing Wire style from 09-16 and not win a GF. Or would people be happier with what we had last season poor rugby but a GF win. I know they won the CC in the time but not the big prize. What if its a choice of one of them either play with style and win little trophies or play as we did in 2016 and win the big one.
I know both style and success is achievable but not always.
IL message was spot on he does not hide he knows we have issues hes not going to tell us what he tells Wane when in private. Big season ahead of Wane. Your spot on.We accepted last seasons failings due to what happened at the end of the season.Question is would people accept 5 years of us playing Wire style from 09-16 and not win a GF. Or would people be happier with what we had last season poor rugby but a GF win. I know they won the CC in the time but not the big prize. What if its a choice of one of them either play with style and win little trophies or play as we did in 2016 and win the big one.I know both style and success is achievable but not always.IL message was spot on he does not hide he knows we have issues hes not going to tell us what he tells Wane when in private. Big season ahead of Wane. Finfin Free-scoring winger
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We have failed to dominate a decade that was set up for us to dominate between 2010-13. If Leeds win tomorrow they have won more than us in the 2010's (with daylight in 3rd place). I thought we had shrugged Leeds off in 2010 and most of 2011 but you have to grudgingly admire their tenacity. IL doesn't address how we get back to dominance or close to it other than more of the same. jonh
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Firstly I think Mr Lenagan is an outstanding owner and chairman.
He has without doubt saved this club from the embarrassment of relegation and clearly has the best interests of this great club at heart despite the losses incurred.
The main concern for me is the comment about winning at all costs, our style of play and the squad.
I 100% want to win, I think however the style of rugby we play is contrary to to that notion. Expecting to win trophies by playing rank bad negative rugby even in a diminished competition is totally unrealistic. I also agree with him about the squad. We have in my opinion the best squad in the league, however if we do not utilise it and play to our potential then what is the point in having a good squad.
Seems to me Mr Lenagan is attempting to deflect some of the performances away from a rightfully under pressure coach whilst not too subtly piling the pressure back on him by stating things will change next year.
Over to you Mr Wane.
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jonh wrote: Firstly I think Mr Lenagan is an outstanding owner and chairman.
He has without doubt saved this club from the embarrassment of relegation and clearly has the best interests of this great club at heart despite the losses incurred.
The main concern for me is the comment about winning at all costs, our style of play and the squad.
I 100% want to win, I think however the style of rugby we play is contrary to to that notion. Expecting to win trophies by playing rank bad negative rugby even in a diminished competition is totally unrealistic. I also agree with him about the squad. We have in my opinion the best squad in the league, however if we do not utilise it and play to our potential then what is the point in having a good squad.
Seems to me Mr Lenagan is attempting to deflect some of the performances away from a rightfully under pressure coach whilst not too subtly piling the pressure back on him by stating things will change next year.
Over to you Mr Wane.
Good luck.
1 to 13 name the best player in SL and see how many Wigan players you come up with. I come up with 1 SOL or maybe 2 Bateman. The rest are pretty much average joes. If we had the best squad as a minimum we would have qualified for the play offs and beaten a pretty average Hull team at Wembley 1 to 13 name the best player in SL and see how many Wigan players you come up with. I come up with 1 SOL or maybe 2 Bateman. The rest are pretty much average joes. If we had the best squad as a minimum we would have qualified for the play offs and beaten a pretty average Hull team at Wembley hengirl Eddie Hemmings's Wig
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Itchy Arsenal wrote: 1 to 13 name the best player in SL and see how many Wigan players you come up with. I come up with 1 SOL or maybe 2 Bateman. The rest are pretty much average joes. If we had the best squad as a minimum we would have qualified for the play offs and beaten a pretty average Hull team at Wembley
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Itchy Arsenal wrote: 1 to 13 name the best player in SL and see how many Wigan players you come up with. I come up with 1 SOL or maybe 2 Bateman. The rest are pretty much average joes. If we had the best squad as a minimum we would have qualified for the play offs and beaten a pretty average Hull team at Wembley
Didn't realise the side that wins SL has to also be the dream team.
