Things could have gone a lot worse for the Pittsburgh Steelers in Ben Roethlisberger’s final season. Roethlisberger was a shell of himself. The offense as a whole wasn’t good. The defense, despite having NFL defensive player of the year T.J. Watt, wasn’t great either. It was a Steelers team that had a very fortunate record in close games and caught a couple huge breaks in Week 18, which led to a playoff berth at 9-7-1. The Steelers got blasted in the playoffs by the Kansas City Chiefs, but… Source link

Some storm clouds are appearing on the horizon for Tesla bulls after a respectable second quarter. “The elephant in the room for Tesla (and the broader market) is with dark economic storm clouds on the horizon and Musk himself thinking recession risk is imminent, what does this mean for Tesla’s demand story going forward?” Wedbush Wedbush Senior Equity Research Analyst Dan Ives stated in a new note to clients. “In a nutshell, while June delivery numbers were ugly and nothing to write home… Source link

The pandemic period has been a boon for the trio of companies that dominate cloud computing. Now as the economy enters another tumultuous phase, Amazon.com Microsoft and Google appear poised to extend their strength. The three companies accounted for 65% of the $53 billion in global cloud-service spending in the first quarter of the year, according to Synergy Research Group, up from 52% of global sales four years ago. And their control of the crucial, rapidly growing market is expected to… Source link

(Bloomberg) — The euro slid to a 20-year low against the US dollar as traders bet that the European Central Bank will go slower on raising interest rates as the economy risks being tipped into a recession. Most Read from Bloomberg The common currency fell as much as 1.4% to $1.0281, its weakest level since December 2002. The losses came as money markets continued to trimmed ECB tightening bets as growth outlook for the region darkens, with traders now eyeing the prospect of gas shortages as… Source link

Recently, Russian company Yandex open sourced YaLM 100B, a bilingual neural network for generating and processing text. “By making YaLM 100B publicly available, we hope to give impetus to further developing generative neural networks,” said Petr Popov, CEO of Yandex Technologies. The development comes at a time when several big companies like Meta, Google, and OpenAI have open-sourced some of their large transformer-based models. In early 2021, researchers at Google… Source link

Glance, a subsidiary of adtech giant InMobi Group, is planning to launch its lock screen platform on Android smartphones in the U.S. within two months, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The startup is engaging with wireless carriers in the U.S. for partnerships and is gearing up to launch on several smartphone models by next month, the source said, requesting anonymity as the deliberations are ongoing and private. Glance, valued at around $2… Source link

With the Android Automotive Operating System (OS), Google is set to make the sharpest rise in the infotainment system space in the next five years. From its introduction in 2017 until now, the operating system has already been integrated in 13 vehicle models with many more to follow. The standout feature is Google Automotive Services (GAS). The GAS suite provides options for automakers to embed a series of services from Google, including Maps, Play Store, and Assistant. GAS… Source link

Yet another Chrome zero-day security exploit, the fourth this year, has just been confirmed by Google. It warns that hack attacks have been spotted in the wild with Android and Windows users in the crosshairs. In a 4th of July posting, Google confirmed an update to Chrome 103.0.5060.114 for Windows would start rolling out in the days and weeks to come. While the Chrome browser will automatically update to this patched version, and protection will be in place once the application is… Source link

(Bloomberg) — One morning in early June, a fire broke out at an obscure facility in Texas that takes natural gas from US shale basins, chills it into a liquid and ships it overseas. It was extinguished in 40 minutes or so. No one was injured. Most Read from Bloomberg It sounds like a story for the local press, at most — except that more than three weeks later, financial and political shockwaves are still reverberating across Europe, Asia and beyond. That’s because natural gas is the… Source link