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Sports streaming service DAZN is expanding to more than 200 countries

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DAZN, a streaming service competing with ESPN+ to build a “Netflix for sports,” has announced aggressive international expansion plans. Ahead of Canelo Álvarez’s next fight on May 2nd, part of an 11-fight deal with the stratospherically popular Mexican boxer, the company says it will launch in more than 200 countries around the world.

DAZN (pronounced “da zone”) is currently available in the US and eight other countries including Japan and Canada, with differing content offerings in each. The current US service is heavy on boxing and MMA, but elsewhere it has a much broader lineup. In Japan, for example, DAZN now carries live streaming rights for the NFL, the MLB, the Premier League, and the domestic baseball, basketball, and soccer...

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Glenn Maxwell Re-Signs With Lancashire for T20 Blast

Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has been re-signed by England county side Lancashire for the upcoming season of the T20 Blast starting here on May 28.

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Sports streaming service DAZN is expanding to more than 200 countries

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Virat Kohli Indicates 'Mini Transition' of Pace Bowling Battery in Near Future

With Indian team's packed schedule across formats, Kohli said that it's inhuman to "squeeze the life out of individuals".

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No Hand Shakes in Tour of Sri Lanka Due to Coronavirus Fears: Joe Root

England captain Joe Root said his players will not be shaking hands on their tour of Sri Lanka in a bid to avoid the coronavirus.

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Qualcomm confirms NavIC support for Snapdragon 865 phones, albeit with a catch!

NavIC which stands for Navigation with Indian Constellation is as the name suggests an indigenous alternative for GPS. Back in January, Qualcomm announced its collab with ISRO, the developer of NavIC. According to this, new phones running on Snapdragon 720G, Snapdragon 662, and Snapdragon 460 chipsets would support NavIC out of the box. But, now […]

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China’s largest private automaker is building a satellite network now, too

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The largest private automaker in China is getting into the satellite business. Chinese automotive giant Geely has broadened its reach to include everything from trucking, to high-speed trains, to passenger drones, to Volvo over the last decade or so. But its newest effort could tie those things all together, as Geely just announced it’s going to build its own satellite network to enable what it calls a “smart three-dimensional mobility ecosystem.”

Geely announced late Monday that it will erect a satellite production facility and testing center in the port city of Taizhou in the Zhejiang Province that the Chinese giant calls home. The facility will be capable of building a “variety of different satellite models,” some of which may be...

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China’s Geely is building a satellite network for its cars, trucks, and drones

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India vs New Zealand | Series Verdict: Indian Batting Unit’s Poor Show Leads to Whitewash

A tour of New Zealand that started with India whitewashing the hosts 5-0 in the T20I series ended with a whimper from the tourists’ point of view.

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India vs New Zealand In Numbers: India’s Third Worst Batting Show, Kohli’s Lowest Series Average

We look at some of the numbers that defined the series.

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ICC T20 World Cup | Injured Ellyse Perry Ruled out of Remainder of Tournament

Ellyse Perry has been ruled out of the remainder of the tournament after sustaining a hamstring injury against New Zealand on Monday.

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Mario Kart Tour is getting multiplayer on March 8th

Nintendo announced on Monday that Mario Kart Tour, the mobile iteration of the Mario Kart series, will finally be getting multiplayer this weekend, nearly six months after its late September launch.

You’ll be able to play with up to seven players locally or online starting Sunday, March 8th at 11PM ET.

Multiplayer for #MarioKartTour comes out on Mar. 8, 8 PM PT! You can compete against seven other players, whether they're in-game friends, nearby, or around the world. Are you ready to play? pic.twitter.com/IRwBONq560
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Chris Matthews just quit Hardball live on air

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Chris Matthews apparently just quit “Hardball With Chris Matthews” live on air. The abrupt exit of the MSNBC anchor happened after columnist Laura Bassett accused Matthews of sexually harassing her in 2016, and after a terse exchange with presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren about believing women in workplace disputes.

“Compliments on a woman’s appearance that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were okay, were never okay,” Matthews said. “Not then, and certainly not today. And for making such comments on the past, I’m sorry.”

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— Hardball (@hardball) March 3, 2020

“That was a lot to take in just now, I’m sure,” said a surprised-looking Steve Kornacki, in response to Matthews’...

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Mario Kart Tour is getting multiplayer on March 8th

You’ll be able to play with up to seven players locally or online starting Sunday, March 8th at 11PM ET.

Multiplayer for #MarioKartTour comes out on Mar. 8, 8 PM PT! You can compete against seven other players, whether they're in-game friends, nearby, or around the world. Are you ready to play? pic.twitter.com/IRwBONq560
— Mario Kart Tour (@mariokarttourEN) March 3, 2020

Mario Kart Tour is a simplified version of Mario Kart built to be played on your phone. The whole game is controlled via touch, and you don’t even have to press an...

