Monthly Archives: August 2021

Los Angeles Chargers’ Austin Ekeler Joins Yahoo Fantasy Sports For 2021 NFL Season

Los Angeles Chargers dual-threat running back Austin Ekeler is partnering with Yahoo Sports this … [+] season. (Photo by Nick Tre. Smith/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Austin Ekeler became a household name—especially to fantasy football enthusiasts—during the 2019 NFL season as Los Angeles Chargers starting running back Melvin Gordon continued his holdout in the hopes of securing a new contract. Even after Gordon made his season debut in… Source link

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Fed’s Jackson Hole conference hopes to address an ‘uneven economy’

Central bankers will convene virtually this week to discuss an “uneven economy,” which could ignite a debate on the Federal Reserve’s policies as they relate to racial inequality and climate change. The Fed’s annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium is set to kick off on Thursday with the theme: “Macroeconomic Policy in an Uneven Economy,” a departure from the vague themes of years’ past (i.e. “Implications for Monetary Policy” and “Challenges for Monetary Policy”). In… Source link

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Overvalued & Undervalued Targets on Yahoo (2021 Fantasy Football)

  One of the best things on FantasyPros is the Expert Consensus Rankings (ECR). Fantasy Football rankings are subjective, and as such, they vary from site to site and expert to expert. So as you are doing your pre-draft preparation, it is good to get as many opinions as possible, hence the value of the ECR. Once draft day comes and you are in your draft room, though, you can often be swayed by the default rankings on the platform you are using. Those rankings are typically… Source link

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Bitcoin’s revival shows cryptocurrency ‘is not a fad’: Morning Brief

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Tuesday, August 24, 2021 A ‘maximalist’ vision of bitcoin means every company will be a crypto company. Oh what a difference a summer makes. Bitcoin’s (BTC-USD) slow but steady rebound from its spring lows saw the crypto unit top $50,000 on Monday, with the latest move greased by PayPal’s (PYPL) announcement that it would let U.K.-based… Source link

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Google dismantles Health unit in favor of tried-and-tested ‘throw everything at the wall’ strategy

Once again, Google is headed back to the drawing board to rethink its healthcare strategy. As first reported by Business Insider, the tech giant is dissolving its single, unified Google Health division, founded in 2018, in favor of a distributed approach to building health products. The head of the division, David Feinberg, is leaving the company, while an unknown proportion of Google Health employees will be sent to other teams at Google (like Search and Fitbit) to work on specific… Source link

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Google Meet now warns you when you’re causing an echo

Google Meet will soon tell you when it thinks you’re creating an echo in calls, Google announced in a blog posting Monday. Right now, it’s hard to know if you’re creating an irritating echo for meeting participants unless they interrupt the meeting to tell you. Google’s new proactive warnings should therefore help minimize everyone’s suffering. Google says that Meet already controls audio to remove echo. But it can’t account for all remote desktop speaker and mic… Source link

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Here Are Some Hidden Benefits Of Google One You May Not Know About

The Google Inc. logo is displayed on an Apple Inc. iPhone in this arranged photograph taken in the … [+] Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Friday, July 19, 2019. Alphabet Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on July 25. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg © 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP If you’re an avid Google Photo uploader, or if you have thousands of emails sitting in your Gmail account, chances are you are paying for Google One, the company’s cloud storage… Source link

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S.Korea set to curb Google, Apple commission dominance

Google app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration SEOUL, Aug 24 (Reuters) – South Korea is likely to bar Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google and Apple Inc (AAPL.O) from charging software developers commissions on in-app purchases, the first such curbs by a major economy that could hurt the tech giants’ lucrative revenue streams. The parliament’s legislation and judiciary committee is expected on Tuesday to approve the amendment of the… Source link

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Apple’s Tim Cook, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Plan to Visit White House

(Bloomberg) — The chief executive officers of Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. plan to attend a White House meeting with President Joe Biden this week to discuss efforts by private companies to improve cybersecurity following a dramatic uptick in ransomware and online attacks over the past year. Apple’s Tim Cook, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Amazon’s Andy Jassy plan to attend the event scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, according to people familiar with the matter. The… Source link

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