Here’s a look at the new features Google just announced for search, Android and privacy

Every year, Google shows off some of the new features it is working on at a developers conference called Google I/O. Last year, the event was canceled due to the pandemic and this year it was scaled back. Follow Rich DeMuro on Instagram for more tech news, tips and tricks. Although this year’s event didn’t quite have the excitement of previous events, we still got some notable announcements. Credit: Google “At Google, the past year has given renewed purpose to our… Source link

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Bitcoin Drops Below $31K Before Rebounding; $8B in Liquidations Triggered

Bitcoin tumbled for a fifth-straight day, putting the largest cryptocurrency on track for its worst month in more than three years and leading a full-flown retreat from digital-asset markets. At press time, bitcoin (BTC) was changing hands at around $38,500, after dropping below $31,000 earlier Wednesday. The price was down 9.8% since 0:00 coordinated universal time (8 p.m. ET Tuesday). As recently as April, the price had hit an all-time high of close to $65,000. The latest crash shook out… Source link

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From Amazon to McDonald’s, here’s who’s hiking wages amid the labor crunch

Despite increased vaccinations and easing coronavirus restrictions, the U.S. economy is experiencing a labor crunch that’s prompting a number of companies to hike wages, in part to attract needed workers. The strong COVID-19 rebound has lit a fire under the economy, but April’s weak jobs figures stoked a furious debate about whether enhanced unemployment benefits were behind the worker shortage. As a result, a handful of states like Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, and South Carolina, have… Source link

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Google Adds a Suite of New AI Tech for Photos and More

Hi, it’s Nico. Google’s annual I/O conference kicked off on Tuesday and the company showed off all the ways it’s using artificial intelligence to make our family memories more vivid, to make smartphone cameras less racist, and potentially to even save lives. Let’s start with the innovations in cameras. One of the features Google debuted, dubbed “cinematic moments,” will use machine learning to animate groups of two or three similar… Source link

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Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ:YNDX) – Yandex Appoints Svetlana Demyashkevich As Finance Chief, Vadim Marchuk As COO Effective June 1

Yandex NV (NASDAQ: YNDX) has appointed former X5 Retail Group CFO Svetlana Demyashkevich as Yandex’s CFO and Vadim Marchuk as COO, effective from June 1. On March 30, Yandex announced that Greg Abovsky would depart as CFO and COO effective April 30 to pursue a new opportunity in another geography. Marchuk was appointed as the acting CFO,… Source link

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Big money investors suggest the cycle has peaked: Morning Brief

TipRanks Goldman Sachs Predicts Over 50% Rally for These 3 Stocks Take a good look at the headlines, and you’ll be excused for thinking that we’re back in 1979. The late Carter years are remembered as the time of ‘stagflation:’ high inflation, high unemployment, fuel shortages, and a general malaise. So far, we’ve seen fuel shortages and gas station lines across the Southeast, rising commodity and housing prices, and unemployment ticking up even as the number of job openings… Source link

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Bitcoin Fluctuates Around $40,000 as Musk-Fueled Rally Collapses

(Bloomberg) — The Elon Musk-propelled rally in Bitcoin just evaporated. The world’s largest cryptocurrency has erased all the gains it clocked up following Tesla Inc.’s Feb. 8 announcement that it would use corporate cash to buy the asset and accept it as a form of payment for its vehicles. Now traders are bracing for more pain as the token hovers around a key technical level. Bitcoin dropped to about $40,300 as of 11:05 a.m. in London Wednesday, a level last seen before the EV-maker… Source link

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Bitcoin slides below $40,000 after China’s new crypto curbs

LONDON (Reuters) – Bitcoin tumbled below the $40,000 mark on Wednesday to a 3-1/2 month low and dragged down the prices of other digital coins after China imposed fresh curbs on transactions involving cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin, the biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, had already been under pressure from a series of tweets from Tesla boss Elon Musk, but the news from China sent it as low as $38,514, for a 9% fall. By 0855 GMT, it had recovered to $40,627, still down 5% on the session. The… Source link

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Cryptocurrency prices continue to tumble as bitcoin falls below $35,000

Benzinga Is the Bitcoin-Ethereum ‘Flippening’ a Likely Scenario? It has been a bad week for the crypto space. Elon Musk is widely believed to play a major role in crashing Bitcoin’s price by $12k when he tweeted that Tesla will no longer be accepting Bitcoin. He framed this backtracking as an environmental concern due to the high levels of energy consumption required in Bitcoin mining. As a result, this had a cascading effect on almost all altcoins with very few exceptions. To set the record… Source link

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