Monthly Archives: March 2021

Oscar De La Hoya coming out of retirement, wants Floyd Mayweather

Oscar De La Hoya’s opponent is TBD. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Oscar De La Hoya is becoming the latest legendary boxer to come out of retirement, and he has high hopes for a potential opponent. The 48-year-old boxer announced Friday that he is officially returning to the ring on July 3, during a Triller Fight Club event alongside Snoop Dogg. He did so with a literal mic drop. De La Hoya’s opponent is currently TBD, but Triller founder Ryan Kavanaugh told Yahoo Sports’ Kevin Iole that… Source link

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How to Clear Google Maps Search History on iPhone and iPad

If you prefer using Google Maps over Apple Maps on your iPhone or iPad, it’s useful to know that you have the ability to manage how long your map search history is stored on Google’s servers. This article shows you how. When you start typing the name of somewhere in Google Maps, the app throws up suggestions of your recent searches for places and directions, which can be useful if you visit certain locations often. Sometimes the suggestions are for places you don’t intend to return to… Source link

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Microsoft Launches Decentralized Identity Platform ION On Bitcoin's Blockchain – Yahoo Finance

Microsoft Corporation’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) decentralized identity platform ION is now live on the Bitcoin blockchain. What Happened: After four years in the making, the layer two network was successfully deployed on the Bitcoin mainnet, according to the company’s recent announcement. “We have deployed an ION node to our production infrastructure and are working together with other companies and organizations to do so as well,” said Daniel Buchner of Microsoft’s Decentralized Identity… Source link

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Challenges to Google’s Collection of Web Browsing Data Survive Motion to Dismiss | Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

A class action lawsuit will proceed against Google over its collection of data from users browsing in “incognito mode,” as District Judge Lucy Koh denied Google’s motion to dismiss on March 12, 2021. In Brown v. Google, Judge Koh found that the plaintiffs adequately alleged that they had a reasonable expectation of privacy in their data, despite Google’s arguments that it disclosed and the plaintiffs consented to Google’s data collection practices. The ruling may have broad implications… Source link

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Apple, Amazon, Google & more

Jackie Drees – Friday, March 26th, 2021 Print  | Email Here are eight recent partnerships between healthcare organizations and big tech companies including Amazon, Apple and Google.  1. Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh developed a new machine learning tool to be used in clinical forecasting, which Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure funded. 2. Intermountain Healthcare, Ascension and Amazon Care became founding members of a new healthcare coalition… Source link

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GameStop’s Tumult Lives On With $6.4 Billion Roller Coaster Trip

(Bloomberg) — GameStop Corp. is ending the week lower than where it started, even after retail investors refused to let go of their commitment to the stock following an earnings-related selloff. Investors were quick to get over GameStop’s 12th consecutive quarter of slowing sales and management’s decision to not take questions on its earnings call on Tuesday, despite warnings from most Wall Street analysts. On Thursday, shares erased the earnings-led slump. More than $6.4 billion in… Source link

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Elon Musk’s Bitcoin Marketing Coup

Here’s some free advice for the Honda Motor Company: Market your cars to the newly bitcoin rich. I’ve already got the ad copy for you.  A true bitcoiner is building for the future and deferring gratification. She doesn’t blow her hard-earned savings on flashy toys. She prefers a solid, dependable family car. Related: UK Man Ordered to Pay More Than $571M for Fraudulent Bitcoin Trading Scheme: CFTC And a slogan…. Lambos are for losers. HODLers drive Hondas. Marc Hochstein, CoinDesk’s… Source link

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Shaka Smart bolts Texas for Marquette

There is no greater sleeping giant in all of college basketball than the University of Texas — a program so ripe with potential that it consistently attracts high-quality dreamers … who eventually leave vexed and frustrated. It’s been that way for, what, 70 years? For a long time, its best attribute was hiring Abe Lemons, whose actual name was just A.E. Lemons, two initials that stood for nothing so he inserted the “b”. A product of the Oklahoma dust bowl of the Great Depression, he used… Source link

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Retirees who pay the most in taxes make only $36,000 a year on average, study finds

Retirees who have the most money pay the most in taxes, according to a recent working paper, but they’re not necessarily rich. “Most of the tax burden is carried by the top quintile of households,” Anqi Chen, co-author and assistant director of savings research at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, told Yahoo Money. But “it’s important to keep in mind that when we think about the top quintile of households — the top 20% — they’re not the super wealthy.” Read… Source link

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Google Analytics 4’s Enhanced Measurement Simplifies Events Management

PHOTO: Wander Fleur Changes to website content often go hand in hand with the need to update analytics tags. Marketers are well familiar with this task. With the introduction of Google Analytics 4, Google introduced enhanced measurement, which has the potential to make these updates much, much easier.  How Tagging Links and Buttons Have Changed Back when analytic solutions were first introduced, adding events required proactive planning of any analytic tags before launching a site. This… Source link

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