How to Lock Images in Google Photos

Google just rolled out a new feature in Google Photos that will help you hide your sensitive images from prying eyes. Available first on Pixel devices and coming later this year to more Android devices, the new Locked Folder lets you store photos that you don’t want anyone to see. The photos stored there are protected by your device screen lock passcode and won’t show up in your Photos grid, memories, or be available to other apps that have access to your camera roll. Here’s how to set… Source link

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here’s where you can quickly find a more than $200,000 a year gig

If you have the right skills, finding a job in the surging cryptocurrency field may be as easy as ordering a McDonald’s Big Mac from a drive-thru. But that doesn’t mean you should jump on any opportunity. With the crypto job shortage continuing as investment banks such as J.P. Morgan and other players outside of financial services seek out key talent, job seekers are in the driver’s seat right now.  Neil Dundon, founder of Crypto Recruit (which provides job placement services for the crypto… Source link

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College athletes start cashing in as new rules ‘fundamentally change’ landscape

Student-athletes in various states are already profiting from their name, image, and likeness (NIL) after new state and national rules marked a massive shift in college sports. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) approved an interim policy that allowed college athletes to monetize their NIL for the first time beginning on July 1, 2021, following various states that passed legislation allowing the same. “This is huge,” Kam Buckner, a Democratic member of the Illinois House… Source link

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7-year-old daughter of Miami firefighter recovered in building collapse

The death toll in the collapse of a beachfront condo in Surfside, Fla., increased to 20 on Friday after two more bodies were pulled from the rubble overnight. One of them was the 7-year-old daughter of a Miami firefighter. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava made the grim announcement at a press conference Friday morning. “Last night we discovered two additional victims,” Cava said. “Tragically, one of those victims was the 7-year-old daughter of a city of Miami… Source link

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‘I will never cover GameStop stock ever again’: top analyst

Loop Capital Markets analyst Anthony Chukumba was among the first analysts on Wall Street to drop coverage of GameStop in February as the rise of meme traders overran the stock and sent it to dizzying new heights for no real fundamental reason.  But despite a new management team and board arriving to GameStop in recent weeks, don’t look for Chukumba to be re-launching coverage anytime soon.  “I will never cover GameStop ever again, there is just no point,” Chukumba said on Yahoo Finance… Source link

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Yahoo fantasy football rankings: Where are the Giants?

Yahoo Sports recently released its 2021 consensus fantasy football rankings. The analysts involved in the rankings are Andy Beherns, Scott Pianowski, Dalton Del Don, Liz Loza, and Matt Harmon, the creator of Reception Perception. It’s only July, but the interest in fantasy football starts increasing in the coming weeks. The Scott Fish Bowl draft (a fantasy industry league created for charity that consists of hundreds of contestants) is beginning early in July. Many outlets, including… Source link

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IBM President Whitehurst Exits in CEO’s Shake-Up; Shares Dip

(Bloomberg) — International Business Machines Corp. President Jim Whitehurst is stepping down after three years at the century-old technology company. The shares fell the most in five months. The departure marks one of the first major corporate reshuffles under Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna, who took the helm last year and has moved quickly to reshape IBM and return it to growth. Whitehurst, 53, is the former CEO of Red Hat Inc., which IBM announced it was acquiring in 2018 in a $33… Source link

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Google must face Voice Assistant privacy lawsuit -U.S. judge

A sign is seen at the entrance to the Google retail store in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, U.S., June 17, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton July 2 (Reuters) – A federal judge said Google must face much of a lawsuit accusing the company of illegally recording and disseminating private conversations of people who accidentally trigger its voice-activated Voice Assistant on their smartphones. In a Thursday night decision, U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman let plaintiffs in the… Source link

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Google’s latest diversity report shows jump in departures among women of color

Google’s latest diversity report shows that despite some gains in the number of Black employees, the company is lagging in its goal to double the number of Black workers by 2025. And the search giant is having particular difficulty retaining women of color, the report released Thursday (pdf) shows. Google uses a scale it calls an attrition index, with the number 100 used as a benchmark. The attrition figure for Black women on that index rose from 110 in 2020 to 146 in 2021, the report… Source link

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Jeff Bezos made Amazon a behemoth, but his legacy is complicated

On July 5, Jeff Bezos will officially step down as CEO of the company he founded in 1994. Amazon (AMZN) will continue to exist, of course: It’s one of the most highly valued publicly traded companies in the world with a market capitalization of $1.7 trillion. But Bezos’ decision to leave the post, nevertheless, marks a new era for the e-commerce giant. The richest person on Earth, Bezos kick started the e-commerce revolution, forcing rivals like Walmart (WMT) to jump into the arena or be… Source link

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