In addition to confirming the upcoming Pixel 2021 smartphones, a Google employee also addressed the existence of the GS101 Whitechapel chipset. Thanks to a recent code update in the Android Open Source Project (aka AOSP), a Google employee has made it all but certain that this year’s Pixel 6 will ship with custom Google silicon. While this latest update doesn’t provide any new details on how Google’s first smartphone chip will work, it does serve as the… Source link
Read More »Amazon founder Jeff Bezos named as secret owner of luxury $500m superyacht
Jeff and Lauren Sanchez (inset) and the Black Pearl (AFP via Getty Images and OceanCo) Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon, is finally set to join the gilded ranks of the haves and have-yachts. The world’s richest man has been named as the soon-to-be proud owner of one of the most expensive and extravagant superyachts ever built. At 127metres (420ft) the craft – known only by its project name Y721 – will be as long as the Great Pyramid at Giza is tall, and loaded with… Source link
Read More »How to turn Google Sheets into an RSS reader
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. In our Holy Sheet article series, we’re exploring all the things you can do with Google Sheets aside from simple number crunching, from tracking your stocks to scraping contact details from websites. Today, we have a welcome surprise for all the news junkies among the Google Sheets nerds. Let’s first start with the basics… Google Sheets has a nifty… Source link
Read More »MLB news, notes from weekend
Dylan Bundy deserves your patience After getting lit up over the weekend, Bundy sits with an ugly 5.03 ERA. The poor outing came against a Dodgers offense that entered with the second-best wRC+ in baseball, and the game featured a whopping 25 runs scored. Bundy still has a 1.14 WHIP, ranks top-25 in CSW and is in the top 10% of the league in fastball spin rate and Hard Hit%, so you should absolutely add him if he was dropped in your fantasy league. He has a 3.09 expected ERA and has had to… Source link
Read More »The Black List and Google Assistant Announce Fellowship Recipients – The Hollywood Reporter
Five fellows for the 2020-21 Black List and Google Assistant Storytelling Fellowship were announced Monday. The program will provide financial and creative support to five writers in the development and execution of a new original feature film script or TV pilot under the condition that the project tells a contemporary story from the perspective of historically underrepresented communities. Each of the five scribes will be awarded $20,000 (two are part of one writing team and… Source link
Read More »Black and Queer AI Groups Say They’ll Spurn Google Funding
Three groups focused on increasing diversity in artificial intelligence say they will no longer take funding from Google. In a joint statement released Monday, Black in AI, Queer in AI, and Widening NLP said they acted to protest Google’s treatment of its former ethical AI team leaders Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, as well as former recruiter April Christina Curley, a Black queer woman. “The potential for AI technologies to cause particular harm to members of our communities weighs… Source link
Read More »Robinhood deserves ‘close look’ from SEC: Elizabeth Warren
SEC Chair Gary Gensler in House testimony on Thursday criticized apps that “gamify” stock trading and the potential conflict of interest for market makers that profit from the execution of high-volume trades, hinting at potential new rules that would apply to the popular trading app Robinhood and market maker Citadel Securities. In a new interview, progressive Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said she supports new SEC rules for companies like Robinhood. Such regulations should impose… Source link
Read More »Google testing new feature in Maps to enable sharing info on availability of beds, medical oxygen
Google on Monday said it is testing a new feature in Maps that enables people to ask about and share local information on the availability of beds and medical oxygen in select locations. This is part of the tech giant’s efforts to support the relief efforts amid the deadly second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. “…we’re testing a new feature using the Q&A function in Maps that enables people to ask about and share local information on availability of beds and medical oxygen in select… Source link
Read More »Now That Google Photos Will No Longer Be Free It’s Time To Get Your Photos Under Control (Or Stop Hoarding Them)
Back when photos took up 1 shoebox and not 1 terabyte. getty All good things come to an end. Or, I should say, all good free things eventually start to charge. Starting June 1st, Google GOOG will start counting high-quality photos against a user’s 15GB storage cap, which also includes other Google services as well (primarily Gmail and Drive). If you go over that cap you can either delete photos to stay under the cap or pay $2/month or $20/year for 100GB of storage. If you… Source link
Read More »Tech Sends Stocks Down With Inflation Angst Rising: Markets Wrap
TipRanks 3 Monster Growth Stocks That Are Still Undervalued A lackluster jobs report didn’t derail the markets last week. New jobs in April totaled only 266,000, far below the 978K expected, and the official unemployment rate, which had been predicted to come in at 5.8% actually ticked up slightly to 6.1%. Even so, the tech-weighted NASDAQ gained 0.88% in Friday’s session, the broader S&P 500 was up 0.75% at the end of the day. These gains brought the S&P to a new record level, with a… Source link
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