Monthly Archives: February 2021

Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan speaks with Yahoo Finance [Transcript]

Robert Kaplan, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, spoke with Yahoo Finance to discuss the COVID-19 recovery and the future of Fed policy. Below is a transcript of his appearance on Feb. 12, 2021. — BRIAN CHEUNG: There’s no question that we’re not out of the woods yet on the economy, almost 10 million people still sidelined relative to pre-pandemic levels. There’s millions still turning to unemployment insurance, as we saw from the Department of Labor yesterday. So to chat… Source link

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Google to provide 100,000 Black women with career, digital skills training

Black-owned business have seen a surge in sales following the George Floyd protests. FOX Business’ Grady Trimble with more. Google is aiming to help the employment crisis women of color continue to face during the pandemic. The tech giant on Friday announced an initiative to provide 100,000 Black women with career development and digital skills training by spring 2022. Google is helping 100,000 women of color impacted by unemployment by teaming up with organizations like The Links Inc., a… Source link

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Stocks mixed, but look to post weekly gains after record-setting week

Stocks were mixed Friday, with equities hovering near record levels. Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended Thursday’s regular trading day at fresh record closing highs as tech stocks outperformed. The Dow ended just a tick below its own recent record closing level. Earlier, U.S. stocks tracked declines in overseas equities, after new data showed that UK gross domestic product (GDP) slumped by a record 9.9% in 2020 as a virus-induced recession swept the country. Shares of Dow component Disney ( Source link

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How to Start Google Maps in Satellite View

Satellite View is a feature that has been in Google Maps since the service was first released. It can be handy to see a real-world top-down view of any location. We’ll show you how to start in this view by default on Android and iPhone. Before we enable Satellite View by default, you should know that it will use more data than the minimalist “Map” view. Satellite View will also be enabled during turn-by-turn navigation. Keep this in mind if you use Google Maps with a mobile data… Source link

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Yandex suffers data breach after sysadmin sold access to user emails

Russian internet and search company Yandex announced today that one of its system administrators had enabled unauthorized access to thousands of user mailboxes. The company discovered the breach internally, during a routine check of its security team. The investigation revealed that the employee’s actions led to the compromise of almost 5,000 Yandex email inboxes. Sysadmin’s side business The employee was a system administrator who had access rights to provide technical support for… Source link

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Vergecast: Google’s mysterious lack of app updates and Apple’s rumored VR headset

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast The Vergecast to discuss this week in Verge headlines. Here’s what The Verge’s Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Adi Robertson focus the episode on this week: Google’s mysterious lack of iOS app updates, the rumors around an Apple-made VR / AR headset, and the gadget headlines you may have missed. This week, users of the iOS versions of Google’s apps were shown a prompt claiming the software was “out of date” and suggesting… Source link

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Yahoo Ryot Lab to be official Innovation Partner of NYFW: The Shows 2021

What you need to know: First of its kind partnership with Yahoo Ryot Lab and New York Fashion Week will reimagine fashion through next gen content built on 5G Yahoo Ryot Lab will launch an immersive sneak preview with Rebecca Minkoff this season, tied to her Spring/Summer ‘21 collection debut at NYFW Immersive content created with Rebecca Minkoff will be powered by Verizon Media Immersive and distributed across Yahoo’s ecosystem NEW YORK – Today, Yahoo Ryot Lab (formerly known as RYOT)… Source link

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Yahoo Ryot Lab to be Official Innovation Partner of NYFW: The Shows 2021

Bloomberg A Crypto Kid Had a $23,000-a-Month Condo. Then the Feds Came (Bloomberg) — Stefan Qin was just 19 when he claimed to have the secret to cryptocurrency trading.Buoyed with youthful confidence, Qin, a self-proclaimed math prodigy from Australia, dropped out of college in 2016 to start a hedge fund in New York he called Virgil Capital. He told potential clients he had developed an algorithm called Tenjin to monitor cryptocurrency exchanges around the world to seize on price… Source link

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Yandex said it caught an employee selling access to users’ inboxes

Russian search engine and email provider Yandex said today that it caught one of its employees selling access to user email accounts for personal gains. The company, which did not disclose the employee’s name, said the person was “one of three system administrators with the necessary access rights to provide technical support” for its Yandex.Mail service. The Russian company said it’s now in the process of notifying the owners of the 4,887… Source link

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