The Arizona Cardinals will fight for the top seed in the playoffs without one of their biggest playmakers. Wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins is expected to miss the rest of the regular season due to a sprained knee, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN. Hopkins sustained the injury during Monday night’s loss to the Los Angeles Rams. He had an MRI on Monday, and went for a second opinion Wednesday.  Hopkins may need surgery to correct the issue, according to Schefter. Despite the injury, the… Source link

Carnival Corp. CEO Arnold Donald told Yahoo Finance Live the cruise line operator has put in stringent health protocols to ensure it’s back sailing safely during the pandemic. The result is minimal incidences of COVID-19 on the company’s ships, which are now back in the waters carrying vacation goers.  “Here in the U.S., we are sailing under what the CDC would call vaccinated cruises, that’s at least 95% of the guests are vaccinated. Our crew is vaccinated. Then we test. We do require a test,… Source link

When the Fed begins its long-awaited bond-tapering program as it seeks to tame red-hot inflation, the clock starts ticking on when the U.S. might see another recession.  Or so says strategists at Deutsche Bank.  The investment bank predicts the Federal Reserve will accelerate the purchase of its bond purchases in 2022 (and then quickly), opening the door for the first interest rate hike of this economic cycle as early as March.  With that first hike and the end of the tapering program —… Source link

One in five adults in the U.S. believe their own country played a role in the 9/11 attacks. One in three believe Big Pharma is hiding harmful side effects caused by vaccines. Thirty-seven percent believe the world is ruled by a cabal of people who go by the name the New World Order. All, of course, are wrong. But where do they get their misguided beliefs? A new study by academics across Europe analyzes the role search engines play in perpetuating untruths. “We know web search is a massively… Source link

A team at Google is today launching a new service called Qaya, which will allow creators to easily set up new web storefronts where they can sell their products and services directly to their audiences. The project is the latest to emerge from Google’s in-house project incubator, Area 120, which was recently a part of a broader reorganization at the company that elevated its status after many of its earlier projects exited to different parts of Google, including its Cloud, Search,… Source link

Deion Sanders and Jackson State have pulled off a signing day shocker. Travis Hunter, Rivals.com’s No. 1 player in the class of 2022, announced Wednesday that he has committed to play for Jackson State. Hunter, a two-way player listed by Rivals as an athlete, was committed to Florida State since March of 2020. There was also speculation that the Suwanee, Georgia, native could flip his decision to the in-state Bulldogs. Instead, he will drop down to the FCS level to play for Sanders at… Source link

In its latest move to placate European competition regulators, Google has offered a set of commitments to France’s antitrust watchdog — in the hopes of settling a costly (for it) intervention over legally mandated payments for displaying snippets of news publishers’ content. Back in July, France’s Autorité de la Concurrence slapped the tech giant with a fine of half a billion euros over a series of suspected breaches in how it negotiated with news publishers to remunerate them… Source link

Google’s Pixel smartphones made a name for themselves because the camera was so good. Then, the competition caught up. In recent years, the phones have been good but not the best you could get. Now, that’s all changing thanks to the Pixel 6 series. There’s a smart simplicity to these phones that make them easy to use and the camera is spectacular. For my review, I used a Pixel 6 Pro provided by Google for the past few weeks. It is one of the few phones I didn’t want to… Source link

The Google logo is seen on on the company’s European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, February 27, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo PARIS, Dec 15 (Reuters) – The French antitrust body said on Wednesday that Google (GOOGL.O) had submitted several proposals on how it would negotiate with news agencies and publishers in a dispute about paying for news content. Register now for FREE unlimited access to reuters.com Register Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; Editing by Benoit Van… Source link

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 Wednesday, December 15, 2021 ‘Spider-Man’ and a high-class inflation problem Donning my Captain Obvious hat, I’ll connect a few dots that by now are fairly apparent: inflation remains implacable in the face of rising COVID-19 infections. That is likely to make the Federal Reserve announce that it’s slowing the spigot of monetary policy,… Source link