If you’re among the billions of people using Chrome, then Google has just given you a seriously good reason to quit. The exposure of stark data harvesting and the quiet introduction of “creepy” new tracking is the best reason in years to switch browsers. Now, for Apple users, there are even more reasons you should make a change. With Chrome, as with Photos, Gmail and Maps, you need to remember that Google is in the ad business, not the app business. Its entire business model is… Source link

The Guardian Tim Tebow’s NFL resurrection is no gimmick, but it’s very much a farce The Jaguars signed the faded college star to their 90-man roster, reuniting first-year Jacksonville coach Urban Meyer with his former quarterback. It’s official: Tebow Time is a flat circle Tim Tebow and wife Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters attend UFC 261 at Jacksonville’s VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in April. Photograph: Alex Menendez/Getty Images You can be forgiven for forgetting all about Tim Tebow, unless… Source link

Though the number of vaccinated Americans continues to rise, there is still a significant amount of the population that has yet to receive their COVID-19 shots. And while some have no plans of getting vaccinated for various personal or political reasons, others would like to but are having trouble obtaining or making time for a vaccination appointment. “Hesitancy makes a better story because you’ve got controversy,” Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, a former director of the Centers for Disease… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7… Source link

The expected income and wealth boost from earning a college degree has slowly been shrinking while the cost of college and student debt burden has been rising, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).  The so-called “college premium” steadily rose throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, but the growth began to slow by the mid-1990s, EPI found. (A 2018 report from the St. Louis Fed noted that this was an ongoing trend, particularly for people of color.) (EPI) At the same… Source link

With free, unlimited storage no longer on offer, Google Photos has to come up with new ways to encourage users to pay for the service. Fortunately, this latest addition works like magic. Google Photos continues to receive cool updates. GOOGLE MORE FROM FORBESGoogle’s Fundamental New Photo Upgrade Will Benefit Millions Of UsersBy Paul Monckton Announced during the recent Google I/O keynote, Cinematic Moments are little animated video clips created automatically from pairs… Source link

Donald Trump is still a big name in Republican politics (AP) Former President Donald Trump has labelled Republicans who do not want to discuss Arizona vote recount as ‘weak and stupid’ in an interview. Speaking on One America News Network, Mr Trump said to anchor Chanel Rion about the vote recount in the state the GOP lost for the first time in 20 years in 2020. It is a significant event in the ‘Stop the Steal’, a campaign based on the unverified claims that the last election contained… Source link

For Google (GOOG, GOOGL) and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, his “ultimate moonshot” is still Search, the company’s iconic and enormously successful search engine.  “[For] me, our ultimate moonshot is still Search. I know people would be surprised to hear that 20 years in. Search works very well, but because I’m working on Search, I see all the limitations. Even today, when people type in a complex query, we’re looking at keywords trying to match it. We still have a long way to go to actually… Source link

Google is poised to make San Jose history. The tech giant’s grandiose vision for a new 80-acre mega campus on the western edges of downtown San Jose is headed to the San Jose City Council on Tuesday for possible final approval, launching the largest single development deal ever reached in the city. Dubbed Downtown West, the project would lay the groundwork for decade-long construction of up to 4,000 housing units, 7.3 million square feet of office space, 300 hotel rooms, 500,000 square… Source link

Google is poised to make San Jose history. The tech giant’s grandiose vision for a new 80-acre mega campus on the western edges of downtown San Jose is headed to the San Jose City Council on Tuesday for possible final approval, launching the largest single development deal ever reached in the city. Dubbed Downtown West, the project would lay the groundwork for decade-long construction of up to 4,000 housing units, 7.3 million square feet of office space, 300 hotel rooms, 500,000 square… Source link