This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, March 16, 2022 Apple’s M1 Ultra chip could upend the computer industry Apple’s (AAPL) new M1 Ultra processor hits the market Friday. The chip, which you can get in the new $3,999 Mac Studio, is expected to be an absolute powerhouse that can take on the best of what Intel (INTC), AMD ( Source link

Season five of Formula 1: Drive to Survive could potentially include scenes of McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown smashing a Chromebook or Android tablet, Tom Brady-style, thanks to a new arrangement between the team and Google. In 2020, McLaren exited its deal with OnePlus that produced several powerfully-specced black and orange Android phones, but there’s no indication of a similar branding exercise coming to the Pixel series anytime soon. Instead, the new “multi-year” agreement… Source link

If the economy is going to be sucked into a pocket of negative quarterly growth, it’s going to be now, warns one top economist. “I think if we have a negative quarter of growth, it’s likely to be the first quarter of the year because that will capture the price shock that is cascading through the economy and the hangover after the very strong finish of last year. I don’t think we are going to have a recession,” said RSM chief economist Joe Brusuelas on Yahoo Finance Live. “Right now, if you… Source link

Imagine if your old trig worksheets stepped in to help you out when you were stumped on a question. That’s Practice Sets, the newest Google Classroom tool, in a nutshell. Google Classroom, for folks who went to school before the internet was everything, is a widely used gaggle of web tools that allows teachers to post assignments, students to submit them, and teachers to return them online. With Practice Sets, not only will teachers be able to send out problem sets, but they’ll be… Source link

Over the past several days there has been an issue with reviews being posted to Google business profiles. A Google spokesperson confirmed that the maps team is “aware of this issue and is actively working to fix it.” Google did tell us that new reviews that do not violate its policies should appear now, while reviews that were posted over the past week will be reprocessed and posted by the end of this week. Google’s statement. A Google spokesperson told Search… Source link

With the NCAA men’s tournament tipping off in earnest with a full slate of games on Thursday, we pulled together a roundtable to answer burning questions that’ll help you fill out your Tourney Pick’em bracket. Here are our Cinderellas, dark horses, first No. 1s to fall, best first-round bets and Final Four/champion picks. Which No. 1 seed will fall first? Frank Schwab: Baylor is the most vulnerable. They are a good team but losing your leading rebounder (Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua, done for… Source link

French painter and sculptor Rosa Bonheur, who was born in 1822 and died in 1899, is famous for her distinctive work featuring animals. On Wednesday, the 200th anniversary of her birthday, Google changed its logo in five countries to honour Bonheur. This is her story: Daughter of two artists Born in Bordeaux, France, on March 16, 1822, Bonheur was the eldest of four siblings. Her father, Raymond Bonheur, was a drawing teacher and her mother, Sophie Marquis, a musician. Bonheur’s love for… Source link

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg acknowledges already fragile global supply chains have been dealt a twin blow from Western sanctions on Russia for its war on Ukraine and fresh lockdowns in China due to renewed COVID-19 outbreaks. “Well, they are major curveballs for the economy and for the supply chain,” Buttigieg told Yahoo Finance. “And this is exactly why we’ve been so focused on making our supply chains more resilient. We don’t know what the next shot is going to be — a… Source link

Google is getting ready to sunset Universal Analytics, which was the standard version of Google Analytics before GA4, in mid-2023. To be exact – July 1, 2023 is the date Universal Analytics will stop processing new data. Universal Analytics 360 properties will have an extra three months of data processing, ending on October 1, 2023. After those dates, Google Analytics 4 will be the new go-to solution for monitoring website activity. Why? Google is moving on from Universal Analytics due to… Source link

Google is expanding its free hotel booking links to show on Search and Maps, the company announced Wednesday. The company is also adding reporting capabilities, support for hotel rates in Google Business Profiles and rolling out Local Posts to hotels as well. Image: Google. Free hotel booking links expand to Search and Maps. In March 2021, Google started offering free listings within Google Hotel search. Now, the company is adding support for free hotel booking links… Source link