For years, YouTube has been accused of enabling terrorist recruitment. This allegedly happens when a user clicks on a terrorist video hosted on the platform, then spirals down a rabbit hole of extremist content automatically queued “up next” through YouTube’s recommendation engine. In 2016, the family of Nohemi Gonzalez—who was killed in a 2015 Paris terrorist attack after extremists allegedly relied… Source link

An internal Google document laid out a theory for why the company has become so slow. A former employee who created the presentation compared Google to slime mold. The document posited that bottom-up cultures like Google’s could create “coordination headwinds.” As Google has swelled in size to over 186,000 people, many of its employees and even its CEO have complained… Source link

Novavax (NVAX) is readying its forces to be a fully commercially-licensed company by the end of 2023, with a strong balance sheet and the workforce to achieve the endpoint. This follows the company’s bumpy ride throughout the pandemic, with investor sentiment significantly down on the company. It’s a bit of deja vu for outgoing CEO Stanley Erck, who spoke with Yahoo Finance at the annual JPMorgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco this week. In January 2020, at the beginning of the… Source link

With a likely increase in playing time, T.J. McConnell is a player to watch on Friday night. Friday will be busy with nine games scheduled to be played across the NBA. The Pacers, who are set to be without Tyrese Haliburton (knee) for at least the next two weeks, will be in action against the Hawks. The Thunder will be playing the second game of a back-to-back set when they take on the Bulls, who are coming off a loss to the shorthanded Wizards on Wednesday. One of the marquee matchups of… Source link

McLEAN, Va. — The U.S. Army has provided Google Workspace, the search-and-software giant’s collaboration suite, to more than 180,000 personnel in the wake of email licensing shortfalls and other information-technology dilemmas. The tally, only expected to grow, comes about six months after the service started quietly testing the constellation of digital tools with a select group and three months after it began publicly rolling it out to troops. Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo on Jan. 12… Source link

For the last 15 years, Glassdoor has recognized the best places to work in the U.S. and four other countries with its annual Employees’ Choice Awards. And since the awards began in 2009, only two companies have made the cut every year: Bain & Company and Google. This year, Bain & Company ranked third on the Best Places to Work list, behind Gainsight and Box. The management consulting firm also ranked 3rd in 2022 after snagging the no. 1 spot in 2021. Google ranked eighth on this year’s list,… Source link

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned the formal debt limit is set to be reached next week in a letter to Congress Friday and pushed lawmakers to increase or suspend the limit in a “timely manner” to avoid far-reaching economic damage. “Failure to meet the government’s obligations would cause irreparable harm to the U.S. economy, the livelihoods of all Americans, and global financial stability,” Yellen wrote. The long-awaited milestone, after which the U.S. borrowing authority of… Source link

The Big Bang Theory star Melissa Rauch revealed that a commercial director once gave her back-handed feedback when she was an aspiring actress. Appearing on Friday’s episode of The View to promote her new Night Court sequel series, the 42-year-old recalled a filmmaker shaming her hands during an audition, which cost her a job in an ad for a restaurant. “When I was first auditioning and going out for commercials, my hands really stood in the way. I sort of have Hobbit hands…. especially when… Source link

This year, Apple and Google will both face their first real tests in a very long time. Apple could finally open its walled garden, potentially disrupting the App Store juggernaut. The rise of ChatGPT threatens Google’s stranglehold over search — and its ad business. … Source link