Timberwolves coach says his team should ‘start flopping’ after free-throw disparity vs. Nuggets

DENVER (AP) — Timberwolves coach Chris Finch has yet to overcome the free throw deficit in the team’s series-opening loss to the Denver Nuggets. “Maybe we should start losing as well,” Finch said before Monday night’s second game. advertise More specifically, he was furious with Jamal Murray for shooting 16-for-16 from the line. Finch called…

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North Korea’s crypto heist playbook is expanding and DeFi keeps getting hit

Less than three weeks after hackers linked to North Korea used social engineering to attack cryptocurrency exchange Drift, hackers linked to the country appear to have completed another major attack using Kelp. Attacks on Kelp, a restaking protocol tied to LayerZero’s cross-chain infrastructure, illustrate an evolution in the way North Korea-linked hackers operate, where they…

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A humanoid robot sprints to victory in Beijing, beating the human half-marathon world record

BEIJING (AP) — A humanoid robot won a robotics half-marathon in Beijing on Sunday, beating the human world record and demonstrating China’s technological leap. The winner from Chinese smartphone maker Honor completed the 21-kilometer (13-mile) race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, according to a WeChat post from the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone,…

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American rejects merger talks with United Airlines

April 17 (Reuters) – American Airlines said on Friday it was not interested in merging with United Airlines and was not holding any such talks, dampening prospects for an industry-shaping deal that would face intense regulatory scrutiny. A merger of the two largest U.S. network operators would mark the biggest consolidation move in more than…

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