Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google has given the boot to nine Android apps downloaded more than 5.8 million times from the company’s Play marketplace after researchers said these apps used a sneaky way to steal users’ Facebook login credentials. In a bid to win users’ trust and lower their guard, the apps provided fully functioning services for photo editing and framing, exercise and training, horoscopes,… Source link

Eric Lindquist brings you his MLB DFS picks for Round 15 of the MLB Yahoo Cup Daily Fantasy Baseball, including Carlos Correa today | 7/2/21 Welcome to the MLB Yahoo Cup Hot Corner! This free-to-enter, single-entry contest consists of 27 rounds where the top 1,075 overall entries and the top 70 entries per round share $10,000, with $1,000 to first and $50 to first per round. Scoring will be cumulative across all rounds, with your seven lowest scores dropped at the end. You may join this… Source link

The new Android App Bundles will have a .aab file extension. Image: Google Google will start imposing a change that would clamp down on the Android apps distributed through the Play Store. This week, the company announced that beginning in August, developers will have to publish apps as a proprietary Android App Bundle rather than the standard APK publishing format. The requirement only applies to new apps, however. Existing apps are currently exempt, as well as private apps published to… Source link

Google just rolled out a new feature in Google Photos that will help you hide your sensitive images from prying eyes. Available first on Pixel devices and coming later this year to more Android devices, the new Locked Folder lets you store photos that you don’t want anyone to see. The photos stored there are protected by your device screen lock passcode and won’t show up in your Photos grid, memories, or be available to other apps that have access to your camera roll. Here’s how to set… Source link

If you have the right skills, finding a job in the surging cryptocurrency field may be as easy as ordering a McDonald’s Big Mac from a drive-thru. But that doesn’t mean you should jump on any opportunity. With the crypto job shortage continuing as investment banks such as J.P. Morgan and other players outside of financial services seek out key talent, job seekers are in the driver’s seat right now.  Neil Dundon, founder of Crypto Recruit (which provides job placement services for the crypto… Source link

Student-athletes in various states are already profiting from their name, image, and likeness (NIL) after new state and national rules marked a massive shift in college sports. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) approved an interim policy that allowed college athletes to monetize their NIL for the first time beginning on July 1, 2021, following various states that passed legislation allowing the same. “This is huge,” Kam Buckner, a Democratic member of the Illinois House… Source link

The death toll in the collapse of a beachfront condo in Surfside, Fla., increased to 20 on Friday after two more bodies were pulled from the rubble overnight. One of them was the 7-year-old daughter of a Miami firefighter. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava made the grim announcement at a press conference Friday morning. “Last night we discovered two additional victims,” Cava said. “Tragically, one of those victims was the 7-year-old daughter of a city of Miami… Source link

Loop Capital Markets analyst Anthony Chukumba was among the first analysts on Wall Street to drop coverage of GameStop in February as the rise of meme traders overran the stock and sent it to dizzying new heights for no real fundamental reason.  But despite a new management team and board arriving to GameStop in recent weeks, don’t look for Chukumba to be re-launching coverage anytime soon.  “I will never cover GameStop ever again, there is just no point,” Chukumba said on Yahoo Finance… Source link

Yahoo Sports recently released its 2021 consensus fantasy football rankings. The analysts involved in the rankings are Andy Beherns, Scott Pianowski, Dalton Del Don, Liz Loza, and Matt Harmon, the creator of Reception Perception. It’s only July, but the interest in fantasy football starts increasing in the coming weeks. The Scott Fish Bowl draft (a fantasy industry league created for charity that consists of hundreds of contestants) is beginning early in July. Many outlets, including… Source link

(Bloomberg) — International Business Machines Corp. President Jim Whitehurst is stepping down after three years at the century-old technology company. The shares fell the most in five months. The departure marks one of the first major corporate reshuffles under Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna, who took the helm last year and has moved quickly to reshape IBM and return it to growth. Whitehurst, 53, is the former CEO of Red Hat Inc., which IBM announced it was acquiring in 2018 in a $33… Source link