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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Make it three in a row on the road for Chase Elliott. NASCAR’s most popular driver won the Cup Series road course race at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday, holding off hard-charging Denny Hamlin following a late restart and notching his third consecutive victory away from ovals. “I had a phenomenal car. I don’t think I did anything special today,” Elliott said. The 24-year-old Elliott also won on road courses at Charlotte and at Watkins Glen last year. He got a tougher challenge than many expected down the stretch in his latest roadie. Elliott had...

Things have been rather quiet on Google’s Wear OS front. Not long ago, Google announced that it was acquiring Fitbit; almost ever since we haven’t seen too many wearables powered by Google’s Wear OS. But there’s been a flurry of activity on the wearables scene and it’s not just Bluetooth earbuds that have almost become a must have in the WFH era with back to back Zoom meetings. We’ve seen wearable brands like Amazfit and also brands like Huawei and OPPO jump into the action as they mount a challenge to established players like Apple, Samsung and Fitbit. The TicWatch...

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Death and danger are inexorable facts of summiting Mount Everest, but a longtime guide thinks he has a technology that can help prevent one of the most common issues there: high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE). Lukas Furtenbach, who has been running expeditions in the Himalayas since 2001 and founded Furtenbach Adventures in 2014, plans to unveil a new pulse oximeter on Everest during the 2021 season that, he claims, will make climbing the world’s tallest peak as safe as flying. (The odds of dying on Everest are about one in a hundred, compared to about one in five million in a plane crash.) Whether that is true or not remains to be...

Hello everyone, August has arrived and one way or another we will be in school!  Here are 5 things you gotta do before school starts! 1. )  Take a look at your pacing guide for the year and gather the supplies, resources and materials you will be needing for at least the first month.  Organize your files and your grade book so you have a clear path forward. Whether in the classroom or distance learning it is time to think about classroom rules and consequences.   2.)  Make and share the rules you come up with and post them for all to see. ...