Google TV is adding multiple user profiles to allow everyone in a household to access their own personalized space with their Google account. Google says with personalized profiles, users will get TV show and movie recommendations tailored just for them, easy access to their personal watchlist and help from their Google Assistant. The search giant outlined in a blog post that as users watch TV, their profile takes their interests and preferences into account to… Source link

If you thought home prices couldn’t go any higher, hold on to your hat: Goldman Sachs (GS) economists are forecasting even more price increases in the year ahead. “Our model now projects that home prices will grow a further 16% by the end of 2022,” wrote a Goldman Sachs team of economists led by Jan Hatzius in a recent note. “Of all the shortages afflicting the U.S. economy, the housing shortage might last the longest,” he said.  Home prices are currently up 20% year-over-year. The boom in… Source link

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of the largest U.S. bank, took another jab at bitcoin bulls on Monday, alleging that the cryptocurrency may not be limited in quantity. “I’ll just challenge the group to one other thing: how do you know it ends at 21 million? You all read the algorithms? You guys all believe that? I don’t know, I’ve always been a skeptic of stuff like that,” said the JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO at an Institute for International Finance event on Oct. 11. The price of bitcoin was hovering… Source link

Video game developer Eidos-Montreal announced its shift to a four-day workweek last Thursday, marking it as the most high-profile studio in the gaming world to do so. Eidos’ announcement is a tectonic shift in an industry that’s been notorious for the poor treatment of its developers for decades. Crunch culture — the video game industry practice of working longer hours for big studios (known industry-wide as AAAs), and pushing employees to exhaustion when a project’s deadline draws… Source link

AT&T Inc (NYSE: T) is trading lower Monday after Barclays analyst Kannan Venkateshwar maintained the stock with an Equal-Weight rating and lowered the price target from $34 to $30. The Barclays analyst cited challenging technicals as a result of the equity performance at Discovery Inc (NASDAQ: DISCA), which AT&T will be merging its media business with. AT&T was among the top three trending stocks on Stocktwits at publication time. AT&T is set to announce its third-quarter financial results… Source link

Google has pulled several “stalkerware” ads that violated its policies by promoting apps that encouraged prospective users to spy on their spouses’ phone. These consumer-grade spyware apps are often marketed to parents wishing to monitor their child’s calls, messages, apps, photos and location, often under the guise of protecting against predators. But these apps, which are often designed to be installed surreptitiously and without the device owner’s consent, have been… Source link

The gall! A couple of moderate Democrats, Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, are blocking a massive spending bill that would transform the social-welfare system and turbocharge green energy. Liberal Democrats, which the Washington Post recently dubbed the “mainstream” of their party, refuse to vote for a popular infrastructure bill until they get $3.5 trillion in additional spending on a wish list of progressive priorities. Forget the regular disputes… Source link

State orders new car insurance ‘stimulus checks’ — are you due another refund? While Washington stopped entertaining the idea of a fourth stimulus check, advocates and at least one state are still pushing car insurance companies to hand you some COVID-19 cash. Some insurers paid discounts and rebates to policyholders when they reaped soaring profits as Americans stayed home more during the Great Driving Slowdown in 2020. Yet government officials, advocacy groups and a class-action… Source link

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s odds at renomination continue to hang in the wind, as the White House works through whether or not they should bring in fresh blood to the head of the central bank. Complicating his path to a second term: a scandal that has engulfed at least three senior Fed officials, centered on big financial bets they made during 2020. Regional Fed Presidents Robert Kaplan and Eric Rosengren stepped down from their roles after reporting revealed bets on real… Source link

The days of needing to buy a guitar tuner or download an app for that are gone. Now, Google Search has added its own built-in tuner. You type “Google tuner” into the search bar. The user interface is laid out with a microphone button, and it’ll let you know after strumming a tune if it needs to be tuned up or down. The new built-in tuner can be used with any phone or a desktop or laptop computer. Results vary, as they do with other guitar tuning apps, but the website Android… Source link