Stargazing increasingly requires that you travel a good distance away from lights. In Japan, Google is presenting a “Night Tour” event where you go to a ticketed location and can rent a Pixel for astrophotography. Achi Village in the Nagano Prefecture is home to a site that’s located at an altitude of 1,400 meters and requires taking a gondola ride that lasts 15 minutes. It’s said to be “the best place for stargazing in Japan.” For the upcoming stargazing season (from… Source link

Snowglobes, snowmen, and snowy scarved cats We’ve been blessed with the occasional Easter egg from Google Wallet (neé Google Pay, Android Pay, and… Google Wallet), mainly in the form of special animations that take place after you’ve tapped and paid with your watch or phone. For the holidays this year, the company is back at it again with a series of post-transaction vignettes for us shoppers to enjoy. Specifically, these animations take place once a… Source link

The Dallas Cowboys are perfectly capable of winning a Super Bowl. If they don’t have the best defense in the league, it’s on a short list. Yet on Sunday, the Cowboys had no clue what to do with Trevor Lawrence. When it looked like the Cowboys finally got the one play they needed, they had to feel like they escaped. Lawrence had the ball knocked loose at the end of a nice run and the Cowboys recovered the fumble with a three-point lead and less than two minutes to go in regulation. Then Dallas’… Source link

The Dallas Cowboys are perfectly capable of winning a Super Bowl. If they don’t have the best defense in the league, it’s on a short list. Yet on Sunday, the Cowboys had no clue what to do with Trevor Lawrence. When it looked like the Cowboys finally got the one play they needed, they had to feel like they escaped. Lawrence had the ball knocked loose at the end of a nice run and the Cowboys recovered the fumble with a three-point lead and less than two minutes to go in regulation. Then Dallas’… Source link

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack swears in witnesses on July 12, 2022. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Doug Mills/Pool via Reuters) After a year and a half of work, the House committee investigating the events of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is set to hold its final hearing and issue a report on its findings. Over the course of 10 public hearings, the panel heard from a wide swath of witnesses who showed how former President Donald… Source link

Google Stadia is set to shut down on January 18, and ahead of that date, Ubisoft is now rolling out PC copies of games to players who purchased games on Google’s platform. Rolling out now, Ubisoft is handing out new licenses for games that players purchased on Google Stadia that work on Windows PCs. The transfer is happening not through codes, but rather automatically through Ubisoft Connect. From what we can tell, Ubisoft started this process sometime on Friday, December 16, and… Source link

Apple last week announced a series of Advanced Data Protection tools that bring powerful encryption for numerous iCloud services for the first time, including Backup, Photos, and Notes, but Mail was notably excluded. Now Google has announced that Google Workspace and education users will get end-to-end encryption on the web using their Gmail account. The timing may be coincidental, but it’s notable. Apple rolled out iOS 16.2 and macOS 13.1 on Tuesday with Advanced Data Protection… Source link

While labor shortages are not quite as bleak as earlier in the year, small businesses are still not catching a break. “Many small business owners continue to face big challenges hiring and retaining employees,” Holly Wade, executive director of the NFIB Research Center, told Yahoo Money. Small companies, those with fewer than 250 employees, accounted for nearly 80% of the 10.3 million job openings in the most recent report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to an analysis by… Source link

While labor shortages are not quite as bleak as earlier in the year, small businesses are still not catching a break. “Many small business owners continue to face big challenges hiring and retaining employees,” Holly Wade, executive director of the NFIB Research Center, told Yahoo Money. Small companies, those with fewer than 250 employees, accounted for nearly 80% of the 10.3 million job openings in the most recent report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to an analysis by… Source link

Inflation, ongoing consumer demand and early stages of tech integration took over the fast food industry this past year. As Wall Street looks to 2023, it expects those key trends and others to stick around. Top trends to keep an eye on in the New Year include ongoing price action, investment in digital, restaurant design, and tipping, experts told Yahoo Finance. ‘More pricing in 2023’ In 2022, menu prices increased by 12.9%, per new data from Pricelisto.com. Consumers can expect that number to… Source link