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After Everton’s board decided enough was enough on Monday and sacked its manager Ronald Koeman, it now faces the task of finding a replacement for him. With a summer that saw £150 million (about $198 million) spent on players, Everton has shown ambition. But Koeman’s replacement will first have to guide the team to safety, for Sunday’s 5-2 defeat to Arsenal saw the club slip into the relegation zone. So, here, Newsweek takes a look and analyzes the men who have been linked with the hot seat at Goodison Park: Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now Sean Dyche The Burnley manager could be a representative for the Conservative Party given his reputation: strong and stable. Dyche has propelled Burnley from a mediocre Championship club to mid-table in the Premier League, beating Chelsea and Liverpool in the last year. David Unsworth Beware the caretaker’s curse. A legend around Goodison, Unsworth played more than 300 games for the club and has been placed in charge temporarily. He reportedly wants the job permanently but that never ends too well. Just ask Roberto di Matteo or Craig Shakespeare. Related: Jurgen Klopp seems to have found a way to fund a new defense at Liverpool Former Everton manager Ronald Koeman at Goodison Park, Liverpool, October 22. OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Marco Silva Despite being unable to save Hull City last season, Silva’s stock has risen hugely. He came close to the great escape with the Tigers and since being appointed Watford manager has made the Hornets into an attractive team that is, incredibly, competing for the top four. Carlo Ancelotti And this is where the ambition comes in. Ancelotti has won three Champions League titles and the domestic championship in England, Spain, Germany, Italy and France. He is one of the most successful coaches available after being sacked by Bayern Munich. So would he be interested in a relegation scrap? Thomas Tuchel Again, the interest in Tuchel, the former Borussia Dortmund coach, shows the desire Everton fans and board have for the club. Tuchel succeeded Jurgen Klopp at Dortmund and continued the attractive style of football the team has played for the last few years.vending inventory management |
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Announcements from Elon Musk—famous for pioneering electric cars and revolutionizing space rockets—are often greeted with a frenzied hysteria. His latest announcement was no different—even if it was just a hat. Musk took to Twitter on Wednesday, October 18, to reveal “the world’s most boring hat,” the first piece of merchandise for The Boring Company, his tunnel-digging company. Within hours, the tweet was 'favorited' almost 10 thousand times. When asked by one Twitter user if the $20 hat was being used as a fundraising mechanism for The Boring Company, Musk responded: “Gonna build that tunnel one hat at a time.” Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now The Boring Company joins Musk's other business ventures, which include electric car company Tesla, space firm SpaceX, artificial intelligence research non-profit OpenAI and brain-computer interface startup Neuralink. “To solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic, roads must go 3D, which means either flying cars or tunnels,” The Boring Company’s website states. “Unlike flying cars, tunnels are weatherproof, out of sight and won’t fall on your head. “A large network of tunnels many levels deep would fix congestion in any city, no matter how large it grew (just keep adding levels). The key to making this work is increasing tunneling speed and dropping costs by a factor of 10 or more—this is the goal of The Boring Company.” A concept for a pod designed by The Boring Company. The Boring Company Musk already has a history of drastically reducing the cost of travel through major innovations, such as being the first to develop a reusable rocket through his SpaceX company. “It’s just as fundamental in rocketry as it is in other forms of transport, such as cars or planes or bicycles,” Musk said in a post-launch briefing last year of his company’s Falcon 9 rocket. To reduce the cost of tunneling, The Boring Company says it will reduce the diameter of a one-lane tunnel from approximately 28 feet to under 14 feet. To make this safe for vehicles to travel in, cars would be placed on a “stabilized electric skate” and propelled through the tunnels by an electric motor. A video released by the company shows how this futuristic concept might work, with the electric skates travelling at around 125 mph. Elon Musk broke ground for the first tunnel earlier this year. The Boring Company The Boring Company’s website is now listing job openings for designers, engineers and technicians, as well as a “California Professional Geologist.” Beyond transporting cars and other vehicles, tunnels dug by The Boring Company would also make Musk’s vision for a Hyperloop transportation system viable. The 760 mph vacuum tube transportation—first envisioned by Musk in 2013—has attracted interest from the likes of Richard Branson and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Reports last year suggested the Russian leader may be planning a 21st Century Silk Road using a Hyperloop network to connect Russia with China. |
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Tucked toward the end of this week's Rolling Stone profile of tech mogul Elon Musk, writer Neil Strauss dropped a nugget for a rabid fan base. The Space X and Tesla CEO apparently loves the hit Adult Swim show Rick and Morty. The animated series—which follows the adventures of the smartest man in the universe and his grandson—is smart, funny and incredibly popular with a group of superfans who tend to get carried away. One recent example: They famously started near-riots at McDonald's locations over a Szechuan sauce promotion tied to the show. It has also become a meme of sorts online that a certain type of Rick and Morty fan is liable to insert a lecture about the show into just about any conversation. But that sort of devotion has helped the show grow in its third season from a niche offering to the No. 1 comedy on television. "I wear a lot of Rick and Morty T-shirts," co-creator Dan Harmon told Newsweek's Emily Gaudette in September. “I noticed that the number of waiters, bartenders and people on the street who would say ‘cool shirt’ to me doubled a few times over just before season three started airing." Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now Musk is among that growing fan base. Strauss described him at home, a bit distracted:
