Bloomberg Bitcoin Falls After Weekend Rally Pushes Token to Fresh Record (Bloomberg) — Bitcoin dropped Monday as traders eased up on stimulus-fueled bets that had powered the digital token to a fresh record over the weekend.The largest cryptocurrency slumped by as much as 9.2% before trading at $56,131 as of 1:04 p.m. in New York, after topping out at $61,742 on Saturday. Bitcoin reached its latest all-time high on optimism that some of the pandemic relief payments in the U.S. will end up… Source link
Read More »Data center workers deserve credit for ‘keeping the lights on’ during COVID-19
Amazon (AMZN) Web Services (AWS) is the backbone of much of the internet, counting millions of websites as its customers, ranging from Airbnb (ABNB) and Ancestry.com to McDonald’s (MCD) and Volkswagen. The world’s largest cloud provider, it has ensured that video chatting apps like Zoom (ZM), streaming services like Netflix (NFLX), and virtual learning platforms have operated throughout a pandemic that has kept everybody at a physical distance. And according to Amazon CTO Werner Vogels,… Source link
Read More »Google antitrust lawsuit amended to target Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox
An antitrust lawsuit against Google has been amended to take into account changes to ad tracking in Chrome. Texas attorney general Ken Paxton announced the multi-state suit, which focuses on Google’s advertising tech, in December. Meanwhile, five more attorneys general (from Alaska, Florida, Montana, Nevada and Puerto Rico) have joined the lawsuit, for a total of 15. The AGs claim that Google harnessed its dominant market positions in search, video and other areas to kill off smaller ad… Source link
Read More »How is the AstraZeneca vaccine different, and is it safe? Yahoo News explains.
Tens of millions of doses of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine are currently sitting in U.S. distribution centers. The company is awaiting results from its U.S. clinical trial before requesting emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. Made by the British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca in collaboration with Oxford University, the vaccine has been causing controversy in some European countries over fears that it has potential links to blood clots. On Monday its rollout… Source link
Read More »Five Things We Know About Google’s Ad Changes After Cookies
When Google last year said it eventually would stop supporting third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser, and that it would create more privacy-minded ad-targeting tools, marketers expected to still be able to send ads to desirable individual consumers. But the Alphabet Inc. unit this month said that it also won’t provide or use alternatives that uniquely identify people as they move across the internet. Here are five things we know about the update,… Source link
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MMA Weekly Dana White announces UFC 261 to house full house of fans, three title fights UFC president Dana White on Monday announced that UFC 261 is headed to Jacksonville, Fla., with a full house of fans. The fight card will be topped with three title fights. VyStar Veteran’s Memorial Arena will be open to a full house, according to White, featuring a blistering tripleheader of championship bouts. A rematch between UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal tops the UFC 261… Source link
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GlobeNewswire Proactive news headlines including Great Southern Mining, Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals, Chimeric Therapeutics and Poseidon Nickel Proactive, provider of real-time news and video interviews on growth companies listed in Australia, has covered the following companies:Sydney, March 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Great Southern Mining Ltd (ASX:GSN) has discovered two large gold-copper systems at Leichhardt Creek prospect within the wider Edinburgh Park Project in north Queensland… Source link
Read More »Google to cut commission it charges app developers amid pressure from regulators
Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG, +1.26% Google is reducing the commission it charges developers that sell digital goods and services through its Play store, a move that comes amid increased regulatory scrutiny of the power tech giants wield through their app marketplaces. The company behind the world’s largest operating system, Android, said Tuesday that it would reduce service fee it collects from 30% to 15% on the first $1 million developers earn from its app… Source link
Read More »Google gets into sleep surveillance with new Nest Hub screen
by: MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Posted: Mar 16, 2021 / 03:02 PM EDT / Updated: Mar 16, 2021 / 03:02 PM EDT This photo provided by Google shows the Nest Hub. Sleep-sensing technology will be a key feature on Google’s next generation of its Nest Hub, a 7-inch display unveiled Tuesday, March 16, 2021. (Google via AP) SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Google’s next internet-connected home device will test… Source link
Read More »This CEO drives a supercharged Tesla and a 707 horsepower Jeep, and also leads a 118-year auto parts making legend
As you could imagine, the CEO of legendary aftermarket auto parts maker Holley, Tom Tomlinson, has one heck of a garage at home. “I recently completed a 1973 Camaro — it looks like a 1973 Camaro on the outside, but everything underneath the skin is a modern supercar,” Tomlinson told told Yahoo Finance Live. Tomlinson, dabbles in building restomods, owns a Tesla Model 3 Performance and the 707 horsepower Jeep Trackhawk. This writer isn’t keen on being the bearer of bad news to a fellow car… Source link
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