Our library is open from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., Tuesdays through Saturdays, for browsing. You can pick up items that you have requested using our curbside service from 10 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. If you need to use a computer, give us a call to make a reservation. As always, give us a call if you need any help accessing our online services or putting books on request. Perhaps you have heard this quote by author Neil Gaiman: “Google can bring you back 100,000… Source link

Google’s workers who provide childcare and education for staffers’ kids say the internet giant is summoning them back to the office without restoring the shuttle service they rely on, and they’re circulating a petition urging the Alphabet Inc. unit to provide a transportation stipend to cover commuting costs. “Shifting this cost to essential workers, who earn far less than the Googlers whose children they care for, is unacceptable,” according to the petition, which members of the… Source link

There’s little telling how messy the situation will get between Roku and Google as it pertains to YouTube TV, but the tech behemoth is certainly trying its best to work around the current impasse between the two. It’s been a week since users have been unable to download YouTube TV on Roku devices, while YouTube has still been available. More:Roku: Google yanks YouTube TV live TV streaming service from platform Google makes changes to YouTube app for Roku devices In a way to appease current… Source link

APPLETON, Wis. (WFRV) – Besides being fun to say, Google’s ‘Doodle for Google’ contest provides scholarships and national recognition, and one Appleton resident has a chance to be the national winner. The annual ‘Doodle for Google’ contest is an art contest open to students in grades K-12. The students are tasked with creating their own Google doodle for the chance to have it featured on Google.com. Not only could students have their artwork displayed for the world… Source link

Homebuyer sentiment is plummeting amid America’s housing affordability crisis. The red-hot market which has seen housing prices rise at a record pace is not keeping up with the incomes of millions of working Americans. According to Google, the question “when is the housing market going to crash?” has been trending in search, up 2,450% in March, as Americans have been reckoning with the housing affordability crisis. The median household income was $68,703 in 2019, according to the Census… Source link

Google is making a fortune by selling users’ personal information despite the company’s pledge that it never sells the data, a lawsuit filed this week claims. “Google promises its hundreds of millions of users that it ‘will never sell any personal information to third parties’ and ‘you get to decide how your information is used.’ These promises are false,” the lawsuit claims, quoting a 2019 New York Times op-ed by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. “In fact, Google monitors its… Source link

Google said it will create a new safety section in its Play mobile-app store that will let Android smartphone users see what data developers collect about them and share, plus give access to additional privacy and security information. Android app developers have until the second quarter of 2022 to declare this information, the Alphabet Inc. unit said Thursday in a blog post. Users will begin seeing the safety section in Google Play sometime in the first three months of 2022. The… Source link

After a hugely disappointing April jobs report, U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh rejected claims from Republicans and some businesses that enhanced unemployment benefits are keeping workers from going back to work.  The Labor Department reported the U.S economy added back just 266,000 jobs last month, sharply missing economists’ expectations of 1 million.  “266,000 jobs under normal circumstances — and we’re certainly not living in normal circumstances — would be a good month,” said… Source link

Perhaps the most appropriate reaction to the miserable jobs report Friday was “Oh,” tweeted by Pantheon economist Ian Shepherdson. As the U.S. economy has shown signs of ramping up, consensus expectations for the April jobs numbers were high. But instead of the 1,000,000 new payrolls expected, only 266,000 new jobs were posted. A whopping miss. Now, the unemployment rate is 6.1% instead of the expected 6.0%, and last month’s jobs numbers were revised downwards as well, to 770,000 from… Source link

With corporate cash balances looking flush again as businesses recover from the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, Goldman Sachs (GS) strategist David Kostin thinks a stock buyback “bonanza” is on the horizon.  Kostin estimates a 35% increase in share buybacks this year and a 5% pop in 2022. Share buybacks from U.S. companies through April have tallied $484 billion, more than double the pace at this same point last year. It marks the quickest pace of U.S. buyback announcements to kick off a… Source link