Monthly Archives: May 2021

How to use Google Calendar: 6 tips

As public events gradually resume after a long pause, these tips can help you track community events, minimize scheduling conflicts and ensure access to your calendar as you travel. Image: Andy Wolber/TechRepublic As public events resume following the long pause for the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ll once again need to be aware of events outside… Source link

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‘There’s a real issue’ with environmental impact of bitcoin

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has questions about cryptocurrency, including whether it takes advantage of smaller investors. The progressive senator also wonders whether bitcoin is too easy to steal. The former presidential candidate has been pushing for government intervention on both of those fronts and, in a conversation with Yahoo Finance’s editor-in-chief, Andy Serwer, this week, she raised another growing concern: the impact on the planet that has come with the rapid growth of… Source link

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What the FLoC? Everything you need to know about Google’s new ad tech that aims to replace third-party cookies

Will ‘Federated Learning of Cohorts’ preserve user privacy? The jury is still out Over the years, web developers have dreamed up dozens of cute error pages to remind visitors to switch on cookies in their browsers. Most are riffs on the eponymous baked snack (“Will work for cookies”) or Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster. But the Cookie Monster may soon have fewer job opportunities – at least, that’s if Google gets its way. The internet giant… Source link

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Verizon, AOL, Yahoo deal: Executive pay skyrockets as average workers left out (Letters)

Facebook Share Twitter Share In a recent edition of the Republican business section  an article appeared concerning the decision by Verizon to divest it’s Yahoo and AOL holdings, “Verizon to see off media brands Yahoo, AOL,” May 4, page A8. The Board of Directors of Verizon approved a $3 million bonus to the current head of Yahoo to assure that he remain in place for six months. Think of the absurdity of that number which works out be about $3 thousand per hour for a 40 hour week during… Source link

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Google Play Store app developers will soon have to share details about type of user data collected

New Delhi: Google has made a ‘pre-announcement’ about an upcoming safety section in Google Play that it claims will help people understand the data an app collects or shares, if that data is secured, and additional details that impact privacy and security. The new feature is aimed at providing more control to the user over their own data. The announcement follows Apple’s iOS 14.5 update which has also introduced a new safety feature where apps will have to request permission for… Source link

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Yahoo Escaped a Slow Death at Verizon for One Final Act

Yahoo and AOL, two seminal but damaged internet brands, are under new, private equity ownership. Yahoo’s decades-long decline is a case study in wasted opportunities, hubris and lack of clarity. The next chapter for Yahoo may not be glamorous but it won’t be fruitless either — at least for its new owner. See more stories on Insider’s business page. … Source link

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Google Photos’ free unlimited storage ends on June 1st

Bloomberg Key Brexit Clash Would Cost Euro Swap Traders $2.4 Million a Day (Bloomberg) — One of the biggest Brexit battlegrounds between the European Union and the U.K. now has a price tag: at least $2.4 million a day.That’s how much any move by the European Union to cut off access to London’s dominant clearinghouses for derivatives could cost traders in euro interest rate swaps, net of buying, according to an estimate from Albert Menkveld, professor of finance at Vrije Universiteit… Source link

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