Google parent company Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Google’s (GOOG, GOOGL) Chrome browser said this week that it won’t deploy other web-tracking tools after phasing out third-party cookies in 2022. But that won’t transform your online experience, or stop you from seeing ads for whiskey if you’ve just looked up how to mix a Manhattan. “You’re 100% still being targeted,” Elizabeth Renieris, an affiliate of Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for… Source link
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Google’s new privacy policy for Chrome won’t stop targeted ads
Google parent company Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Google’s (GOOG, GOOGL) Chrome browser said this week that it won’t deploy other web-tracking tools after phasing out third-party cookies in 2022. But that won’t transform your online experience, or stop you from seeing ads for whiskey if you’ve just looked up how to mix a Manhattan. “You’re 100% still being targeted,” Elizabeth Renieris, an affiliate of Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for… Source link
Read More »Elon Musk Loses $27 Billion as Historic Wealth Gains Unravel
TipRanks The Bottom Is in for These 3 Stocks? Analysts Say ‘Buy’ Never say that one person makes no difference. This past Thursday, stocks tumbled, bonds surged, and investors started taking inflationary risks seriously – all because one guy said what he thinks. Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, held a press conference at which he gave both the good and the bad. He stated, again, his belief that the COVID vaccination program will allow a full reopening of the economy, and that… Source link
Read More »China, Russia playing ‘greater-than-expected’ roles in global pandemic response
Experts’ fears that people in wealthier countries will be vaccinated before those in poorer nations are coming to fruition. And the inequity could further pressure the global economy, according to a recent study supported by the International Chamber of Commerce. “Should countries continue to pursue an uncoordinated approach to vaccine distribution, the world risks global GDP losses in 2021 alone of as much as US $9.2 trillion,” the study said. Health officials around the world have criticized… Source link
Read More »Doctors forced to operate on muscles of ‘real life Popeye’
Oddball Russian bodybuilder dubbed the real life Popeye has undergone an operation to remove rotting flesh caused by injecting his biceps with liquid synthol to give him huge muscular looking arms. Kirill Tereshin, 24, earned the cartoon-based moniker due to his beach ball-like biceps hanging off his otherwise skinny frame. The unusual look is the botched result of injecting his arms with synthol oil, which he shared in videos on Instagram where he has 350,000 followers. Tereshin, who comes… Source link
Read More »Elon Musk trolls GM, Chrysler on Twitter. Ford CEO responds with 1 word.
Just one word. That’s all Ford CEO Jim Farley used to respond to Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday. “Tesla & Ford are the only American carmakers not to have gone bankrupt out of 1000’s of car startups. Prototypes are easy, production is hard & being cash flow positive is excruciating,” Musk tweeted Thursday. Farley retweeted Musk early Friday saying only, “Respect.” Related: Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk moved to Texas citing that California Reaction on Twitter has been swift with likes, retweets and… Source link
Read More »Google makes it easier to test experimental features in Chrome
Bloomberg Senate Nears Saturday Passage After All-Nighter: Stimulus Update (Bloomberg) — The Senate is on track to pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus bill as early as midday Saturday after a compromise reduced added unemployment benefits to $300 a week, one of several ways moderate Democrats shaped the bill to be less generous than the House version.Democrats also fought off a raft of Republican amendments to cut state and local funding, redirect Amtrak funding, end aid to… Source link
Read More »China’s Plan for Digital Yuan Imperils Bitcoin’s Biggest Markets
(Bloomberg) — Trouble may be brewing in China for Bitcoin’s raucous and divisive rally as the nation pushes ahead with a world-leading effort to create a digital version of its currency. That’s because the eventual rollout of the virtual yuan could roil cryptocurrency markets if Chinese officials tighten regulations at the same time, according to Phillip Gillespie, chief executive of crypto market maker and liquidity provider B2C2 Japan, which mainly works with institutional… Source link
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Bloomberg Oil Sands Give OPEC a Boost With Half-Million-Barrel Output Cut (Bloomberg) — Major oil sands producers in Western Canada will idle almost half a million barrels a day of production next month, helping tighten global supplies as oil prices surge.Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.’s plans to conduct 30 days of maintenance at its Horizon oil sands upgrader in April will curtail roughly 250,000 barrels a day of light synthetic crude output, company President Tim McKay said in an… Source link
Read More »Wealth Managers Want Clarity on Bitcoin Rules: Reuters – Yahoo Finance
TipRanks The Bottom Is in for These 3 Stocks? Analysts Say ‘Buy’ Never say that one person makes no difference. This past Thursday, stocks tumbled, bonds surged, and investors started taking inflationary risks seriously – all because one guy said what he thinks. Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, held a press conference at which he gave both the good and the bad. He stated, again, his belief that the COVID vaccination program will allow a full reopening of the economy, and that… Source link
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