Despite Republican opposition in Congress, majorities of Americans favor every key aspect of President Biden’s infrastructure plan, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. The survey of 1,649 U.S. adults, which was conducted from April 6 to April 8, found that most (51 percent) say they would support “another big legislative package to invest in America’s infrastructure and combat climate change”; far fewer (30 percent) say they would oppose it. Both Democrats (80 percent to 8… Source link
Read More »T-Mobile is coming for America’s cable internet giants
T-Mobile (TMUS) made headlines on Wednesday announcing it’s giving away 5G phones in exchange for any mobile phone, but it’s the company’s new 5G home internet service that really deserves attention. Called T-Mobile Home Internet, available in parts of 49 states, the service takes direct aim at the Comcasts (CMCSA), Coxes, and Charters (CHTR) of the world, promising in-home network speeds averaging 100 megabits per second with unlimited data and no caps. “There’s 30 million homes that… Source link
Read More »Should Hollywood Be Afraid Of Fair Use After Google V. Oracle?
Google zz/John Nacion/STAR MAX/IPx Thus spoke Zarathustra.1 Well, at least thus spoke the U.S. Supreme Court in the recent Google v. Oracle decision on the fair use defense in copyright. Here is my jaded take on the decision: • The Justices purported to follow the time-honored path of analysis, which proceeds in the following order: (a) first, purport to apply the four factors in the fair use statute, (b) the first factor is interpreted to ask whether the potentially… Source link
Read More »Google-backed TAE Technologies raises $280 million from new, existing investors
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Google is seen on a building at La Defense business and financial district in Courbevoie near Paris, France, September 1, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo (Corrects to remove inaccurate company descriptor from headline. Also corrects paragraph 3 to say that the company plans to use the funds for further work related to nuclear fusion) (Reuters) – TAE Technologies, a California-based firm building technology to generate power from nuclear fusion, said on… Source link
Read More »Google-backed TAE Technologies raises $280 million from new, existing investors
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Google is seen on a building at La Defense business and financial district in Courbevoie near Paris, France, September 1, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo (Corrects to remove inaccurate company descriptor from headline. Also corrects paragraph 3 to say that the company plans to use the funds for further work related to nuclear fusion) (Reuters) – TAE Technologies, a California-based firm building technology to generate power from nuclear fusion, said on… Source link
Read More »Google-backed TAE Technologies raises $280 million from new, existing investors
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Google is seen on a building at La Defense business and financial district in Courbevoie near Paris, France, September 1, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo (Corrects to remove inaccurate company descriptor from headline. Also corrects paragraph 3 to say that the company plans to use the funds for further work related to nuclear fusion) (Reuters) – TAE Technologies, a California-based firm building technology to generate power from nuclear fusion, said on… Source link
Read More »When will Yahoo Answers shut down?
At long last, Yahoo Answers is going away. Here’s when exactly the service will go offline. For the greater part of the last two decades, Yahoo Answers has been famous for feedback on just about any question you could have, as well as some unforgettable memes. However, everything must come to an end, and Yahoo Answers will soon meet the end of the road. Let’s look at exactly when Yahoo Answers will shutdown. When will Yahoo Answers Shutdown? Yahoo… Source link
Read More »‘Racially destructive’ infrastructure choices were made
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tells Yahoo Finance Presents it’s well beyond time to correct the racially inequities weaved into the fabric of the nation’s infrastructure. “So one of the problems with the racially destructive choices that were made in the past is that it’s a lot harder to reverse when it’s in the form of a big concrete highway. There are many places in the country where it’s been shown that choices were made to run a highway right through the heart of what had been… Source link
Read More »Google Product Reviews Update Goes Live in Search Results
Today Google launches the product reviews search algorithm update, designed to rank well-researched, in-depth content over brief product summaries. To be clear, this is not a core algorithm update that affects all search results. This update specifically targets product reviews. In an announcement, Google says it designed the product reviews update to reward content that users find the most helpful: “Google Search is always working to show the most useful and helpful information possible,… Source link
Read More »The best of Yahoo! Answers
During the aughts, there was a vague notion among techno-optimists that crowdsourcing knowledge was the answer to just about every problem. Using the wisdom of crowds, the thought went, people would have unprecedented access to expertise. “With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow,” said the open-source software community. The success of Wikipedia meant that mass collaboration, open systems of production, and talented amateurs would win the day, this line of thinking went. Books such as… Source link
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