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Chris Matthews just quit Hardball live on air

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“That was a lot to take in just now, I’m sure,” said a surprised-looking Steve Kornacki, in response to Matthews’...

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Oppo’s new smartwatch looks just like the Apple Watch

Oppo has given us its best look yet at its upcoming smartwatch on the way — and it looks almost exactly like an Apple Watch.

The new watch will be called the Oppo Watch, and more will be announced about it on March 6th at the company’s Oppo Find X2 launch event, according to a tweet the company posted on Monday.

It's time to say hello to #OPPOWatch.

Unveiled at the #OPPOFindX2 Launch Event March 6, 10.30am CET. ⏰ pic.twitter.com/IwbOJnHoyg
— OPPO (@oppo) March 2, 2020

There’s still a lot we don’t know about the device, including price or many of its features, but there are a few things we can speculate about from this one image. It looks like you can use the watch to make and receive calls. And if you look at the watch on the...

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X-Force Writer Reveals Plans For The Abandoned Fox Franchise

Prior to being taken over by Disney, there was no denying that Fox’s major comic book properties were in dire need of a refresh. The main installments in the long-running X-Men series were really starting to run out of steam following the disappointing Apocalypse and the disastrous Dark Phoenix, but spinoffs like Deadpool and Logan roared to critical and commercial success, likely because they were free from the studio-mandated shackles that dictated the creative direction of their fellow mutants.

While the group may have been introduced and played mostly for laughs in Deadpool 2, an X-Force movie was initially green-lit as far back as 2013, with Kick-Ass 2’s Jeff Wadlow set to write and direct. The idea was that the X-Men sequels would continue to churn out PG-13 blockbusters to keep the box office money coming in, while the likes of the Deadpool franchise and X-Force would take more risks and appeal to more mature audiences.

Unfortunately, the proposed X-Force spinoff remained in development hell, and never got off the ground before Disney’s acquisition of Fox. Wadlow eventually dropped out, and at one stage Ryan Reynolds was set to co-write the script alongside Joe Carnahan, although Drew Goddard was set to direct before the entire roster of mutants were taken off the table completely once the Mouse House had acquired their newest toy.

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In a recent interview, Wadlow offered some details on how he planned to approach his version of X-Force, and it certainly sounds a lot more interesting than anything Bryan Singer or Simon Kinberg managed to bring to the dying embers of the X-Men franchise.

“What I can share about my take on the property, is that it asked if X-Men was about mutants who get to go to private school with Wolverine and Professor X, and have the Blackbird swooping down to pick them up, what about the mutants that have to go to public school? What about the ones who don’t have the benefactor looking out for them, and what about the kids who have to figure it out on their own? We then would have introduced the darker, more militant mentor in the form of Cable.”

Focusing the X-Force movie on a group of disenfranchised young mutants with Cable in charge would have been a unique spin on the established X-Men template, and would have looked to have emulated the more mature tone of Logan, but Fox’s final effort instead wound up being one of the biggest box office bombs in recent memory.

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Simon Pegg Criticizes Paramount For Mishandling Star Trek

It’s going-on four years since we last saw a Star Trek movie in theaters. Beyond had an underwhelming box office performance, and subsequent efforts to get a sequel off the ground have yet to lift it out of development hell. Now, the possibility of another reboot and some fresh comments from Simon Pegg have only added to the uncertainty.

In a new interview with TotalFilm (via GamesRadar), Pegg has criticized Paramount Pictures (the studio behind the first three movies), explaining why he thinks budgeting the Star Trek franchise in line with Marvel Studios projects is a false economy.

The fact is, ‘Star Trek’ movies don’t make Marvel money. They make maybe $500 million at the most, and to make one now, on the scale they’ve set themselves, is $200 million. You have to make three times that to make a profit”.

Paramount didn’t really take advantage of the 50th anniversary. The regimen at the time dropped the ball on the promo of the film. And we’ve lost momentum. I think losing Anton [Yelchin] was a huge blow to our little family, and our enthusiasm to do another one might have been affected by that. So I don’t know.

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Pegg had an expanded remit for Beyond’s production, co-writing the script as well as maintaining his on-screen role as Montgomery “Scotty” Scott. A boyhood Trekkie, it’s understandable why he has so much invested in the current state of the franchise, but these comments are more substantial than just a superfan’s ravings.

Pegg is right to point out Star Trek has never been a blockbuster IP in the way other summer mega-movies are. Even Star Trek Into Darkness, to date the highest grossing film, “only” checked in with $467.4 million, which is well below the box office billions we’ve come to associate with comparative name franchises.

Now, there’s undoubtedly more than just money at stake in Star Trek 4’s current production limbo. As Pegg also went on to say, co-star Yelchin’s devastating death has impacted everyone concerned with the reboot series.

Ultimately, you can look at the whole situation as a perfect storm, one that leaves future installments further rather than closer to fruition. I’ve no doubt one day we’ll get more Star Trek on the big screen, but at the moment, no one involved looks any nearer to making it a reality.

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