The New York Times Inside the Lincoln Project’s Secrets, Side Deals and Scandals A few days before the presidential election, the leadership of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project gathered at the Utah home of Steve Schmidt, one of the group’s co-founders, and listened as he plotted out the organization’s future. None of the dissident Republican consultants who created the Lincoln Project a year earlier had imagined how wildly successful it would be, pulling in more than $87 million in donations… Source link

One year ago, on the eve of the eventful day that signaled the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — March 11, 2020 — a plurality of Americans (44 percent) said the threat of the virus had been “exaggerated,” according to a Yahoo News/YouGov poll conducted at the time. More people said their peers were “overreacting” (36 percent) than said they were “behaving appropriately” (30 percent). Just 6 percent said they had worn a mask. And nearly everyone (88 percent) predicted that… Source link

A Covid-19 patient has suffered from a painful three-hour erection due to a rare complication of the virus. The unidentified 69-year-old man from the US state of Ohio was diagnosed with the condition, known as priapism, while in hospital for coronavirus in August last year. The patient was admitted to Miami Valley Hospital and diagnosed with Covid-19. After his condition began to worsen, he was sedated and placed on a ventilator for 10 days. A Covid-19 patient has suffered from a painful… Source link

Google LLC’s decision to stop tracking individual web browsing activity in its products and services marks a notable shift for the digital advertising market, but analysts said the move aligns with a broader push by consumers and regulators for more data privacy. Tracking third-party web activity has also become less necessary for Google’s business over time. Although the Alphabet Inc. unit derives most of its revenue from advertising (81.2%), the vast reach of its search and other… Source link

The Association for Computing Machinery nixed Google as a sponsor for the fourth annual Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, happening this week online. The association had been facing pressure to address recent events at Google — namely the departure of two female computer scientists who called out bias in artificial intelligence and within the company. Conference sponsorship co-chair Michael Ekstrand, assistant professor of computer science at Boise State University,… Source link

By Samuel Shen and Alun John SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Bitcoin mania has fuelled a surge in fundraising by Chinese companies seeking to expand their cryptocurrency operations or move into the red-hot sector. From large listed companies tapping public markets to smaller players raising funds from venture capitalists, a jump in cryptocurrency prices and signs of growing acceptance of the technology by mainstream institutions have fed the market boom. Chinese bitcoin mining machine… Source link

MOSCOW, March 10. /TASS/. Disruptions in functioning of four major Internet services occurred in Russia, according to the Downdetector website data. YouTube suffered most disruptions: Downdetector registered 308 reports; meanwhile, 275 users reported disruptions in Google. A total of 87 reports were filed on Yandex, while MTS cell phone carrier had 74 registered disruptions. Most Youtube users (46%) could not load the website, while 43% complained on video content malfunctions; 9%… Source link

A federal judge ruled on Monday that the identities of four Los Angeles County deputies accused of sharing photos from the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash scene be unsealed amid a lawsuit filed by Bryant’s widow Vanessa Bryant.  U.S. District Judge John F. Walter rejected the arguments of lawyers for the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department that the names of the accused deputies should not be revealed to Bryant’s legal team or the public, according to a Los Angeles Times report.  Walter cited… Source link

Google on Tuesday changed how its hotel price-comparison search works worldwide. The search giant made it free for hotels, online travel agencies, and metasearch brands to list room rates in its boxed pricing module for individual properties. Google has long had a price comparison tab on any given property’s listing within its hotel search interface — found via google.com/travel. Until Tuesday, the search titan only showed paid advertisements when users clicked on the “prices” tab…. Source link

For two years, Dak Prescott gambled on himself. And for two years, the Dallas Cowboys sat across the table and bet against their starting quarterback and the mushrooming pay scale that surrounded him. On Monday, the impasse was broken. Or if we’re searching for a more accurate descriptor, Prescott smashed it. The 27-year-old QB achieved a four-year, $160 million deal that essentially makes him the highest paid player in NFL history (based on his contract value at signing) and sets Prescott… Source link