(CNN) —   The Google Home Mini, like the Amazon Echo Dot, really started the smart speaker revolution — and while the Google Home Mini launched in 2016, it’s still humming along with more smarts than ever before. Right now at StackSocial the Google Home Mini is just $19.99 — nearly 60% off its original $49.95 price tag. The big appeal of the Home Mini is adding the Google Assistant to your room. You can ask for your… Source link

The Google Stadia controller. Sarah Tew/CNET This story is part of CES, where our editors will bring you the… Source link

NASCAR driver Hailie Deegan apologized to “everyone who was offended by it” for saying the R-word during a Sunday night Twitch stream. Deegan — who was streaming for the first time on her Twitch channel — was broadcasting a virtual race that she was participating in. She was talking on her microphone over caution and used the slur to ask about a driver who was behind her. Earlier tonight I used an insensitive word during an online race being broadcast on twitch. It was inappropriate… Source link

Facebook, Google, Airbnb and Lyft are among Bay Area companies freezing some political donations in the wake of last week’s U.S. Capitol rampage by a mob incited by President Trump. The moves, along with similar ones from other major corporations nationwide, could prove significant, since business-backed political action committees provide considerable funding for the campaigns of incumbent members of… Source link

On Sunday night, the Pittsburgh Steelers dug a 28-0 first-quarter hole as their season that started 11-0 crashed and burned in the playoffs courtesy of the Cleveland Browns. On Monday, a Steelers wide receiver hopped on TikTok to trash the team that just ended his season. No, it wasn’t JuJu Smith-Schuster. Chase Claypool picked up the TikTok torch of disrespecting opponents in a live stream with his followers. Except unlike Smith-Schuster’s ritual pregame social media dances, Claypool’s… Source link

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks with Over 9% Dividend Yield Markets ended 2020 on a high note, and have started 2021 on a bullish trajectory. All three major indexes have recently surged to all-time highs as investors seemingly looked beyond the pandemic and hoped for signs of a rapid recovery. Veteran strategist Edward Yardeni sees the economic recovery bringing its own slowdown with it. As the COVID vaccination program allows for further economic opening, with more people getting back to… Source link

Facebook is reportedly reassessing its political spending practices after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Andrew Hoyle/CNET … Source link

Rumble Inc., a streaming video site increasingly favored by users who think conservatives are censored online, sued Google in federal court in California Monday, claiming the tech giant unlawfully tilts search engine results toward its sister company YouTube. “By unfairly rigging its search algorithms,” Google has been “able to wrongfully divert massive traffic to YouTube, depriving Rumble of the additional traffic, users, uploads, brand awareness and revenue it would have otherwise… Source link

NEW DELHI: At least 1,700 private WhatsApp group links were visible on Google through a simple web search, according to a recent research. Published by internet security researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia, the research claimed that the groups’ links available on the web posed a threat to WhatsApp users’ privacy. Rajaharia had shared screenshots of the WhatsApp group links on his Twitter profile on Sunday afternoon. “Anyone who had access to these links could join these private groups, see… Source link

TCL will have televisions that run on the Google TV platform later this year. screenshot/Google This story is part of CES, where our… Source link