Pretty superfan-ish. In fact, this is not the first time Musk has mentioned his affection for the series. He has met with co-creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, as evidenced on Twitter. “Thank you for being a humble genius, a dreamer, and a beacon of hope for humanity,” Roiland posted to Twitter, alongside a photo of he and Musk. Musk was asked on Twitter in August if he watched the show. He posted in response: "Yeah. It's kinda disgusting, but my boys and I love it :)." And, more recently, he had an extended back and forth with the show's Twitter account that included a gushing review: "Final episode was disgustingly good." It makes sense that Musk likes a show based around weird science and off-beat humor—the tech executive favors both. Wonder if he was among those storming McDonald's. Tags: telemeter, vending-telemetry, cashless-vending, light-industrial-, commercial- |
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As the Knicks prepare to begin their preseason on Wednesday, there seems little to be excited about in New York. The team lost Carmelo Anthony last month, traded to the Oklahoma Thunder in return for Enes Kanter, Doug McDermott and a second-round pick for the 2018 draft. There isn’t much optimism over the deal. And that comes after a season in which the Knicks had the 23rd worst defense in the league, with a points differential of minus 3.7. But coach Jeff Hornacek is pretty certain he knows why. Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now Last year, Hornacek left the defensive organization to the veteran players in his team, giving them the opportunity to determine the opposition. That didn’t work out so well, so Hornacek and his staff have learned from their mistakes. Related: Carmelo Anthony has left New York, so do the Knicks have a plan in place? “We're not doing that this year," Hornacek said, as quoted by ESPN. "When we go to shoot around that (defensive) plan will be in place. We'll know the adjustments, instead of trying to give the guys the idea, ‘Hey, you guys play, you guys know these guys. What's the best way to do it?'" Hornacek suggested the errors last season may have been down to him, but insisted the Knicks have spent this summer focusing on defensive work. "I played on teams that had great veteran players,” he added. “We had a basic thing, but most of the time it was, ‘Okay, I'm going to be doing this, you're going to be doing this and we worked it out.' That's maybe what I thought we'd be able to do last year with the guys. But that's, we found out that didn't work the best for us. This year we worked all summer to try to figure these things out." The Knicks launch their preseason at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, with the Brooklyn Nets traveling to New York for the first warm-up game of the campaign. They then face the Wizards twice, Nets again, Rockets, and Thunder before starting the regular season in Oklahoma where Anthony will face his old team in his first competitive start for the Thunder. The defense, by then, may not be as easy to beat as he remembers. |
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Reddit is taking additional action to prevent users from spreading violent and hateful content by updating some rules and regulations that the company said were "too vague." In a statement released on Wednesday, Reddit said it would be making site-wide updates that have already resulted in a wave of subreddits being banned on the social news sharing site. Reddit said some policy changes are needed to ease confusion on what content is shareable on the site, as prior rule changes had directly affected subreddits that included Nazi and European nationalist propaganda. “In particular, we found that the policy regarding “inciting” violence was too vague, and so we have made an effort to adjust it to be more clear and comprehensive. Going forward, we will take action against any content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people; likewise, we will also take action against content that glorifies or encourages the abuse of animals. This applies to ALL content on Reddit, including memes, CSS/community styling, flair, subreddit names, and usernames,” the statement read. Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now “We understand that enforcing this policy may often require subjective judgment, so all of the usual caveats apply with regard to content that is newsworthy, artistic, educational, satirical, etc., as mentioned in the policy. Context is key.” Seven communities are no longer accessible on Reddit, according to Gizmodo, including r/EuropeanNationalism, r/Nazi, and r/pol, which was an extension of the 4chan community board of the same name. Of the newly banned channels, the most-visited subreddit had more than 7,000 followers. This isn’t the first time Reddit has taken extra measures to prevent hate speech or violent content from being shared. In 2015, Reddit made policy changes that forced a number of subreddits to clean up content promoting anti-Semitism and white supremacy while two notorious subreddits—r/coontown and r/fatpeoplehate—that were widely known for toxic, violent content and hate speech were shut down. The move directly countered the sentiments of the company’s former CEO, Yishan Wong, who vowed to “not ban questionable subreddits.” Wong was the head of the company from 2012 until resigning in 2014. Following Reddit’s first-ever community bans, hate speech on the site dropped some 90 percent for some users, according to a September study from researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University and the University of Michigan. Tags: industrial-wireless, m2m-iot, smart-vending-, touchscreen-vending, cloud-vms, telemeter, vending-telemetry, cashless-vending |