My mistake.
Glad Cad and Leeds this year have the best player in every position. Didn't realise the side that wins SL has to also be the dream team.My mistake.Glad Cad and Leeds this year have the best player in every position. Unofficially the most boring poster on Cherry and White. jonh
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Itchy Arsenal wrote: 1 to 13 name the best player in SL and see how many Wigan players you come up with. I come up with 1 SOL or maybe 2 Bateman. The rest are pretty much average joes. If we had the best squad as a minimum we would have qualified for the play offs and beaten a pretty average Hull team at Wembley
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Question: Ex-employee sues celebrity chef, claiming sexual harassment

WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman who was formerly employed as a manager by celebrity chef Mike Isabella sued him and his business partners Monday alleging sexual harassment. Isabella denied the allegations.
Chloe Caras is seeking an unspecified amount for pain and suffering, back pay and punitive damages. Isabella, who competed on the cooking reality shows "Top Chef" and "Top Chef: All-Stars," has about a dozen restaurants in the Washington area.
The lawsuit filed in Superior Court in the District of Columbia says when Caras was fired in 2017 she was the director of operations for the Isabella Eatery in Virginia and the highest-ranking woman in Isabella's organization, Mike Isabella Concepts. The lawsuit says that during Caras' three years with the company she was subject to unwelcome touching, sexual advances, vulgar and explicitly sexual remarks and gestures, and sexists insults and texts calling her a "dumb bitch" and a "whore" and false rumors about her sexual history.
"On multiple occasions, Mr. Isabella sexually propositioned Ms. Caras and subjected her to degrading acts, including pulling her hair while standing behind her in a clear pantomime of having penetrative sex from the rear," the lawsuit says.
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The lawsuit says Isabella and his partners created a "sexually hostile work environment and condoned a climate of contempt for women" at his restaurants. It says that on Dec. 5, 2017, when Isabella suggested to a chef that he have sex with Caras she attempted to leave the restaurant and was chased after by a screaming Isabella and fired by him when she reached the door.
In a statement provided to The Washington Post, which was first to report the lawsuit, Isabella, his partners and company denied the allegations. "Simply put, the allegations of an unwelcoming or hostile work atmosphere are false," the statement said. The Maryland-based law firm that provided the statement, Bascietto & Bregman, did not immediately provide the same statement or other information to The Associated Press.
Caras' attorney Debra Katz said in an email that Caras has also filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requesting that it conduct an investigation into allegations that Isabella's organization maintained a sexually hostile work environment.

Fox News suffered a legal setback Tuesday when a federal judge denied a bid to quash a lawsuit by a conservative commentator claiming she was raped by anchor Charles Payne.
Judge William Pauley ruled Tuesday that Fox News’ parent company will have to defend itself against claims that it blacklisted GOP booster Scottie Nell Hughes after she reported the alleged attack.
Hughes sued last September charging that Payne, anchor of Fox Business’ “Making Money,” raped her in a New York City hotel room in 2013 after forcing his way in for a “private discussion.”
Charles Payne was accused of rape by Hughes. (Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images/Variety Media,LLC)
Hughes says Payne, 57, then coerced her into a years-long sexual relationship in exchange for career opportunities and benefits.
Ex-Fox News guest says she was raped by host, sues network
When the 37-year-old Hughes broke off the affair in 2016, her Fox News appearances dried up and the network set in motion a public smear campaign that destroyed her reputation, the suit says.
Hughes says Payne, 57, coerced her into a years-long sexual relationship in exchange for career opportunities and benefits after the alleged attack. (John Sciulli/Getty Images for Politicon)
Payne denied the “baseless complaint.” Fox ripped the lawsuit as a “publicity stunt” that has “absolutely no merit and is downright shameful.”
