Bloomberg The World Economy Is Suddenly Running Low on Everything (Bloomberg) — A year ago, as the pandemic ravaged country after country and economies shuddered, consumers were the ones panic-buying. Today, on the rebound, it’s companies furiously trying to stock up. Mattress producers to car manufacturers to aluminum foil makers are buying more material than they need to survive the breakneck speed at which demand for goods is recovering and assuage that primal fear of running out. The… Source link

Bloomberg The World Economy Is Suddenly Running Low on Everything (Bloomberg) — A year ago, as the pandemic ravaged country after country and economies shuddered, consumers were the ones panic-buying. Today, on the rebound, it’s companies furiously trying to stock up. Mattress producers to car manufacturers to aluminum foil makers are buying more material than they need to survive the breakneck speed at which demand for goods is recovering and assuage that primal fear of running out. The… Source link

The misty chill of a May morning, the smell of freshly cut green grass, the sound of baseball on the radio. You know what that means: It’s developer conference season. Up next, Google IO. After canceling the 2020 iteration of its yearly developer shindig because of the pandemic, Google is bringing IO back for 2021. The conference runs May 18 through May 20, and as you might expect, this year’s event will be fully virtual and free to attend. So the big Google IO keynotes, technical sessions,… Source link

The New York Times After Years of Quiet, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Exploded. Why Now? JERUSALEM — Twenty-seven days before the first rocket was fired from Gaza this week, a squad of Israeli police officers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, brushed the Palestinian attendants aside and strode across its vast limestone courtyard. Then they cut the cables to the loudspeakers that broadcast prayers to the faithful from four medieval minarets. It was the night of April 13, the first day… Source link

We are just a day away from Google’s annual I/O conference but that’s just enough time for a very massive leak on the Android 12. According to an inside source speaking to Jon Prosser, the tech giant is looking to re-design Android’s UI and focus on stronger privacy and security in its next major release. Front Page Tech put out a video summarizing the three big changes coming to Android 12: Beautiful new experience (read new UI) Stronger privacy and security protections All of your… Source link

Some praise by Warren Buffett’s potential successor as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway has investors eating up shares of Kraft Heinz (KHC).  Shares of the mac and cheese maker have surged to a 52-week high, according to Yahoo Finance Plus data. The stock is up a tasty 6% so far in May, outperforming the 2% drop for the S&P 500.  The gain is even more impressive considering packaged food stocks have traded sideways of late, pressured by the one-two punch of inflation fears and concerns about demand… Source link

(Bloomberg) — For a second week, the crypto market is being ruled by tweets from billionaire Elon Musk. The Tesla Inc. chief sent Bitcoin rallying back above $45,000 on Monday after clarifying that the company hasn’t sold any holdings of the digital token. It’s the latest post to whipsaw prices across the industry and fuel speculation over just why the electric-car pioneer is issuing crypto missives on a daily basis on Twitter. “He has to wake up to the reality that with his following,… Source link

In a wonderful cybersecurity move that should be replicated by all vendors, Google is slowly moving to make multi-factor authentication (MFA) default. To confuse matters, Google isn’t calling MFA “MFA;’ instead it calls it “two-step verification (2SV).” The more interesting part is that Google is also pushing the use of FIDO-compliant software that is embedded within the phone. It even has an iOS version, so it can be in all Android as well as Apple phones. To be… Source link

Google Security VP Royal Hansen described what he called the biggest security challenge in 10 years: “Shifting the focus of security from the technical hygiene of code and configuration to self defending data will save time and resources while unlocking rapid and safe innovation.”   Hansen is one of a handful of security experts from Google offering some insights and predictions about the next decade of security ahead of the… Source link

Bloomberg The World Economy Is Suddenly Running Low on Everything (Bloomberg) — A year ago, as the pandemic ravaged country after country and economies shuddered, consumers were the ones panic-buying. Today, on the rebound, it’s companies furiously trying to stock up. Mattress producers to car manufacturers to aluminum foil makers are buying more material than they need to survive the breakneck speed at which demand for goods is recovering and assuage that primal fear of running out. The… Source link