If you felt the 2022 fantasy season was difficult to navigate over its first five weeks, just wait. The tough stuff is actually just beginning. The byes are about to hit in Week 6, with four teams suddenly unavailable (Detroit, Houston, Las Vegas, Tennessee). Even the healthiest fantasy rosters are gonna have to make a few moves this week. Below you’ll find a collection of approved pickups, all of them available in at least 50 percent of Yahoo leagues. Running backs on the wire Kenneth Walker… Source link
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Google looks to boost its security cred in the cloud • TechCrunch
Cloud data breaches in the enterprise have skyrocketed in the last year — a worrying trend that’s led to the emergence of a host of new tools and services to help better secure that environment; as well as a major mobilization among cloud service providers to launch more specific tech to address the gap. Today comes the latest development on that front: Google Cloud is announcing a wide slate of security products and services, covering areas like supply chains; digital sovereignty;… Source link
Read More »Stock market interest is back on the rise: Chart
With a brutal year for the stock market getting closer to a close, investors may be showing renewed interest in their investments as they look to take action into 2023. Google searches for “Dow Jones” have picked up over the last month (chart below), according to findings compiled by DataTrek Research. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is often seen as the most commonly used metric for stocks by the average U.S. household. The return of interest in the stock market. (DataTrek) DataTrek noted… Source link
Read More »Google opens up Workspace with new integrations and APIs • TechCrunch
Google Workspace, the company’s set of productivity tools most recently known as G Suite, is getting a major update at the company’s Cloud Next conference this week. This includes quite a few customer-facing features, but maybe even more importantly, Google is using this occasion to open up Workspace with new integrations and developer tools that expand the overall Workspace ecosystem well beyond the walls of Google’s own services. It’s worth noting that Google already allowed… Source link
Read More »Google Cloud expands to six more countries • TechCrunch
Google today announced its plans for a major expansion of its physical Google Cloud infrastructure. The company plans to launch new Google Cloud regions in six new countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Norway, South Africa and Sweden. That’s on top of the regions in Milan, Paris, Madrid, Columbus and Dallas the company already announced and plans to bring online in 2023. With these six new regions, Google Cloud’s footprint will expand to 41 regions. And maybe that’s no… Source link
Read More »Google unifies its BI services under the Looker brand • TechCrunch
At its Cloud Next conference, Google Cloud today announced that it is unifying all of its business intelligence products under the Looker brand. Google’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Looker closed back in 2020, marking the first major acquisition for Google Cloud under the leadership of Thomas Kurian. As part of this move, Google Data Studio will now become Looker Studio. “Looker is the name you’ll hear us use when talking about all of our Google Cloud business intelligence… Source link
Read More »Alice from Yandex learned to recognize everyone from family to friends
Working together with Yandex smart speakers, the voice assistant of Alisa learned to distinguish the voices of all family members and select music for each. The developers announced the publication of the corresponding update in an official press release. It says that Smart speakers with Alisa became the first Russian speakers with a shared function. Music for everyone. As the developer noted, Alisa tried to remember all of his families’ tastes, and to mix their favorites and… Source link
Read More »The stock market rarely produces average returns
This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Tuesday, October 11, 2022 Wall Street firms have begun publishing their 2023 forecasts for the S&P 500. Targets published by seven top equity strategists range from 3,800 to 4,200, implying returns of 4% to 15% from current levels. We’ll only know how accurate these calls are in hindsight. We do, however, know that last year’s 2022 forecasts… Source link
Read More »What everyone’s getting wrong about the Google Pixel 7
Do a little leisure reading about Google’s shiny new Pixel 7 phones, and you’re bound to encounter a handful of common conclusions: The Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro are mostly meant to be reference devices and demo-like showcases for Google’s software. Google doesn’t expect many people (or businesses!) to buy ’em. Pixel phones in general have been total commercial flops. As someone who’s studied, written about, and personally owned Pixels since the start — and the… Source link
Read More »Yahoo DFS Baseball: Tuesday Picks
This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Baseball series. Tuesday marks the beginning of the Division Series Round of the playoffs. All four series will get underway, leaving us with a busy day of baseball. Starting things off will be a battle between NL East foes when the Braves host the Phillies. Two AL West opponents will face off when Justin Verlander and the Astros host the Mariners. The Yankees will then play the Guardians, while the day will be capped off by the Dodgers playing… Source link
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