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That 70’s show? Oil dredges up new fears about an old problem: Morning Brief

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 Thursday, September 30, 2021 Once again, Wall Street is worried about slowing growth and relentless inflation. In the wake of this week’s run up in oil, which coincided with energy crunches in China and the U.K., a certain word associated with slowing growth and higher inflation — popularized during a particularly rough stretch nearly 50 years… Source link

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THE CONTRERAS REPORT: Regulating Google’s and YouTube’s profitable dark side | Open

I love Google and YouTube. They do more for Hispanics than do college libraries and are faster and more convenient. Every article I write, every commentary I make has roots in Google. No more libraries. An internet connection to Google and YouTube, Google for research and YouTube for distribution, and I’m in business. While they earn off of me and people like… Source link

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Sources for Yahoo News WikiLeaks report ‘should all be prosecuted’

Former CIA Director and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday called for the criminal prosecution of sources who spoke to Yahoo News for a story detailing proposals by the intelligence agency in 2017 to abduct WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and discussions within the Trump administration and CIA to possibly even assassinate him. Pompeo, appearing on Megyn Kelly’s podcast, was asked to respond to the Yahoo News story, which was based on interviews with 30 former U.S…. Source link

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Google wants search results to be ‘endless stream of visual ideas’

Google VP of Merchant Shopping Matt Madrigal announced the company will add tools that lets users do more end-to-end shopping Google. Google is redesigning its dominant search engine, and users may find that future results keep them on Google’s own properties for even longer. At its second annual search event, called Search On, Google showed off its latest batch of advancements to search results. The company touted its artificial intelligence and the ability to answer more specific and… Source link

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Stock futures open slightly higher

Stock futures opened higher Wednesday evening heading into the final session of September and the third quarter, with investors continuing to eye moves in Treasury bond yields and debates in Washington as a possible government shutdown looms.  Contracts on the S&P 500 ticked above the flat line. The index was on track to post its first monthly decline since January, with concerns around fiscal and monetary policy, inflation, regulations in China and the ongoing pandemic all colliding to… Source link

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A new Google Nest Doorbell (wired) is coming in 2022

Google is working on a successor to the excellent Nest Hello doorbell, which it recently rebranded the Nest Doorbell (wired). The new Nest Doorbell will support 24/7 recording, will work with the Google Home app (not the Nest app), and should launch in 2022. Rishi Chandra, GM of Google Nest, shared the news in a blog post on the Google Nest Community forum today. “We commit to being more transparent with you on where we are taking the camera portfolio,” writes Chandra. “We know that… Source link

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Sonos says Google is blocking it from offering more than one voice assistant at once

Sonos developed a system called “Concurrency” that could make multiple voice assistants interoperable on its smart speakers but had to put its plans on hold because of Google, a new Washington Post report explains. Concurrency does more or less what its name suggests by allowing Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa to be used side by side. “Sonos today sells speakers that let you choose between Alexa and Google, but only one can operate at a time — you have to disable one before… Source link

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Rolls-Royce debuts its Spectre EV

Rolls-Royce’s co-founder predicted the super luxury EV 120 years ago. That prophecy is now fulfilled. Believe it or not, founder Charles Rolls said back in April 1900 that the future of luxury cars would be EV powertrains. After riding in an early electric car from American automaker Columbia, Rolls said, “The electric car is perfectly noiseless and clean. There is no smell or vibration, and they should become very useful when fixed charging stations can be arranged.” Now, all these years… Source link

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Google Maps is getting a lot better at mapping wildfires

On Wednesday, Google said it’s adding a new wildfire layer to Google Maps, which users will be able to turn on to see the latest details about multiple fires at once. This can be essential during fire season when many fires may burn simultaneously. The new layer will show “most major fires that cause significant evacuations,” according to Google, as well as many smaller fires in the United States. Users will be able to tap a fire on the map for links to details such as emergency websites and… Source link

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