The executive instrumental in making Alphabet’s Google the largest global corporate buyer of renewable energy and the first company of its size to achieve 100% renewable energy for operations is now looking to propel the nation’s fleet vehicles — from buses to long-haul trucks to delivery vans — toward becoming fully electric. Palmer is the new CEO of TeraWatt Infrastructure, a company founded in 2018 to develop, own and finance electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the… Source link

Ending a struggle between two tech titans stretching over more than a decade, the Supreme Court held in a 6-2 opinion that Google’s copying of key portions of the Application Programming Interface (API) of Oracle’s Java SE software, constituting 11,500 lines of computer code, was fair use. In determining that Google’s copying of the API constituted fair use, the Court, on April 5, reversed a 2018 Federal Circuit decision that held otherwise. The background of the case and the Federal… Source link

The Telegraph Disney’s problematic princess: why Snow White is forever being cancelled It’s a tale as old as Twitter. Disneyland’s new Snow White ride, which reopened this month after a year of Covid shutdown, faces criticism for its “non-consensual kiss” between Snow White and Prince Charming. Snow White’s Enchanted Wish is a reimagining of Snow White’s Scary Adventures, one of the park’s inaugural rides when it opened in 1955. And it retains many elements of the original:… Source link

Stock futures hugged the flat line Thursday evening as investors awaited a key report on the state of the U.S. economic and labor market recovery out Friday morning. Contracts on the Dow opened slightly lower to pull back after the index hit yet another all-time high during the regular session. The Nasdaq also ended the session higher to end a four-day losing streak. The S&P 500 rose but drifted just below an all-time high. Shares of payments company Square (SQ) jumped more than 2% in late… Source link

Google Cloud is working on a still-unnamed product — with an announcement expected this quarter — involving the sharing of data and insights across user communities in a secure and privacy-safe way. “It’s good to have powerful tools, but you also need easy access to data, because without data, those tools are not really that effective,” Debanjan Saha, vice president and general manager of data analytics at Google Cloud told CRN. “Once you have data and tools, you want to address… Source link

The Week House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy apparently pays $1,500 to live in a 12-bedroom, 16-bath penthouse Tucker Carlson was right: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is living in the Washington, D.C., penthouse of Republican pollster and messaging maven Frank Luntz, and it does sound like a pretty sweet deal. Carlson was tipped off to the roommate arrangement, and McCarthy confirmed it Tuesday, telling Fox & Friends he has “rented a room from Frank for a couple of months, but… Source link

Square (SQ) reported first-quarter earnings that blew past estimates after market close on Thursday, with the payments company’s results boosted by ongoing growth in Cash App and its cryptocurrency offerings. Shares rose more than 1% in late trading.  Here were the main metrics in Square’s report compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: As a financial technology company, Square’s growth ballooned over the course of 2020, with consumers increasingly conducting transactions online… Source link

Bloomberg China’s Trade Surges as Global Stimulus Keeps Export Boom Going (Bloomberg) — China’s exports rose more than expected in April, suggesting its trade out-performance could last longer than expected this year, fueled by global fiscal stimulus.Exports grew 32.3% in dollar terms in April from a year earlier, the customs administration said Friday, exceeding the 24.1% median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists. Imports climbed 43.1%, a sign of strong domestic demand and… Source link

Google will move away from largely remote operations and return to campus-focused employment with most workers onsite for at least a few days a week, the company has announced. Employees can apply to be fully remote, or move to other offices, but those who do may see their compensation cut, the blog post indicated. Google has said most employees could continue working from home until September, and the latest announcement did not change that timeline. “For more than 20 years, our employees… Source link

Months after Apple’s App Store introduced privacy labels for apps, Google announced its own mobile app marketplace, Google Play, will follow suit. The company today pre-announced its plans to introduce a new “safety” section in Google Play, rolling out next year, which will require app developers to share what sort of data their apps collect, how it’s stored and how it’s used. For example, developers will need to share what sort of personal information their apps collect, like… Source link