Yearly Archives: 2021

Facebook and Ray-Ban’s Stories smart sunglasses solve one problem — but they have serious privacy implications

Any time I go to a birthday party, on vacation, or to a concert, I pull out my smartphone to snap off a few dozen photos. And while I love having those pictures to look back at, I also realize that I’m not actually looking at the events unfolding with my own eyes. Instead, I’m watching my nephew blow out his birthday candles on my phone’s screen. That’s why I was particularly interested in using Facebook (FB) and Ray-Ban’s new Stories. Available for $299, the glasses, which come in… Source link

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The war on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange: Yahoo News Explains

In April 2010, when WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared at the National Press Club to release a classified video depicting a U.S. military helicopter killing 18 people, he was hailed in some circles as a hero. More than a decade later, new reporting reveals the depths of the CIA’s war against Assange and WikiLeaks during the Trump administration. Yahoo News National Security Correspondent Zach Dorfman explains. Video Transcript ZACH DORFMAN: When Julian Assange appeared at the National… Source link

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China’s Power Crunch Is Next Economic Shock Beyond Evergrande

(Bloomberg) — China may be diving head first into a power supply shock that could hit Asia’s largest economy hard just as the Evergrande crisis sends shockwaves through its financial system. Most Read from Bloomberg The crackdown on power consumption is being driven by rising demand for electricity and surging coal and gas prices as well as strict targets from Beijing to cut emissions. It’s coming first to the country’s mammoth manufacturing industries: from aluminum smelters to… Source link

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Why These 10 Tech Stocks Moved This Week

In this article we will take a look at the some of notable stocks that moved this week. You can skip our detailed analysis of these stocks and go to read Why These 5 Tech Stocks Moved This Week. This week has been a roller coaster ride for the market given China’s Evergrande situation and the Fed meeting. It has also been an eventful week for stocks such as salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE:CRM), Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU), Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Facebook Inc…. Source link

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Christopher Reeve honored with Google Doodle on actor’s birthday

Reeve was paralyzed from the neck down in a horse riding accident in 1995 and spent the rest of his life lobbying for disabled rights and advocating for research into spinal cord injuries. “While the world first knew him for his starring role in the 1978 film Superman, it was his courage and humanity following the accident that left him paralyzed that touched so many people around the globe,” Reeve’s family said in a statement on Google. His efforts included advocating for spinal cord… Source link

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Google Issues Warning For 2 Billion Chrome Users

Chrome users beware, just days after I warned attacks on Google’s browser are increasing, another critical hack has been confirmed. A serious new zero-day hack has been found in Google Chrome LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES MORE FROM FORBESGoogle Finds 5 New ‘High’ Security Threats In ChromeBy Gordon Kelly Google published the news in a new blog post, where it revealed Chrome’s 11th ‘zero day’ exploit of the year has been found (CVE-2021-37973) and it… Source link

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Why NY’s eviction ban ‘does absolutely nothing’ for landlords as rental crisis drags on

Nearly a month after the U.S. Supreme Court designed to keep struggling tenants in their homes as COVID-19 surges anew, assistance is slowly going out to millions of people behind on their rent. More than $2.3 billion in federal emergency rental assistance went out in August to some 420,000 households, the most of any month to date since the money was made available, according to the Treasury Department. Despite the uptick in disbursements, however, millions are still living in fear of being… Source link

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Why ‘Ted Lasso’ Emmy boom may not let Apple TV+ catch up with Netflix, Disney

Apple TV+ (AAPL) delivered quite the performance at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards — securing 10 total wins and nearly sweeping the comedy category with its breakout series “Ted Lasso.” Yet it remains to be seen whether that will translate into a new user boom for the fledgling streaming platform. The show has been a particularly bright spot for the tech giant, which has struggled to compete against big players like Disney+ (DIS) and Netflix (NFLX) — in addition to converting free trial… Source link

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China’s crypto ban puts spotlight on central banks putting their own spin on digital coins

Earlier this month, Benoit Coeure, a well-known central bank policymaker, sounded an alarm for central banks to act now on minting their own central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).  In a speech, the former European Central Bank economist who leads innovation at the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) warned that rapidly mushrooming cryptocurrencies will challenge the business models of international banking — if monetary authorities don’t quickly act. As China moved on Friday to… Source link

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