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Hertz (HTZ) is pushing forward with its electric vehicle (EV) options with Tesla (TSLA) once again. First spotted by EV blog Electrek, Hertz has added Tesla’s Model Y crossover to its EV offerings on the company’s website. Previously only the Tesla Model 3 was available to rent. So far, only Model 3s are available for rental at select airports in D.C. (Dulles), Florida, California, and Georgia. A man photographs a Hertz Tesla electric vehicle displayed during the Hertz Corporation IPO at… Source link

Google will show the next available appointment with a health care provider directly on search, the company announced today. The company is working with MinuteClinic at CVS and other unnamed appointment schedulers during the initial rollout, which will start in the coming weeks, product manager Jackie DeJesse said during a press briefing. It will initially only be available in English. … Source link

Shohei Ohtani was the story of the 2021 season, so much so that his presence is about to be felt in the MLB rulebook. MLB and the MLB Players Association have reached an agreement on a number of rule changes following the new collective bargaining agreement, Yahoo Sports’ Hannah Keyser confirmed Tuesday. Among them is a tweak to the universal designated hitter that will undoubtedly be known as the “Shohei Ohtani rule.” Under the new rule, if a team has its starting pitcher in its lineup as the… Source link

Google today announced a number of changes ahead for its popular Google Photos app for mobile devices. With the update, the company plans to make it easier to organize, import and sort through your albums, as well as access shared content and screenshots, the company says. Some of the new features are designed to make the Google Photos app work better with on-device folders, while others are focused on sorting through larger libraries that have grown over the years and may have become… Source link

Google is starting to introduce a rapid Air Raid Alerts system for Android phones in Ukraine, the company announced on Thursday. The new feature is the tech giant’s latest update on its response to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. “Tragically, millions of people in Ukraine now rely on air strike alerts to try to get to safety. At the request, and with the help, of the government of Ukraine, we’ve started rolling out a rapid Air Raid Alerts system for… Source link

Google has announced new features to Chrome that can help you find information and get things done easily while navigating the web, the company said in a blog post. Few of these features are available to the public instantly but others are only available in the beta version.  Here are the key features that Google introduced for its Chrome browser. Journeys The Journeys feature of Chrome groups together your search history based on topic or intent. (Image: Google) With Journeys rolling out,… Source link

Nothing has added voice assistant support to its Ear 1 earbuds, allowing you to summon either Google Assistant or Siri with a triple-tap, the company announced on Twitter. The addition comes as something of a surprise given Nothing originally told Android Central it had no plans to add voice assistant support to the Ear 1. According to 9to5Google, the functionality is rolling out with firmware version 0.6700.1.86, and also supports Amazon’s Alexa in addition to both mobile OS’s native… Source link

Google has launched today a new security feature for Google Cloud tenants that is meant to detect and block cryptomining operations that may be taking place behind the owners’ backs. Named Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD), Google said this new feature is an agentless system that continually scans the memory of virtual machines deployed in Google Cloud environments for tell-tale signs of increased CPU or GPU usage—specific to cryptomining operations. To avoid false-positive… Source link

Wendy’s (WEN) — the self-proclaimed “Queen of Spice” — is adding two new menu entrees: a hot honey chicken biscuit breakfast sandwich and a chicken sandwich. Dubbed the “hot honey duo,” the latest entrants into the chicken sandwich wars will retail for $5.99 (chicken sandwich) and $3.19 (chicken biscuit), hitting Wendy’s locations nationwide on February 8th. Both options include what the company says is the “sweet taste of honey with a fiery habanero kick” and will be a part of the ‘Made… Source link

Stocks rose in a choppy session Wednesday as investors mulled a fresh batch of earnings results from some major index components and tried to further shake off January’s volatility. The S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq gained just after noon in New York.  A spate of better-than-expected corporate earnings helped partially offset some more concerning signs of an Omicron-induced slowdown in growth at the start of the year. ADP reported Wednesday morning that private-sector U.S. employers cut 301,000… Source link