Google is updating its “about this result” feature for search results with an interesting new addition: context about how and why the company’s algorithm landed on the specific results for the links that it surfaces when you search for things. The company added the “about this result” information box earlier this year as a way to help users properly vet sources that they weren’t familiar with using data sourced from Wikipedia. The menu — accessed by clicking the triple dots… Source link

Southwest Airlines (LUV) reported leisure passenger traffic rebounded in June to 2019 levels, helping the airline generate its first monthly profit since the COVID-19 pandemic decimated the industry.   “I think we can sustain that going into the third quarter. I think we are all worried about this Delta variant,” CEO Gary Kelly told Yahoo Finance Live. Kelly called the second quarter an important milestone in the airline’s pandemic recovery. Southwest generated $4 billion in revenue during… Source link

The global housing market has gotten too hot to be sustained, according to Oxford Economics‘ deep dive into more than 121 years of housing data. Home prices in advanced economies may be about 10% overvalued compared to the long-term, according to new research from Oxford Economics lead economist Adam Slater. This “boom,” Slater notes, is one of the biggest since 1900. The last boom period in 2006 saw home prices 13% to 15% overvalued, based on Oxford’s analysis. Students of market history… Source link

Epic has renewed its fight against mobile platforms’ app store restrictions, filing an update to its antitrust case against Google. The filing adds mostly redacted details about Google’s alleged monopolistic behavior on Android, including banning Epic’s game Fortnite from the Google Play Store last year. The amended complaint comes soon after a judge officially linked the case with a recent multi-state lawsuit, which took aim at Google’s Play Store policies. Epic’s complaint… Source link

If you can’t access online services like Sony’s PlayStation Network and Steam, as well as websites like Airbnb, you’re not the only one. Starting at approximately 11:20AM ET, Downdetector began logging a spike in outage reports across a variety of online services and websites. Outside of PSN and Steam, some of the more notable platforms people can’t seem to connect to include LastPass, TikTok and UPS. Visiting the PlayStation Store and other affected websites, they come back with a DNS… Source link

Google has finally given its new, unified smartwatch platform a name — and it’s an obvious one: Wear OS 3. That little detail was part of what may be a more contentious set of information about which current Wear OS smartwatches will be updated, when those updates will come, and what those updates will entail. On all three of those fronts, it’s not very good news. Google says that Wear OS 3 updates will start rolling out to a limited set of smartwatches in the “second half of… Source link

Google is launching a new beta tester program for Android Auto, giving users the chance to get early access to features if they’re prepared to put up with the potential instability of unfinished software. Android Auto has had a testing program, but attempting to sign up for it has shown a message warning that the program had reached its “maximum number of testers.” “As a beta tester, you can help us build a better version of Android Auto. You can test how well new features work… Source link

MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. Yandex has registered a company in the United Kingdom that will deal with delivery of foods from dark stores, Yandex.Lavka, a food delivery unit of the Russian technology company, told TASS on Thursday. “Yes, we registered a legal entity that will develop the rapid supply of foods from local stores on the British market. We are hiring a team proactively and looking for spaces for dark stores,” Yandex.Lavka said. “This is essentially Yandex.Lavka but oprerating… Source link

Medicare Advantage provider Clover Health (CLOV) is both despised and loved, depending on whom you ask. The newly-public company has earned a prized status among top meme stocks. But the company is also facing significant backlash in the form of lawsuits after a scathing report from short-seller firm Hindenburg Research.  [Read more: Clover Health CEO speaks out for first time on hospital controversies] It’s something the company’s normally media-shy CEO, Vivek Garipalli, recently discussed in… Source link

The Delta variant of the coronavirus has become the dominant strain in the U.S., and experts are warning that its continued spread poses a major risk to those who are unvaccinated. “So far, almost all of the hospitalizations and deaths that we’re seeing — upwards of 99% of those cases — are among the unvaccinated,” Kristen Choi, assistant professor at UCLA School of Nursing, said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “So despite this variant — the way it’s changed, that’s… Source link