Google wants to tidy up the event feed in its Home app to make it easier to see what’s happening in your smart home. An update coming later this month will feature a “clutter free layout,” the search giant says, and it will group related entries to avoid you having to scroll through “a list of repetitive events.” The above screenshot released by the company shows a more concise, streamlined design. Alongside this feed update, the company has officially announced a new… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Global bond markets have suffered unprecedented losses since peaking last year, as central banks including the Federal Reserve look to tighten policy to combat surging inflation. Most Read from Bloomberg The Bloomberg Global Aggregate Index, a benchmark for government and corporate debt total returns, has fallen 11% from a high in January 2021. That’s the biggest decline from a peak in data stretching back to 1990, surpassing a 10.8% drawdown during the financial crisis in… Source link

If it feels like 2022 has been a little less exciting for the cryptocurrency space, your instinct may not be too far off. Judging by Google search trends, interest in cryptocurrencies have hit a short-term peak. Global interest in virtual currencies like bitcoin (BTC-USD) and ethereum (ETH-USD) are 70% below their 2021 highs, according to new data from DataTrek. Query volumes for “nft” [non-fungible tokens] are also pretty weak at 65% lower than their January 2022 highs. Peak crypto… Source link

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 Wednesday, March 23, 2022 Investors like to look at a squiggly line known as the yield curve to measure market sentiment about the future. When the line has a neat and upward slope, investors generally go about their days without paying any mind to the line. But when the line loses its shape, the U.S. economy might, uh, tilt into a… Source link

AXA General Insurance Hong Kong Limited named home Big Idea Chair Champion winner ITeSHOP & American Express swept the awards with immersive AR and media commerce campaigns HONG KONG, March 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Yahoo today live-streamed the winner announcement of the “Yahoo Asia Big Idea Chair Awards 2021” (Yahoo Asia BIC Awards 2021) on Yahoo TV. Amidst another year of commotion, the awards celebrated undue creativity in the digital media and advertising industry as the world struggles to… Source link

After a period of sustained losses, the stock market has been staging a comeback, with valuations across the board moving in one direction – higher. Between March 14 and March 23, the S&P 500 rose ~8%, while the NASDAQ was up ~12%. Oppenheimer’s Chief Investment Strategist John Stoltzfus offers an explanation for the powerful rally: “In our view it wasn’t so much that investor sentiment had turned broadly positive last week but rather that enough investors started to see numerous… Source link

DETROIT — The first game Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups circled on his NBA schedule was March 21, his return to Detroit. He expected to be at the helm of a perennial playoff team led by Damian Lillard, closing in on a playoff spot or even better, jockeying for position at a higher seed. But hours before tipoff, Lillard was ruled out for the season, following abdominal surgery he underwent in January, with 12 games remaining. And Billups probably didn’t expect for Ben… Source link

April Curley alleges she was terminated after she spoke out. March 22, 2022, 11:48 PM • 5 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article Civil rights attorney Ben Crump filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against Google this week claiming there has been a pattern of racial discrimination toward minority employees. “Former Google employees came for their dream job that turned into a nightmare because of bigoted, discriminatory, racist culture that exists within Google,” Crump… Source link

Google’s use of alt text as a ranking factor is limited to image search. It does not add value for regular web search. This is explained by Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller during the Google Search Central SEO office-hours hangout recorded on March 18. Mueller fields several questions related to alt text, resulting in a number of takeaways about the impact it has on SEO. Adding alt attributes to images is recommended from an accessibility standpoint, as it’s helpful for visitors… Source link

Shohei Ohtani was the story of the 2021 season, so much so that his presence is about to be felt in the MLB rulebook. MLB and the MLB Players Association have reached an agreement on a number of rule changes following the new collective bargaining agreement, Yahoo Sports’ Hannah Keyser confirmed Tuesday. Among them is a tweak to the universal designated hitter that will undoubtedly be known as the “Shohei Ohtani rule.” Under the new rule, if a team has its starting pitcher in its lineup as the… Source link