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 Friday, December 31, 2021 Working from home has hidden costs As we turn the calendar from 2021, certain pandemic-era macro trends are almost guaranteed to carry over into 2022.  One of them is the housing market, which — much like the labor market, where new unemployment claims remain close to their lowest in decades — is expected to remain… Source link

Nearly a year ago, Desmond Ridder and his family spent three-and-a-half hours in the office of Cincinnati head coach Luke Fickell with a looming decision that held the potential to reshape the Bearcat program and the sport. After Cincinnati’s Peach Bowl loss to Georgia, Ridder needed to figure out in short order whether he’d return to the Bearcats for a fifth and final season. Myriad factors hovered over Ridder’s decision. His NFL projections were uneven – anywhere from the third to… Source link

New Year’s Eve Google Doodle today: With the year 2022 just around the corner, Google has marked the New Year’s Eve with its newest doodle — a giant candy with the year 2021 that seems ready to pop. Once you click the candy, it pops to reveal celebratory confetti across the search page. Google has another fun surprise for its users as the results for ‘New Year’s Eve’ show a party horn, which when clicked, makes noise and throws up confetti. The doodle has twinkling fairy lights… Source link

On his final day as principal owner of the Iowa Cubs, Michael Gartner surprised his staff with an unforgettable goodbye gift. He shared profits from the sale of the Des Moines-based minor-league baseball team with all 23 of the club’s full-time employees. Gartner didn’t reveal his intentions until Tuesday evening during a staff-wide gathering inside a ballpark lounge overlooking left field. As some employees scarfed down hot dogs and sipped beer and others watched from afar via Zoom,… Source link

article DETROIT (FOX 2) – Google’s top searches in the United States in 2021 show a mix of interest in heavily publicized defendants on trial, sports players, and entertainers. Here are the top 10 most looked up people in the US on Google’s 2021 Year in Search: 1. Kyle Rittenhouse Searches about Kyle Rittenhouse spiked in November after the 18-year-old was found not guilty on all charges connected to a fatal shooting at a protest in Kenosha, Wis. in 2020. READ: Kyle… Source link

Ryan Kelly returned to the Colts after two games away. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images) Content Warning: This story involves child loss. Indianapolis Colts center Ryan Kelly returned to the team Thursday for the first time since the death of his daughter. Kelly missed the team’s Week 15 and Week 16 games to be home with his wife. Kelly spoke about the decision to return and about the grieving process, saying he’s “just taking it one day at a time.” Kelly’s wife, Emma, was 19 weeks pregnant… Source link

Former President Trump signed a bill his aides (as well as Democrats) touted as “historic legislation” to protect Americans against robocalls exactly two years ago — Dec. 30, 2019. But a new report released this month finds Americans haven’t seen much relief in the intervening years with scammers proving ever-more sophisticated — and using texts more and more — to get around the roadblocks placed in their way. The 2021 Global Spam Report from Truecaller, a caller ID and spam… Source link

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband may be be positioning himself to profit from the ongoing rise in the share prices of some of America’s biggest companies. Paul Pelosi, the California Democrat’s spouse, bought call options that give him the right, but not the obligation, to purchase shares in Google parent Alphabet, Inc. GOOG, -0.04%, memory-chip company Micron Technology Inc. MU, -2.01%, Salesforce.com… Source link

The rollout of the first major update for Google’s Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro has been slow and plagued by reports of problems. Now the company says it paused releasing the December 2021 update to investigate reports of calls dropping and disconnecting. The news arrived in a post on the Google Support forums (via Droid-Life) that says a new version with all the previously announced features and a fix for the disconnection issue should be ready by late January. If you’re not having any… Source link

ANDRANIK HAKOBYAN/Shutterstock.com With the heavily advertised Google Workspace now online, you may find yourself wondering whether it’s time to leave open-source LibreOffice behind and switch to something a bit more corporate. We compare the two to see which may be the better fit. RELATED: What Is Google Workspace, and Does It Fully Replace G Suite? Google Workspace vs LibreOffice: The Big Picture Before we look at how the separate apps like the word processor and spreadsheet perform, we… Source link