President Joe Biden speaks about his administration’s response to the coup in Myanmar in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Does anybody remember the “phase one” trade deal the Trump administration struck with China a little over a year ago? It’s still in effect, and it’s not turning out to be a very good deal. Former President Trump and his trade negotiators inked the phase one deal on Jan. 15,… Source link

(Photo via Google) Google is offering new photo-editing features to all Android users—for a price. If you’re carrying anything other than a Pixel-brand handset, you’ll need to be a paying Google One subscriber in order to use them. The paywalled tools include machine learning-powered effects like Portrait Blur, Portrait Light, and Color Pop, initially released last year with the Pixel 5. All three work for new photos and past images—even those without depth information. (Your device must… Source link

Naomi Osaka has gained many fans over the years at the Australian Open. The 2019 champion likely added many more on Friday after her magical moment with a butterfly. During the second set of her 6-3, 6-2 victory over Ons Jabeur of Tunisia, a fan yelled to Osaka as she was about to serve, “There’s a butterfly on your legs.” Very delicately, Osaka scooped up the butterfly off her legs and placed it on the side of the court. The butterfly, however, wasn’t done with the three-time Grand Slam… Source link

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TipRanks These 2 Penny Stocks Could Rack up Triple-Digit Gains, Say Analysts Is a pause to the stock market’s continued surge finally in the cards? The talk has turned to rising interest rates and the specter of inflation against the backdrop of growth powered by Covid fiscal stimulus. However, strategists say there’s no need to get alarmist just yet. According to Goldman Sachs equity strategist, Ryan Hammond, the stock market bull may stick with us for a while. Hammond notes that interest… Source link

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 12th February, 2021) Russian internet giant Yandex said on Friday it had detected a data breach of 4,887 mailboxes orchestrated by the company‘s employee for personal gain. “Yandex… today announced that a data breach had been discovered during routine screening by Yandex’s security team. An internal investigation revealed that an employee had been providing unauthorized access to users’ mailboxes for personal gain,” the company said in a press… Source link

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Parliament will debate making Google and Facebook pay for news after a Senate committee on Friday recommended no changes to drafts of the world’s first such laws. The Senate Economics Legislation Committee has been scrutinizing the bill since it was introduced in Parliament in December. The senators rejected Facebook… Source link

“The U.S. government is concerned that any attempt, through legislation, to regulate the competitive positions of specific players in a fast-evolving digital market, to the clear detriment of two U.S. firms, may result in harmful outcomes,” Assistant U.S. Trade Representatives Daniel Bahar and Karl Ehlers wrote in a submission to the committee dated Jan. 15 under the letterhead “Executive Office of the President.” But Google rival Microsoft supports the law. Microsoft President Brad… Source link

Google is about to take a step further into the dark side, by implementing a dark mode setting on its desktop search page. If there’s something we know for sure, it’s that people (and vampires) love dark mode so this will go down a storm with the search engine’s users (especially those who enjoy a late night Google). In case you’ve been living purely in the light up until now, dark mode is a setting that turns an app or homepage from its usual colour profile into, you’ve guessed it, a dark… Source link

It’s a bit of a unique two-game slate in the NHL on Friday. The Blues visit the Coyotes, which will be the fifth consecutive meeting between the two teams, and Arizona has won each of the past three contests. The Boston-New York tilt is also a rematch, and the Bruins won 3-2 in Game 1. Boston is the largest favorite on the docket and both games have a 5.5 over/under total. GOALIE Tuukka Rask, BOS at NYR ($36): After a slow start, Rask has turned in three consecutive victories with a .929 save… Source link