Google announced its plans to build a new subsea cable with landing points in New York in the U.S. and Bude, U.K. and Bilbao, Spain in Europe. Tech giant first revealed the Curie project last January, alongside two other new cables as first major non-telecom company to build a private international cable.  The cable — named Grace Hopper after the American computer programming pioneer — will provide “better resilience for the network that underpins Google’s consumer and enterprise… Source link

Thursday brings 10 more games in MLB, eight of which will make up the main evening slate on Yahoo. There are some exciting matchups among them, including the Twins hosting the Indians and the Rays taking on the Braves. Let’s dig into the options and discuss some players who are worth considering for your lineup. Pitchers The second-most expensive starting pitching option is Dinelson Lamet ($48), who looked sharp in his season debut by allowing one run and recording eight strikeouts across five… Source link

Google One, the cloud storage service that Google launched back in 2018, will now backup your iOS or Android phone for free with your Google account. The iOS app will be able to backup your photos, videos, contacts and calendar events, consolidating what’s offered by different services like Photos and Drive into one place, Android Authority notes. Meanwhile the Android app, which could already backup a range of files from your phone, will now offer backups without a Google One… Source link

Google alternative Ecosia is on a mission to turn search clicks into trees. The Berlin based not-for-profit reached a major milestone earlier this month, having used ad revenue generated by users of its privacy-sensitive search engine to plant more than 100 million trees across 25 countries worldwide — targeted at biodiversity hotspots. However these good feels have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Ecosia has seen its monthly revenues slashed by half since COVID-19 arrived… Source link

Eventually, an NFL quarterback was going to be forced to think about it. And when one confronted the inescapable reality, the door would open for others to follow. On Wednesday, future Hall of Famer Drew Brees officially breached that threshold, admitting that an incessant (and questionably gross) habit will need to be ditched during the COVID-19 era. Licking fingers during an NFL game. Brees and other quarterbacks have engaged in the act thousands of times before a snap, using their tongue to… Source link

Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM. The wife of Scott Hassan, robotics entrepreneur and principal programmer of the Google search engine, is suing Morrison & Foerster for being a “willing architect and facilitator” of Hassan’s scheme to “cheat” her out of millions of dollars after she filed for divorce in 2015. Want to continue reading?Become a Free ALM Digital Reader. Benefits of a Digital Membership: Free access… Source link

Google is notifying site owners via Search Console of an increase in searches related to work from home jobs. The increase in searches is directly related COVID-19’s impact on businesses and employment. The purpose of alerting site owners is to make them aware of an opportunity to use remote job structured data markup. Lily Ray shared a screenshot of the email Google is sending out, which reads: “Given the recent COVID-19 impact on businesses and employment, Google has seen increased job… Source link

Former special counsel Robert Mueller. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Former special counsel Robert Mueller’s decision not to charge President Trump with obstruction of justice was an “unconscionable” lapse that “let Trump get away with lying,” Norm Eisen, former special counsel for the House Judiciary Committee, said in a Wednesday interview on the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery.” Eisen’s sharp comments about Mueller, for whom he said he has always had great respect, came… Source link

Amazon (AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook, Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Google parent Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai sat before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law on Wednesday to take questions during an at-times acrimonious hearing related to ongoing antitrust investigations into the power the companies wield over competitors and consumers. Much of the hearing saw pointed lines of questioning aimed… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The NBA is back…and ready for good trouble  Yahoo Sports Source link