After a prolonged back and forth, Congress passed a $1.5 trillion government spending bill last week but dropped from the final package $22.5 billion in pandemic relief that Democrats wanted to include. On Tuesday, the same day as President Joe Biden signed the 2,741-page bill into law, his aides warned that the omission could “have severe consequences as we will not be equipped to deal with a future surge.” The U.S. could soon run out of funding for COVID responses such as booster shots,… Source link

Unlike traditional automakers, electric-vehicle (EV) maker Tesla (TSLA) can dynamically raise or lower prices at will — and it has just done that, again. For the second time in a week, Tesla is raising prices across the board for its U.S. product range encompassing the Model 3, Model Y, Model S, and Model X. Here are a few notable hikes: Model 3 Rear-Wheel-Drive, Tesla’s cheapest vehicle, went up $2,000 to nearly $47,000 Model 3 All-Wheel Drive jumped $2,500 to $54,500 The base version of… Source link

Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service didn’t stick the landing, and it’s been a rough ride since. But today, at the Google for Games Developer Summit, it feels like Stadia might be moving in a promising direction — one that gives both gamers and game developers a reason to pay attention. And the magic word is “free.” Free demos, free trials, free for developers to offer, and hopefully free of the friction that made Stadia a difficult investment to start. I want to start off… Source link

You’re sitting in your office and decide to find out when your next appointment is. You pick up your phone and murmur quietly, “OK Google, when’s my next appointment?” And then, loud enough to be heard over the entire room, your Google Assistant announces, “Next up, you have an appointment with your urologist on September 3rd at 9AM.” You don’t have to hide under your desk anymore. Google has now made it possible to silence all Google Assistant voice output and only show… Source link

Defensive end Randy Gregory intends to sign a contract with the Denver Broncos, not the Dallas Cowboys, according to Yahoo Sports’ Charles Robinson. It was reported earlier Tuesday that Gregory was signing a five-year, $70 million extension with the Cowboys, but that deal fell apart when the Cowboys included language in the contract that Gregory didn’t like. Gregory, 29, has had several issues over the past few years that have kept him off the field. In 2021 that issue was injury. He missed… Source link

President Biden’s approval rating for his handling of Russia and Ukraine has risen 5 percentage points since the start of the war in Eastern Europe more than two weeks ago, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — including a 12-point gain among self-described independent voters. Yet spiraling gas prices, remote peace prospects and rampant U.S. partisanship make Biden’s hopes of a political turnaround seem tenuous at best. The survey of 1,623 U.S. adults, which was conducted from… Source link

Alina Vandenberghe and husband Nicolas Vandenberghe founded software firm Chilli Piper in 2016 and soon after created their nonprofit, Citizens of Our Planet Andres Hernandez Studio, Inc. An open access Google Document offers pivotal information to the approximately 2.8 million people displaced by Russia’s ongoing attack on Ukraine. Currently 89 pages in length and updated in real time, the Doc, “Resources for People Fleeing Ukraine,” includes updates on border… Source link

Does syndicated content affect organic search rankings? In some cases, syndicated content is viewed as spam. In others, it can outrank the original content. And yet syndication is a widely accepted practice in journalism and content marketing alike. But is it a ranking factor in search ranking algorithms? In this chapter, we’ll determine if syndicated content is a Google ranking factor. The Claim: Syndicated Content is A Ranking Factor Content syndication happens in a number of… Source link

Investors are starting to get very nervous about the market’s near-term direction, and it shows in their actions. “Russia/Ukraine drives fund manager cash levels to highest since April 2020 (COVID), global growth optimism to lowest since Jul’08 (Lehman),” said Michael Hartnett, Bank of America chief investment strategist, in the latest survey of managers from the bank. The details behind the report are ugly. Hartnett notes growth expectations among fund managers is at a 14-year low. The… 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 Tuesday, March 15, 2022 Rapid rent growth will persist The rent is too damn high. Once only referring to a single-issue political party led by former New York City mayoral candidate Jimmy McMillan in the 2000s, the phrase now resonates across the U.S. Rent growth, not just soaring energy prices, is doing its part to push inflation to a 40-year high… Source link