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The win took Australia to the top of Pool B with six points from two games and virtually secured their place in the quarterfinals of the 16-team event. The Kookaburras had earlier defeated Ireland 2-1 in their tournament opener. For England, the loss was a major setback after the 2-2 draw against lowly China in the opening game. Australia will play China in their last pool match on December 7, while England will be up against neighbours Ireland....

Mark Cuban has found a solution. Cuban has developed a new phone application entitled, “Cyber Dust.” This new app automatically deletes text messages 24 seconds after being read. The text message can never be recreated or retrieved in any way. Cuban went into depth with Sporting News about why he invented the application, how the application differs from other text deleting apps, and how this application may just save athletes’ careers....

Until now, it has been a one-way street. Athletes would compete as amateurs for as long as possible-hoping always for a shot at an Olympic medal-and then would make the jump to the chorus line of the touring icetravaganzas. (A few others would find their way into graduate school or waiting tables.) It’s a humbling prospect for world-class performers: having reached the pinnacle of sport, they are consigned to exhibitions, sort of like taking Michael Jordan and allowing him only to put on dunking demonstrations....

But if young Ennis Cosby’s life was full of promise, his death remains a mystery. Sometime around 1:30 a.m. last Thursday, Cosby, 27, pulled his emerald green Mercedes convertible off the San Diego Freeway near affluent Bel-Air with a flat front tire. It’s a sparsely settled, hilly area with few street lights and little nighttime traffic. Police say Cosby made a cellular-phone call to a friend he was driving to visit....

In the heavy swells off New York’s Long Island coast last weekend, a high-tech Pinger Locater System trolled the ocean bottom looking for the all-important black boxes (which are actually orange) that could reveal the last words of the pilots and final instrument readings of the aircraft. On Saturday, another sonar found a trail of wreckage that may lead divers to the plane’s fuselage. And in a giant hangar at the old Grumman factory in Calverton, Long Island, investigators prepared to painstakingly reconstruct the shattered 747, bit by bit....

The legislation, which was filed last year by state Representative Bryan Slaton, would allow women who receive an abortion to be charged with assault or homicide, which carries the state’s death sentence. Texas already has one of the country’s most restrictive abortion laws, but some Republicans have sought to add further limitations to the practice—while Democrats and some moderates have strongly opposed the laws. The battle over how Republicans should handle the issue of abortion has become central in one GOP primary in Texas’ 91st congressional district, which contains conservative suburbs north of Fort Worth....

When asked directly how far along Death Stranding actually is, Layden confirmed that it’s out of the concept stage and is in a playable state. While he may not be able to explain any of it, Layden did admit that he has played the upcoming game and it’s as revolutionary a experience as Kojima has been promising. Again, no details were given, but with major game events still to come this year such as Tokyo Game Show, fans should expect to see more soon....

Kojima has been vocal on his Twitter and Instagram before, sharing fan creations based on his games and even some of the more popular Death Stranding memes that have been spreading around. This and his fame as a game director has garnered Kojima enough attention online to net him two Guinness World Records. RELATED: Death Stranding: What are BTs? The specific records are for “The most followers on Twitter/Instagram for a videogame director,” and have been awarded to Kojima’s English Twitter account as well as his Instagram....

Close to the outset of the interview, Kojima is asked to describe what kind of game Death Stranding is going to be, which led the creator to almost immediately describe it as an action title that has the goal of allowing players to jump into the gameplay with little to no difficulty whatsoever. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the mysterious game from Kojima Productions is going to be a walk in the park, as it will contain a “certain level of depth,” which likely is an allusion to its ability to satisfy more hardcore gamers....

The PC launch of Death Stranding is now set for June 2, 2020, and the game will be available through Steam, through the Epic Games Store, and as a physical release. This means that fans have just three months to wait before they can experience Hideo Kojima’s divisive new title on PC, and they will find that this new version contains “a bunch of exciting content and features” not seen in its PS4 counterpart....

