Internet users worldwide received a jarring reminder Monday about just how reliant they are on Google, when the Silicon Valley giant suffered a major failure for about an hour, sending many of its most popular services offline. At a time when more people than ever are working from home because of the pandemic, Google services including Calendar, Gmail, Hangouts, Maps, Meet and YouTube all crashed, halting productivity and sending angry users to Twitter to vent about the loss of services…. Source link

Lamar Jackson spent the first three quarters running through the Cleveland Browns – 124 yards and two touchdowns (at least once he got the proper cleats on, of course). Then he spent much of the fourth in the locker room – with many in the audience watching on television and online wondering (and joking) if he was out because of what was running through him. Jackson said it wasn’t what everyone thought, he was actually getting IVs to deal with cramps. That and some stretching. “I… Source link

Emmanuel Duron was arrested and charged with assault after attacking a football referee. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP) Emmanuel Duron was already facing an assault charge for blindsiding a referee during a high school football game in Texas. On Monday he learned that the attack will cost him the rest of his high school athletic career. Members of Texas’ University Interscholastic League executive committee voted 5-0 on Monday to suspend Duron from competing in athletics for the… Source link

The U.S. Treasury Department computers were hacked into over the weekend. Then, on Monday, Google services were down, which impacted those doing distance learning. The Treasury hack that took place Sunday looks like it stemmed from malware being put on a security system, possibly through a phishing email. Not only was the treasury department impacted, but all five military branches and thousands of federal, state and local… Source link

Google’s John Mueller weighs in on how sites with lots of ads are handled when it comes to ranking in search results. This topic came up during the Google Search Central live stream on December 11 where Mueller addresses the following question: “For some queries I see Google ranking websites which have a high amount of ad content, which is creating a poor search experience. How is Google dealing with those sites?” In response, Mueller describes several factors that can determine how sites… Source link

Google has delayed its plan for employees to return to the office, moving the date from July to September 2021, according to a staff memo sent Sunday night by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. In the email, confirmed by NBC News, Pichai said the company will test out a “flexible work week” that entails working at least three days a week in the office and other days at home. “We are testing a hypothesis that a flexible work model will lead to greater productivity, collaboration, and… Source link

TipRanks J.P. Morgan: 2 Stocks to Buy (And 1 to Avoid) Marko Kolanovic, the well-known quant strategist with JPMorgan, sees a positive feedback loop forming that will drive the markets higher next year. Kolanovic believes that a decline in volatility and favorable monetary policies will combine to make stocks the go-to investment for 2021, fueling further market gains. Officially, JPM is forecasting a 25% gain in the S&P 500 over the next 12 months.With investors gravitating toward stocks,… Source link

Former Baylor coach Art Briles resigned from his post as the head coach of Mount Vernon High School on Monday, the school announced. Briles, the disgraced former Bears coach who was in charge during a massive sexual assault scandal at the university, had been with the Texas high school for two seasons. Prior to that, he had a short coaching stint in Italy. Briles finished with a 20-6 overall record at Mount Vernon. They fell in the Texas 3A Div. I state semifinals last week. “After coaching… Source link

Google is no longer manufacturing the Google Home Max, its smart speaker designed with high-quality sound in mind, and it has sold out of the product on the Google Store, the company tells The Verge. And indeed, if you check the Google Home Max page on the Google Store, you’ll see that the white and black models are listed as out of stock. Even though Google is discontinuing the Google Home Max, the company still plans to support it with software updates and security fixes. “Existing… Source link

Google has pushed back its return to the office until September, and will experiment with a hybrid model allowing some employees to work from home part of the week, the company said. First reported by The New York Times, Google CEO Sundar Pichai emailed employees Sunday about plans to test a flexible work week once conditions are safe for people to return. Google employees would work three days in the office and the rest of the week at home under the new plan. Pichai said the company is… Source link