ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The day after Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner sent a letter to Google warning it to be on alert for “exploitation of your platform by Russia and Russian-linked entities,” and calling on the company to audit… Source link
Read More »Sharks set to hire Mike Grier as NHL’s first ever Black GM
The San Jose Sharks and former NHL forward Mike Grier made league history on Tuesday afternoon. (Getty) The San Jose Sharks have named former NHL forward Mike Grier as the team’s next general manager. Grier becomes the first Black general manager in NHL history after San Jose made it official on Tuesday afternoon with a special video message from the man himself. Grier, 47, played over 1000 games across 14 seasons in the NHL, with stints in Edmonton, Washington, Buffalo, and San Jose, scoring… Source link
Read More »Seeking at Least 11% Dividend Yield? Analysts Suggest 2 Dividend Stocks to Buy
The first half ended last week, and the S&P 500 is now firmly stuck in a bear. The rapid change from record high levels at the end of last year, to a 20%+ drop in these past six months has pummeled investors, who have had to cope with shrinking share values, increased volatility, and an unpredictable and risky equity environment. The most serious issue facing economists and traders right now is the possibility of recession in the near term. The US GDP contracted by 1.6% in Q1, and preliminary… Source link
Read More »Steelers start the post-Big Ben era
Things could have gone a lot worse for the Pittsburgh Steelers in Ben Roethlisberger’s final season. Roethlisberger was a shell of himself. The offense as a whole wasn’t good. The defense, despite having NFL defensive player of the year T.J. Watt, wasn’t great either. It was a Steelers team that had a very fortunate record in close games and caught a couple huge breaks in Week 18, which led to a playoff berth at 9-7-1. The Steelers got blasted in the playoffs by the Kansas City Chiefs, but… Source link
Read More »‘The elephant in the room for Tesla,’ according to WedBush’s Dan Ives
Some storm clouds are appearing on the horizon for Tesla bulls after a respectable second quarter. “The elephant in the room for Tesla (and the broader market) is with dark economic storm clouds on the horizon and Musk himself thinking recession risk is imminent, what does this mean for Tesla’s demand story going forward?” Wedbush Wedbush Senior Equity Research Analyst Dan Ives stated in a new note to clients. “In a nutshell, while June delivery numbers were ugly and nothing to write home… Source link
Read More »Amazon, Microsoft, Google Strengthen Grip on Cloud
The pandemic period has been a boon for the trio of companies that dominate cloud computing. Now as the economy enters another tumultuous phase, Amazon.com Microsoft and Google appear poised to extend their strength. The three companies accounted for 65% of the $53 billion in global cloud-service spending in the first quarter of the year, according to Synergy Research Group, up from 52% of global sales four years ago. And their control of the crucial, rapidly growing market is expected to… Source link
Read More »Euro Tumbles to 20-Year Low, Putting Parity With Dollar in Sight
(Bloomberg) — The euro slid to a 20-year low against the US dollar as traders bet that the European Central Bank will go slower on raising interest rates as the economy risks being tipped into a recession. Most Read from Bloomberg The common currency fell as much as 1.4% to $1.0281, its weakest level since December 2002. The losses came as money markets continued to trimmed ECB tightening bets as growth outlook for the region darkens, with traders now eyeing the prospect of gas shortages as… Source link
Read More »Everyone is Open Sourcing their Language Models, so does this Russian Search Engine
Recently, Russian company Yandex open sourced YaLM 100B, a bilingual neural network for generating and processing text. “By making YaLM 100B publicly available, we hope to give impetus to further developing generative neural networks,” said Petr Popov, CEO of Yandex Technologies. The development comes at a time when several big companies like Meta, Google, and OpenAI have open-sourced some of their large transformer-based models. In early 2021, researchers at Google… Source link
Read More »Google-backed Glance to launch in US within two months – TechCrunch
Glance, a subsidiary of adtech giant InMobi Group, is planning to launch its lock screen platform on Android smartphones in the U.S. within two months, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The startup is engaging with wireless carriers in the U.S. for partnerships and is gearing up to launch on several smartphone models by next month, the source said, requesting anonymity as the deliberations are ongoing and private. Glance, valued at around $2… Source link
Read More »Android Automotive is taking over, but what about Google Automotive Services (GAS)?
With the Android Automotive Operating System (OS), Google is set to make the sharpest rise in the infotainment system space in the next five years. From its introduction in 2017 until now, the operating system has already been integrated in 13 vehicle models with many more to follow. The standout feature is Google Automotive Services (GAS). The GAS suite provides options for automakers to embed a series of services from Google, including Maps, Play Store, and Assistant. GAS… Source link
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