At its I/O confab, Google announced a new way for you to scrub your recent search history. Sarah Tew/CNET … Source link

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shows off his vision for the metaverse during Facebook’s Oculus Connect conference on October 28, 2021.Facebook/Handout via REUTERS The so-called metaverse could give us our own virtual echo chambers and tailored realities. Advertisers and third parties could inject someone’s virtual world with ads and overlays unique to them. Experts told Insider the result could be a fractured reality where we all exist in different worlds. In the metaverse of the future, two… Source link

Google refreshed its most popular smart display in 2021 with even more neat features.  Chris Monroe/CNET … Source link

A new warning for Android users, as the staggering number of “creepy” trackers hidden in popular apps is suddenly exposed. Apple has already killed this spyware for iPhone users, and a free new app has just been launched to do the same on Android. Apple’s App Tracking Transparency has turned the digital advertising industry upside down this year, wiping billions of dollars from the revenue lines of Facebook and others. The brilliant innovation forces apps to ask iPhone users for… Source link

Chang Kai Shek (CKS) Memorial Hall in Taipei, capital of Taiwan. What is it about Taiwan anyway? Why does China care so much about this little island — and why should we in the U.S. give a flying hoot? Further, why is Taiwan such a big deal right now? (And a focal point of the virtual summit held this week between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping.) The disputed status of Taiwan has been an issue for almost three quarters of a century. Now for some reason Taiwan has moved from a tolerable friction… Source link

Editor’s note, Nov. 18: The combination of price, design, cameras, processor… Source link

Restaurant operators and workers across the U.S. are struggling to rebound from the pandemic, and are battered by a lack of staff, skyrocketing prices and supply shortages. Paula Tejeda is one of them.  Even after mass vaccinations, customer traffic is “still very shaky,” Tejeda, the owner and founder of Chile Lindo, a deli and coffee shop in San Francisco, said in an interview with Yahoo Finance. “The hospitality business, which is restaurants, small coffee shops and bars, are not back…. Source link

According to a new report from 9to5Google, Google Messages may be receiving an update that will slightly enhance the messaging experience on the Android end. As per the outlet’s “APK Insight”, code has been found in the most recent version of Google Messages that would show iMessage ‘reactions’ as emoji’s within Google Messages. If an iPhone user sends a message to a phone number that’s on Android, the conversation will be carried on the SMS protocol since iOS doesn’t… Source link

Warren Buffett keeps selling billions worth of stock in this frothy market — but here are 3 new places where he’s managed to find value Bloated valuations in today’s stock market aren’t exactly appealing to value investors. So it’s no surprise that the most famous value investor of all continues to reduce his stock market exposure. In Q3, Warren Buffett’s holding company Berkshire Hathaway sold a net $2 billion stock, including a complete exit of pharmaceutical giant Merck as well as… Source link

SHANGHAI, China, Nov. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NIO Inc. (NYSE: NIO) (“NIO” or the “Company”), a pioneer and a leading company in the premium smart electric vehicle market, today announced that it has completed its previously announced at-the-market offering (the “At-The-Market Offering”) of American depositary shares (“ADSs”), each representing one Class A ordinary share of the Company. Through the At-The-Market Offering, the Company has sold 53,292,401 ADSs and raised… Source link