This isn’t the first time players have taken the beautiful world of Death Stranding and transferred it into the low poly world of classic gameplay. One fan even brought the PS4 game all the way back to the system’s roots, showing Sam evade BTs in a Silent Hill style, PS1 rendering. RELATED: 10 Unresolved Mysteries & Plot Holes Left Hanging In Death Stranding For the most recent demake, Fabricio Lima posted a “Low-Fi” version of Death Stranding to Twitter from their account @NotFabricio....

Brought to life by Jason Kelley, an actor who’s also nominated at the aforementioned end of year gaming celebration for his performance, Colt Vahn’s characterization sits at the very heart of Deathloop and its success. Throughout the Bethesda-published adventure, each death peels back a little bit of the protagonist’s history and his subsequent relationship with the mysterious Blackreef Island. Designed in part to almost be a character within its own right, player’s are left at the end of the engrossing narrative journey on the island with a set of complicated disjointed memories that connect the two stars....

The 20-year-old rookie, who hails from Detroit’s northwest suburb of Farmington Hills, opened the scoring for Chicago just four minutes into the opening period. He collected a pass near the right circle, spun around and fired a wrist shot past Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard. DeBrincat followed that up with an assist on Anthony Duclair’s tally less than three minutes later and found the back of the net for a second time with Chicago already leading 3-0 in the second....

Fluminense coach Abel Braga says injured midfielder Deco is unlikely to be ready for the club’s 2013 Copa Libertadores debut against Caracas Feb 13. The former Porto, Barcelona and Chelsea star completed 20 minutes of light running Tuesday in his first training appearance since injuring his right thigh two weeks ago, reports Xinhua. “The Copa Libertadores is something different. You need to have meticulous planning and preparation and we can’t go making rash decisions,” Braga said....

Bush called in two veterans of his 1988 campaign, speechwriter Peggy Noonan and media adviser Roger Ailes, to add glitz to this pivotal moment. Together, Noonan and Ailes helped the president deliver a respectably crafted speech and a respectable performance. NEWSWEEK decodes the address to show what Bush was really saying, and why: ..MR.- A year ago tonight I spoke to you at a moment of high peril. American forces had just unleashed Operation Desert Storm … Soon after, the Arab world and Israel sat down to talk seriously, and comprehensively, about peace-an historic first And soon after that, at Christmas, the last American hostages came home....

Skyrim is considered to have some of the deepest lore in an open-world game, and much of that is conveyed through hundreds of books scattered around the game world. There are currently about 820 pieces of readable literature available in Skyrim, including letters, spell tomes, and journals. Roughly 307 books serve to expand the game’s world, culture, history, and other forms of lore. RELATED: The Elder Scrolls Fan Creates Their Own Destruction Spell Book...

Back in February of this year, Capcom renewed the Deep Down trademark for a six month extension, but nothing was shown of the game within that six month period. This latest trademark is for a shorter period of time, perhaps indicating that Capcom may be considering the possibility of abandoning the project if it doesn’t start making significant progress. Fans should keep their expectations in check, but if Deep Down has been making steady progress these past six months, then there’s a chance we could see it at Tokyo Game Show in September....

After losing the toss, India were put in to bat and failed to get going on a slow track and were held to 130 for 8 in their 20 overs. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur was the top scorer for the side with 43 from 34 balls. Though Smriti Mandhana began swiftly, scoring 21 off 16 balls with four fours, she was dismissed by Nondumiso Shangase. Harmanpreet and Deepti Sharma (16) featured in a 46-run partnership for the fourth wicket to bring India back on track....

The new deal was agreed to by 61 percent of the United Auto Workers Union despite its minimal changes from a previously rejected offer. The last deal was rejected by 55 percent of workers, according to the Associated Press. This new contract keeps an immediate 10 percent raise the previous deal offered. It also makes changes to the details of Deere’s internal incentive pay program for workers that the United Auto Workers union said was “modest....

The Blues lifted the trophy after a 5-1 battering of Sunderland on Sunday, having wrapped up the title by beating West Brom earlier this month. Chelsea’s transformation in fortunes under Conte has, in part, been down to a shift from playing four at the back to a three-man defence. And the Italian says the smooth transition to his tactical approach played an important role in their return to the pinnacle of English football following the disappointment of last season when they finished 10th....