Pauley struck down several parts of Hughes’ suit but said her discrimination and retaliation claims can move forward.
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Question: Judge says EEOC can't enforce background check regs against Texas

A federal judge in Texas has ruled that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cannot use Obama-era guidelines that restrict employers’ use of criminal background checks in any case against the state of Texas, which bars the hiring of convicted felons for many state jobs.
U.S. District Judge Sam Cummings in Lubbock, Texas on Thursday said the EEOC’s 2012 guidance marked a substantive change in the commission’s interpretation of the law but was adopted without public comment, so the EEOC cannot rely on it in cases challenging Texas state agencies’ hiring practices. Texas sued the EEOC over the guidance in 2013.
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Question: Keeping the competition out: Iran startups thrive despite sanctions

LONDON: Low on cash but high on hope, Iran's technology entrepreneurs are learning to live with revived hostility in the United States and growing suspicion: or worse: from hardliners at home.
Their startups and e-commerce apps are flourishing, driven by government infrastructure support and young Iranians educated both in the country and abroad. Some are even drawing foreign investment in a way that Iran's dominant oil industry has yet to achieve since most international sanctions were lifted early last year under a nuclear deal with world powers.
Life remains tough despite the easing of Iran's international isolation. The atmosphere in Washington has soured again, with President Donald Trump signing legislation tightening domestic U.S. sanctions on Iran and threatening to pull out of the nuclear accord.
On top of this, Google and Apple have withdrawn some services temporarily or indefinitely for Iranian users in recent months for reasons including the U.S. sanctions.
Still, the absence of U.S. giants such as Amazon and Uber has allowed their Iranian equivalents Digikala and Snapp to grow rapidly. Many other local internet firms are following suit.
Ramin Rabii, chief executive of Turquoise Partners, which facilitates foreign investment in Iran, said Trump's rhetoric could paradoxically help the tech sector.
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"If he keeps talking about sanctions, that would increase the risk of investment in Iran, but at the same time it will keep a lot of competition out," he told Reuters in a telephone interview from Tehran. "Major global players are not here."
No figures are available on foreign investment in Iranian tech firms. Rabii, however, estimated it at hundreds of millions of dollars since the nuclear deal came into force.
By contrast, an expected rush into Iran's huge energy reserves has yet to materialise. French group Total is investing in a gas project but Tehran has yet to seal any major oil deals with international partners.
Foreign investment in Iranian tech remains modest compared with regional mega-deals such as Amazon's purchase in March of Dubai-based retailer souq.com. Amazon did not reveal the price but beat off a rival offer worth US$800 million.
Still, Rabii sees a bright future. "Many foreign investors ask me what is the best performing sector in Iran for the next decade. I always name e-commerce and the tech sector," he said.
LOCAL INCARNATIONS
After the relative isolation of the international sanctions era, the tech sector has attracted many young Iranians back from the United States, Canada and Europe. They hope to marry their experience of the startup scene with locally-educated talent.
Reza Arbabian left Canada, where he went as a teenager, to join his family textile business in Iran. But in 2012 he launched Sheypoor, the Iranian answer to Craigslist, a U.S. classified advertisements website.
Sheypoor now employs 200 and recently marked its fifth anniversary. Cash, however, remains tight.
"Many foreign companies are still hesitant and Iranian investors don't understand the value in e-commerce. They cannot accept that they need to wait for five years for a startup to make profits," said Arbabian.
Some outside Iran, especially in Europe where the sanctions net is not quite so tight, are nevertheless willing to take the plunge. Swedish-based Pomegranate Investment, for instance, has taken a 43 percent stake in Sheypoor.
On a larger scale, Sarava, Digikala's main shareholder, is 45 percent-owned by foreign investors. These include Pomegranate, which raised its stake to 15 percent with a 41 million euro (US$48 million) investment in 2016.
Following the Amazon model, Digikala has grown into Iran's biggest internet company with a market share of 85-90 percent, according to Pomegranate. Staff numbers have leapt in the past two years from 800 to more than 2,000.
