At least 43 people have tested positive for coronavirus after attending a large house party in Michigan, health officials said Monday. The majority of the cases are among people between the ages of 15 and 25 years who went to or came in contact with someone who went to a house party between July 2 and 3 in the area of Saline, about 10 miles south of Ann Arbor, the Washtenaw County Health Department said in a statement. Another 66 people, not including family members who live with the 44 who… Source link

Google Play Pass, Google’s subscription service that gives you access to hundreds of Android games and apps with no ads or in-app purchases, is rolling out to nine new countries this week, the company announced today. The service has only been available in the US since it launched in September, but it will soon be available to Android users in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, and the UK. Google is also rolling out a new annual subscription option… Source link

In the face of a continuing surge of coronavirus cases in California, home to three NFL teams, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday ordered the closing of bars and indoor dining statewide, plus fitness centers and malls in 30 select counties. “We’re continuing to see hospitalizations rise and we continue to see an increase in the rate of positivity in the state,” Newsom said. “We are moving back into a ‘modification mode’ of our original stay at home order.” In Texas, home to two NFL… Source link

Google has signed on five new developers to make exclusive titles for its Stadia cloud gaming service. Two of those five already have fully realized projects, with one ready for release. Developer Splash Damage, which developed the recent Microsoft exclusive Gears Tactics, is now making an online multiplayer game called Outcasters, while popular strategy and tower defense studio Robot Entertainment has its third installment in its Orcs Must Die! series arriving on Stadia today as part of… Source link

When choosing the best video clips to promote from around the web, Alphabet Inc.’s Google gives a secret advantage to one source in particular: itself. Or, more specifically, its giant online-video service, YouTube. Take a clip of basketball star Zion Williamson that the National Basketball Association posted online in January, when he made… Source link

With the clock ticking on a European Commission probe into Google’s $2.1 billion bid for Fitbit, the tech giant offered regulators a concession late Monday, agreeing not to use Fitbit’s trove of health data to help target ads. Google had been staring down the possibility of a sweeping antitrust investigation by European regulators that was the latest in a series of probes into its deal with Fitbit announced last November. But the tech giant had a potential way to avoid the full thrust… Source link

The Google logo outside if its New York City offices, which were closed on May 19, 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ben Gabbe/Getty Images Google is once again allowing financial web site Zero Hedge to make money using Google’s ad platform. In mid-June, Google told CNBC it had banned Zero Hedge from using its ad platform because of the comments section of the site, which Google said consistently violated its policy against dangerous and derogatory material. Zero Hedge removed the content… Source link

Settlement fund covers losses caused by multiple cyber-attacks, but you must apply by July 20 Yahoo users embroiled in multiple data breaches leading to the widespread theft of personal information have just six days left to join a multimillion-dollar class action settlement. The first Yahoo security incident took place in 2013. In what is considered to be one of the largest online breaches in history, the email provider originally said that one… Source link

The Yandex N.V. (YNDX) shares are trading at higher $51.72 and the avg recommendation for the stock is Moderate Buy. To add more color to this target, the company’s high over the last year is $51.99 and the low is $27.93. Over the last 52 weeks, YNDX is down -0.52% while the S&P 500 is down -0.87%. The catalyst for this interesting swing was the company’s recent earnings report. A Notable Earnings Report In the last quarter, YNDX reported a profit of $395.8 million. Yandex N.V. also saw… Source link

07/14 Update below. This post was originally published on July 12 While Chrome has had a rocky recent run, an ambitious rival has been quick to capitalize. But now Google has given potential defectors a great reason to stick with its browser.  Google Chrome is about to get a lot faster and more efficient SOPA Images LightRocket via Getty Images MORE FROM FORBESGoogle Gmail Users Hit By Deleted And Lost EmailBy Gordon Kelly Having attained internal… Source link