Verizon offering free subscriptions to Apple Arcade, Google Play Plus

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., speaks during an event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, U.S., on Monday, March 25, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Verizon said it is giving away six- and 12-month subscriptions to Apple Arcade and Google Play Plus as it adds more bundled content offerings to its wireless subscriptions. New and existing Verizon wireless subscribers will get six months free of either Apple Arcade or Google Play Plus with a… Source link

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Bitcoin is officially a new asset class: Goldman Sachs

It’s time to take bitcoin way more seriously as an investable asset, says Goldman Sachs.  “Bitcoin is now considered an investable asset. It has its own idiosyncratic risk, partly because it’s still relatively new and going through an adoption phase,” said Mathew McDermott, Goldman Sachs’ global head of digital assets, in a new piece of research. “And it doesn’t behave as one would intuitively expect relative to other assets given the analogy to digital gold; to date, it’s tended to be… Source link

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What it means that everyone is talking about inflation: Morning Brief

TipRanks Goldman Sachs: These 3 Stocks Are Poised to Surge by Over 100% Markets are beset by volatility, with unpredictable swings making recent sessions something of a roller coaster. The main indexes were falling sharply at the end of last week, but Friday’s release of economic data showing strong manufacturing activity provided a boost that pared back the market losses somewhat. The recent earnings season also gave reason for optimism – the S&P listed companies, collectively, reported… Source link

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Google KELM Reduces Bias and Encourages Factual Accuracy

Google AI Blog announced KELM, a way that could be used to reduce bias and toxic content in search (open domain question answering). It uses a method called TEKGEN to convert Knowledge Graph facts into natural language text that can then be used to improve natural language processing models. What is KELM? KELM is an acronym for Knowledge-Enhanced Language Model Pre-training.  Natural language processing models like BERT are typically trained on web and other documents. KELM proposes adding… Source link

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Wall Street Aims to Make Sense of Confounding Bitcoin Swings

Bloomberg Secretive Hedge Fund Ends Long Silence to Take On Japan Icon (Bloomberg) — It was the rarest of public appearances. At Toshiba Corp.’s extraordinary general meeting in March, a lawyer, who didn’t give his name, talked for four minutes about why shareholders’ rights should never be infringed.He was speaking on behalf of Effissimo Capital Management Pte, a secretive hedge fund that had avoided the spotlight for almost 15 years. Now it was coming out into the open, if only… Source link

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Stocks, Futures Steady; China Jolts Commodities: Markets Wrap

Bloomberg Inside the Race to Avert Disaster at China’s Biggest ‘Bad Bank’ (Bloomberg) — It was past 9 p.m. on Financial Street in Beijing by the time the figure inside Huarong Tower there picked up an inkbrush and, with practiced strokes, began to set characters to paper.Another trying workday was ending for Wang Zhanfeng, corporate chairman, Chinese Communist Party functionary—and, less happily, replacement for a man who very recently had been executed.On this April night, Wang was… Source link

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The Lakers and Knicks drop their playoff openers and Lefty sets a record

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE to see today’s piping-hot, fresh-outta-the-oven episode of THE RUSH with Jared Quay! We’ll let you know everything you didn’t know you needed to know about sports. Other stuff too. But mostly sports. It’s Monday, May 24th, 2021, and here’s what Jared’s cookin’ up: The Suns rise in the West and take down the Lakers in game 1 Hawks’ Trae Young spoils the return to the playoffs for the Knicks PLUS: Phil Mickelson sets a record at the PGA Championship THE RUSH… Source link

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Google’s Last Minute Advice On The Page Experience Update

Google’s Martin Splitt offers last minute guidance to SEOs who are working hard to get ready for the Page Experience update. During a live appearance on the Search Engine Journal Show, Founder Loren Baker asks Splitt what he would say to anyone worried their site wont be optimized in time for the mid-June rollout. Splitt says there’s no reason to panic because the ranking boost provided by the Page Experience update is something Google refers to as a tiebreaker. It’s a lightweight ranking… Source link

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Chris Paul dismisses dirty play vs. LeBron James that led to scuffle

PHOENIX — Los Angeles Lakers coach Frank Vogel accused Phoenix Suns star Chris Paul of a “dirty play” on LeBron James during Game 1 of the first-round playoff series. “I don’t know anything about that. I have absolutely nothing to say about that. We’re just playing basketball and competing,” Paul told Yahoo Sports after the Suns’ 99-90 victory to take a 1-0 series lead. “I’m just thankful we got the win, and I’m looking forward to Game 2.” The play in question occurred… Source link

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