Say “goodbye” to one of the internet’s favorite dinosaurs. Yahoo announced today that its’ social Q&A platform, Yahoo Answers, will shut down on May 4. In addition to the shut down, users will no longer be able to post questions or answers on the site beginning on April 20. Head on over to Yahoo Answers right now — what that’s not a site you already visit daily? — and you’ll find a message at the top of the page explaining the sunsetting of the service. Image: screenshot: matt binder /… Source link
Read More »Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th
Yahoo Answers will shut down on May 4th, 2021. The website has been around since 2005, making it one of the longest-running Q&A platforms on the internet. In a FAQ spotted by The Verge, Yahoo (which is owned by Engadget’s parent company, Verizon Media) details how the process will unfold. The company will start sunsetting the platform on April 20th. That’s when it plans to stop accepting new submissions. After May 4th, you’ll have until June 30th to download an archive of content you… Source link
Read More »Yahoo Answers Is Shutting Down in May
Yahoo Answers, one of the internet’s most storied and often strange repositories of queries and advice, will shut down on May 4th. Posting on Yahoo Answers will be discontinued on April 20th, and after May 4th, Yahoo Answers will no longer be accessible, with the URL redirecting to Yahoo’s homepage. Up until June 30th, however, users will be able to download all of their Yahoo Answers data. Per an FAQ page, data download requests will return “all user-generated content including… Source link
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Read More »Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th
Yahoo Answers, one of the longest-running and most storied web Q&A platforms in the history of the internet, is shutting down on May 4th. That’s the day the Yahoo Answers website will start redirecting to the Yahoo homepage, and all of the platform’s archives will apparently cease to exist. The platform has been operating since 2005, and in the years since its relevance as a meme haven has remained intact while its practicality as a forum has waned during the rise of Reddit, Quora,… Source link
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Read More »Supreme Court Hands Google A Win Over Oracle In Multibillion-Dollar Case : NPR
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-2 for Google in a case in which tech giant Oracle accused it of illegally copying its code. The decision is the culmination of a decade-long legal battle between the two companies. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle… Source link
Read More »Biden’s electric vehicle ambitions may send Tesla stock skyrocketing beyond $1,300: analyst
Tesla shares (TSLA) are getting a nice pop on Monday following much better than expected first quarter delivery numbers, but the real upside to shares in the medium-term will be in part due to efforts out of the Biden administration to get people into electric cars. Or so says Wedbush tech analyst Dan Ives, who lifted his rating on Monday to Outperform with a $1,000 price target. Ives’ bull case price target is $1,300, reflecting optimism on Biden’s EV ambitions. “We are hearing from our… Source link
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undefined Traders returning from the long holiday weekend will turn their attention to more commentary out of the Federal Reserve, with the Federal Open Market Committee’s latest meeting minutes and a speech from Fed Chair Jerome Powell on deck. Relatively few new economic data reports or corporate earnings results are scheduled for release. The FOMC’s meeting minutes, due out Wednesday afternoon, will elucidate members’ thinking from their March meeting. At the conclusion of that meeting,… Source link
Read More »Google TV: Meet the new smart TV software coming to Sony and TCL TVs this year
Smart TVs from Sony, TCL, and a handful of other brands are going to look a bit different in 2021 as the companies switch from Android TV to Google TV. But why the change? What’s different about the new Google-branded platform? While Sony’s smart TVs are the most visible to make the switch, they won’t be the only ones. Other Android TV manufacturers are also shifting to the newer Google TV platform, as Google updates all of its TV software offerings. So what is Google TV, and why would you… Source link
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