The argument that natural immunity against COVID-19 is an alternative to vaccination is emerging as a potential legal challenge to federally mandated vaccination policies. Vaccination is already required for certain workers and some college students. The federal government, despite steeper legal hurdles to imposing vaccination, has also invoked the U.S. Department of Labor to mandate inoculation for health care workers and is expected to roll out a larger policy effectively mandating… Source link

At first blush, if you look at the news about crypto right now, things don’t look so great. “China Declares Cryptocurrency Transactions Illegal; Bitcoin Price Falls” screams the Wall Street Journal headline from yesterday. Bloomberg, citing that China news and the SEC threatening to sue cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, called September “crypto’s grim month.” Indeed after topping $52,600 earlier this month, bitcoin is down some 20% to close to $43,000. And that’s all true, as far… Source link

Once you log into Yahoo Mail on your device, the app will remember your username and password and keep you signed in.  If you want to log into multiple Yahoo Mail accounts on your phone, use the Y! icon to open the Manage Accounts option and add a new account.  If you have trouble logging in, try to recover your username and password. You can also try logging in with another browser… Source link

Sept 24 (Reuters) – Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai in 2019 was warned that describing the company’s Incognito browsing mode as “private” was problematic, yet it stayed the course because he did not want the feature “under the spotlight,” according to a new court filing. Google spokesman José Castañeda told Reuters that the filing “mischaracterizes emails referencing unrelated second and third-hand accounts.” The Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) unit’s privacy disclosures have generated… Source link

Starbucks’ (SBUX) famous Pumpkin Spice Latte has not only helped boost the coffee chain’s foot traffic, but also social media conversations about the classic fall flavor.  Social media analytics company Sprout Social compiled data on volume, keywords and conversation trends between August 1 and September 21. The firm found that pumpkin is still the most talked about fall flavor — despite the fact that Starbucks recently debuted its new Apple Crisp Macchiato this year.  Online conversations… Source link

Mention the name of Sunrise to a select demographic of nerds and you’re likely to elicit a visceral reaction. Before Microsoft and about a year later, it was one of those apps people loved to praise. Thoughtful design and features helped it differentiate itself and earn a passionate fanbase in a crowded market that was dominated by heavyweights like GCal. But then Microsoft shut down the app and fans were left to look elsewhere, with almost no alternative coming in to fill the void. But… Source link

Russian search giant Yandex this week announced that it has spun out its distributed column-oriented analytic database ClickHouse into its own company. Based in New York City, ClickHouse Inc. also was given $50 million in Series A capital to jumpstart its business. Moscow-based Yandex started developing the ClickHouse database in 2009, and it was put into service several years later the OLAP backend for its Yandex.Metrica Web analytics service. The database’s main advantage was the… Source link

Cue Health, which makes at-home Covid-19 testing kidds, made its public market debut Friday. Cue Health In April, Google started sending at-home Covid-19 tests to its U.S. employees from a little-known start-up in San Diego called Cue Health. Most of Cue Health’s business up to that point had come from a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense to provide rapid tests to the federal government. Google instantly became the health-tech company’s biggest private sector customer. Cue Health has used… Source link

When it comes to online calendars and calendar apps, services like Google Calendar and Outlook from Microsoft rule the roost with hundreds of millions of users globally. Now another company is hoping to ruffle some feathers with its own move into the space. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Yahoo is working on called Day, a new standalone calendar app. Sources tell us the company has recruited Jeremy Le Van — who had co-founded another calendaring app, Sunrise, and eventually… Source link

For more business and finance explainers, check out our Yahoo U page. For the federal government, “raise the roof” is anything but fun — it means things could spiral into disaster. It all concerns a legislative feature that has existed in American politics for over 100 years: the debt ceiling. As a mechanism to enforce prudence over government spending, Congress establishes a statutory limit on the amount of money that the federal government owes. When the government breaches that limit,… Source link