Monthly Archives: March 2022

Google’s Pixel 6 and 6 Pro phones start to get the delayed March feature drop

The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro are finally getting this month’s sizeable feature drop, as Google spokesperson Matt Flegal confirmed to The Verge that the rollout will begin today. Google previously rolled out the update to the Pixel 3A and 5A on March 7th but decided to push back the update for Pixel 6 devices to address bug fixes, according to Android Police. March’s feature drop brings improved night photography in Snapchat, custom stickers, support for YouTube watch parties in Google Duo,… Source link

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Falcons trade Matt Ryan to Colts

Just days after the Freddie Freeman era ended in Atlanta, the Matt Ryan epoch has come to a close as well. The Falcons traded their longtime franchise cornerstone to the Indianapolis Colts for a 2022 third-round draft pick, per multiple media reports. Specific financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Matt Ryan’s time in Atlanta is reportedly over, as the Falcons are trading him to the Colts for a third-round pick. (Rich Barnes-USA TODAY Sports) Atlanta selected Ryan with the third… Source link

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Democrats push back on GOP Sen. Hawley’s ‘smear’

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat opened the hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Monday by brushing away attacks from Republicans who claimed she had been too lenient on “child porn offenders.” The committee’s chair, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., referred to the allegation in his opening remarks. And by way of rebutting it, he cited an unlikely source: Andrew McCarthy, a conservative former prosecutor and National Review columnist. In a series of tweets… Source link

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Google settles over firing of workers protesting immigration cloud deal

March 21 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google has settled with six current and former employees who had alleged the company unfairly stifled worker organizing, an abrupt ending to a trial that had been paused for several months, legal filings show. The U.S. National Labor Relations Board had pursued the case on behalf of the workers and brought Google before an administrative law judge last year. Weeks of hearings were then stopped pending resolution of a dispute over whether the NLRB… Source link

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More ‘toxic’ reports of Urban Meyer’s time with Jags

New reports have emerged about Urban Meyer’s short time as head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, and they paint a fuller picture — and it’s all bad. When Meyer was fired in December, no one was surprised. Between the team’s awful record, the controversy swirling around Meyer since he was caught at a bar dancing with a woman who was not his wife, unflattering reports of his coaching style, most people wondered why it didn’t happen earlier. But these new reports from The Athletic make it… Source link

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Who will be the first trillionaire? Study predicts Elon Musk in 2024.

A new study from Tipalti Approve compared the annual net worth of the world’s wealthiest people, predicting how soon they will reach a personal valuation of one trillion dollars. Elon Musk will be the first to reach the milestone — as quickly as 2024, based on analysis of average yearly growth trends. Musk currently boasts a net worth of around $200 billion, the highest of any living human. By mid-January of this year, that figure stood at $263 billion. Musk’s profitable work at Tesla ( Source link

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Yandex looks to expand activities in Israel

The closure of Western social media networks like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter by Russia in retaliation for Western sanctions, following the invasion of Ukraine, creates new business opportunities for Russian media and communications companies like Yandex. Russia’s biggest email account provider VK is reportedly considering reviving the ICQ chat program, developed in Israel in the 1990s and eventually finding Russian owners in 2010, in order to provide social network… Source link

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Reranking the men’s Sweet 16

After a thrilling opening weekend that saw seven double-digit seeds win first-round games and four of them move on, the men’s Sweet 16 is set. Top seeds Gonzaga, Arizona and Kansas each advanced. So did giant-slaying St. Peter’s, only the third No. 15 seed ever to reach the NCAA tournament’s second weekend. And Duke extended Mike Krzyzewski’s retirement tour for at least five more days by avoiding an early-round upset. Which are the remaining teams with championship potential? And… Source link

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EU court to rule Sept. 14 on Google’s fight against record $4.8 bln EU fine

BRUSSELS, March 21 (Reuters) – Europe’s second-highest court will rule on Sept. 14 on Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google’s challenge against a record 4.34 billion euros ($4.8 billion) EU antitrust fine levied for using its Android mobile operating system to squeeze out rivals. The judgment from the Luxembourg-based General Court comes 10 months after the world’s most popular internet search engine lost its fight in the same court against a 2.42-billion-euro penalty in another case. It has filed… Source link

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Stocks mixed, oil prices resume advances

Stocks traded mixed Monday to steady after last week’s gains, while energy prices resumed a march higher. The S&P 500 edged slightly higher, while the Dow and Nasdaq dipped. Trader’s paused after last week’s gains, when the S&P 500 posted its first weekly advance in three weeks and its largest since November 2020. The Treasury yield curve steepened, and the benchmark 10-year yield rose to top 2.2%. Energy and commodity prices spiked amid the latest developments in Russia’s war in Ukraine. As… Source link

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