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2 Twins games postponed over COVID protocols

The Minnesota Twins' games against the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday night and Sunday have been postponed due to Minnesota's COVID-19 problems, including at least four positive tests in the past week.

Kyle Garlick, another unnamed Twins player and a team staff member tested positive in the two days before the postponements, manager Rocco Baldelli said Saturday. Shortstop Andrelton Simmons already hadn't made the trip to Anaheim after testing positive early in the week, and he hadn't been around the team since Tuesday.

"There's not one person in our group who's not frustrated," Baldelli said. "Does everyone have that general frustration just having to deal with this in a grander sense? Absolutely. And then there are probably people who are frustrated about particular aspects of that."

Saturday's game was "postponed to allow for continued testing and contact tracing involving members of the Twins organization," the league said in a statement.

The Twins are undergoing more testing this weekend in Anaheim, and they're uncertain when they'll be allowed to play again. They haven't had any more positive tests from another round Saturday, but Baldelli knows that could be false hope.

"It's a difficult time, and we all know the timelines…

Roblox to introduce content ratings for games to better restrict age-inappropriate content

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Virtual gaming platform Roblox is developing content ratings for games and easier-to-use parental controls, the company’s chief privacy officer Remy Malan told The Wall Street Journal.

Half of Roblox’s audience of more than 30 million daily users are kids under 13, but the platform has struggled at times to contain sexually explicit content. Age-inappropriate games sometimes surface up on kids’ “recommended for you” lists, according to the WSJ.

The platform’s current system restricts kids to specific games, but under the new system, parents would have more information about what kids might find in a given game; until you play a game, it’s not always clear that it might have explicit or inappropriate content in it.

Malan did not indicate when the new ratings system would be available, but said Roblox has a team of more than 2,300 people monitoring games for safety, and uses a mix of human moderators and AI.

Roblox, which launched in 2006, has been a runaway hit during the pandemic, giving socially-distanced kids a social space to gather online. The company reported revenue of $588.7 million…

Tokyo Olympics 2020: What will happen if the Games are cancelled?

With less than 100 days to go, the Games aren’t a sure thing (Picture: Getty)

The Olympics for 2020 was awarded to Tokyo over seven years ago because it was considered a safe choice to host.

Nobody could have predicted the Covid-19 outbreak that has impacted nearly the entire world – and forced the 2020 Olympic Games to be postponed.

Announcing a new date of July 23–August 8, president of the International Olympics Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach said: ‘Humankind currently finds itself in a dark tunnel.

‘These Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 can be a light at the end of this tunnel.’

But that tunnel seems to be getting longer and longer, with many wondering if the games will have to be cancelled following reports that coronavirus infections are rising in many parts of Japan. The country only began its vaccination programme this week.

What will happen if the Olympics get cancelled and have they been cancelled in the past?

What happens if the Olympics are cancelled?

If the games can’t go ahead as planned, the event could face being cancelled altogether –…