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Iran came late to mass internet access but has invested heavily under President Hassan Rouhani, hoping to attract foreign cash and create more jobs.
According to the Measuring Information Society of Iran, a government-linked portal, more than 62 percent of households were connected to the internet by March 2017. This was up from only 21 percent in 2013, the year Rouhani took office.
Smartphone ownership has also rocketed. Iran, a country of 80 million people, had only two million smartphone users three years ago but the number hit 40 million in 2016.
Such developments encouraged Kamran Adle, an Iranian born and raised in London, to move to Tehran last year.
"Iranian infrastructure has dramatically improved in recent of years. 3G and 4G is much more commonplace than it was a couple of years ago," said Adle, whose firm Ctrl+Tech invests in early stage startups and helps them to develop apps.
Some Iranian apps are copies of foreign equivalents, made out of the reach of international lawyers. But the years of isolation also forced domestic talent to be more innovative, and Adle says there is no shortage of app developers.
One such is Farshad Khodamoradi, who has designed the app for a job-hunting startup being launched this month. Unlike traditional sites, "3sootjobs" will use an algorithm-driven matching system to connect candidates with the right employers.
Khodamoradi complains about difficulties in accessing foreign tech services, many of which are U.S.-based. "The main problem is that the global services Iranian startups are using can be cut off overnight," he told Reuters from Tehran.
He cited Google's Firebase, a platform used to generate push notifications - such as messages to passengers that a taxi has arrived to pick them up - without their having to open the app.
This was unavailable in Iran on a number of occasions in June and July, disrupting startups including taxi hailing apps, he said. Google did not respond to Reuters requests for comment.
Although technology firms can gain exemptions from the sanctions, U.S. corporations appear unwilling to risk involvement in Iran. In August, Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi threatened to take legal action over Apple's removal of Iranian apps from its app stores. Apple did not respond to Reuters requests for comment.
MESSAGE FROM OBAMA
All this seems in contrast to U.S. promises after the nuclear deal. In March 2016, in a message to the Iranian people, then President Barack Obama said ending international sanctions "would mean more access to cutting-edge technologies, including information technologies that can help Iranian startups".
Since that message, anti-U.S. Iranian hardliners have followed the growth of startups suspiciously, branding them as vehicles of enemy infiltration. Two foreign-based tech investors have also ended up in prison.
Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese information technology expert with permanent U.S. residency, was jailed in 2016 for 10 years for collaborating against the state. He had attended a conference in Tehran the previous year at the invitation of one of Iran's vice presidents, only to be arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as he was going to the airport to leave the country.
Iranian-American businessman Siamak Namazi also got 10 years in 2016 on charges of cooperating with the United States. While under arrest, Namazi appeared in an Iranian documentary seen by Reuters in which he said his mistake had been to accept money for his startup from an organisation linked to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The Revolutionary Guards, a military force that runs an industrial empire, largely control telecommunications in Iran.
However, tech entrepreneurs say the environment is generally supportive. "We haven't come across any of those governmental push-backs," Adle said.
In the longer term, the sanctions would make using the souq.com model to cash in on Iranian investments much harder.
But Eddie Kerman, of London-based Indigo Holdings which links retail investors to Iranian tech firms, is optimistic.
"American companies like Amazon might not be able to enter the Iranian market, but there is a significant possibility that European or Asian companies buy the larger Iranian players," he said.
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Russia’s indefatigable president stormed to victory for his fourth term on a wave of admiration — or by stamping out all opposition, depending on which way you look at it. But in his Sunday night victory speech, given in a frosty Red Square, Vladimir Putin talked about unity. He told a cheering crowd they were part of a ‘big national team’ who would realise his grand vision for the motherland and that he would not be guided by ‘daily political calculations’. Western observers might take some convincing while diplomatic rows rumble on over the deployment of nerve agent on the streets of the UK and the question of Russian interference in the last US election.
