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Terraria Is Back in Development for Google Stadia

(Image: 505 Games) The Google Stadia version of action-adventure sandbox game Terraria is back on. According to The Verge, co-creator Andrew Spinks announced that all the previous issues he and company Re-Logic had with Google have been resolved. Thus, the Stadia port is now in the works once more. Google also confirmed in a statement to The Verge that the port is currently in development. “As you may have noticed, we had a ton of issues to kick off the year stemming from the locking-down of… Source link

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Coinbase, Roblox take page from Google, keeping marketing costs down

Welcome to Bloxburg Roblox Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and gaming app Roblox are both getting set to go public through a direct listing of their shares. They have something else in common that’s likely to prove very attractive to investors: Brand awareness. Both companies spend less than 10% of their net revenue on sales and marketing. Those are savings that allow the companies to focus more on product development and even profit generation. With limited marketing, Coinbase emerged as the… Source link

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Google On Expected Impact of Core Web Vitals Update

Search Central Live Fireside Chat Danny Sullivan on Twitter Search Community Reaction to Page Experience Update Citation Google’s Danny Sullivan recently discussed the expected ranking impact of the May 2021 Page Experience Update that will integrate Core Web vitals as a ranking factor. Danny commented within the recent Search Central Live Fireside Chat and later he clarified some more on Twitter. Search Central Live Fireside Chat Someone asked a question about the impact that the Core Web Vitals… Source link

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Dropbox vs. Google Drive: Which is better?

Dropbox was one of the first online file sharing repositories. Unlike competitors like Box.net or Microsoft which have grabbed big enterprise accounts, Dropbox has kept a significant customer base among individuals and small businesses. However, Google Drive has muscled in quite a bit into the individual and small business market. I have seen a number of small businesses, nonprofits and individuals use either Dropbox or Google Drive. But which is better? Feb. 21 column:In-flight WiFi climbed… Source link

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Google, Facebook and Twitter are killing the local newspapers citizens need for democracy

In 1787, on the eve of the French Revolution, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Edward Carrington, dispatched to the Continental Congress, on the role of a free press. If he had to choose between “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government,” Jefferson wrote, “I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” The founding father feared governments, including the one he helped design, would become predatory if unchecked by a knowledgeable citizenry. And here we are.

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Fine if 30-40% of URLs in Search Console Are 404s

Google’s John Mueller says it’s normal if 30-40% of URLs in a site’s Search Console report are returning 404 errors. This is stated during the Google Search Central SEO hangout from February 25, where we also learned it’s impossible to stop Google from trying to crawl URLs that no longer exist. Google may continue trying to crawl URLs years after they’ve been deleted from a website, and there’s nothing site owners can do to prevent that from happening. Therefore 404s are… Source link

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To address healthcare worker shortage, UMN collaborates with Google and Mayo Clinic – The Minnesota Daily

The NXT GEN MED program will launch on the Rochester campus in Summer 2022. The University of Minnesota recently announced that a new health sciences degree program, designed to address the national shortage of healthcare workers, will be launching on the Rochester campus in summer 2022. In a collaborative project, the NXT GEN MED program will use new technology from Google to teach students in a hybrid format and connect them with working healthcare professionals from the Mayo Clinic, a… Source link

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