Your next stimulus check may be in jeopardy now Congress is moving toward another big vote on the third round of stimulus checks, for up to $1,400. But a new compromise could keep you from getting a payment this time. President Joe Biden has reportedly OK’d a plan from Senate Democrats to change the eligibility rules, to “target” the stimulus checks away from Americans with higher incomes. That means millions of previous recipients wouldn’t get cash in the new go-round. Senate Majority Leader… Source link

Google says it’s focusing on privacy-friendly approaches to ad targeting, Okta acquires Auth0 and a flying taxi startup raises $241 million. This is your Daily Crunch for March 3, 2021. The big story: Google swears off ad-tracking While Google had already announced it would be phasing out support for third-party cookies in Chrome, it went further today by declaring that “once third-party cookies are phased out, we will not build alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse across… Source link

Three catchers unlikely for Sox, highlighting backup battle originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago As Tony La Russa and White Sox pitchers keep raving about the job every catcher in camp is doing, the idea of carrying three backstops isn’t a crazy one. But it doesn’t sound like that will be happening. “There is a lot of catching talent in this camp,” La Russa said before Wednesday’s spring game, a 6-5 loss to the Kansas City Royals. “Because of the quality of that talent, we thought about… Source link

The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create its replacement.  No one should mourn the death of the cookie as we know it. For more than two decades, the third-party cookie has been the lynchpin in a shadowy, seedy, multi-billion dollar advertising-surveillance industry on the Web; phasing out tracking cookies and other persistent third-party identifiers is long overdue. However, as the foundations shift beneath the advertising industry, its biggest players are determined to… Source link

Bloomberg Sands to Sell Vegas Hotels to Apollo, Vici for $6.25 Billion (Bloomberg) — Las Vegas Sands Corp., the world’s largest casino operator by market value, agreed to sell its properties in Las Vegas to Apollo Global Management Inc. and Vici Properties Inc. for $6.25 billion, refocusing the company on its successful Asian resorts and other potential opportunities in the U.S.Apollo will run the properties, which will be owned by Vici, a real estate investment trust, the companies said in… Source link

Google says it’s focusing on privacy-friendly approaches to ad targeting, Okta acquires Auth0 and a flying taxi startup raises $241 million. This is your Daily Crunch for March 3, 2021. The big story: Google swears off ad-tracking While Google had already announced it would be phasing out support for third-party cookies in Chrome, it went further today by declaring that “once third-party cookies are phased out, we will not build alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse across… Source link

Google announced on Wednesday that third-party cookies are over — at least, as far as its ad networks and Chrome browser are concerned. This represents a significant change for the ad business and seems to be a step forward for privacy, but it’s also a limited one. It doesn’t mean that Google will stop collecting your data, and it doesn’t mean the company will stop using your data to target ads. What Google… Source link

Anthony Scaramucci, managing partner of SkyBridge Capital and former White House communications director for the Trump administration, says if the Republican Party goes with Trump as its 2024 nominee, he’ll work to make the GOP a “minority party for at least a generation.” “I’m willing to fight for the country’s principles related to the Constitution and the democracy over policy. And so, if that’s where the Republicans are going, and they go with Donald Trump, I will look forward to —… Source link

(Bloomberg) — U.S. Treasuries tumbled anew on Wednesday, driving long-maturity yields to their highest levels this week and pushing up inflation expectations as traders continued to price in a quicker economic rebound from the pandemic. Benchmark 10-year Treasury yields surged as much as 10.3 basis points to 1.495%, a move reminiscent of last Thursday’s startling selloff in government debt. Meanwhile, a market proxy for the anticipated annual inflation rate for the next half-decade… Source link

The Guardian Amber Glenn: America’s pansexual skating star on coming out and breaking through Since coming out as pansexual, the US national silver medalist has delivered a series of career-best performances and thrust herself into the conversation for next year’s Olympics Amber Glenn is believed to be the first ever out woman to actively compete on the international senior circuit. Photograph: Étienne Laurent/EPA “What is your sexuality?” Amber Glenn looked up from the questionnaire at… Source link