The coldest end to a match at the US Open came at Court 17 on Thursday, where Victoria Azarenka of Belarus defeated Ukrainian player Marta Kostyuk in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3. As the second-round match concluded, Kostyuk approached the net and only offered her racket to the celebrating Azarenka, who obliged with a quick tap with her own racket before the pair shook hands with the chair umpire. It was a quick moment, but a prime example of how the war in Ukraine is still being felt in the sports… Source link

Google and its video sharing app YouTube outlined plans for handling the 2022 U.S. midterm elections this week, highlighting tools at its disposal to limit the effort to limit the spread of political misinformation. When users search for election content on either Google or YouTube, recommendation systems are in place to highlight journalism or video content from authoritative national and local news sources such as The Wall Street Journal, Univision, PBS NewsHour… Source link

Late hours on Wall Street are part of industry lore, but in a post-pandemic world, banks are still hashing out official return-to-office policies. Earlier this week, moves by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to lift COVID protocols at their offices drew attention to the ambiguity around official RTO rules across financial institutions. While messaging from the companies was shy of mandating a five-day-per-week return, lifting vaccine and testing requirements appears to be part of a broader… Source link

REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Joe Faber joins Dialpad as general counsel Dialpad raised funds at a $2.2 billion valuation last year (Reuters) – Dialpad Inc has hired veteran Google attorney Joe Faber as its new top lawyer, the cloud communications platform said in a statement on Thursday. Faber, who has spent the past 15 years as senior counsel at Alphabet Inc’s Google, will lead San Francisco-based Dialpad’s legal and compliance teams as… Source link

One of the biggest internet firms in Europe, Yandex, has made the userver framework’s source code and documentation available. This is the first free set of tools that has been evaluated at Yandex scale and makes it simple and effective to develop high-load C++ apps. Userver is a technology that the corporation uses in a variety of services, including taxi, package delivery, ultra-rapid grocery delivery, e-commerce platforms, and fintech initiatives. The Apache 2.0 open licence governs the… Source link

Most fantasy football players rightly put most of their stock and preparation into getting the first few rounds of their drafts right. If you can hit on your first, second and third picks, chances are you will have a core that can take you far during the season. But what about the middle rounds where the star power starts to fade and the choices get tougher? What about those players who are filling out the rest of your roster, who might not be big names but will still find their way in your… Source link

Week 1 of the 2022 college football season is here. And what better way to start the season than with some predictions that will undoubtedly be imperfect? Here are the conference champion and College Football Playoff predictions from our Yahoo Sports college football staff with insight from Nick Bromberg and Sam Cooper on their playoff picks below. Yahoo Sports’ 2022 college football predictions. College Football Playoff predictions Nick Bromberg: I realize that we had Clemson ahead of Utah in… Source link

One stop Rogers describes the platform as a way for mortgage companies to access multiple data products they might need. Specific clients include mortgage originators, servicers and alternative providers in the proptech space. A mortgage company can use Discovery to easily access CoreLogic’s product and data assets, Rogers said, including property information lien details, or access to models like price indexes or market risk indicators. “As a… Source link

Mortgage rates jumped again this week, giving no relief to the price-weary homebuyers still in the market. The rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage increased to 5.66% from 5.55% the week prior, according to Freddie Mac, and is up more than a half-point from two weeks ago. While lower than the 5.81% registered in June, the rate remains over 2 percentage points higher than the start of the year. Higher borrowing costs have left cash-strapped homebuyers at a divide. Some folks have opted to put off… Source link

Leadership expert and former Medtronic CEO Bill George ripped Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a wide-ranging interview with Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “Facebook and Mark are not grounded in values, so he is all over the map,” the corporate insider said in a scathing assessment of Zuckerberg’s leadership as CEO. George, known for his very successful stint as Medtronic’s CEO from 1991 to 2001, is the author of new leadership book “True North: Emerging Leader Edition.” In the book, George and… Source link