Google is making a fortune by selling users’ personal information despite the company’s pledge that it never sells the data, a lawsuit filed this week claims. “Google promises its hundreds of millions of users that it ‘will never sell any personal information to third parties’ and ‘you get to decide how your information is used.’ These promises are false,” the lawsuit claims, quoting a 2019 New York Times op-ed by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. “In fact, Google monitors its… Source link
Read More »Roku Calls Google An “Unchecked Monopolist” For Adding Workaround Feature To YouTube Amid TV Carriage Battle – Update – Deadline
UPDATED with Roku statement. Roku has hit back at Google over actions by its YouTube TV unit in the companies’ distribution fight. Earlier today, YouTube TV said it was adding a “Go to YouTube TV” function within the main YouTube app as a workaround for YouTube TV bundle subscribers caught up in the tussle. In a statement, Roku called Google’s actions “the clear conduct of an unchecked monopolist bent on crushing fair competition and harming consumer choice.” The new… Source link
Read More »Crypto analyst who nailed ether’s climb to $3400 says $10,000 is next
Back in January, when the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, ethereum, was trading at just over $1,200, one investor made the bold call of predicting a spike to the mid-$3,000 level, claiming it was being “overlooked” by investors. Just under five months later, that prediction has already hit with ethereum (ETH-USD) up roughly 400% on the year to cross the $3,500 mark as of Friday afternoon. Now, that same investor, Megan Kaspar, co-founder of the digital asset investment… Source link
Read More »The MLB Yahoo Cup Hot Corner: Round 7
Welcome to the MLB Yahoo Cup Hot Corner! This free-to-enter, single-entry contest consists of 27 rounds where the top 1,075 overall entries and the top 70 entries per round share $10,000, with $1,000 to first and $50 to first per round. Scoring will be cumulative across all rounds, with your seven lowest scores dropped at the end. You may join this multi-round MLB DFS contest at any point, but enter today to give yourself the best chance to take home the title. Click here to begin the… Source link
Read More »A White House ‘War of the Roses’
The Rose Garden in April 2008, left, and May 2021. (Brooks Kraft/Corbis via Getty Images; via Twitter) WASHINGTON — Things are getting thorny in the White House Rose Garden. Just months after then-first lady Melania Trump unveiled her controversial redesign of the beloved space directly outside the Oval Office, some are calling for her successor, Jill Biden, to undo those changes and return the Rose Garden to the celebrated vision realized by the Kennedy administration in 1961. A petition… Source link
Read More »COLUMN: You mean Google can do that? | Englewood Sun
Our library is open from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., Tuesdays through Saturdays, for browsing. You can pick up items that you have requested using our curbside service from 10 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. If you need to use a computer, give us a call to make a reservation. As always, give us a call if you need any help accessing our online services or putting books on request. Perhaps you have heard this quote by author Neil Gaiman: “Google can bring you back 100,000… Source link
Read More »Google Childcare Workers Circulate Petition for Commute Stipends
Google’s workers who provide childcare and education for staffers’ kids say the internet giant is summoning them back to the office without restoring the shuttle service they rely on, and they’re circulating a petition urging the Alphabet Inc. unit to provide a transportation stipend to cover commuting costs. “Shifting this cost to essential workers, who earn far less than the Googlers whose children they care for, is unacceptable,” according to the petition, which members of the… Source link
Read More »Google appears to escalate in its battle with streaming giant Roku
There’s little telling how messy the situation will get between Roku and Google as it pertains to YouTube TV, but the tech behemoth is certainly trying its best to work around the current impasse between the two. It’s been a week since users have been unable to download YouTube TV on Roku devices, while YouTube has still been available. More:Roku: Google yanks YouTube TV live TV streaming service from platform Google makes changes to YouTube app for Roku devices In a way to appease current… Source link
Read More »Appleton resident named Wisconsin’s winner for ‘Doodle for Google’ contest
APPLETON, Wis. (WFRV) – Besides being fun to say, Google’s ‘Doodle for Google’ contest provides scholarships and national recognition, and one Appleton resident has a chance to be the national winner. The annual ‘Doodle for Google’ contest is an art contest open to students in grades K-12. The students are tasked with creating their own Google doodle for the chance to have it featured on Google.com. Not only could students have their artwork displayed for the world… Source link
Read More »Why Americans earning $50,000 to $100,000 are pessimistic about homebuying
Homebuyer sentiment is plummeting amid America’s housing affordability crisis. The red-hot market which has seen housing prices rise at a record pace is not keeping up with the incomes of millions of working Americans. According to Google, the question “when is the housing market going to crash?” has been trending in search, up 2,450% in March, as Americans have been reckoning with the housing affordability crisis. The median household income was $68,703 in 2019, according to the Census… Source link
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