Skift Take With the search engine also publishing the methodology and framework for other travel sellers to adopt, there’s a greater chance that carbon emissions data will eventually become standardized, and less confusing. But there’s still a long way to go. Matthew Parsons Google is using a new method to collect and display flight emissions data that’s been developed by Travalyst, marking the latest step in the coalition’s efforts to push bookers… Source link
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Google to invest $9.5 bln in U.S. offices, data centers this year
A sign is pictured outside a Google office near the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., May 8, 2019. REUTERS/Paresh Dave/File Photo/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register April 13 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google said on Wednesday it plans to invest about $9.5 billion across its U.S. offices and data centers this year, up from $7 billion last year. Google said the investment will create at least 12,000 full-time jobs in 2022… Source link
Read More »Giants assistant Alyssa Nakken makes on-field history
It may not have been how she planned it, but Alyssa Nakken made MLB history on Tuesday night. Nakken became the first woman in league history to coach on the field in a regular-season game. The San Francisco Giants assistant replaced Antoan Richardson at first base in the third inning after he was ejected during their game against the San Diego Padres at Oracle Park. “Alyssa has all the characteristics and all the skills of a person who can lead a major-league staff and lead a major-league… Source link
Read More »T’Wolves-Clippers play-in game stopped after fan protest
A fan at the Target Center on Tuesday night interrupted the Minnesota Timberwolves’ play-in game against the Los Angeles Clippers with an attempted on-court protest. Though the protester used a new method to try and get her message across, it didn’t stick very well. In the second quarter of the play-in game in Minneapolis, while a free throw was happening at the other end, officials quickly halted the game after a protester ran onto the floor and apparently started trying to glue herself to… Source link
Read More »With Aquila, Google Abandons Ethernet To Outdo InfiniBand
Every couple of years, Google puts out a paper that makes everyone in the IT industry stop and think. The Google File System in 2003. The MapReduce analytics platform in 2004. The BigTable NoSQL database in 2006. Warehouse-scale computing as a concept in 2009. The Spanner distributed database in 2012. The Borg cluster controller in 2015 and again with the Omega scheduler add-on in 2016. The Jupiter custom datacenter switches in 2015. The Espresso edge routing software stack in 2017. The… Source link
Read More »Stock futures open higher ahead of earnings reports
U.S. stock futures opened higher Tuesday evening after a choppy day in markets, as investors digested another hot print on inflation and looked ahead to a busy day of earnings on Wednesday. Contracts on the S&P 500 were flat to slightly positive. The index closed lower for a third straight session during the regular trading day on Tuesday, and both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Composite also declined. Investors on Wednesday are set to receive a number of quarterly reports from… Source link
Read More »Kevin Durant, Nets on Brooklyn subway shooting
Kevin Durant said he and others on the Brooklyn Nets received a vague warning that there may be some extra traffic on the way into their practice facility on Tuesday morning. After looking at their phones and realizing why, Durant was stunned. At least 16 people were injured after a man released a canister of smoke and opened fire on a train at the 36th Street subway station, according to The New York Times. That station sits about half of a mile from the Nets’ practice facility. “It’s… Source link
Read More »Google claims to fix Google Analytics latency issues
About a week ago, Google Analytics real time reports has been lagging behind with some metrics in both Google analytics 4 and Universal Analytics 3. Google claimed they fixed the issue twice but some site owners are still saying that there continues to be a lag in the reporting. Issue timeline. The issue seemed to have started about a week ago, on April 5th or 6th. Google said it fixed the issue on April 7, 2022 but the issues lingered on through today, April 12th. There is also this issue… Source link
Read More »Here’s where inflation is hitting the hardest
March’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report was released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Tuesday morning, and as expected, it wasn’t pretty. Total inflation increased by 8.5% on an annual basis in March, higher than both consensus estimates of 8.4% as well as February’s showing of 7.9%. Much of the increase was driven by gains in the energy sector, which in turn was fueled by high gasoline prices. “Increases in the indexes for gasoline, shelter, and food were the largest contributors… Source link
Read More »In a First, Google Goes After Puppy Fraud in Court
In a first for the tech giant, Google filed a consumer protection lawsuit to shield the vulnerable and unsuspecting from what it called a “nefarious” scheme: the sale of adorable, but imaginary, puppies. The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., claims that Nche Noel Ntse, a Cameroon man, defrauded would-be puppy buyers using a range of Google services, including Gmail accounts, Google Voice numbers and advertisements. Mr. Ntse lured his victims with… Source link
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