Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are once again expanding their business and media empire — over one year after exiting the royal family. Riding the momentum from the couple’s blockbuster televised interview, Prince Harry confirmed that he’ll be publishing a memoir with Penguin Random House, set for a 2022 release date. This week, Page Six reported that Harry is set to make at least $20 million upfront from the deal, although the royal said on Monday that he would be donating all proceeds… Source link
Read More »Why Democrats will keep pushing for increased IRS funding
When President Biden and 10 bipartisan senators reached an infrastructure agreement in June, increased IRS enforcement was a key for how to pay for it. The idea, which has long been pushed by policymakers on both sides of the aisle, was to staff up the IRS now with the promise that the investment would be paid back in spades as more tax cheats were caught. But a wave of Republican pushback led to the idea getting nixed. The lead Republican negotiating the deal, Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, Source link
Read More »Google Looker gets Azure support, API explorer
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. A day after its Security Summit, Google announced new features heading to Looker, the business intelligence platform it acquired in 2019 for $2.6 billion. The newest version of Looker — Looker 21 — introduces a revamped portal and extension framework as well as support for hosting on Microsoft Azure. Looker makes use of a modeling language called LookML that lets data teams define the relationships… Source link
Read More »Doctor cautions Americans about traveling to Florida
As the highly transmissible Delta variant spreads nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the State Department urged Americans to avoid traveling to the UK. But that’s not going far enough, U.S., Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton, GoodStock Consulting co-founder and medical director, told Yahoo Finance Live. In fact, Americans should be careful traveling to certain areas within the U.S. “If we’re going to talk about traveling to the U.K., then we should also caution… Source link
Read More »Google gives Pixel 4 XL an extra year of free repairs for power issues
If your out-of-warranty Pixel 4 XL has been exhibiting some problems, you might be able to get a free repair. Google recently posted a support page outlining a “one-year extended repair program” for the larger of its two 2019 flagships. Those who are eligible can receive a free repair for up to a year after their original warranty expires. As for who’s covered by this program, Google points to “certain power-related issues.” More specifically, the company says these are the… Source link
Read More »Tension between President Biden and Facebook ‘remains incredibly strong’: Reporter
Tension between President Joe Biden and tech giant Facebook (FB) stands at a fever pitch, even after Biden on Monday walked back earlier remarks accusing social media platforms of facilitating the spread of vaccine misinformation and contributing to U.S. deaths from COVID-19, New York Times technology reporter Cecilia Kang told Yahoo Finance on Monday. “It felt like he was actually retreating a little bit — but the frustration and tension right now between the White House and Facebook still… Source link
Read More »Moderna Joins Top S&P 500 Firms After Value Nearly Triples
(Bloomberg) — Moderna Inc. joins the S&P 500 on Wednesday as the index’s the best performing stock this year — by a mile. The move caps the drugmaker’s transformation from an early-stage biotech to a vaccine maker supplying Covid shots to the world. With a gain of more than 180% so far in 2021, Moderna’s share performance tops the index’s existing leader, L Brands Inc., which has risen about 100%. In the runup to its inclusion in the U.S. benchmark, Moderna’s stock has made fresh… Source link
Read More »Google Maps will show you how crowded your train is
Google Maps will show you which cars are the lease crowded on some train lines. Google Google on Wednesday announced several new features for Google Maps. It’s expanding a feature that shows you how crowded a transit line is to 10,000 cities across 100 countries. But it’s also testing something even more granular: the option to see which cars on a specific train are the most crowded on New York’s Long Island Railroad and for transit lines in Sydney, Australia. Both features may help you avoid… Source link
Read More »Google Maps Now Helps You Avoid People On The Train
Google Maps is rolling out more accurate indicators of transit crowdedness. Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo The world is slowly opening back up. You might be finding yourself using public transit for the first time in ages and trying to figure out how to get around. Some helpful new Google Maps features could help us all navigate through this time, both literally and figuratively. For folks finding themselves back on a bus or a train, Google is expanding its transit crowdedness predictions. The… Source link
Read More »Google Maps will help you avoid crowded mass transit in way more cities
Google is expanding the number of cities where Maps offers information about public transport crowding. The number of cities covered is increasing from around 200 today, to “over 10,000 transit agencies in 100 countries,” the company says. As well as crowdedness, Google says Maps is also being updated to offer more information about past travel. Google Maps’ crowdedness information originally launched pre-pandemic in 2019, but over the past year social distancing has made it more… Source link
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