Hilaria Baldwin, 37, posted a passionate statement in support of her husband, Alec Baldwin, 63, on her Instagram page. (Photo: Jason Mendez/WireImage) Hilaria Baldwin is standing by her husband Alec in the wake of the Rust shooting last month.  On Friday, Hilaria took to Instagram to post a romantic photo of the couple kissing as they embraced each other. But it was the caption on the post that proved to be the most significant.  “‘I am here, I love you, and I will take care of you.’ These… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7… Source link

American multinational technology company Google logo seen at Googleplex, the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc. Alex Tai | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images While judges review subpoenas in an almost year-long case that pits Google against its workers, former company employees are doing their part to highlight the intensifying tension between the two sides. Three ex-Google employees filed a lawsuit this week, accusing their former employer of… Source link

Markets should be wary of high inflation and the potential spread of new COVID variants in 2022, a new Bank of America (BAC) report warns. “Future COVID waves are the biggest downside risk,” the report noted. “On the upside, the supply-side wakes up to meet the gains in demand.” Authored by several Bank of America Global Research economists, the report mainly focuses on the various threats to the global economy in 2022 and beyond. Among these economic risks are high inflation rates, the… Source link

Warren Buffett says these are the best stocks to own when inflation spikes — with high prices no longer ‘transitory,’ it might be time to follow his lead After months of rising prices, the Fed’s claim that high inflation rates would be “transitory” is looking a bit transitory itself. “It’s probably a good time to retire that word and try to explain more clearly what we mean,” Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday. “I think the risk of higher inflation has increased.” A… Source link

Crypto lender Celsius Network lost funds in a recent cyber hack, the latest decentralized finance (DeFi) attack that comes amid a broad retrenchment in cryptocurrencies. On Wednesday night, BadgerDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) which builds DeFi products using Bitcoin as collateral, announced over its Discord it would halt the functioning of its products after reports of “unauthorized withdrawals of user funds.” During an “ask me anything” (AMA) session on Friday,… Source link

We’ll show you how Google Maps can help you navigate through the holidays. Angela Lang/CNET … Source link

Actress Miranda Cosgrove is a familiar face in Hollywood — first hitting the big screen at age 10 in “School of Rock.”  Now, at age 28, Cosgrove is an executive producer, climate change advocate and just made the Forbes 30 under 30 list for the class of 2022, following a successful launch of the highly-anticipated “iCarly” reboot on Paramount+ (VIAC). “It’s been an awesome experience,” Cosgrove told Yahoo Finance — noting her growth from a nervous 13-year-old actress to a confident… Source link

Google infamous Chrome tracking nightmare has just gotten worse. The company has confirmed critical changes to its promise to stop its browser’s 2.6 billion users being secretly tracked across the web, risking further, significant delay. Chrome’s dominance of the browser market is well understood, with an almost 65% market share. Only Safari offers any competitive scale at around 20%, which means that when you look to non-Apple users, Chrome’s dominance is incredible. The more… Source link

Licensed practical nurse Yokasta Castro, of Warwick, R.I., draws a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe at a mass vaccination clinic, May 19, 2021, at Gillette Stadium, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) Omicron happened this week. (You think?) And with the arrival of this new variant all the depressingly familiar potential pain points come tumbling back — along with some brand-spanking new ones. On Thanksgiving (just nine days ago) we could really believe that COVID was… Source link