But how dangerous is the Russian leader really? Perhaps less so than we imagine, says Gideon Rachman in his column. For while he is reckless, he is not irrational, and history suggests he can be deterred. It may be, argues Gideon, that Mr Putin is willing to take big risks when he believes that the west is not paying attention — Russia’s annexation of Crimea is a case in point. But when he meets clear resistance, he backs off.
While the president’s fans believe him to be a brilliant strategist who can get away with anything, the truth is that Mr Putin is prone to mistakes and makes calculations that often backfire. The result is that Russia is much poorer and more isolated than it should be, whatever the president’s grandiose rhetoric suggests.
Our digital cesspit:
The allegation that Cambridge Analytica accessed the Facebook profiles of millions of US voters and targeted them with personalised messages to help Donald Trump’s chances of election show us how connected devices can be abused and polluted to manipulate their users, argues John Thornhill. But before we assign all the blame to internet platforms we should take a look at our own complicity in fanning false news and fuelling a market for stories that stoke disgust and fear.
Pulling strings:
The revolving door between EU institutions and the private sector shows the Brussels lobbying industry at its worst, writes EU ombudsman Emily O’Reilly. The problem is more noticeable as Brexit-related consultancy work is booming — the uncertainty around the negotiations provides lucrative opportunities for EU insiders with good networks. Brussels officials are particularly attractive for their detailed and technical knowledge.
Advice to disgruntled centrists:
The mood is dark among the UK Labour party’s moderate MPs, says James Kirkup. Exasperated by opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn’s apparent remaking of Labour in his leftist image, they whisper about the creation of a new centrist party. But they are not ready yet. A new party needs a new image, agenda and policies — especially economic ones — to sell to voters.
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After soaring to $4,000 on exchange markets over the weekend, the bitcoin cryptocurrency is continuing to rise, topping a record $4,300 on Monday — nearly $1,000 above its rate one week ago, according to data from the Coinbase currency exchange.
Bitcoin settled back under the $4,300 mark after reaching a new high Monday morning, according to several exchanges that track the decentralized currency.
"The bitcoin market cap soared past $70 billion," says CryptoCoins News, adding that a "flippening" that has been anticipated for years in the cryptocurrency community had finally come to pass, as "bitcoin now has a greater total valuation than payment-processing behemoth PayPal."
A bitcoin could be bought for around $570 just 12 months ago — reflecting a rise of around 645 percent to today's exchange rate.
Reporting on the rise, the Coindesk site says the market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies reached a record $138 billion on Monday.
The steep ascent can be attributed to a number of factors, from political concerns to a recent split into two currencies — bitcoin classic and bitcoin cash. That change, which became official on Aug. 1, was made to give the currency a more robust infrastructure; it was also tied to a move to allow large trades in the currency to occur more frequently.
Formally introduced in 2009, bitcoin has steadily accumulated both users and investors. And blockchain, the technology that underlies bitcoin, has been embraced by both academics and banking giants such as Fidelity — which now lets customers track investments in cryptocurrency — and Goldman Sachs.
Other factors, such as bitcoin's role as a hedge against political uncertainty, also play a role. A finance executive tells CNBC that South Koreans have shown a "surge of interest" in the currency as the U.S. and North Korea trade threats. The network also says there's strong interest in bitcoin in Japan, with the yen accounting for 42 percent of bitcoin currency purchases.
It's been a heady summer for bitcoin holders. After the virtual currency hit a record $2,420 in May, The Economist ran a story asking, "What if the bitcoin bubble bursts?" and wondering if its rise could be compared to historic market crazes — like the one over tulips.
Noting that "Anyone clever or lucky enough to have bought $1,000 of bitcoins in July 2010, when the price stood at $0.05, would now have a stash worth $46 million," The Economist added that "Ascents this steep are rarely sustainable" — before concluding, "If there is such a thing as a healthy bubble, this is it."

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