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Walmart partners with Yahoo Mail for online grocery program

Walmart Inc. WMT, -0.20% and Yahoo Mail have partnered for an online grocery program that will allow customers to fill their Walmart shopping cart directly from their email. “Groceries from Walmart” is available now on the Yahoo Mail iOS app and website, and will be available on Android later this year. Yahoo Mail is owned by Verizon Media VZ, -0.76%. “Because of the unprecedented coronavirus challenge, online grocery shopping is now… Source link

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Google Maps now shows cycling routes using docked bike-sharing schemes

Starting today, Google Maps can show you directions using rented bikes from docked bike-share schemes like Citi Bike in New York City or Santander Cycles in London. It works by giving walking directions to get to a nearby dock, cycling directions to get from one dock to another, and finally walking directions once more to get from the dock to your destination. It’s similar to what Google started offering for Lime’s dockless scooters and bikes back in 2018, but for the many docked… Source link

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Relive ‘Return of the Jedi’ with Hasbro’s new Endor-rific collection of high-end action figures (exclusive)

That’s no (forest) moon! As part of the celebrated Star Wars: The Black Series line, Hasbro is releasing a special Heroes of Endor figure collection that you don’t have to be an Ewok to love. Retailing for $109.99, the four-figure box set will be on shelves in September, and Yahoo Entertainment has your first look at what’s inside. Star Wars: The Black Series Heroes of Endor (Photo: Hasbro) More Based on the extended Endor sequence in Return of the Jedi, the Heroes of Endor set includes… Source link

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Google doodle celebrates female Turkish astrophysicist Dilhan Eryurt

It’s the 51st anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Google Doodle program is celebrating by commemorating the scientific legacy of Turkish astrophysicist Dilhan Eryurt. Eryurt lived from 1926 to 2012, studied in Turkey, and worked at, among other institutions, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and the University of California, according to a brief biography compiled by a group of astrophysicists. Eryurt’s research focused on stellar astrophysics, in particular of

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Annulment of Yandex brand protection challenged in Russia’s IP Court

17:37 20/07/2020 MOSCOW, July 20 (RAPSI) –  Yandex company filed an application against Russia’s Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) which had invalidated legal protection of Yandex Afisha brand, according to the Intellectual Property Court (IP Court). In April, the Chamber for Patent Disputes of Russia’s Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) met a request of Afisha company, a structure of Rambler Group, seeking to annul legal protection of Yandex… Source link

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Yahoo Finance’s Annual All Markets Summit Goes Completely Digital (Exclusive)

Yahoo Finance is making its annual All Markets Summit online-only amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, TheWrap can exclusively reveal. The 2020 “All Markets Summit: Road to Recovery” will air at 5 p.m. ET Monday, October 26, entirely via livestream on Yahoo Finance, just as Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting did in May. On Tuesday, July 21, at 5 p.m. ET, the outlet will host a virtual one-hour special, “All Markets Summit Extra: Road to Recovery,” as a lead-up… Source link

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Blocking Special Files in Robots.txt

Google’s John Mueller answers a question about using robots.txt to block special files, including .css and .htacess. This topic was discussed in some detail in the latest edition of the Ask Google Webmasters video series on YouTube. Here is the question that was submitted: “Regarding robots.txt, should I ‘disallow: /*.css$’, ‘disallow: /php.ini’, or even ‘disallow: /.htaccess’?” In response, Mueller says Google can’t stop site owners from disallowing those files. Although… Source link

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‘Wall of Moms’ stand between Portland protesters amid clashes with police

Dozens of women wearing yellow linked arms to form a protective “wall of moms” around Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday as the protesters clashed with federal law enforcement. Video from the scene showed crowds chanting “Feds stay clear, moms are here!” and “Feds go home!” before protesters toppled a fence erected around the federal courthouse. Federal agents fired back with what appeared to be tear gas and flash bangs, the video showed. Hundreds of people had… Source link

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NFL, players already at odds over safety

[This is an excerpt from Yahoo Sports’ free morning newsletter. Tap here to get the best sports news in your inbox every morning.] Good morning, friends! Guess what: another sport, another possibility for labor strife. Sorry. Remember back in March and April, when we all said the NFL was the beneficiary of the calendar in the coronavirus pandemic? While basketball and hockey saw their seasons smashed like a pumpkin hit by a locomotive, and while baseball couldn’t even find the runway, much… Source link

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Shop from your inbox? Yahoo Mail, Walmart collab on new checkout tool

CLOSE Yahoo and Walmart want you to shop from your email inbox. (Photo: Verizon Media) On Monday, Verizon Media added a feature to Yahoo Mail that lets you shop from a not-so-sexy place: Your inbox.  Through a partnership with Walmart, Yahoo email users can now browse, add to cart and buy groceries from the supermarket giant without leaving their inbox. The move comes during the pandemic as more people order online and retailers find more abstract ways to sell merchandise.  “Because of… Source link

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